Weekly Golf Results – December 15, 2025

Saturday was the annual PGC Party Day and this was sponsored by Parkes Toyota. Thanks very much to owners Sean and Helen Sloane and team for being behind the club in ’25 and providing this event for players to have a fun day out, dressed how they please and supporting the club with some fund raising. There were 112 players, again reinforcing this is the most popular playing day of the golfing year. There were great prizes on offer, and a shotgun start mid morning saw the players enjoy a bit of pre comp sledging and bravado. The day also served as the Greenkeepers Revenge where the greenkeepers payback all those saved up derogatory comments and snide remarks from the past year by putting the holes in un-gettable places, put objects in the normal putting pathways even put tractors on the fairways and sit back and enjoy the players pain.

The players hit off with overcast conditions which were building and the threat of some rain, a threat which we were used to by now. Unfortunately, the rain did come and around 2:00pm we had to have a safety interlude whilst there was some lightning about. Most players were wet and in need of a sausage sandwich and a beverage by then anyway. It did detract from the number that managed to finish but there was still 24 teams that did achieve that.

The winning team on the day was a well selected and competitive team comprising Jack Matthews, Brad Wales and Nick Kelly who had a great 57 net off their 8 handicap. This meant they recorded a 7 under par round, which would have won on any competitive day let alone this relaxed format. Next in were the team of Tim Cowling, Andrew Bament and David Hansen on 58.83 net claiming the prize for runners up and putting some glum faces on the teams chasing hard behind them. There was a consolation prize for the last team in. This was the team anchored by Harry Simpson and with the Shania Twain twins in Leone Stevenson and Natalie Simpson who recorded a 71.5 net.

The special prizes on went to Jayden Kuun for the Longest Drive for Under 16, Blake Smith for the 17-40s, Nat Simpson for the 41-60s, Pete Magill for the over 61s and Kelli Robinson in the Ladies long drive.

The best dressed male was Tyson Spence and Caitlyn Eshman was the best dressed female. Best dressed cart was the greenkeepers in Brenton Howarth and Logan Booby, with Riley and Harrison Hood and Harry Clarke were the best dressed team with Jayden Kuun, Tyrece Robinson and Chris Downes also in the mix and the Happy Gilmore Group the best playing six.

The Nearest The Pins were worth winning and very competitive with Dave Chambers picking up the 1st with 1160, Mitch Cambourne the 4th at 430cm, Declan Daley at 55cm, Rob Cheney in his clown outfit the 1 th at 278cm and Peter Magill the 17th at 257cm.

Planning has already started for next years event which promises to surpass this year’s event if that is possible.