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2025 MEN’S FOURSOME CHAMPIONSHIP

We made it! Men’s golf finished our 2025 honour board calendar this weekend with the foursome’s championship being played. Although it was a small field of only 64 players and 32 teams. The course was beautifully prepared by Brendon and his team and it’s a full credit to their commitment throughout the year. The course has never been better, and all members of Club Banora appreciate all your hard work, with that being said, it was a day filled with drama, someone getting a 13 on the 1^st hole, Water, Out of bounds, 3 putts, 4 putts, 5 putts, lost balls, saying sorry, reaching for another new ball and asking how many holes left kind of day. It was great to see some new names in the winner’s circle.  Thank you to everyone who stayed back till the presentation.

A big thank you to Ken Culpitt, without your spreadsheets, today would have been a lot harder as everything had to calculated and manually entered into the computer. Shout out to Michael Kemp for helping me at the end of the day collecting the cards. Big thank you to Paul Quinlin for helping at the end of the day with finalising the results.

DIV 1:

0 TO 17

Gross Winners: Paul Pochodyla & David Killion with a gross score of 124

Gross Runners up: Brian Springfield & Tony Blair, on a countback with a gross score of 129

Nett Winner: Michael Kemp & Bob Myers with a nett score of 105.5

Nett Runner up: Graham Hopkins & Wayne Lloyd with a nett score of 109.25

DIV 2

17.5 TO 36

Gross Winners: Max Jessop & Mark Jessop with a gross score of 140

Gross Runners up: Wade Elphick & Haydn Vincent on a countback with a gross score of 145

Nett Winners: Perc Dempsey & Walter Fisk with a nett score of 114

Nett Runners up: Graham Mckenzie & Kym Fiora with a nett score of 115.

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Raffle: Patrick Tregellas, Brian Springfield, John Mcloughlin, Perc Dempsey, Michael Byrne all winning $25 each. Will Salter taking home $50

Miss ya Wayno, I hope you’re feeling better soon, Barry’s Pepsi max sales have dropped in your absence. I’ve had to pick up the slack in that department.

Men’s Captain

Patrick

The course is set and in pristine condition. Full credit to Brendon and the boys.

shotgun start tomorrow. Can everyone be at the course and ready by 7:45am thanks. Your team score card will be ready for you in the Island house.

Bring on 27 holes of fun and adventure.

Good Luck everyone

Captain

Patrick

We played a 4 person Ambrose with a draw for teams . We had a good field of 32 and we had generous trophy donors something we need if we are to play team games! I hope you all enjoyed a change of playing partners and hit off times !
We now have 7 weeks of golf before we break up for Xmas and New Year. Work has started on our program book for next year , let us know if you have any ideas for different games you would like to play or any you you don’t like.
There are still plenty of spots available for Melbourne Cup day it’s a Medley Fourball so everyone is welcome !

Results for today’s Ambroseare as follows:

Winners with 60.62 are Diane Hughes, Alison Blair, Dorothy Robertson and Lisa Smith. Runners up with 60.67 are Pauline Benny, Brooke Almond, Judy Mount and Kathryn Colsell. Rundown with 62 were: Pat Hodda, Pauline Ryan, Maren Cooper and Christine Waghorn, with 63.37 were Liz Edwards, Kaye Mills, Coral Rasmussen and Daphne Andersen.with 64.37 were Desley Harrington, Vivienne Sulejmani, Mary Swanson and Desleigh Dobney.
NTPs 2nd Diane Hughes, Alison Blair, Lisa Smith and Dorothy Robertson. 16th Desley Harrington, Vivienne Sulejmani, Mary Swanson and Desleigh Dobney . The winner of the Pro pin is Lyn Simpson .

Next week we will have a Single Irish Stableford , hope to see you all there

See you all there Captain Liz and our hard working committee

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Div 1: Michael Davies 40 points, Runner up Ray Mills with 39 points.

Div 2: Michael Byrne with 35 points. Runner up was Peter Malone with also 35 points.

Ball rundown went to 34 all in.

Pro Pin: Phil Coles $67

2nd: Michael McKay, Colin Norton.

7th: Alan Simpson, Steve Wilkinson.

11th: Kevin Bartlett.

12th: Phil Coles, Max Jessop.

16th: Wayne Lloyd, Colin Norton.

Raffle: Walter Fisk, Bryan Penny, Perc Dempsey, Michael Byrne, Terry Gosling.

Reminder: it’s our 2025 Mens Foursomes champs this Saturday. 27holes, shotgun start. Its a free day.

