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Champions to the fore

STOJKO Kresojevic and Scott Milnes are the 2006 Pakenham Golf Club foursomes champions.
They won the final round of stroke matchplay on Saturday afternoon, defeating Sean Constable and Norm Coley sevenfive to take the title.
Semifinals were held in the morning to decide the finalists with Sean and Norm defeating Steven Levett and Arthur Ellis and Stojko and Scott defeating Frank Morris and Kym Davey.

SATURDAY RESULTS

The winner of the Stableford competition was Ian Graham with 40 points on a countback.
The winner of Agrade was Ron Cameron with 40 points and the winner of Bgrade went to Matt Yusoff with 39 points.
Downtheline balls went to Mark Bell 39, Dale Richards 38, Miro Majstorovic 38, Des Reuben 36, Philip Barling 39, John Gillespie 37, John Hutcheon 37, Gary Westwick 37, Mark Hatton 39, Noel Boyd 37, Dean Jones 37, Albert Campbell 37, David Leach 36, Tony Smith 36, Rick McHugh 36, Nik Hock 35, Bret Mottrom 35, Alex Green 35, George Coffey 35, Brian Bateup 34, Yari Klimak 34, Angie Peluso 33, Mark Klaver 33 and Jack Jackson 33.
Nearest the pin on the golf shop second hole was Mick Boyd, the Pakenham Subway fifth hole went to Dale Richards and on the Dante’s Woodfired Pizza eighth hole, the winner was Rick McHugh.
The Hungry Jack’s 14th hole went to Rob McCrae with the Pakenham Pizza 16th hole going to Maurice Rossetti and the B.M.R. Autos sixth hole second shot was won by George Coffey.
The B.M.R. Autos Agrade longest drive was won by Ron Cameron with Bgrade going to Dale Harrison. The McIntrye Painting Cgrade longest drive went to Gary Brand.
Gary Westwick won the eagle’s nest with an eagle of the first hole.
Next Saturday the competition is Par with the following week being the October monthly medal sponsored by Edco Hotel Services, thanks to Doug Mortimer.

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MONDAY RESULTS

On 18 September a Stableford competition was played with the winner Jimmy Logan coming in with 39 points to win on a countback from Trevor Smith.
Downtheline balls went to David Hoare 38, and Grant McKay 37.
Nearest the pin on the eighth hole was won by Peter Lawlor and on the 14th the winner was Cliff Pain.

WEDNESDAY RESULTS

The day saw 55 players taking part in the Stableford competition with Colin Crowle coming in with 40 points to win from Noel Bonne with 39 points.
Downtheline balls went to Angie Peluso 38, Graeme Steel 38, Bob Dowse 38, Brian Degering 37, Don Dalgleish 37 and George Coffey 37.
Nearest the pin on the second hole went to Colin Crowle with the eighth going to Ian Graham and the winner on the 14th hole was Graeme Steel.

LADIES

On Thursday last week members held a personal guest day.
Sixty ladies played fourballbestball Stableford thanks to Rick and his staff.
After golf there was a display of golf clothing courtesy of Pat Randall and modelled by members.
Sue and Bill were thanked for lunch.
Winners of the day were Norma Robertson and Trish Stewart with 43 points, runnersup were Jan Gibb and Joyce Hammond with 42 points.
The best nine out went to Marjorie Dean and P. Curtis with 22 points and the best nine in, on a countback, went to Helen Aurish and Vera Agnello with 21 points.
Nearest the pin on the second hole went to Meredith Bowers from Garfield and the eighth hole for members was won by Jan Gibb, with the guests eighth going to Wendy Wightman from Cranbourne.
On the 14th hole it was Peg Hocking from Drouin and on the 16th was also Peg Hocking.
Downtheline balls went to L. Stewart and L. Tait 14, K. Jones and P. Tucker 40, J. Garton and P. Warne 39, J. McCardel and S. King 38, T. Owen and R. O’Brien 38, L. Barker and M. Jacobs 38, S. Tharle and D. Van Roy 37, A. Mahony and W. Wightman 36, S. McDowell and J. White 37, K. Adams and A. Fromhold 36 on a countback.
This week the ladies will play threeballbestball.

SATURDAY LADIES

On Saturday the ladies played Stableford and the winner of the day was Viki Maxwell with 37 points.
Down the lines went to Libby De Hey 35 and Marjorie Dean 34, with the nearest the pin going to Loretta Stewart.
Next Saturday is Par and the new starting time is 10.30 am for the ladies.

SCHOOL HOLIDAY CLINIC

School holiday clinics are being held for juniors on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
For further information or bookings phone the golf shop on 5941 4083

CONDOLENCES

The staff and members of the club sent their condolences to Judy Flynn and Robin McCoubrie on the recent death of their mother.

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