Bank Holiday Stonecutters Ridge GC 3/08/2015 Our Annual Bank Holiday event attracted a good sized field of 69 players on a perfect day for golf. As is always the case with this event, it is a great opportunity to catch up with old friends & colleagues as well as making new acquaintances This event also gives the club a chance to show prospective members what the club is all about as well as enjoy a round of golf so all members are encouraged to talk to your friends & colleagues to try make next year a bigger success. The results of the day follow: EVENT WINNER SCORE RUNNER UP SCORE OVERALL STABLEFORD Lawrence Salvestrin (HCP 10) 40 Duncan Johnston (HCP 13) 36 A GRADE STABLEFORD Williams Skeggs (HCP 13) 37 Steve Bennett (HCP 11) 34 B GRADE STABLEFORD Sunil Ponkshe (HCP 18) 35CB Stephen Foster (HCP 16) 35 C GRADE STABLEFORD Eddy Chan (HCP 24) 35 Owen Coulter (HCP 22) 34 WELFARE/WATSON-MASON CUP (scratch) Simon Cooper 77 Mark Ellis 80 TED GEEKIE VETERANS TROPHY (stableford) Ted Geekie (HCP 28) 36 John Coleman (HCP 27) 33CB 2BBB STABLEFORD Williams Skeggs (HCP 13) 44CB Steve Foster (HCP 16) 44 Captains Cash $13-4th George Emerson $16-10th Gordon Ho $16-5th Dom Khoury $53-9th Duncan Johnston $5-5th Simon Cooper Jordan Nabarro (HCP 13) Mark Ellis (HCP 6)
LONG DRIVE - 12th HOLE NTP A GRADE HT Tran 4th HOLE Simon Cooper B GRADE Nick Solas 5th HOLE Simon Cooper C GRADE Eddy Chan 7th HOLE Lawrence Salvestrin DRIVE & PITCH 9th HOLE Jon Won 14th HOLE Mark Ellis 10th HOLE Gordon Ho 3rd HOLE (Veterans) Steve Foster 15th HOLE William Skeggs On behalf of the club, I would like to thank all the committee for putting an event like this on which does take a lot of effort and usually goes largely unnoticed. We would also like to say a big thank you to the many sponsors we have for this day as without their generosity, this day would not be as successful as it is. These sponsors are as follows and your generosity & assistance is greatly appreciated: Gateway Credit Union Thailand Golf Tours Paul Crawford Ted Geekie Steve Chan Dave McCann Rowena Rees-Poole
The Links Shell Cove Individual Stableford 15/08/2015 On a day fit for ducks, 18 brave souls took to the fairways to battle the course, the elements and for 4 of our members, each other in the Semi-finals of the 2014 Matchplay championship. Pat Kastl continued with his consistent year by overcoming all the elements & other players by posting a great score of 35 points to hold off "Mr Greg" Liversage with 34 points. Warren Francis took 3rd place on a countback with 31 points. That is extremely good golf in what was testing conditions gents and well played to all.. A, B & C grade Long Drives went to Bruce Clausen, Allan Kenny but no-one won C grade. Nearest the Pin went to Dom Khoury & the Drive & Pitch went to Patrick Bridge. Captains cash had only 1 collectee with Pat Kastl nailing a Birdie on the 6th hole - Well done Pat Top 10 players were: Position Name HCP Score 1 Pat Kastl 15 35 2 Greg Liversage 22 34 3 Warren Francis 25 31CB 4 Richard Mair 16 31CB 5 Mark Ward 18 31 6 Pat Bridge 12 30CB 7 Bruce Clausen 14 30CB 8 Glen Williamson 18 30 9 Steve Chan 14 29 10 Steve Wise 10 28
