Golf Report
Saturday 16 November 2024
With a bye in the Inter-School Matchplay Series this week, our players headed to Northbridge Golf Club to contest the first round of the Shore Strokeplay Championship. This event is contested over two rounds and will be used to crown our overall golfing champion for the 2024-25 season.
Back-to-back defending winner Zach France certainly began the day as the red-hot favourite, although he didn’t have things all his own way on the front 9, shooting 7 over par. Harrison Graetz, Archie Frewin and Matthew Goddard would all post similar scores on the front to signal their intention to compete for the top prize.
Things would change on the back 9, however, as Zach would find his radar and string together 7 consecutive pars whilst the others would drop a few shots back.
In the later group, Lachlan Kwan and Thomas Gocher made a terrific start, shooting 2 and 3 over par, respectively. As news filtered back to them of the earlier group’s scores, they were unable to keep their impressive starts going and would finish 14 and 13 over par after the 18th.
Here is the leaderboard heading into the second and final round on Saturday 30 November:
| Rank | Round 1 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zach France | 73 |
| 2 | Tom Gocher | 77 |
| 3 | Lachlan Kwan | 78 |
| 4 | Harrison Graetz | 79 |
| 5 | Kaya Macpherson | 83 |
| 6 | Archie Frewin | 88 |
| 7 | Matt Goddard | 89 |
| 8 | Barron Setsu | 100 |
| 9 | Rob Kerr | 101 |
| 10 | Malachi Warner | 112 |
| Luke Ellis | DNF | |
| Christian Liu | DNS |
This Saturday sees our Matchplay squad resume action back home at Northbridge Golf Course. After five rounds of competition, we sit in 1st place, just one single point ahead of this week’s opponent St Joseph’s College. This is shaping up to be a massive fixture that could have significant implications for the end-of-season standings.
Good luck to all players this weekend!
Mr Hugh Morgan
MIC Golf