Golf

Golfer sets sights on Australian Open

By Rachel Rodger • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Golf

Colac district golfer Stacey Keating hopes for a return to form when she competes in the Australian Open next week Keating missed the cut at the New Zealand Open last week after blowing out in the first two rounds of the professional event at Christchurch. “I shot 75 and 76 [...]



Youngster wins for second year

By Rachel Rodger • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Golf

There will be a few envious senior golfers getting around the fairways at Apollo Bay. For the second successive year a fresh-faced upstart has stolen the glory in one of the coastal club’s annual competitions. Brendan O’Carroll, 13, was walking tall after upstaging his [...]



Camperdown farewells hopes of playing finals

By Loretta Wilmink • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Golf

Camperdown Golf kissed its Corangamite bowls Division One finals campaign goodbye after drawing with City Two at the weekend. Golf drew with City Two 100-shots apiece at City Bowls Club on Saturday. The draw was a double-edged sword for both clubs, with Golf missing [...]



Team prepared for Golf clash

By Rachel Rodger • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Golf

Colac has left nothing to chance in preparation for tomorrow’s crucial lawn bowling clash with Camperdown Golf. Colac players made the journey to Camperdown as many times as they could this week to acquaint themselves with the Golf greens in a bid to gain an edge for [...]



Keating achieves best pro result

By Rachel Rodger • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Golf

Colac district golf star Stacey Keating has put a disappointing end to last year behind her and come out firing in 2010. Keating, 23, achieved her best result at a professional tournament in Australia’s capital, finishing equal seventh in the Royal Canberra Ladies Classic at the weekend. [...]



Golfer happy to stay amateur

By Matt Murnane • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: Golf

Cressy golf export Stacey Keating says she has moved on from her European tour heartache and will attack another year as an amateur with renewed appreciation. Keating missed her dream of a full professional card for this year’s European tour in Spain last month, leaving her with a decision to turn semi-pro [...]



Hot weather, happy golfer

By The Colac Herald • Dec 24th, 2009 • Category: Golf

Colac’s sunny golf course provided a nice change from the usual cold climate Canadian golfer Bob Duchich is used to. Duchich, who lives just outside Vancouver, is in Colac visiting family but yesterday he braved the heat to play a round at Colac Golf Club. Duchich visits Colac at [...]



Colac four best in region

By Ben Martin • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: Golf

Colac’s women golfers have proven themselves among the best in the region. A team of four Colac golfers won Camperdown’s Astrid Holme Cup. The team, consisting of Jan Borwick, Judy Bethune, Dot Frith and Melissa Hammond, beat 28 teams from across western Victoria to win the cup. [...]



Golfer wants to go pro in Europe

By Ben Martin • Dec 2nd, 2009 • Category: Golf

Victoria’s top amateur golfer Stacey Keating is hoping all her hard work will pay off when she competes in a professional qualifier this month. Cressy’s number-one golfing export will leave for Spain on December 7 to compete in a European Qualifying School. A strong performance at the event will mean [...]



Tournament to remember

By Loretta Wilmink • Nov 18th, 2009 • Category: Golf

Former Colac golfer Craig Spence says the aura of playing in a competition with the world’s best golfer was hard not to enjoy. Spence tied for 26th place in the Australian Masters, won by world number one player Tiger Woods. Spence said the tournament at Melbourne’s Kingston Heath would be [...]