CBA Vs Westpac Matchplay Individual Stableford 23/08/2015 36 players turned up for the annual CBA vs Westpac Individual Stableford Matchplay event. For the 1st time in a long time there was a clear winner of the teams event with CBA winning by a single match 8 1/2 to 7 1/2. Congratulations to the CBA team and well played. Graham Flanagan again showed his liking for this course by returning a great score of 39 points to defeat his opponent by 10 shots from Peter Butler with 37 points on countback from Steve Parkhill. Individual winners were as follows: INDIVIDUAL 1st Graham Flanagan 39 2nd Peter Butler (C/B) 37 3rd Steve Parkhill 37 4th Steve Chan 35 5th Glen Williamson 35 6th Eddy Chan 35 7th Mathew Hill 34 8th Scott Henwood 34 9th Geoff O'Shea (C/B) 33 10th Richard Montgomery (C/B) 33 15th A (0-14) B (15-21) C (22+) 11th 5th LONGEST DRIVES Fassih Ehtesham Matthew Hill Peter Butler NEAREST THE PIN Michael Parker DRIVE & PITCH Steve Chan
Team results were as follows: RESULTS POINTS Steve Parkhill 6 37 Jamie Turner 9 33 Y Fassih Ehtesham 9 30 Jason Price 12 28 Y Richard Mair 10 30 Sami Korell 15 32 Y Michael Parker 12 31 Mark Ward 12 32 John Salvin 15 23 Y George Emerson 12 31 Scott Henwood 17 34 Y Andrew McRae 13 32 Murray Sullivan 17 24 Y Allan Kenny 13 32 Steven Chan 14 35 David Mortimer 20 31 Y Matthew Hill 15 34 Glen Williamson 15 35 Richard Montgomery 21 33 Y Simon Soo 17 26 Trevor Seymour 26 29 Y Warren Francis 19 32 Peter Butler 26 37 Y Dave McCann 19 32 Corey Butler 27 33 Y Gordon Ho 19 33 Eddy Chan 22 35 Doug Walker 29 32 Y Ian Watson 22 25 Thomas Tse 32 25 D D John Bennion 22 19 Shane Walker 32 21 Y Graham Flanagan 25 39 Barry Gifford 34 29 Y Kevin Ho 26 25 Geoff O'Shea 36 33 Y Avg 16 495 Avg 22 477 8.5 7.5
Camden Golf Club (Studley Park) Individual Stableford/2 Ball Aggregate 06/09/2015 32 players made their way to the Macarthur area to Camden Golf club on a fresh day that appears to have been conducive to good scoring. The club has not played this course for a few years and it appears the scoring on the revamped course is still impressive. Shooting a great round of 42 points & continuing his great form from the Springs, chalking up his 2nd win for the year was Craig Horley. 2nd was Lloyd Rodger with Richard Mair 3rd, both with 38 points to go to a countback. Top 10 players went down to 34 on a countback. A, B & C Grade Long drives were won by Glen Williamson, Peter Staples & Ian Watson respectively whilst Richard Mair won Nearest the Pin & Lloyd Rodger took out the Drive & Pitch. Scott Driver & Allan Kenny both dipped into the captains pockets by taking home the cash for birdies on the Par 3 s. Top 10 players follows: Position Name HCP Score 1 Craig Horley 42 17 2 Lloyd Rodger 3 38CB 3 Richard Mair 10 38 4 Warren Francis 18 37CB 5 Allan Kenny 12 37 6 Dave McCann 18 36CB 7 Simon Soo 17 36CB 8 Steve Nicholson 19 36 9 Mark Ward 12 35 10 Matt Hill 14 34CB
Long Reef Individual Par 20/09/2015 31 Starters made their way to play the Northern beaches course of Long Reef for an Individual Par & the final of the 2015 Matchplay between defending Champion Ian Watson & Richard Mair on what started as a miserable day for golf. An incredible 4 players all came in with the same score making the countback all important. Coming out on top was Gordon Ho with a fantastic +4. Equally fantastic but considered unlucky were Pat Wong coming in 2 nd, Willem Van Vuuren coming in 3 rd with Graham Flanagan desperately unlucky to come in 4 th all gentlemen with +4 as well. The top 10 went down to 0 on a countback. A, B & C Grade Long drives were won by Pat Kastl, Terry Hillman & Graham Flanagan respectively whilst Gordon Ho won Nearest the Pin on a tough par 3 with John Bennion pocketing the Drive & Pitch. Surprisingly, there was only 1 captains cash claim to Simon the Mouse Soo. Well done Simon. This game also represented the final of the 2015 Matchplay event with Richard Mair continuing his "habit" of winning BIG events by defeating the defending champion Ian Watson 4/3. Well played to both gents on getting this far & congratulations to Richard on his win. Top 10 players were: Position Name HCP Score 1 Gordon Ho 21 +4CB 2 Pat Wong 31 +4CB 3 Willem Van Vuuren 27 +4CB 4 Graham Flanagan 26 +4 5 Stephen McCammond 9 +2CB 6 Greg Liversage 19 +2CB 7 Richard Mair 12 +2 8 Bruce Clausen 16 +1 9 George Emerson 14 0CB 10 Warren Francis 19 0
