Sport
13 April, 2024
Linehan has opening day honour
WITH a green tinge starting to appear across the fairways due to recent rain, it was great to have 11 members attend Boort Golf Club’s opening event for the 2024 season. After newly crowned President, Damien Lanyon delivered his stirring welcome...
WITH a green tinge starting to appear across the fairways due to recent rain, it was great to have 11 members attend Boort Golf Club’s opening event for the 2024 season.
After newly crowned President, Damien Lanyon delivered his stirring welcome speech, he gave the honour of opening the course to the hard-working Kevin Linehan, who proudly teed off down the 1st hole to get proceedings underway.
The event for the day was individual stableford with the best nine scores to count so players could opt to play half a round, or few more if they felt up for the challenge.
An extra set of tees was also introduced so that those who were a bit rusty could hit off closer to the hole if they were not going so well, while those showing a bit of early season form were challenged off the tees further back, including some “tiger” tees to make things even more interesting.
In the end it was long time member, Doug Couper who triumphed on the day with 24 points, pipping out an unlucky Craig Allison whose 23 points of a handicap of five would have normally romped it in.
To close out the podium, Grant Tooth produced some early potential for a good year with his 21 points.
The recently introduced prize for the “longest last shot in” on the 18th went to one of the newest members in Peter Eicher, while Craig Allison gladly accepted the drinks for his fabulous tee shot on the 15th.
This week will see the regular events kick off with an 18-hole stableford competition on the Saturday, along with the first privilege cup up for grabs, with a reminder that we will trial our first Sunday event for this year on the weekend after.
Inglewood Golf Club this week held its regular school holiday clinic sponsored by IGA with coach Cody Bryan.