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As we all know the 2025 pennant series was washed out again. We will be running an Eisenhower Cup event on the 26th October, a one day event where the pennant flags will be awarded to the winners.

The event will see all club teams, except division 1, of 7 players, compete against the other 3 teams in their division at the same venue. The format will be the best 5 of 7 Stapleford scores for each team to count, the team with the highest total will take home the pennant flag.

The number of players will be lower than earlier in the year as I know many like the match play experience. Players will still be able to play in a team environment with their mates, as well as a neutral venue, and in a competitive event.

You can have more or less teams than earlier more depending on player availability.

The nomination sheets will be on the notice board behind the score card entry computers. Please write your name and details. Once I have the entries, I will allocate teams into divisions. Most matches will start at 8.00am playing in mixed groups of 4 but a couple may be at 10.00am due to course availability.

Nominations must be received no later than Tuesday the 30th September, earlier much appreciated. This way a draw will be done with 3 weeks notice to host clubs and players can plan carts.

If you have any questions. Please email me on golfcommittee@twintowns.com.au

For those players not playing who originally signed up. It would be appreciated if you could return your shirt thanks.

Mens Captain / Secretary

Patrick

Firstly a big thank you to Brendon and his team for getting the course into perfect condition for our 1st round of the champs. I can’t thank you enough for the effort you put in on the course.

With the first round done and dusted, this week’s weather looks promising for another sunny weekend. Today we saw no preferred lies thru the green which hasn’t been the case for weeks.

Congratulations to the winners, its still a long way to go to the last round. For those who didnt have a great round. Just hang in there.

A Grade – (+2 to 13) Winner: Grant Treloar (8) with a score of 68, Runner up Michael Kemp (8) with a score of 70. Gross Winner: Garry Dowding (+2) 79.

B Grade – (13 to 19) Winner: David Wallis (17) with a score of 70, Runner up Ken Mount (16) with a score of 71. Gross Winner: Joseph Lehkyj (15) 88.

C Grade – (20 to 36) Winner: Colin Norton (23) with a score of 68, Runner up on a countback was Perc Dempsey (30). Gross Winner: Wayne Stone (21) 93.

Ball Round down went to 71 all in.

Pins

2nd: Jim Storey, Simon Gates, Ryan Modini.

7th: Casey Godfrey, Simon Woolley, Grant Treloar.

11th: Avnija Sulejmani.

12th: Aaron Garland, Simon Woolley, Neil Armstrong.

16th: Luke Coe, Dane Wilson, Patrick Tregellas.

Raffle: Perc Dempsey, Wayne Muir, Stevie Caine, Nigel Luxton, John Mcloughlin all winning $25 each and David Wallis taking home $75. It was a good day for you David.

Just a friendly reminder. Please repair or fix your pitch marks on the green, With alot of social players using our course currently, its up to the members to help out and repair what you can and if you have time. Come see me if you would like a free pitch marker repairer tool. Also divots on fairways. If you walking past one that stands out. Please empty some sand on it. There are plenty of sand bins around the course. You just never know, Your next or only drive for the day down the fairway might just land in someone’s unfilled diviot.

Happy Golfing

Capt Patrick

Another glorious day! The course is in prime condition for the Men’s Champs starting this week. Alot of nice indivdual scores coming thru. A big shout out to John Olsen who blitzed it with 41 points and that included 1 wiped hole. Must be the new shoes huh John 😉

Winners: Wayne Woodford & Ken Mount with 74 points.

Runners up: Roger Pettyfor & Maxwell Jessop on 73 points

Ball rundown went to 67 all in.

Pro Pin: Kim Thackeray $68

2nd: Rick Downes, Patrick Tregellas.

7th: Patrick Hayes, James Cardoo.

11th: Luke Hammond.

12th: Nathan Simpson, Paul Quinlin.

16th: Kim Thackeray, Daniel Minogue.

