Allan Rees displayed a masterful management of handicap scoring to over-power the course and blitz the field of 62 players in Saturday’s Men’s Individual Par in Forbes. 

Playing in Div-2, Allan was +5 at the turn, but a couple of missed putts dropped him back to +4 at the finish. Runner-up was Jacob Reid with +2 and the second best score of the day. 

Div-1 was a tight contest with the better scores coming from the morning players. Rob Hey (Parkes) was the winner on count back from Rob Webb after both finished on +1. They had mirror-image scores on the front and back 9s. 

A total of 73 Forbes golfers used a beautiful winter’s day on Saturday to score well in the 4BBB Stableford Medley with Richard Smith and Reggie Murray the overall winners. 

They combined experience and youth to score 48 points, comprised mainly of 3-pointers. Their 25 points on the back-9 was the best of any pairing. 

The runners-up were Heather Davidson and Ev Uphill who were very pleased with their 44 points. They also had a good back- 9 scoring 22 points. 

The NTP’s went to: 9th – men: C Hanrahan, women: S Crosby; 18th – men: H Callaghan, women: S Crosby. The 3rd hole super pin went to Peter Dawson with a wide shot to 5.7m distant. 

The ball sweep went to 40 points on count back. Visitors included: Lee Grierson (Wollongong), Chris Smith (The Australian), John Adam (Macquarie Links), Walter Bergmann, Ross Nattrass and Aaron Whittingham (Antill Park GC). 

The winner of the Sunday Stableford Medley was Henry Nash with 39 points, ahead of runner-up Josh Coulthurst on 33 points. There were no NTP’s, enabling the ball sweep to go to: 31 – S Betland; 30 – S Nash, L Grierson and J Cripps. 

This weekend the men play an 18-hole par event, while the women play a par event for the ‘Fran Smith Memorial Trophy’. 

The course will be closed for social play on Sunday for the women’s ‘Xmas in July’ event. Take note of the following programme changes: Callaghan 4-Ball Ambrose on 4 Sep, Roylances Cup 10 Sep, VW Scramble on 25 Sep, NSW Vets Regional Event on 17/18 Oct, Forbes Nissan Classic on 19/20 November. 

By Short Putt 

Last weekend’s golf rained out, so here is what happened at the Parkes Golf Club the previous weekend:

The April Telescope Tyres & Batteries/Hankook Masters Monthly Medal was contested with a field of 94 players.

In A grade, Myles Smith came out and hit a great round of 75 off the stick beating home Jack Elliott on 78 and 3 others on 79, Phil Bishop, Anthony Riach and John Green. The club pro Jake O’Brien also recorded a 78 on the day. Myles clearly benefited from the excellent striking and also took out the nett event with a 68, but only getting in by a stroke to Phil Bishop and Rob Rea. Myles had a highlight on the 7th hole the par 5, known as Sheedies, when he recorded a rare eagle.

In B grade Jarrod Kemp produced a solid 84 off the stick to take out the scratch award leading home Rod Kiley and Peter Amor both shooting 85s on the day. In the nett event veteran Richard Hamilton, who hadn’t had many rounds of late, found the break the right ingredient to record a 69 with Jarrod also shooting the same score and unfortunately losing the double on a countback. Peter Amor was one stroke in arrears.

In the C grade it was another in the veteran class in Ross Smith nailing the scratch with an excellent 87 beating home Ken Keith by a stroke with Ryan Edwards back on 90. Ryan reversed the order in the nett to record the day’s best score of 66, and in so doing taking a stroke off his handicap, beating Ross home by 2 strokes.

In the Wally Norman medal Phil Bishop’s 69 was the winning nett score. In the Griffins Leading Edge Putting competition Ross Smith dined out yet again with his 25 putt round being the best of the day.

The memorial trophy day for Terry Sheridan and Charlie Allen held on Saturday had 89 players contest the sought-after trophy in a Stableford format at the Parkes Golf Club.

The winner was Matthew Littlewood with a tidy score of 42 points. He achieved this off his daily handicap of 21 but will be 2 shots lighter on his next outing. Craig Matthews, who recently joined the club, was next in with a 40-point haul, but had to win that on a countback from Aaron Huppatz.

Four players had 39 points: Aaron Drabsch, Mark Kelly, Jake Hodge and Josh Cheney. Anthony Scott from Canowindra had 43 points and won a ProKonnect voucher.

In the women’s event the winner was Lynn Dvison with a 32 point haul and defeated Sue Holman on 30 points.

The Nearest the Pins this week were – Idlerite Tyrepower 1st by Phil Bishop at 323cm, the Griffins Leading Edge 4th by Josh Cheney at 178cm, the Dirt Doctor Landscaping 6th Aaron Huppatz at 68cm, the Parkes Ready Mixed Concrete 9th by Peter Bristol at 176cm, the Harvey Norman 11th by Joe Davies at 100cm, the Westlime 15th by Denis Howard at 5cm and the Central West Glass 18th Peter Boschman at 185cm. The lucrative 6th hole was won by Aaron Huppatz at 68cm this week.

Ball winners: Aaron Huppatz 40, Mark Kelly, Jake Hodge, Aaron Drabsch, Josh Cheney 39, Warren Blatch, Garry Paddison 38, Nym Dziuba, Paul Thomas, Jarrod Kemp, Tom Delmenico, John Green 37.

By Peter Brist

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.