Men’s Captain

Patrick

Sunday 19th October 2025

Sundays Beauty Vs Beast was an extremely successful day. Lots of fun and friendly banter was had by all. But the winners for 2025 were the Beasts!! Well done men, you are now 1 up and the Beauties will be fired up for 2026. Big thank you to our sponsors Lyn and Al Simpson A shout out to Lisa Smith 39 points and Brian Springfield 38 points our individual winners for the day. Our Runners Up Alison Blair (38) and Garry Dowding (38)

Winners are grinners!!

Pro Pin $50 – Tony Blair

NTP 2nd Hole – Kaye Mills / Garry Dowding

NTP 7th Hole – Lou Carpenter / Ross Telfer

NTP 11th Hole – Vivienne Sulejmani / Terry Smith

NTP 16th Hole – Pauline Benny / Sam Benny

Nearest to Wavy Line – Alison Blair / Ken Mount

Raffle Winners $10 each Colour went to the club.

Raffle Winners: John Edwards, Desleigh Dobney, Katrina Springfield, Pauline Benny, John Edwards, Katrina Springfield, Sam Benny, Vivienne Sulejmani, Garry Dowding, Judy Mount, Sam Benny, Desley Harrington, Lillian Simpson.

See you next Sunday.

VP Katrina

What a cracker of a day. 51 starters with rundown 33pts. all in.

Div. 1 winner W. Howlett (22) 38 pts. r/u. Martin Dobney (21) 37 pts.

Div.2 Winner Ken Wood (29) 37 pts. on c/b from Terry Gosling.

N.T.P.S.

2nd. Wayne Muir + house.

7th. Bill Mann. + house.

12th. Warwick Self + Terry Baker.

16th. Kim Thackery + Roger Pettyfor.

Raffles. $75. Roger Pettyfor. $25. David Wallis + Gary Pettit + Martin Dobney. Well done to all winners. Good golfing and mental health.

Cheers Capt. Dave.(H 2O is still the GO,GO,GO but red is good.)

Div 1: Paul Pochodyla (10) with 39 points. Runner up: David Wallis (17) with 39 points.

Div 2: Steve Salter (27) with 38 points, Runner up Luke Coe (19) with 37 points.

Ball rundown went to 36 all in.

Pro Pin $77 David Wallis

2nd: Patrick Tregellas, Steve Salter.

7th: Steve Wilkinson, Ryan Modini.

12th: David Wallis, Jim Storey.

11th: Jimmy Cardoo

16th: Ryan Modini, David Williamson.

Raffle: Luke Hammond, Barry McFadden, John Faust, Michael McKay all winning $25. Jim Storey $50.

Capt Patrick

Betty retired at 94 , now 99 and Lucy retired OBE

OBE Myra about to turn 90, and OBE June

Helen new OBE and Diane OBE

Mary OBE and Doreen OBE turning 90 next year

Nancy OBE, Desley OBE and Maren OBE

Nancy OBE Runnerup OBE comp, prize donated by Myra

Captain Liz UBE with UBE Winner Alison Blair

OBE,s Mary Peggy and Judy

We celebrated OBE day this week , everyone played a single stableford with Winners and Runners up in both groups and a general rundown . It was great to see our retired OBEs , we hope they continue to keep involved in our special club!!🎀

Results of the OBE Single Stableford are: Winner Mary Swanson with 40 points. Runnerup Nancy Douglas with 37 points.
Results of the UBE Single Stableford are: Winner Alison Blair with 38 points. Runnerup up Pat Hodda with 36 points.

Rundown Pauline Benny 36, Coral Rasmussen 36, Liz Edwards 36, Myra Biggar 35, Lyn Simpson 34, Helen Evans 34, Denise Culpitt 33, Glenda Ballard 33, June McFadden 33.

OBE Ntp 2nd Mary Swanson. Over the field pins 7th Div 1 Pauline Ryan, Div 2 Mary Swanson. 16th Div1 Vivienne Sulejmani , Div2 Pauline Benny. Pro Pin Pat Hodda.

The draw for our team game next week is out extra players are welcome!
Melbourne Cup Day is coming up it will be a Medley Fourball everyone welcome more details to come.

Cheers to all from your hardworking committee who all make a great effort to make sure you have good day at golf!

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SUNDAY MEDLEY 19th October 2025

This Sunday Beauty Vs Beast. Prizes for winning team and the runners up. NTP on all par 3s, Closest to the wavy, wriggly line. Naga awards and more. Its shaping up to be a beautiful day and there are only 4 spaces left. Its a medley so grab your mate and get your name in the comp. 👌🏌‍♀️⛳️🏌‍♂️

See you there!

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