BOORT’S Andrew Kane has done it again, winning his fifth Victorian Sand Greens Championship at Charlton Golf Club on the weekend.
He hit a pair of 70s to win by two strokes from Euroa’s Ed Carracher. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing.
Kane was playing with Carracher and knew he was four strokes ahead coming to the last of the 72 holes, a 470m par five.
“I tried to take it easy – and hit probably the worst shot I’ve hit in my life,” he said.  “It went into the trees, and I could have been stuck there.”
Carracher was close to the green and his chip for an eagle lipped the cup before Kane scrambled home with a bogey and his opponent putted out for a birdie.
The comfortable four-shot cushion became a nerve-wracking two-shot win for the Boort legend.
Kane won his first Victorian sand greens title way back in 1987 and also took out the prize in 1990.
Thirty-two years later he won it again and followed up in 2023 before, in his own words, “bombing out at Dimboola” last year.
This year’s win adds yet another prize to his bulging trophy cabinet.
Next up is a pro-am at Barham in two weeks’ time, before maths teacher Kane moves into largely non-competitive mode, playing in Thursday club events at Barham during the school holidays.