Colac women’s golf has its own dream team.Colac Golf Club sharp shooters Merilyn Sutherland, Judy Bethune, Dot Frith and Kay Gardiner put home-course rivalries aside to joins forces and win the Una and Bill Reid Open Ambrose Bowl. The awesome-foursome, which regularly fights out the club’s monthly tournaments, outclassed 34 teams from across south-west Victoria [...]
Colac district golfer Stacey Keating has continued to stake her claim as one of Australia’s top amateur women players after a strong performance in Tasmania.Keating, of Werneth near Cressy, finished second in a 72-hole stroke play tournament in Launceston to give her career a boost at the start of the rankings season.The performance has her [...]
Modest right-hander Andrew Parker held his nerve in the final two rounds to claim a breakthrough Colac Golf Club Championship triumph.Parker was a tearaway leader during this year’s three-week tournament, topping the card after every round before securing his maiden Colac title with a final-round 83 at Colac Golf course yesterday.The 45-year-old took a nine-shot [...]
Colac’s Darren Kershaw will head into this weekend’s Colac Golf Club championships riding a wave of confidence.The sharp shooter and fellow Colac left-hander Troy Kincaid both played a key role in launching a Corangamite representative squad to victory in a three-day event in Melbourne.The pair joined forces with seven other players from the Corangamite area [...]
Colac Golf Club officially opened its ninth tee, ending a marathon five-year facelift at its revamped course.The field at Saturday’s monthly medal were the first players to tee off on the ninth, which has been elevated and made more difficult by the presence of a fully-functioning dam adjacent to the hole.Club captain Wayne O’Dowd said [...]
Colac district’s rising golf prodigy Stacey Keating is enjoying a well-earned break before she begins her life’s ambition to turn professional.The international amateur golfer left her mark at Colac Golf Course on Friday, setting a new course record in Colac Golf Club’s Ladies Amateur Open.Keating won the tournament with a scratch score of 72, which [...]
Colac district’s international amateur golfer Stacey Keating will tee off in Colac this week.The rising golf prodigy will make a special appearance in Colac Golf Club’s Ladies Amateur Open on Friday, fresh from a three-month tour of America and Canada.The 23-year-old will headline the annual stroke event and is sure to put the course record [...]
Two Colac women scored second place at a regional golf contest in Colac.Jan Borwick and Loretta Roberts were second in Division Two of a Country Teams Day at Colac Golf Course on Friday.Anglesea’s Margot Parton and Pam Jones won Division Two after a count back.Almost 100 women teed off at Colac Golf Course on Friday [...]
Rising Colac district golfer Stacey Keating will play in a glamour group for her first professional golf tournament.Keating teed off today in the Canadian Women’s Open in Ottawa alongside one of women’s golf’s most glamorous players and the reigning Canadian Women’s Tour champion.Keating’s group comprises American Jill McGill, who has earned more than $2 million [...]
Two Apollo Bay youngsters will compete in a regional schools golf competition next week.Apollo Bay P-12 pupils Alice Caddy and Brendan O’Carroll will play in the Victorian Primary Schools Golf Championships regional finals at Mortlake on Monday.The Grade Six pair, members at Apollo Bay Golf Club, will progress to the state finals in Melbourne on [...]
