ROBYN Dyer and female golf are thriving at The Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club, with the latest contest producing an extraordinarily tight finish.<\/p>\n
A bumper field of 36 fronted the starter on Wednesday, 3 December, when 34-marker Dyer turned in 52 off the stick and parred the 10th and 13 to post 38 points to sweep the Div 3 prize of the tournament sponsored by Ecomist.<\/p>\n
Henny Oldenhove (16 handicap) matched the 38 points to win Div 1 with a sooper dooper seven pars and 84 off the stick.<\/p>\n
The in-form Kay McGoldrick (32) continued her merry advent close to Chrisy run with 37 points to claim Div 2 Santa rights (Dalmations off the stick).<\/p>\n
The frenzied pool on the 8th saw pins shared by Kerrie Eichorn, Marilyn McNally and Lillian Lukins. Deidre Fletcher was the best on 13 and Dianne O\u2019Leary capped a solid day of 36 points with the nearest the pin on the last.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll take anyone out if I hit it like this on this handicap,\u201d said Craig Haworth, reflecting after Jack Daniels and a tidy 77 gross for nett 63 to win Div 2 of the men\u2019s Nambucca Liquor Monthly Medal on Saturday, 6 December.<\/p>\n
Haworth (once was 14) scorched home in two over round the back to head home Peter Miller (16) by eight.<\/p>\n
Steve Frost (14) won the Div 2 gross with 88.<\/p>\n
Darrell Flanders (11) posted an excellent 67 nett to win Div 1 on a testing day at The Island as the wind whipped up, by a shot from club champion Graham Watson (6).<\/p>\n
Hard-working Bryce McCarroll (6) swept the gross with 77.<\/p>\n
Houston Baker drawled Texan-style for an outstanding 66 nett to win Div 3, one clear of resurgent Roy Louis (29). Hans Jansen (20) won the gross with 94.<\/p>\n
It was a Lucas pinfest \u2013 Christpher nearest on 5 and 15, and Jamie on 18 for the $70 Pro Pin. Rick Heywood took the 7th, Graham Weary on 8 and Flanders will discover the finest frisbees on the Mid North Coast are found at Pizza This Pizza That afer striping it close to an awkward stick on 13.<\/p>\n
Scores matched the mercury in the Ecomist medley stableford on Thursday, 4 December, when you needed 40 points or better for a seat at the prize table.<\/p>\n
12-marker Clinton Lavender had 11 pars and nothing worse than a bogey for 76 off the stick and a big train of 41 points to pip Bryce McCarroll (6) by a point in Div 1.<\/p>\n
Gary Beggs (25) whoppered with 44 points to street Div 2 from Dennis Ashton (21) who is running back into form with 41.<\/p>\n
The ball run went down to 33 with Bernie Dugdale the last to collect.<\/p>\n
Geoff McCann banged the putt from afar on 1 and the pin botherers were Matt Jones on 5, Peter Thompson on 7 (hole-in-one!), Brent Polites on 8 and laser-like Drew Glasson on 15. Deidre Fletcher boxed the pizza on 13 and Peter Miller has $70 in the bank after walking off the last with the Pro Pin.<\/p>\n
TNT Auto was the generous sponsor of the medley stableford on Tuesday, 2 December, and Kevin Wilson (26) said thank you very much for the \u2018W\u2019 with 38 points \u2013 three clear of Craig Mattick (22).<\/p>\n
Troy Herbert took the NTP on 5, Ray Mansell on 7, Gary Leighton on 8, Mattick on 13, Peter Spencer on 15 and Tim Kinnear on 18 for a $30 Pro Pin.<\/p>\n
Steve Ward \u2013 purveyor of fine Italian food with a Kiwi twist and humour, cuzzie bro \u2013 stumped up as he always does for The Island for the Xmas Medley on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Heather Gray and Narelle Delaney throttled with 49 points, three clear of runners-up Georgina Riddington and Bruce Fleming.<\/p>\n
Pins on 5 were nailed by Debra Gersbach and Karl Hobday, Glenys Thompson and Andrew Donovan on 18 and Kerrie Eichorn will be well sated thanks to Pizza This Pizza That.<\/p>\n
Everyday on The Island is for the bois and girls \u2013 great food, banter and a challenging championship 18-hole layout. Get around it.<\/p>\n
By Chris KNIGHT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROBYN Dyer and female golf are thriving at The Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club, with the latest contest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-346995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}