COMPETITIVE golf finally returned to the Gloucester Golf Course on Saturday 21 June and Mitch Andrews turned in a great performance finishing 3 points ahead of the field to win the June Monthly Medal.
The event, sponsored by the Arkwood Family was played in the form of an Individual Stableford largely, one suspects, to reintroduce golfers back to competitive golf as gently as possible.
The course is still playing on the heavy side and this was reflected in the scores with only two players achieving even par to their handicap or better.
The winner of the June Monthly Medal was Mitch Andrews whose 39 points also won him the trophy for the best score in B grade. Ben Veitch scored 36 points for a win in A grade and Steve Benson’s 33 was the top C grade score. Balls were won by Mitch Andrews 39, Ben Veitch 36, Paul Garland 34, Steve Benson and Stacey Groves 33, Brian Osborne 32 with the final two balls to Geoff Reynolds and Jeff Graham 31.
Jamie Andrews finished 431 cm from the hole to win the Nearest-to-the-Pion trophy at the 4th and 13th holes; Jamie was the only player in the field to reach the green. At the shorter 6th and 15th holes it was a different matter with the full four trophies going to Ben Veitch, 196 cm, Mitch Andrews, 248 cm, Bill Murray, 288 cm and Karen Howarth, 450 cm, representing the three men’s grades and the women players respectively.
The long drives at the 8th and 17th holes were won by Steve Williams, Wayne Maddalena and Gary Peters in the three men’s grades and by Dale Rabbett for the women in the field.
The winner of the Super Sevens for the week ending Friday 20 June was Wayne Maddalena whose 17 points was two ahead of the leading ball winners Paul Blanch and Wayne Maddalena 15.
They were followed by Graeme Marsh, Paul Blanch and Doug Blanch one point further back on 14 with Steve Williams, 13, picking up the last ball on a count back.
On Saturday 28 June the Gloucester Club will be playing the Westpac Helicopter Charity Day in the form of a Four Person Ambrose.
This will be followed on 5 July by the July Monthly Medal an Individual Stroke event sponsored by the Arkwood family.
By Peter WILDBLOOD
You can help your local paper.
Make a small once-off, or (if you can) a regular donation.
We are an independent family owned business and our newspapers are free to collect and our news stories are free online.
Help support us into the future.
