Sport

Tim claims top honours

By Faith Macale

Jul 8, 2024

Golfers enjoyed a successful day, which featured Lachie McFarlane’s debut round. Photo by Laura Briggs

With blue skies and sunshine, last Saturday was perfect for golf, drawing players back to the Avenel Golf Club where they welcomed Lachie McFarlane for his first round.

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Twelve men and four women played a stableford round from the back tees, and some impressive scores were recorded.

Tim Batten and Mark Hannigan both scored 38 points, leading to a countback for the winner’s voucher.

Tim claimed the honours, making Mark the runner-up.

Line balls were awarded to Shane Black with 37 points and Dale Smith with 36 points, after a countback from Campbell Smith and Matt Eddy.

Shane collected two more balls for nearest-the-pin on the fifth and ‘drive and pitch’ on the seventh. Lachie was NTP on the 14th and Mark won NTP on the 18th.

The women had their own competition and Dee Wright continued her good form with 35 points.

She won the winner’s voucher on a countback from Lyn Carracher, who also scored 35 points.

Lyn was the ball winner and also won the raffle, collecting the Imperial Hotel hat and voucher.

The club will host the DDGA Vets on Thursday, July 18, featuring a four-person ambrose.

This Saturday features everyone’s favourite game, par.