Raffle: Wayne Woodford $25, Denise Crowe $25, Terry Gosling $25, Tony Brown $50

The new fees will commence effective 1 October 2025 and will be;

Golf Membership                                    $610

Social Membership $535

Social Unlimited Membership          $1380

Golf Member/Junior/Social Playing Fee $13.50/$17.50

Comp Fee                                                   $4.50

TT Member/Guest/Vistor/Group      $24/$37

Golf Members after 3pm Free

The Twin Towns Board advised until last year the State Government’s ClubGRANTS scheme, that allows the club to apportion a percentage of our gaming taxes to local sporting infrastructure amongst other things, enabled Twin Towns to largely offset the losses by funding golf with gaming  tax attributable to Twin Towns gaming. Unfortunately Twin Towns havnt been able to secure that funding.

Please see the above increases and if your membership is due before the 1st October it would be a good idea to pay that early and save some money.

If you have any questions. Please direct them to golfcommittee@twintowns.com.au

Club Banora Golf Committee

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Well not much of a day to start the Championships but the drizzle stayed mostly away and we managed to get round 1 in. 2nd round and finals hopefully next week 8th Sept. Only 30 starters left to determine Club Champion and other grades, nett and stroke. Those not in it still a comp on the day. Today ball r/d 77nett all in.

Winner James Wood (21) 71nett from r/u Col Norton (20)73nett.

N.T.P.S.

2nd. Pat Hayes +house + house.

7th. Pat Hayes +Neil Armstrong +Derryk Russell.

12th. Nick Davis+ Graeme Johnson+house.

16th. Ray Mills+ Wayne Muir +house.

Raffles.

$75 Pat Hayes. $50 Wayne Howlett .$25 Wayne Muir.

Good golfing and mental health. We will try again next week.

Cheers Capt. Dave. (red o`clock time)

The brave souls who competed in Club Banora Foursomes Championship were greeted with a beautiful sunny day and a good dose of gusty winds. The greenkeepers had the course looking amazing after all our recent rain and made us work hard around the greens with some tricky pin placements. The competition was stiff and the scores were close. Our reigning Gross winners and runners-up from 2024 have held on to their respective trophies once again. And Brian Springfield must be feeling lucky having won Net Winner again although with a new partner (his wife) for 2025.

Gross Winners – Desley Harrington & Garry Dowding (Gross 120 /Net 106.25) ($75.00)

Gross Runners Up – Alison & Tony Blair (Gross 130 / Net 113.5) ($50.00)

Net Winners – Katrina & Brian Springfield (Net 107.75 / Gross 131) ($50.00)

Net Runners Up – Kaye Mills & Ross Telfer (Net 109 / Gross 136)($35.00)

Player	H/C	Player	H/C	Team H/C 27 Holes	Gross	Net
Tony Blair	11	Alison Blair	11	16.5	130	113.5
Ken Mount	16	Diane Hughes	30	34.5	148	113.5
Patrick Tregellas	1	Colleen Kelly	22	17.25	141	123.75
Dale Park	20	Denise Melling	32	39	158	119
John Edwards	24	Liz Edwards	27	38.25	150	111.75
Greg Morrison	17	Yvonne Morrison	44	45.75	165	119.25
Brian Springfield	9	Katrina Springfield	22	23.25	131	107.75
Haydn Vincent	26	Myra Biggar	31	42.75	160	117.25
Garry Dowding	-2	Desley Harrington	23	15.75	122	106.25
Ryan Modini	8	Louise Carpenter	20	21	143	122
Colin Hodda	36	Patricia Hodda	24	45	169	124
Martin Dobney	24	Desleigh Dobney	28	39	163	124
Ross Telfer	21	Kaye Mills	15	27	136	109
Keith Cooper	23	Maren Cooper	31	40.5	160	119.5
Ray Mills	7	Chris Mills	29	27	148	121
Avnija Sulejmani	14	Viv Sulejmani	20	25.5	142	116.5

Well done to everyone another successful day was had. Everyone received a ball and tee and afternoon tea was served by Barry and his awesome team.

The winner of our wine draw kindly donated by Max Jessop – Ryan Modini.

Photos to follow next week.

