Veteran Cook takes the chocolates

JACK Jennings Auto Repairs sponsored the Saturday Stableford competition with 102 players in the field at the Mount Gambier Golf Club.

Veteran A Grade (-9.0 – 10.0) player Kevin Cook (6) topped the leader board with 43 points.

Cook’s round was steady to start with, playing to his handicap until the par 5 seventh hole, where a par added three points to his tally.

A birdie 3 on the par 4 ninth hole had him finish even to the card off the stick with 36 shots and 20 points on the card.

It was the homeward nine, where Cook lifted his game with two pars, three bogies and birdies on the eleventh, fifteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth holes which meant a one under the card 35 off the stick and 23 points.

Runner up in A Grade was past Club Champion Gary Wilson (9) with 40 points followed by Ryan Hosking (5) with 39 points.

Like Cook, Hosking stormed home on the back nine with a 2 under the card 34 off the stick.

David Pick (5) finished one back on 38 points followed by four players on 37 points, Jon Clayton (9), Richard Gosling (1), Travis Younghusband (4) and Zac Shanks (2).

Chris Gabriel (16) took out B Grader (11.0 – 16.0) with 40 points. Gabriel has been whittling down his handicap lately and looks to be keeping that trend going.

pits of 21 points on the front and 19 on the back nines, with only a scrub on the par 5 eleventh hole.

Jack Jennings (11) edged out Jacob Reed (12) on a count back. Jennings had splits of 19 and 20 while Reed started well with birdies on the first and ninth holes to finish with 22 point on the outward nine, before adding 17 points for the inward nine.

Barry Brook (13), David Boyce (13) and Peter Waters (12) all finished with 38 points, with Scott Whicker (14) and Mitchell Broome (11) ending with 37.

C Grade (17.0 – 45.0) required a countback to split Ross Andserson (23) and Sonny Nguyen (27) with both finishing on 38 points.

It was Anderson’s superior back nine with splits of 15 and 23 which gave him the win, highlighted with a birdie 3 on the par 4 eighteenth for four points. Graham Robinson (20) and Grant Stephenson (17) ended with 37 points.

Points or better have scored 34 or better on a countback to collect one of the 32 additional balls handed out.

Nearest to the pins went to Mitchell Broome (11) on the eighth hole and Jon Clayton (9) on the sixteenth.APRIL 17 RESULTS

A large field of 110 players participated in a tightly contested Thursday Stableford competition.

Eighteen players finished within three points of the leaders who required a four-way countback to establish the winner.

Jayden Eldridge (3), Graham Greenwood (11), Grant Stephenson (17) and Nick Wilke (12) all finished the day on 39 points.

It was Eldridge who finished better on the back nine shooting a one under the card 35 off of the stick to amass 21 points, which added to his 18 points from the front nine.

Birdies on par 3 tenth and par 5 fifteenth holes together with six pars and a solitary bogey on the par 4 thirteenth contributed to his $100 Pro Shop voucher win.

Greenwood, Stephenson and Wilke all shared splits of 21 on the front nine and 18 on the back, but Greenwood finished better to take the $50 Pro Shop Voucher, with Stephenson taking out five golf balls and Wilke winning four.

No doubt Wilke would be disappointed with a bogey 5 on the last hole for a single point robbing him of the chance of victory.

Jake Dempsey (4) was the lone player finishing on 38 points and winning three balls, he also had a bogey on last hole.

Phil Bliss (11) was the first of the seven players on 37 points to win 2 balls, followed by Ross Bond (8), John Martin (+1), Nick Black (6), Rob Perryman (5), Neil Quirk (13) and Graham Paterson (23).

The remaining players required 35 points or better on a countback to earn one of the remaining 14 balls.

Pro Shot winners were Henry Forbes (13) on the eighth and Matt Hirlam (pictured – 17) on the sixteenth.