The Lithgow Golf Club was really jumping with a big field for the monthly medals and a host of social golfers taking advantage of a much drier golf course and it was much the same during the week with good numbers taking to the fairways.
Only three of the field could break their handicap with the others finding the strong winds, pin placements and extended length from the blue markers very testing. The September monthly medals were again sponsored by Henry’s Plant and Equipment Hire and went to: A grade Rod Bright; B grade Les Goldspink and C grade to Steve Jennings.
The August B grade playoff medal went to Carlos Garibotto.
The A grade stroke went to Rod Bright (6) who has been a consistent winner over the past couple of months.
Bright finished with a score of 71 nett that boasted three birdies and two consistent nines. One behind on 72 nett was Gary Wallace (5) who had a great start carding a 34 off the stick for the front nine but fell away over the back nine. The best scratch score of 75 went to Justin Nelson (1) again turning in consistent good rounds each week.
Best net score of the day came out of B grade and that went to Les Goldspink (11) when he posted a 69 nett. Goldspink shot two nines of 40 which was extremely good in the tough conditions.
Runner up on 71 nett was Greg Jackson (10) who came home strong with a 39. Best scratch score went to Jason Murray (12) on 84.
One of the club’s keenest golfers Carol Burton (30) had a good round to take out C grade with a score of 75 nett. Burton was consistent over her two nines playing well in the strong winds.
Runner up on 76 nett was another keen golfer in Julie Rosewarne (36) and she has enjoyed some good rounds over the past month.
Best C grade scratch score went to Leo Murnane (21) with a score of 100.
Vouchers went to Dean Stafford, Blake Bender, Mitch Luka, Steve Little, Daniel Buckens, Harry Bender, Michael Saville, Blake Goldspink, Justin McCann and Kobe Hunter. The cut was 76 nett with the vouchers dominated by the A graders which was not surprising in the tough conditions.
Nearest to the pins saw some ‘hot’ shots that were as follows: 2nd Justin McCann (2cms); 4th Leonie Hughes (80cms); 9th Ian Downey (72cms); 13th Chris Goodsell (291cms) and 18th Jai Osborne (340cms).
Saturday’s event will be a single stableford.
Wednesday Sparks Finance nine hole competition:
Winner was Riley Cameron with a score of 21 points.
Runner up was Mitchell Wallace on 17 points counting out third placed Rob Peachman. Vouchers went to Steve Little and Wayne Morris. Cut was16 points ocb. Nearest the pin was Greg Guest on the ninth (100cms) and on the 18th Darren Healey (99cms).
Friday Central West Leak Detection nine hole competition:
Winner on 21 points was Mitchell Wallace on a countback to runner up Brian Judge. Third place went to Anthony Brown on 20 points.
Vouchers went to Don Farnsworth, Ian Downey, Max Nightingale and Greg Guest. Cut was 18 points ocb.