Now in its second year, the event brought together 50 young golfers from Years 7 to 12, representing Sacred Heart College and Yarrawonga College P\u201312, for a great day of school golf on the fairways of Yarra Golf.<\/p>\n
Players competed across a range of formats, with some taking on an 18-hole stroke round across the Executive Course and the front nine of the Lake Course, while the majority played a shotgun-start stroke round on the Executive Course.<\/p>\n
There was some outstanding golf played throughout the day.<\/p>\n
In the 18-hole event,\u00a0Tate Thomson\u00a0was crowned Gross Winner with a brilliant round of 69, taking the title on a countback from\u00a0Sonny Sneddon, with both players finishing at par.<\/p>\n
The 18-hole Nett Winner was\u00a0Chase Jarjoura, with an excellent score of 57.<\/p>\n
In the 9-hole event,\u00a0Henry Donovan\u00a0claimed the Gross Winner honours with a round of 37, while\u00a0Kobe Hughes\u00a0took out the Nett prize with a score of 21.5.<\/p>\n
After team averages were calculated, Sacred Heart College emerged victorious, defeating Yarrawonga College P\u201312 by a narrow margin,\u00a0106.4 to 109.45.<\/p>\n
Sacred Heart College\u2019s\u00a0Baxter Donovan\u00a0accepted the Perpetual Shield on behalf of the winning team and thanked everyone involved in bringing the event together.<\/p>\n
Yarra Golf congratulates all students who took part in this year\u2019s challenge, along with the teachers, staff, volunteers and supporters who helped make the day such a success.<\/p>\n
The Schools\u2019 Golf Challenge continues to be a fantastic opportunity for local students to enjoy competitive golf in a friendly and supportive environment, and plans are already in place for the event to return in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now in its second year, the event brought together 50 young golfers from Years 7 to 12, representing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-695314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695314","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=695314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}