Around the Clubs

Beth Murray - inaugural winner of Dr. W. Groves Trophy with Dr Groves grand daughter Rosemary Dowling from Royal Melbourne Golf Club.

KYNETON
Wednesday May 22 was a double par event. Noel Alldis was the winner, finishing with +3 while Adrian Hanks was runner-up finishing square with the card. Peter Cameron and Terry Kot was next with -1, Peter Walsh and T Woods had -3 while the last balls went to Karel Turang, Hans Herdel and Bill Dodd with -4. NTPs were S Milton on the 4th and Adrian Hanks on the 9th. 
Saturday May 25 was the qualifying round for the CC Fisher Doubles knock-out that was played as a 4BBB par. The wining pair was Rod Piper and Mark Russell with 44 points. Wally Stys and Hans Herdel were the runners-up with 43 points. NTPs were David Stark on the 4th and Mark Sciberras on the 9th and 17th.
Tuesday May 28 was the final round of the Ocean Spray Trophy. Bronwyn Dwyer was this year's winner with 70 points from Grace Parkinson who had 63. The day event was won by Bronwyn in A Grade with 32 points. A count-back was decided to determine the runner-up with Rosemary Dowling the victor from Grace Parkinson after both had 30 points. The B Grade winner was Jan Laidlaw with 36 points from Kaye Grubb who had 33 points. NTPs were Jan Laidlaw on the 4th, Marlene Richards on the 11th and Deidre Dawes on the 17th. Dr Groves granddaughter, Rosemary, who generously sponsored the triphy and award, had travelled from Melbourne for the day to make the presentation and also play. Rosemary told the ladies that when she began her golf, it was with a set of her grandfather's clubs at the Yarra Bend Park golf club and she and her grandfather fell in love with the game. The winner of the trophy was a very excited Beth Murray who had been involved with the organising of the Centenary Committee and celebration in the year 2000. Through this involvement, Beth had learned much about Dr Groves' long-term club involvement as an office holder and his prowess of the game confirmed by the club's historic records. It was also noted that outside of golf, he was also a much-loved and respected doctor and person in the wider community. Beth was extremely honoured to be the first winner of this special event. Tomorrow is a stroke round for the monthly medal and the first round of the James Rennick Trophy. Tuesday is a stroke for the ladies for the medal inclusive of rounds of the Silver Spoon, Joan Kimberly Trophy and BD Cup. 
MT MACEDON
Friday featured a field of 45 taking the course for the monthly medal stroke and putts. The monthly medal featured a heart-stopping tie with W Christie on 86-21-65 nett in a tie with P Berkeley on 83-18-65 nett. The stroke winner was J Hynes with 76-3-73 and T Atkins was brilliant on the greens with 25 putts. He backed up well in A Grade to win with 76-9-67 nett, W Christie pinched B Grade on a count-back with 86-21-65 nett on while A Robinson had all the answers in C Grade with 93-25-68 nett. NTPs were T Atkins on the 1st and 10th, J Langmaid on the 3rd and 12th and N Clark on the 8th. 
ROMSEY
Saturday May 25 was a monthly medal, stroke and putts. The medal was contested under almost perfect conditions. The sun was out and there was only the occasional gust of breeze. The fairways were slowly greening up but there were still many brown patches. The greens were in the best condition for quite a while and proved to be both fast and true. There are still some patches of damage from our corellas but these are slowly repairing themselves. On a good day for golf the returns were very mixed. Mal Mottram was the winner and May medallist with 88-17-71 from Dean vanDenHeuval with 86-12-74. NTPs were Anthony Freeman on the 1st and Mal Mottram 15th who got the $200 too. John Laing had the least putts with 24.
The district, Dalhousie, is now entering its tournament season. Lancefield was last weekend and Romsey is the weekend coming. These tournaments bring Dalhousie and other district's golfers together allowing everyone to play new courses and to make new friendships. More information on all Dalhousie tournaments can be found on the home page of - romseygolfclub.net
- Anthony Lakey
TRENTHAM
Doug Dixon won the midweek stableford with 38, John Trevillian won B Grade with 39 from Bill Holmes with 38 while Ray Marks won C Grade with 38 from Ian Little 36. NTPs were interesting. Bill Holmes won one of them while Perter Axton snared the other three. David Head tried to show him up with an eagle on the 11th. The winners in the first round of the doubles K.O were P Mills/JHannon, R Marks/M Walker, J Bradley/B Sullivan, L Perrin/J McCormack, B Kerr/B Hawkins, G Varley/K Sheedy, C Evans/K Hynes and D/D Nugent. Chris Byrne won the stableford event with 40 from Graeme Smith with 38, David Theile with 38 and Alan Snowden 37. NTPs were Dave Nugent, K Hynes, D Head and A Snowden. Shirley Shelton won the women's event with 36 from two players who have been out to pasture for a while, Di Hynes with 35 and Mary Campbell with 34. Linda Marchesi also had 34. The Byrne family had a day out, mum Sue has now joined the elite group with a hole in one on the difficult 15th. This Saturday is stroke for the monthly medal while the women have stableford.