Cheers Katrina and Captain Pat

Beautiful weather and a nice breeze. 86 in the field today. Congratulations to the winners and the all those 3 putts. Some very interesting pins indeed.

Winners: Paul Pochodyla & David Killiom (4.25) with a score of 62.5

Runners up: Ryan Modini & Mitch Taylor (6.25) with a score of 64.25

Rundown went to 66.25 all in.

Pro Pin: Michael McKay $86

2nd: Nathan Simpson & Liam Henzel.

7th: Nigel Luxton & Jimmy Cardoo.

11th: Colin Norton & Patrick Hayes.

12th: Michael Mckay & Ian Cutter.

16th: Kerrod Kirkham & Wade Elphick.

Raffle:

Patrick Tregellas, Paul Quinlin, Ken Mount and Bryan Penny for $25 Each, Tony Brown $50, Ryan Modini $75

Capt Patrick

Finally we have managed to have some nice weather so our Foursomes Championships went off without a hitch, only one false start!

The Gross Winners were : Kaye Mills and Pat Hodda with 140.

The Gross Runners up were: Alison Blair and Maren Cooper with 150.

The Nett Winners were : Marilyn Burns and Nancy Douglas with 115.25 .

The Nett Runnersup were: Christine Waghorn and Coral Rasmussen with 115.5

The players in the rundown were: Myra Biggar and June McFadden 115. Dorothy Robertson and Marilyn Berryman 117.25, Colleen Kelly and Denise Melling 117.5, Desley Harrington and Peggy Williams 119.25 , Chris Mills and Vivienne Sulejmani 119.25.

Thanks go to our hardworking Computer girls, to Barry and his team and to the green staff !

Now we just have turn around and do it all again on Sunday!!! Good luck to all !!

Next Thursday we have our Jared Lyle Day so please wear Yellow and bring a gold coin for the fund raiser. The week after we have our Gold Medal Playoff with a single stableford for the rest of the field. The sheet will be available later on Sunday after the eligible players are confirmed and booked .

Cheers to all from your hardworking committee

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It was good to be back on the course again, full credit to Brendon and his crew working incredibly hard to get the course back to its best. Thank you so much for all the work you do. It was pretty hard going out there today with wind. I will make special mention of a Golfer I played with today. It was on the 6th Hole, bit of a tail wind behind us and Michael Tink-Hornett smokes his driver 298m off the tee to just before the front left hand side bunker. Michael’s second shot was a perfect low chip n run shot which landed perfect and then rolled into the hole for Eagle. 4 pointer! Well played Tink, showing some good form going into the championships.

Div 1 : Winner: Graeme Veivers (18) with 38 points. Runner up was Michael Tink-Hornett (7) with 36 Points.

Div 2 : Winner: Ken Walker (22) with 38 points. Runner up by count back was Timothy Pooley (32) with 38 points.

Ball run down went to 34 all in.

Pro Pin: Kyle Harrison $78

2nd: Ray Mills, David Harrod.

7th: Kim Hall, Kwok Alexander.

11th: Nick Davis

12th: Kyle Harrison, Martin Dobney.

16th: Michael Greening, Nick Davis

Raffle: Mark Jessop $75, Walter Fisk $25, Ray Mills $25

Just a friendly reminder to the morning players and all players really, please keep the pace of play. please ensure the group in front of you is not out of sight or fairways in front of you. It’s the responsibility of the lowest marker of the group to keep the group moving and not fall behind. It’s happening more and more that the afternoon field is teeing off 20 to 40mins later than there allocated tee time. This causes a ripple effect for all afternoon players, Wayne and Myself at the end of the day with finalizing results. The last thing I want to be doing is handing out warnings or incurring 2 stroke penalty shots. Next month being our Men’s Championship consisting of 4 rounds. It would be great if everyone was just aware of slow play and ready golf. Thanks

Up coming Events

30th August : 2 Man Ambrose.

3rd Sept : 4BBB Stableford Aggregate.

6th Sept : 1st Round of the 2025 Men’s Championships.

Captain

Patrick