Narrabri Golf Club’s defending men’s club champion Adam Taylor is off to a winning start to the 2024 Narrabri club championships after shooting a five-over-par 76 in the opening round on Saturday.
Taylor is a seven-time Narrabri club champion after taking out the title in 2000, 2003, 2009, 2013, 2020, 2021 (which was held in February of 2022) and 2023, and he is one of the clear favourites to take it out this year.
Another of those favourites is back-to-back Narrabri Open champ Karl Hatfield, who was the A-grade gross runner-up on Saturday. The 2023 and 2024 open winner finished the day with 77 to enter round two just one shot behind Taylor.
Jye Manton marked his first club championships appearance as an A-grader by finishing round one as the nett leader after producing a nett score of 73, which included an eagle on the par five hole seven. He won the day on a countback from Keith Flood.
The women’s A-grade winner on the day was the 2021 and 2022 club champ Louise Penberthy, who shot 91 and leads by two shots from Leisa Eather heading into round two.
This year’s club champs event will again be held across four rounds, with round two to be played this Saturday followed by rounds three and four on Saturday and Sunday, August 24 and 25.
The round one action also doubled as the club’s August monthly medal game. More results from the day are as follows:
Men:
A-grade gross winner – Adam Taylor with 76, A-grade gross runner-up – Karl Hatfield with 77, A-grade nett winner – Jye Manton with 73 (countback), A-grade nett runner-up – Keith Flood with 73, B-grade gross winner – Tony Nott with 82, B-grade gross runner-up – Blake Brown with 84, B-grade nett winner – Blake Hilderson with 72 (countback), B-grade nett runner-up – Glenn Stanford with 72, C-grade gross winner – Fred Atherden with 87, C-grade gross runner-up – Scott Lamb with 94, C-grade nett winner – Phillip Newton with 71, C-grade nett runner-up – Mitch Cuell with 76.
Ladies:
Division one gross winner – Louise Penberthy with 91, division one nett winner – Leisa Eather with 74, division two gross winner – Emily Flood with 97, division two nett winner – Kate Pitman with 74.
Nearest to pins:
Fifth – Louise Penberthy, eighth – Max Smith, 12th – Phillip Newton, 16th – Nick Scott.
Other results from last week at the Narrabri Golf Club are as follows:
Wednesday ladies’ stroke:
Gross winner – Louise Penberthy, nearest to pin 12th – Joy Baker, nearest to pin 16th – Peggy Penberthy.
Wednesday nine-hole stableford:
Winner – Les Ross with 18 points (countback), runner-up – Peter Westman with 18 points.
Sunday nine-hole stableford:
Winner – Margot Leitch with 22 points, runner-up – Jye Smith with 18 points (countback).
The club held its 2024 Ladies’ Open four-ball best-ball stableford and a nine-hole mixed comp yesterday. Today’s event is social golf with a 12pm shotgun start. The club will then host round two of the club championships on Saturday and the annual Westpac Helicopter Charity Ambrose event on Sunday.
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