Saturday saw the playoff of Monthly Medalists for the board event – Gold Medal. Of the ten eligible, the winner was Terry Chaplin by one shot from Brian Simmons. This completed a very successful week for Terry who on Thursday at Dalhousie Veterans was named Player of the Year, with the best 10 scores for … Read more
Saturday saw the last round of the Sichlau Trophy Event and the Monthly Medal contested at Royal Yea. Twenty four men participated in the stroke and putting, with the course in excellent condition following recent green scarrofying. Winner of the Monthly Medal was Sam Wright(21) with a 69 nett. This was his second win in … Read more
Saturday saw the first round of the Murrindindi Masters played at Royal Yea. 91 competitors from Marysville. Eildon, Alexandra and Yea were involved, with several Yea players having success. Overall Masters leaders were Yew-Leong Kuan for the men with 41 points and for the Ladies Sabrina Stow also with 41 points both from Marysville. Yea’s … Read more
Transcript of an Address to the Golf Club by Tom Dignam. 22-11-98 Firstly I don’t want to bore you with statistics, etc. The President asked me if I knew anything about the beginnings of golf in Yea. I should, as I was living on this property when golf started here. Our house was near the … Read more
Wednesday saw 17 men contest a stableford pairs event as well as Individual Stableford. The pairs event takes the two individual points gained on a hole and combines them to earn a hopefully larger score per hole. ie. if both players get 2 points then 22 is recorded. If one scores less than 2 then … Read more
Saturday saw the first round of two of the A.H. Smith Trophy with Brian Priestley(29) posting a terrific 38 points to win the day. There were 18 players and conditions were ideal with no breeze and fast greens. Second on CB was John Tanner(19) from Carl Maffei(22) with 35 points from fourth Peter Johnston(14) with … Read more
Wednesday saw the conditions ideal for golf as 17 men hit off in a stroke and putting competition . Winner with nett 69 was Brian Simmons(11) and he also was NTP on the 18th. Second was Alan Pell(12) with 70, followed by Ken Whitfort(7) 71 and Neil Ross(36) with his first placing in an event … Read more
Saturday saw the final round of three completed of the Men’s 2019 Championships at Royal Yea Golf Course. All grades finished with close scores especially C Grade where a play-off was needed. Final Results of this year’s competition were: A Grade – Winner Rick Wills 254, Runner’s Up Michael Spagnolo 257, Gary Pollard 258. B … Read more
Seven pairs contested an Ambrose Event on Wednesday at Royal Yea. Winners with a score of 69 nett 60 were Michael Spagnolo(7) and Brian Priestley(29). Runner’s Up were Gary Pollard(11) and Jeff Aurisch(18) with 74 nett 66 3/4 . NTP was Jeff Aurisch on the 18th and Rob O’Halloran and John Anderson took out the … Read more
