After the pressures of the championships and last week’s stroke medal events a large field enjoyed a stableford on the Lithgow greens that are currently superb but very testing with their speed.
Three of Lithgow’s best all rounders who have excelled in a number of sports dominated their respective grades with the best score of the day coming out of C grade. This score belonged to Heidi Inwood (26) with 39 points and it was only a couple of weeks ago that she was again enjoying a win in C grade. Inwood set up her score with two consistent nines of 20 and 19 points with an excellent birdie on the 13th one of her highlights. Runner up was Brian Giblett (24) four shots back on 35 points.
Countbacks were needed to separate the winners and runners up in A and B grades with Geoff Thompson (7) counting out runner up Andrew Burton (36) to win the A grade voucher, Thompson should have been in good form considering that he has just returned from a golfing holiday in New Zealand playing some of the world’s best courses. It was a typical Thompson round which saw misses, pars, two birdies and an excellent eagle on the par 5 fifth with his and Burton’s rounds adding up to 36 points.
Josh Howarth (11) is a young player who has really come on since playing consistent Saturday golf. He finished with 37 with his birdie on the last hole being the difference in his countback win over Al Mostyn (10) with the pair finishing with scores of 37 points.
Vouchers went to those with 33 points and better and they were Ryan Gurney, Harry Bender, John Bird, Paul Bailey, Anthony Boza, Kobe Hunter, Adrian Sharp, Justin Nelson, Patrick Wall, Luke Brown, Dean Stafford, Les Goldspink, Ian Downey and Mitchell Wallace.
Nearest to the pins were: 2nd Chris Goodsell (48cms); 4th Steve Hall, (292cms); 9th Ryan Gurney (190cms); 13th Corey Osborne (247cms) and 18th Josh Howarth (66cms).
Coming up on Good Friday will be a two person Ambrose following on Saturday will be the Easter Cup.
Wednesday PFD Food Services nine hole competition:
Winner on 16 points was Juan Farmer.
Runner up was Steve Jennings on a countback from Dave Muir with both finishing on 15 points.
Vouchers went to Max Nightingale, Anthony Potts, Rick Cohen, Jeff Geddes, Craig Pugsley and Brian Quick. Cut was 14 points ocb.
Nearest to the pins were: 9th Al Mostyn (72cms) and 18th Dave Hicks (433cms).
Friday Central West Leak Detection and Plumbing nine hole competition:
Winner was Brian Judge with a score of 25 points.
Runner up was Les Goldspink on 22 points.
Vouchers went to Max Nightingale, Kobe Hunter and Jeff Geddes. Cut was 17 points ocb.
Nearest to the pin was: 9th Max Nightingale (308cms).