Weekly Golf Results – February 23, 2026

Saturday was the Parkes Real Property sponsored 18 hole Stableford. Thanks to Tony and the team for their ongoing support of the Parkes golfers, it remains a long running partnership. There were 67 players teeing it up on what threatened to be another warm one.

The winner on the day was Adrian Whitaker who came in with a 39 point score the same as Dustin Littlewood but the countback worked in his favour. Adrian only managed 16 points on the outward nine and wasn’t in the best of form. Adrian started off slow on the back as well, then hit 5 pars in a row, which gave him 16 points and helped him to 23 on the back. Dustin has been in good form of late and a 40 off the stick resulting in 21 points on the outward 9 had him positioned for a strong finish. Whilst recording another good 41 off the stick there a double on the tricky 16 th that halted progress to an 18 point back 9. Some of the form golfers were backed up behind the leaders with Gary Bryson, Rob Staples, Mitch Cambourn and Nick Books from Mudgee all on 38 points. Gary had 20 points on the back to just miss out from being in the mix, whilst Rob had 44 on both sides which just shows the form he has been in – the week up in the Hunter under the tutorship of Colleen obviously is paying off. Mitch is a quality player and is just getting more time on the course now, so his 41/39 split wasn’t unexpected. Nick had an outward 39 but faded coming home with a 43.

This weekend the PGC Div 1-3 pennant sides travelled to Cowra and faced off the might of the Forbes GC in the yearly grudge matches. In Div 1 the side unfortunately went down 3-2 in rainy conditions. With 1 game to play they are unable to catch the Forbes side to qualify for the final. In Div 2 the side unfortunately didn’t take a win off the strong Forbes combo and are also out of the running. In Div 3 the Parkes side got a win 3-2 with Taj Harrison and Justin Middleton maintaining their unbeaten record in ’26. This is the only side that can make the finals now and must beatBathurst at Forbes next weekend to get there. The Div 4 side has a match to play but after losing their 1st game cannot make the finals now either.

The Nearest The Pins on Saturday were – the Idlerite 1st Keiran Deland at 91cm, the Griffins Leading Edge 4th by Wayne Powter at 208cm, the Parkes Ready Mixed Concrete 9th by Phil Bishop at 142cm, the Harvey Norman 11th by Mitch Cambourn at 540cm and the Parkes Security Storage 17th by Keiran Deland at 153cm.

The Money Hole was won by Mitch Cambourn at 540cm.

Ball winners were Gary Bryson, Rob Staples, Mitch Cambourn 38, Rob Norman, Nym Dziuba, Brendan Hill, Ian Ward 37.

Next Saturday is an 18 Par event sponsored by Ken Keith OAM.