{"id":792114,"date":"2026-10-04T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792114\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:10:10","slug":"macfarlane-and-betschart-reign-supreme-at-turtle-hill-the-royal-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792114\/","title":{"rendered":"MacFarlane and Betschart reign supreme at Turtle Hill &#8211; The Royal Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Created: Oct 04, 2026 04:15 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791155409_960_.jpeg\" uuid=\"8cb8ba17-280d-5fc4-b71b-4dea4b4b91a0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Championship Flight winners Darina Betschart and Lewis MacFarlane (Photograph by Colin Thompson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Lewis MacFarlane and Darina Betschart retained their title as youth conquered experience for the second straight year in the Bermuda Mixed Foursome Championship at Turtle Hill Golf Club on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The teenage pair completed the 36-hole tournament at 12 under to win the Championship Flight by eight shots over Tracy Burgess and Richard Marriott, who pipped Ann Symonds and Walter Jackson for second-place honours on retrogression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">MacFarlane and Betschart were both thrilled to have maintained their grip on the trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cGoing back to back is amazing and playing with Darina is always great. She\u2019s a great partner,\u201d MacFarlane, 13, told The Royal Gazette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cMissed a couple of birdie chances but in the end we played amazing and finishing on 12 under is almost perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Betschart, 14, added: \u201cIt always feels great to win back to back and Lewis and I were just ham and egging it out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cWe were just supporting each other and if one of us was out of position, the other one was on the green inside 15 feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cLewis saved me a lot today with the pars and I really appreciate him for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791155410_172_.jpeg\" uuid=\"739926de-9295-5a5e-bcad-99cec04ae57a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Championship Flight Net winners Walter Jackson and Ann Symonds (Photograph by Colin Thompson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Katrin Burnie and Roderick Forrest were the remaining pair finishing under par to finish fourth overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Also retaining their title were Jackson and Symonds in the Championship Flight net division \u2014 a feat which caught the pair by surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cUnbeknown to us that we find ourselves in this position,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cI told Ann unlike last year we played much better and our scores were much better, and I think we are deserving of a placing in the tournament. But that place was a shocker to both of us when we found out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Symonds added: \u201cPlaying with Walter is great and today\u2019s round was nice. We were birdieing when we thought we didn\u2019t and it was great golf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Brent and Jaime Giannone were crowned champions in the First Flight at nine over, with Darrin and Kimberly Lewis finishing second at 14-over and Richard Hazelwood and Sarah Eggen third at 33-over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Darrin and Kimberly Lewis pipped Brent and Jamie Giannone for First Flight net honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The tournament saw players test their skills in the Four-Ball (partner best ball), Pinehurst (modified alternate shot) and Captain\u2019s Choice formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Created: Oct 04, 2026 04:15 PM Championship Flight winners Darina Betschart and Lewis MacFarlane (Photograph by Colin Thompson)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}