Parkes Golf Club
By PETER BRISTOL
Saturday's results
Saturday was a medley Stableford in honour of past members Terry Sheridan, Charlie Allen and Owen Crowley who were prominent members and supporters of the golf club over an extended period.
The memorial trophies were sponsored by the Cornerboys, who are regular squatters at the corner of the club bar and who Owen, Terry and Charlie were past revered members of.
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There were 3 grades played for on the day.
The only downside for the day was there were only 59 players enjoying the rejuvenated course following the rain and also calm and slightly cooler conditions.
In A grade it was the Blake Parker show.
Blake came out and shot a 2 under 70, with a triple birdie run on 2, 3 and 4 and a bogey on 6 for a 2 under front, then bogey, birdie back for a 36 total and 41 points off his 3 handicap.
As has been stated before, Blake is a real chance in A Club Champs if he can maintain this form and be able to play the 4 rounds.
Craig Matthews and Rob Rea both had solid 39 rounds and would have cleaned up any other day.
In B grade Justin Middleton shot 39 point round to take the prize.
Justin struggled a bit to get it going on the front 9 with a 44 off the stick but came home with a sizzle with a 39 back.
Craig Dunn, as always, was hanging around the podium and his 38 point haul was one better than Matthew Skinner.
In C grade young gun Taj Harrison cleaned up with a 40 point game, 4 points in front of Luke Clyne.
Taj is obviously listening to dad Riall and turning the wisdom into points.
Luke has settled into PGC now and is also found on the podium stairs.
On Sunday the club, via a great initiative by Zac and Maddi Kelly, who hosted a 2 person Ambrose for members and non-members alike with a midday shotgun start.
The event was well supported with 23 pairs contesting.
The winners in the scratch were the well performed pairing of Mickey Thomas and Max Keith with a smashing 65 off the stick. Mick Kable and Riall Harrison were next in on 67, the same as David Hodges and Steve Jenkins, a visitor from Duntry.
The net event was the same story with Mickey and Max recording a 61.5 to take out the prize, just beating home Dave Hodges and Mitch Cambourn on 62.
The pleasing aspect of the day was to see golfers who haven’t been able to make the Saturday comp out in force for this event.
Zac and Maddi will be running these when they can be fitted in with other competing events on Sundays in the future.
The New Nearest The Pins winners were – Bridgestone Mining 1st not won, Griffins Leading Edge by Cath Kelly at 120cm, Parkes Ready Mixed Concrete 9th by Bruce Symonds at 113cm, the Westlime 11th by Rob Lea at 180cm, the Gulf Western Oil 17th by Wayne Tucker at 410cm.
The lucrative money hole was won by Wayne Tucker at 410cm.
Ball winners were Craig Matthews, Rob Rea 39 A Grade, Craig Dunn 38, Matthew Skinner 37 B Grade, Luke Clyne 36, Bruce Symonds 34 C Grade.
We also had 15 members from Barham Golf Club drop in for a social game on Saturday which filled the course up and we appreciate their patronage.
They also had good reviews on the layout which they hadn’t played previously.
Next week is a Medley Stableford sponsored by Dirt Doctors Landscaping Yard.
Veterans golf
By JOHN DWYER
Host club Parkes survived a blanket finish to win the Coles/Miller Shield at last week's monthly Lachlan Valley veterans golf competition.
Decided on the best three individual scores from each club, Parkes finished with 109 points to win by one from equal runners-up Forbes and Grenfell.
Forty-three players from Parkes, Forbes, West Wyalong, Grenfell and Condobolin contested the event with Grenfell's Barry Green and Gordon Pritchard from Parkes the A and B grade winners respectively.
Green posted 39 points to win by two from Bogan Gate's Don McKeowen, while Pritchard's 40 points will have the handicapper knocking, finishing four better than runner-up Paul Gavin (36 points) from Grenfell.
In the nearest-to-pins Steven Uphill (Forbes) and Paul Gavin were the A and B grade winners on the fourth hole, while Parkes veterans president Peter Bristol was on target to take A grade honors on the 11th and John Milton (Forbes) the B grade winner.
The encouragement award winner was Leanne Young from Grenfell.
The ball sweep went to 34 points with recipients as follows: 36 - Ken Sanderson (F); 35 - Alf Davies (F), Greg Nagle (Condo), Andy Taylor (West Wyalong) and Peter Bristol; 34 - Peter Barnes, Ken Walton and Allan Rees (F) and Joe Davies (P).
This week the twin-towns competition returns with Forbes the host club.
Nominations from 8.15am for a 9am start.
Players should also note that the dates for Lachlan Valley events at Grenfell in April and West Wyalong have changed.
The Grenfell day has been brought forward a week to April 10, while West Wyalong has been moved back a week to May 29.