Carnarvon Individual Stableford 11/10/2015 On an excellent but warm day for golf, 30 starters hit off for the Individual Stableford event & First round of the 2015 CBA golf club Grade championships. George Emerson fired his best round of the year scoring a "Hot" 40 points to hold off Terry Hillman & Pat Kastl both with 38 points. Well played & congratulations on taking the early lead in the club championships. The Top 10 went down to 35 on a countback with only 3 points separating 9 players to make the club championships wide open. A, B & C grade Long Drives went to Richard Mair, Steve Chan & Graham Flanagan respectively. Nearest the Pin went to George Emerson & the Drive & Pitch went to Steve Chan. Captains cash had only 1 collectee with George Emerson capping off a great day by being the only person to nail a birdie. - Well done George Top 10 players were: Position Name HCP Score 1 George Emerson 13 40 2 Terry Hillman 16 38CB 3 Pat Kastl 13 38 4 Gordon Ho 20 37CB 5 Kevin Ho 27 37CB 6 Steve Chan 15 37CB 7 Stephen McCammond 8 37 8 Glen Williamson 16 36CB 9 Eddy Chan 23 36 10 Craig Horley 17 35CB
Sydney Vs Brisbane Coffs Harbour 7-8/ 11/2015 27 players from QLD & Sydney made their way up to Coffs Harbour for our annual challenge over 2 days on the magnificent Bonville International Golf course & the challenging 27 holes of Coffs Harbour golf club. Despite massive amounts of rain the week before we arrived, the Bonville layout was in great condition which the QLD players revelled in by taking a lead of 27.63 average to NSW 25.67. Basically ensuring that QLD maintained its stronghold on the Shannon Driscoll memorial trophy was Lyle Nicholson by shooting an incredible 45 points around what some consider the hardest course in NSW. Gordon Wass came in 2nd with 36 points with Peter Bendeich & Mike Collins with 30 points. Peter managed to shut the ongoing doubters over his scoring 30 points at Bonville with this effort. Well played Peter and must have been very satisfying. The groups headed off to Coffs Harbour with a lot of work for NSW to do and the field hit off with persistent rain lurking around. As the day wore on, the rain continued & got heavier until common sense prevailed and the game was called off and became a 14 hole event. Terry Hillman came in 1st with 27 points over the 14 holes from Mark Nugent with 26 then Bob Ada also with 26. The teams event went to QLD with an average over the 2 days of 49.25 to NSW 45.56. Individual winners were Lyle Nicholson with a combined 68 points over Terry Hillman on a countback with 54 points. Steve Nicholson had the misfortune to win the "Wendy" award with 35 points over the 2 days. We look forward to going back in 2016 to try wrestle the trophies away from QLD. Scores for the weekend for NSW players follow: NSW 19 45.56 Name Bonville Coffs Total Bo Thongvilu 27 26 53 Bruce Clausen 25.67 17 42.67 Ian Watson 27 21 48 Mark Ward 24 15 39 Terry Hillman 27 27 54 Stephen McCammond 21 20 41
Graeme Flanagan 28 24 52 George Emerson 27 16 43 Paul Short 26 22 48 Ian Coates 28 24 52 Scott Driver 27 18 45 Peter Bendeich 30 22 52 Mark Calleja 29 17 46 John Bennion 19 20 39 Mike Collins 30 22 52 Steve Nicholson 20 15 35 Chris Dowell 23 14 37 Bob Hooper 22 22 44 Lawrie Cogswell 27 16 43 25.67 19.89
