Parkes Golf Club was successful in its application for funding through the 2018 Community Building Partnership Program. Member for Orange, Phil Donato MP, recently announced the club received $15,285 to enable them to replace the existing air conditioning and heating.

Club President Mark Kelly said the new system had already been installed and was working fantastically. “The previous system was more than 30 years old,” said Mark. “It was well past the end of its useful life and couldn’t be repaired. The members are loving it. I’m very pleased with the effort made by Phil to get the application through.”

Phil said he was happy to support the application for funding and commended the club in taking the initiative to apply for the funds. The Parkes Golf Club is rated as one of the finest clubs in the region with the next big event the Westlime and Rotary Charity Golf Day on Sunday, 7th April. It is a 10am shotgun start. See details in advertisement on this page.

A strong field of 142 players enjoyed perfect conditions recenlty for the annual Northparkes Charity Golf Day. In excess of $26,000 was raised for local charity Can Assist. This event has raised in excess of $110,000 for Can Assist over the last nine years.

The winners were Jarrod Kemp, Justin Ward and Tony Lock with a nett score of 56.83. The best gross score went to Blake Smith, Myles Smith and Blake Parker with a handy 63 off the stick.

Men’s longest drive on the 8th hole went to Brad Scott, Ladies longest drive went to Cathy Kelly, and straightest drive on the 18th went to John Kemp. The 1st hole nearest the pin went to Myles Smith. The 4th hole nearest the pin went to John Dwyer, 6th hole nearest the pin went to Wade McConnell, and 11th money hole was won by Phil Barnard at 5m.

The event sponsors included Northparkes Mines, Westrac, BKT Tyres, Concentis, Epiroc, Telescope Tyres and Batteries, Forefront, Advanced Profile Solutions, SEW Eurodrive, EBRO Valves, Whittaker Contracting, Reliable Conveyors, Castrol, Pirtek, Pybar Mining Services, Parkes Services Club, Schneider Electric, Applied Industrial Technologies, Griffins Leading Edge, Park Engineering, C & R Earthworks, Norbar Torque tools, Inland Distributors, Supagas, Littlewoods Smash Repairs, AC Industries, JG Cobblestones, Toshiba and Auslec Forbes.

By Mike Wood

After play in Forbes last Sunday the Division 3 side of the Parkes Golf Club were the only team guaranteed a spot in this weekend’s semi-finals of the CWDGA Pennants. Parkes secured three semi-final berths from four divisions with Divisions 2 and 4 both earning the wins they needed to gain a spot in the finals.

“Outperforming many of the bigger clubs such as Duntryleague, Mudgee and Bathurst is very pleasing for us,” said Parkes  Golf Club captain, Peter Dixon. In a very tightly contested competition, Parkes topped Pool B in Division 2 after a 5-0 victory over Cowra. Brendan Chambers claimed a comprehensive 4 and 3 victory, and Phil Barnard secured a 2 and 1 victory.

Joe van Opynen continued his unbeaten run to win 2 and 1, and Tim Burke scored a 3 and 1 victory. John Green won his match 4 and 2, and Division 3 topped their pool with a 3-2 win against Bathurst.

With the help of an eagle three on the 15th hole, Todd Jayet remained undefeated with a big 5 and 4 win. Peter Bristol (3 and 2) and Jake Hodge (19th) gained the two wins to claim the tie for Parkes.

In Division 4 Terry Walsh secured one of the biggest wins seen in the CWDGA competition winning nine of the 11 holes he played. Dr Dave Harwood claimed a comprehensive 6 and 5 victory, while captain Jarrod Kemp claimed the vital win 1 up to secure the tie.

Division 1 played their final match of the year against a strong Bathurst team, going down by a narrow 3-2 margin.
Lachlan Buesnell (2 and 1) earned his second victory, Rob Hey (2 and 1) claimed his match, while Denis Howard (3 and 2), Peter Dixon (3 and 2) and Aaron Wilkie (2 and 1) were beaten.

Divisions 2, 3 and 4 will play their semifinals in Dubbo this Sunday. Division 2 will play Mudgee, Division 3 play Wentworth and Division 4 play Wellington.

By Denis Howard

Parkes golfers were out in force last Saturday, wearing pink in support of breast cancer awareness. With the help of Jane McGlashan selling pink cupcakes and raffle tickets, and under the guidance of Leone Stevenson, Parkes golfers raised $1,100. Playing a stableford sponsored by Totally Workwear, Trevor Chatman took out the men’s competition by two points, scoring a blistering 44 points.

Denis Howard and Ron Hetherington were next best with 42 points apiece, followed by Brett Cowling and Charlie Allen who both scored 41 points. Riall Harrison and Wayne Parker both scored 39 points to lead home a group of
players on 38.

In the women’s competition Colleen Flynn and Cathy Kelly claimed top spot comfortably winning by five shots over Kaye Jones and Lynne Guise – 67.25 to 72.25. Next best were Frankie Cock and Margaret Hogan on 76.5, followed by Colleen Staples and Lyn Davison with 78.125.

By Denis Howard