Northern Rivers Talking Turkey

A 3BBB versus Par event was played on Wednesday with the sponsors being Rene O’Reilly, Clarice Adams and Mary Garred. In a closely contested event the winners on the day were Linda Macdade, Sue McInnes and Narelle Vary. NTP’s went to R Perkins (3/12), V Lloyd (5/14), L Macdade (13th) and D Brown (9/18). Ball winners were L Macdade, S McInnes, N Vary, J Williams, H Jenkinson, M Williams, D Brown, R McLaughlin, A Perrin, Y O’Reilly, V Lloyd and M Garred. The annual Kyogle v Lismore shield was held on Monday and whilst we were not winners M Rogers/S Murray won their match and N Vary/Col Hurley drew their match.

A GRADE: winner; S Beaumont; Runner Up, G Moore; NTP, S Beaumont.
B GRADE winner; S Olive; Runner Up, P Morrison; NTP, R Clark.
C GRADE winner; S McBride; Runner Up, I Henderson; NTP, S Kaihau.
Putting, B Lane.
The next outing August 22 Kyogle, for further enquiries phone Butch Rogers on 6632 1603 or visit:

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Thursday’s veterans stableford event was played in perfect conditions and Tony McInnes found things to his liking and recorded a tidy 39 points to win. Rob Faulkner also played well to be runner up on a count back from visitor Fred Ledwell. Roy Crotty, Mark Henry, Steve Beaumont and Wayne Mills all had 35 points and balls went to 34 points.
Nearest pins were won by Vic Worth, Roy Clark and Stewart Penman.

McMahon’s Butchery sponsored the August monthly medal won in A grade by L Jenkinson with a nett 65 and B Grade by D McInnes with a nett 60. A grade runner up was V Worth with nett 68 and B Grade runner up was P Olive with a nett 68.
The veterans ball was won by D McInnes and the putting comp won by W Mills with 25 putts. In the ball comp all players with nett 73 or better won balls.
Nearest the pins were W Mills 1/10 & 2/11, M Gow 4th, D McInnes 5/14, B Strange 9/18 & 12th, P Schipanski 13th.
Next weeks event will be sponsored by the Veteran Braford Breeders and will be a 4BBB event.

This good weather is conclusive to some very good scoring and none was more apparent than on Wednesday for our monthly medal game. Mary Garred showed the way to win Division 1 with a good 66 nett and Heather Jenkinson continued her winning way to take out Division 2 with a nett 68. Putting went to Mary and she also won the Vets comp, well done. A grade medal was won by Raema Perkins, Mary Garred won B grade and Heather Jenkinson won C grade. NTPs were J Williams (2/11), H Jenkinson (3/12), S Murray (5/14) and R Perkins (13th).
Sunday saw us play in the Don Brown memorial day sponsored by Dot Brown. Dot combined well with Wayne Mills to take out the event with 50 points, Mary Garred and Allen Marsh were second with 49 and Maureen Welsh and Mich Tough came in third with 48 points. Colleen Hurley and Dave Walters won the 1st nine holes and Heather and Les Jenkinson won the 2nd nine holes.
In very wet conditions we played the Northern Rivers tournament at Ocean Shores last week with moderate success. Raema Perkins won the nett event for Monday and Linda Macdade won the nett event for Tuesday. A team consisting of L Macdade, J Williams and M Rogers won the Grafton Shield 3 person team event and Viv Lloyd took out NTP for her division on Monday.