ANDREW Villinger is the Agrade leader after the first round of Pakenham Golf Club’s annual men’s championships played on Saturday.
A large field hit off and Andrew leads from Mick McManus, Tym Davey and Mason Shadwell.
Leaders in Bgrade are Scott Hooper from Paul Hobson and Neil Mani.
Bob Dowse is the leader in Cgrade from Trevor McQualter and Greg Roberts.
Dgrade sees Mick Conroy the leader from Robert Bigg and Peter Eaton.
The veterans is led by Stan Gilbert from Cliff Pain and David King.
The Ampol Shield (handicap) division is led by Mick Conroy from Trevor McQualter and Scott Hooper and Robert Bigg.
There are still two rounds to be played to decide the winners.
SATURDAY RESULTS
The day competition was won by Mick Conroy with 64 nett, the Agrade winner was Scott Hooper with 66 and Bgrade went to Brian Bateup with 67.
Nearest the pins saw Alan Halleur take out the golf shop second hole with Clint Walker the winner on the Pakenham Subway second hole.
Neil McLatchie was the winner of the Dante’s Woodfired Pizza eighth hole and Rob McCoubrie won the Hungry Jacks 14th with Barry Williams taking out the Pakenham Pizza 16th.
Scott Hooper was the winner on the B.M.R. Autos second shot on the sixth.
The B.M.R. Autos longest drive for Agrade was won by Stojko Kresojevic with Neil McLatchie taking out Bgrade.
Trevor McQualter was the winner of the McIntyre Painting Cgrade longest drive.
Two players had eagles to share the Pinnacle ‘Eagles Nest’ Scott Hooper on the first and Stojko Kresojevic on the ninth.
Greg Roberts and Clint Walker both received a ball for a birdie on the fifth.
Downtheline winners were Trevor McQualter 65, Robert Bigg 66, Bob Dowse 68, Trevor Chivers 68, Michael Byrnes 68, Gavin Steel 68, John Gillespie 68, Chris Wheeler 68, Stephen Mann 68, Mason Shadwell 69, Kevin Salau 69, Clint Walker 69, Scott Irwin 69, Cliff Pain 70, Tym Davey 70, Frank Leontini 70, Peter Eaton 70, Stan Gilbert 70, John Van Hoorn 70, Greg Roberts 70, Michael Burns 70, Paul Hobson 70, Neil Mani 70, Basil Bate 71, Jeff Paterson 71, Max Craig 71, Rob McCoubrie 71 and John Goodchild 71, all 71s on a countback.
COMING EVENTS
The second and third rounds of the championships will be played over the following two weeks.
The Monthly Medal for February will be played in conjunction with the championship round on 17 February.
The Pakenham Plate will be played on 24 February, so there will be a limited field of Saturday players all hitting off with an early shotgun start.
JUNIOR PENNANT
The junior pennant team had another win on Sunday against Drouin 4 1/2 to 2 1/2.
Next week it plays at Moe against Mirboo North.
ANNUAL TRIP AWAY
The deposit monies for the annual trip away are now overdue.
The final payment is due 23 February, see Rob Morley.
MONDAY RESULTS
This was a stroke competition with Stojko Kresojevic coming in with 62 to defeat Bob Morrison with 63.
Keith Massey, Ray Shalders and Denby Coggan had a score of 66, Les Jones, and Cliff Pain 67 and Peter Egbers, Eric Butcher, Tasi Taito and Ben Milnes came in with 68 and these players received a downtheline ball.
Nearest the pin on the second hole went to Rob Morrison, the eighth to Robert L. Edwards and the 14th to Tasi Taito.
WEDNESDAY RESULTS
Eighty players took part in the morning Stableford competition with Heath Barclay the winner after a countback from Jack Lloyd and Stojko Kresojevic.
All came in with 42 points.
Down the lines went to Eric Butcher, Doug Booth, Kevin Salau, George Coffey and Tasi Taito, all coming in with 40 points, followed by Malcolm Clay, Ray Wilson, Norman Coley, Glen Foote, Peter Diss and Bill Toogood with 39 and Denby Coggan, Robert Morley, Ken Marker and John Moore with 37 points
Nearest the pin on the second hole was won by Ray Shalders.
TWILIGHT RESULTS
Many players took advantage of the weather to play nine holes.
Wayne Harrop was the social winner and Patrick Keane won the raffle.
Front nine
The winner was Joseph Kozina with 23 points from Rod Cameron 22.
Down the lines went to Colin Crowle 21, Barrie Seldon 20, Brian Webster 20, Marjorie Dean 20, L. Megyeri 20, Nigel Trickey 19, Marie Trickey 19, Mick McManus 19, Graeme Mack 18, R. McGill 18 and Rod Wedlock 18.
Nearest the pin on the second hole went to Bernie Gramc and Mick McManus won the second shot on the seventh.
Back nine
Heath Barclay was the winner coming in with 23 points and Kevin Salau won the meal voucher with 22 points.
Down the lines went to Bill Toogood 21, Doug Booth 21, Stojko Kresojevic 21, Ed Milner 21, Peter Wigney 20, Rob Morley 20, Rob Morley 20, Bob Edwards 20, Glen Foote 20, Norm Coley 20.
Nearest the pins saw Glen Foote the winner on the 14th and Kevin Salau took out the second shot on the 11th.
LADIES
Fifty ladies began the new golfing season with the first round of the Summer Cup (nine holes) on Thursday, 1 February.
Winner of the front nine was Maria Warburton with 29 nett on a countback and the backnine winner was Judith McDonald with 33 nett.
Putting on the front nine went to Marg Turner with 12 putts (countback) and Val Greene came in with 12 putts to win the back nine.
Nearest the pin on the second hole went to Toni Owen.
Downtheline balls on the front nine were won by Ann Donovan 29, Pat Salau 30 1/2, Toni Owen 31 and Kay Jones 33 1/2.
Back nine downtheline balls were awarded to Jean Hoare, Marg Blake, Marjorie Dean and Shirley Roberts – all coming in with 36 1/2 nett.
Judy Horne won the ball competition with 35 nett.
Next week will be the second round of the Summer Cup.
