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September 2010
www.insidegolf.com.auAMATEURNEWS...................................................................................................................................................................................................
Classic juniors fired up
Ashley Ona and Courtney Massey, victors of the Qld Women’s Foursome Championship
With rounds of 73-71, Tim Hart
(Indooroopilly) and Gavin Fairfax (Pacific)
finished third.
Smith and Batibasaga will now have
their names added to the Queensland Men’s
Foursome Championship trophy, an event
which dates back to1913.
Brett hangs on
Winner of Queensland Men’s Country Championship, Luke Marino
Ona, Massey win
Marino country king
IT’S one of the most sought-after
trophies in the land, and later this
month more than 220 juniors will
attempt to get their hands on the
prestigious Gary Player Classic trophy.
The 39th staging of the classic
– which has been won previously
by Greg Norman, Peter Senior, Ian
Baker-Finch, Adam Scott and Jason
Day – will be played at Pacific Golf
Club in Brisbane from September 28
to October 1.
The event is played in three age
divisions – 15 and under, 16-17 years
and 18-20 years.
Meanwhile, Queensland’s best junior
girls have started putting in more
practice in the hope on winning the
Katherine Hull Classic.
The classic, formerly known as
the Queensland Girls’ Stroke Play
Championship, will be played at
Horton Park Golf Club on Queensland’s
Sunshine Coast from September 26-28.
Smith, Batibasaga tops
SURFERS Paradise golfer Luke Marino
is king of the country after winning
the Queensland Men’s Country
Championship at Redcliffe Golf Club.
Marino carded rounds of 73-73 for
a 146 total.
He finished two shots clear of
Caloundra’s Peter Wouters, a three-time winner, and Brookwater’s Jason
McDonald.
Marino only entered the event after
receiving an email informing him of
the event.
QUEENSLAND state team members
Cameron Smith (Royal Queensland)
and Marika Batibasaga (Indooroopilly)
have won the 97-year-old Queensland
Men’s Foursome Championships at
Oxley Golf Club.
The pair returned rounds of 69-70
for a 139 total – three strokes ahead
of Luke Marino (Surfers Paradise) and
Daniel McGraw ( 69-73).
ASHLEY Ona (Gailes) and Courtney Massey
(Southport) captured the Queensland
Women’s Foursome Championship played
at Middle Ridge, Toowoomba.
The state team members shot rounds
of 75-79 –154 to finish six shots ahead
of Jasmine Finlay (Windaroo) and Susan
Glasby (Ipswich).
In division 2, Toowoomba’s Trudy
Dunne and Nancy Young were successful.
Division 1 nett winners, Ashley Blacksell
and Amy Pollock (Mt Warren Park); div 2,
Lyn Morgan and Marion Ellevsen.
NUDGEE Golf Club member
Brett Angeles won the Queensland
Indigenous Championship at
Murgon Golf Club last month.
Rounds of 77-69-78 just got him
over the line.
He bogeyed the final four holes,
but still managed to hang on to
beat Craig Dodd (Eidsvold) by a
single stroke.
In the nett category, Wondai’s Noel
Bird (64-71-66) beat local member
Gordon Wragge (68-64-69) on a
countback.
James Brown (Murgon) won the
senior section.;
David Newbery
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