{"id":819418,"date":"2026-07-23T20:49:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/819418\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:49:27","slug":"the-tee-up-this-week-in-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/819418\/","title":{"rendered":"The tee up: this week in golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRONG individual rounds, a British Open-themed event and several close finishes highlighted another busy week of golf at The Sands and Torquay.<\/p>\n<p>At The Sands, Jerry Cresp (11) claimed Monday 13 July\u2019s medley stableford with 30 points, while Sue Malcolm (22) won Tuesday\u2019s nine-hole medley stableford with 22 points.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s medley par produced tightly contested results across the grades. Jeff Crow (9) edged A-grade on countback after finishing square, while Austin Swain (11) won B-grade with +2. Trevor Westacott (30) topped C-grade at square.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s women\u2019s stroke competition was won by Allison Bell (22) with a round of 77, before Friday\u2019s medley stableford delivered the best score of the week, with Justin McCarthy (20) posting 43 points to comfortably win B-grade. Luke Laretive (14) claimed A-grade with 38 points.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s stroke competition featured some excellent scoring, led by Nathan King (10), whose nett 68 secured A-grade honours. Graeme Haynes (16) won B-grade on countback with 71, while Tianay Hyndman (47) led the women\u2019s stableford with 38 points.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s British Open stableford saw Ryan Illingworth (21) edge Ryan Hall (11) on countback after both finished on 37 points, while Hall claimed the overall Four Majors title on countback.<\/p>\n<p>Torquay\u2019s week opened with veterans stableford on Monday, where Ron Watt (20) and Maureen Stuart (32) won the men\u2019s and women\u2019s divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s stableford featured 40 points from Mel Jones (24) to win A-grade, while Jo Johnson (45) took B-grade with 39 points.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s par competition saw Paul Byron (10) and Wes Bumpstead (11) finish tied on +5, with Byron taking A-grade on countback. Dave Kilmartin (14) won B-grade with +3, while Paul Byron also recorded an eagle on the opening hole.<\/p>\n<p>Edward McCoy (12) won Thursday\u2019s men\u2019s stableford with 41 points, while Kathy Simson (14) led the women\u2019s competition with 39.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s stableford produced another run of strong scoring. Adam Brissenden (9) and Aaron Bradley (21) each posted 39 points to win A-grade and B-grade respectively, while Anne Staig (19) recorded 42 points to top the women\u2019s field. Eagles were recorded by Brissenden and Luke Mulder.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s 4BBB par was won by David Hutchinson and Daniel Twentyman at +12, while Ron Watt (20) claimed the accompanying individual par with +3. Ronnie Beacom (19) won the women\u2019s stableford with 43 points.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s stableford wrapped up the week, with David Johnson (11) winning A-grade on countback after tying on 42 points, Ryan O\u2019Keeffe (26) taking B-grade with 38, and Tracy Anscombe (42) claiming the women\u2019s competition with 41. Stevie Brookfield added the week\u2019s fourth eagle with a two on the 2nd hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STRONG individual rounds, a British Open-themed event and several close finishes highlighted another busy week of golf at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-819418","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\/819418","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=819418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}