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Rich River Golf Club Championships wrap up

By Contributed

Nov 29, 2022

Top prize: Rich River Golf Club A-grade Men’s Champion Kirk Ardley with Golf Committee captain David Pearson. Photo: Rich River Golf Club Photo by Contributed

Kirk Ardley won his second Rich River Golf Club Championship when he overcame the challenge from a couple of youngsters D’Arcy Whyte and Tyson McCoomb.

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McCoomb started well but could not match the consistent ball striking of Ardley and 16-year-old Whyte got to within one shot with a couple of holes to play but the more experienced Ardley held his nerve to win by two shots.

A-grade leaderboard:

Kirk Ardley (2) 73, 76, 73, 222

D’Arcy Whyte(3) 72, 76, 76, 224

Tyson McCoomb (4) 72, 72, 83, 227

Aaron Loader (2) 79, 79, 73, 231

Steven Jones (1) 69, 81, 84, 234

Stephen Levy (Scr) 75, 80, 79, 234

Glenn Rogers (3) 79, 79, 76 234

In B-grade Bill Bayles put together two outstanding rounds over the three weeks to win — running away from the quiet achiever Mark Scholes.

Justin Kirk and Joel Norwood gave it their all but the wily veteran just kept hitting fairways and greens to take the title.

B-grade leaderboard

William Bayles (10) 75, 89, 77, 241

Mark Scholes (10) 83, 83, 82, 248

Justin Kirk (11) 78, 82, 91, 251

Joel Norwood (11) 88, 85, 80, 253

Marcus Kenna (11) 81, 88, 87, 256

Wayne Sperling (11) 82, 85, 90, 257

Leo Langone (13)80, 85, 92, 257

All smiles: Rich River Golf Club C-grade Champion Heath Redwood. Photo: Rich River Golf Club Photo by Contributed

With the second-round leader Kim Richardson unable to play it made for an exciting last day and C-grade had more swings than a play park.

Nathan Barker came from out of the pack to almost pinch it and Jim Patton had his name on the trophy with six holes to play, but had one bad hole. This left Heath Redwood with a one-shot win.

C-grade leaderboard

Heath Redwood (14) 85, 91, 93, 269

Nathan Barker (14) 89, 92,89, 270

Simon Cheong (16) 85, 90, 95, 270

Jim Patton (18) 86, 91, 94,271

David Watt (16) 88, 98, 88,274

Jim Wagstaff (16) 84, 96, 94, 274

A nail-biter in D-grade resulted in Dave Cockroft winning by a shot from Neil Haw and Bill Brodribb.

The last group of Haw, Brodribb, Potsie Webber and Cockroft all had their hands on the silverware at some point during the day with Cockroft taking the honours.

D-grade leaderboard

David Cockroft (19) 91, 91,98, 280

Neil Haw (19) 94, 92, 95, 281

William Brodribb (22) 92, 92, 97, 281

Ron Branch (19) 94, 94, 96, 284

Potsie Webber (19) 89, 97,98, 284

Neil Moresco (23) 95, 93, 97, 285

Craig Peterson (21) 95, 99,92, 286