By Casey O'Connor
Stanthorpe Sporters were joined on the back nine by several visitors last Sunday making up for a few notable absentees.
Mick Irwin has been hovering around the winners circle recently. He’s been close to a win on several occasions only to be stymied by a bad hole here and there. This all changed on Sunday. His round got off to a shaky start, but his game warmed up and recorded good scores for the remainder of the round to finally come away with a winning nett 27. It wasn’t all plain sailing for Irwin. He had to endure a three-way cut of the cards before getting the nod. Terry Byrnes (27nett) came off second best in the cut of the cards and was relegated to runner up leaving Aaron Simmers, (also nett 27), to pick up the dregs in the run down.
Ivan Juriss needed only 40 strokes for the nine holes to take the Best Gross. Ivan is another golfer whose game has been out of sorts lately. It was good to see him returning to form.
Only one of the two pin shots on offer were won. No one managed to stay on the 12th green. Angelo Maugeri had to be convinced his tee shot at 17 was on the green. He didn’t see that it had finished just centimetres from the pin leaving him an easy putt in for birdie.
Sporters will be out and about again next Sunday morning on the front nine. Tee off is from 7.30 to 8am and there is a standing invitation for anyone to join the group.
