Golf Report

Saturday 9 November 2024

After a strong start to the season, our Matchplay team finds themselves sitting in 2nd place after three rounds. This week we returned to North Turramurra Golf Course to take on Barker College. This would be a difficult test for us, as the Barker players all had familiarity with the course and had achieved some pleasing results in their own right to open the season.

Our top seed, Zach France, would play his best match of the season so far, opening a strong lead over his opponent early and never relinquishing it to win 5 and 4.

Making his debut in the Matchplay competition, Kaya Macpherson would show some impressive confidence in his match to also win 5 and 4.

After two dominant performances earlier in the season, our Captain of Golf, Harrison Graetz,found things a little more challenging this week. Despite not playing his best golf, he showed plenty of determination to hang in there and take it all the way to the 18th hole, eventually losing his match 2 down.

Finally, our second-seeded player for the day, Christian Liu, would be ruing his chances from his match. Christian was able to get out ahead early and would lead for most of the match. He was 1-up on the 18th tee, needing only half the final hole to win the match. Unfortunately, his opponent would save his best golf for last, making a clutch par to win the hole and square the match.

At the end of the day, we were still pleased to leave with a 2.5 to 1.5 victory and keep our undefeated season going. Our team remains in 2nd place, having lost a little ground to competition leaders St Joseph’s College.

Over at Northbridge, our remaining golfers contested the weekly Saturday Members competition, which saw Archie Frewin finish 2nd overall with an impressive 42 points. Malachi Warner and Robert Kerr would also have fantastic rounds, scoring 35 and 32 points respectively.

Next week, our Matchplay team has the bye, followed by an important top-of-the-table clash with Joey’s. Due to the bye, next Saturday will see all of our golfers contest the opening round of the Shore Golf Championships. This is a Strokeplay event to crown the overall champion for the season.

Mr H Morgan
MIC Golf