Michael “Tickers “ Tickner again proved too strong for his opponents taking out today’s stableford with 38 points. David “Jack” Webster continued his good form to finish 2nd with 37 while Pat “The Rat” Hallion & colourful local identity Philip “Tommo” Thomson both finished with 36.
The rest of the field seemed to struggle with Andy Phillips on 31, Trevor Maxted 30, Bob Taylor 29, while Klaus Heymann took the Mars Bar with 27.
Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” Van Keulen took the Mars Bar with a score of 25 stableford points on a count back from Bob Taylor. The Dutchman became the first player to receive the magnificent new perpetual trophy for the Mars Bar. The competition was won by Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel with 37 points just one point ahead of the ever consistent Pat Hallion & the equally inconsistent Mark “Mouldy” Millward.
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This morning’s mulligan players had no excuse for their poor scores as the weather was perfect for golf. Broken Hill visitor Allan Crombie beat the locals with a score of 17 stableford points. Runner up was David “Jack” Webster with 16, followed by three players, Dick Cleland, Bob Taylor & Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel on 15. A count back was required to determine the Mars Bar with Andy Phillips & Peter Mengerson both on 13. Peter received the confectionery.
Michael “Tickers” Tickner faded over the closing stages of today’s stableford to be caught by David “Jack” Webster & Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel. Jack was successful in winning on a count bask with Gus placed second. While Tickers remains bookmakers’ favourite for the club championships Jack lies equal second at the moment & stamina will become critical in the match play stages.
Results:
Michael “Tickers” Tickner extended his lead although scores were affected by the weather. Tickers scored 88 off the stick to take his total to 170. Pat hallion, Dick Cleland, and defending champion Matt Opperman who was playing his first qualifying round also had 88 off the stick.
In B grade only 3 payers have played 2 rounds and colourful local identity, Philip “Tommo” Thomson leads with 192.
In C grade no one has yet played 2 rounds but Kobi Wenzel leads the way with 107.
The handicap event was a close run affair with Pat Hallion beating Dick Cleland on a count back, both scoring net 72, while Andy Spackman was just one back on net 73.
Handicap Results:
| Championship Qualifying – Best 2 of 4 rounds | |||
| A Grade | |||
| Players who have completed 2 rounds | |||
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Total | |
| Michael Tickner | 82 | 88 | 170 |
| Pat Hallion | 85 | 88 | 173 |
| David Webster | 83 | 90 | 173 |
| Russell Wenzel | 87 | 95 | 182 |
| Richard Cleland | 97 | 88 | 185 |
| Andrew Phillips | 93 | 95 | 188 |
| Players who have completed 1 round | |||
| Matt Opperman | 88 | ||
| Mark Millward | 95 | ||
| B Grade | |||
| Players who have completed 2 rounds | |||
| Philip Thomson | 93 | 99 | 192 |
| AndrewSpackman | 104 | 95 | 199 |
| Trevor Maxted | 104 | 99 | 203 |
| Players who have completed 1 round | |||
| Chris Waters | 92 | ||
| Neil Webster | 105 | ||
| Peter Weiss | 114 | ||
| C Grade | |||
| Players who have completed 1 round | |||
| Kobi Wenzel | 107 | ||
| RobertTaylor | 110 | ||
| Edward Van Keulen | 116 |
The weather gave the golfers everything yesterday starting with freezing high winds and dust before rain made conditions even colder and more uncomfortable.
Michael “Tickers” Tickner showed that he has honed his game to cope with whatever conditions the weather throws up carding a fine score of 38 points in the trying conditions. This places Tickers in outright early favoritism for Club Championships but there is nearly 4 months before the final is played. Runner up, Neil Webster, also played well scoring 36 but you can’t say that for anyone else.
What was particularly disappointing was that 4 players wimped out pulling out half way round. They were Pat Hallion, Klaus Heymann, Trevor Maxted & David “Jack” Webster. Let’s hope we don’t get any bad weather for the finals or we may see a lot of forfeits.
Saturday saw the first round of qualifying for the Club Championships with Michael “Tickers” Tickner taking an early lead with 82. David “Jack” Webster is only 1 stroke back but then there is a 3 stroke gap to Pat Hallion. Pat won the handicap event of the day with a net 69 while Tickers & Jack were 1 back with net 70. Tickers was runner up on a count back.
Full results:
With the exception of Bob Taylor today’s mulligan scores were abysmal. Bob scored 20 points to win by 5, a huge margin for 9 holes. Runner up was Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel with just 15. Andy Phillips was third with 13, while Andrew Hall & Dick Secomb scored 12. Dick Cleland took the Mars Bar with 11.
The scores were not brilliant by any means but only 7 strokes separated first & last. Your correspondent was not present & as I have not been given the results of any count backs I can only assume that Tickers won.
Results:
36 – Michael “Tickers” Tickner, Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel
35 – Colourful local identity Philip “Tommo” Thomson
32 – Bob Taylor, David “Jack” Webster
31 – Andy Phillips
29 – Pat Hallion, Trevor Maxted, Neil Webster
Trevor Maxted & Kobi Wenzel tied with 41 stableford points in this year’s ANZAC Cup with Trevor prevailing on a count back. Hot on their heals was the inscutablle Dick Secomb on 40 points. These players were 5 points clear of the talented pair of Michael “Tickers” Tickner & Dick Cleland. At the other end of the field the unpredictable Mark “Mouldy” Millward took the Mars Bar with less than 1/2 the points of our 3rd place getter.
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