Penrith Individual Stableford 8/ 11/2015 On a warm but overcast day for golf, 36 starters hit off for the Individual Stableford event & Second round of the 2015 CBA golf club Grade championships. Richard Mair capped off an incredible year with an amazing 44 points from Allan Kenny & Dave McCann with 41 points. Well played & congratulations on your golfing year Richard. The top 10 went to 35 points showing some good golf had to be played to get into the top 10. A, B & C grade Long Drives went to Allan Kenny, Glen Williamson & Rowena "Lexie" Rees-Poole respectively. Nearest the Pin went to Steve Nicholson & the Drive & Pitch went to Craig Horley. A Big Thank you to the Life Members for sponsoring the trophies on the day 6 people collected 7 Captains cash payouts. They were Hole Name 3 rd Mark Ward 3 rd + 11 th Stephen McCammond 11 th Lloyd Rodger 3 rd Richard Mair 3 rd Paul Short 7 th Steve Nicholson Top 10 players were: 1 Richard Mair 11 44 2 Allan Kenny 13 41CB 3 Dave McCann 18 41 4 Glen Williamson 15 40 5 Warren Francis 18 38 6 Darren Wissam 28 37CB 7 Stephen McCammond 8 37 8 Lloyd Rodger 5 36CB 9 Willem Van-Vuuren 21 36 10 Rowena Rees-Poole 25 35CB
This game also concluded the Club Championships for 2015 with the results as follows Open(SCR) Winner - L Rodger Runner Up - S McCammond (r/up) A Grade Winner - R Mair Runner Up - P Kastl B Grade Winner - G Williamson Runner Up - B Clausen C Grade Winner - D McCann Runner Up - G Ho Congratulations to all the winners & runners up on good golf. Penrith also saw the final game in the Presidents' Trophy event which was won by Stephen McCammond. Stephen becomes the 1st man selected for the RS Elliott to be held in Victoria in 2016. Congratulations on a very consistent year Stephen.
The Coast Xmas 2 Ball 13/12/2015 The Coast golf course became host to the Xmas 2 ball for the 1st time & what a great course on the rugged coast of Sydney. 31 starters braved the moist but bearable conditions for our relaxed Xmas 2 ball event. Winning the day with a great team score of 48 points was Ian Watson & Mark Ward. Eddy Chan & Simon Soo held off Ian Coates & Warren Francis both with 47 on a countback. Well played gents. The top 10 went to 42 points with all those pairs collecting "Xmas pressies" generously donated by Scott Driver. Thank you for your generosity Scott. A big welcome to Heath Clark who joined the club. Hope to see a lot of you on the fairways with us Heath. A, B & C grade Long Drives went to Allan Kenny, Mark Ward & Ian Watson respectively. Drive & Pitch went to Craig Horley. Nearest the pin was on all par 3's & the winners were: 4 th Allan Kenny 8 th - Terry Hillman 12 th Ian Coates 15 th Ian Watson 17B Mark Ward Captains cash actually made a loss on the day with 11 payouts: Hole Name 4 Dom Khoury 17B 17B Stephen McCammond Mark Ward 8 & 17B Graham Flanagan 4 Eddy Chan 8 Steve Nicholson 17b Glen Williamson 8 Martyn Durie 8 Terry Hillman 8 Andrew McCrae
The top 10 was: 1 Ian Watson Mark Ward 2 Eddy Chan Simon Soo 3 Ian Coates Warren Francis 4 Scott Driver Dom Khoury 5 Gordon Ho Kevin Ho 6 Graham Flanagan Greg Liversage 7 Allan Kenny Glen Williamson 8 William Van Vuuren Paul Short 9 Martyn Durie FassihEhtesham 10 Terry Hillman John Bennion 23 16 23 19 20 18 12 17 20 28 24 22 13 15 22 23 19 13 16 24 48 47CB 47 46 44CB 44 42CB 42CB 42CB 42 This concludes another great year for the CBA Sydney golf club and we look forward to seeing all members on the courses selected for 2016.