2025 SAPCPGA Reports Page
ROUND 1 May 4th
Well May the 4th was with us last Sunday, we channelled our best Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker and got the 2025 season of Public Courses Pennant underway with North Adelaide sending teams to various locations around the state with mixed results from the matches.
This season NAGC is fielding 4 teams in the PCP competition, Divisions 1, 2 North, 3 North and 3 South with the hope of emulating the 2023 results where all 3 shields ended up at North Adelaide after surrendering the Division 1 and 3 titles in last year’s competition.
The North and South chapters for Division 2 and 3 compete against each other for the overall winner of the Division hence only 3 shields are up for the winning.
NAGC Division 1 team suited up bright and early Sunday morning against Regency Park on their home deck.
The round 1 team was Chantha Kong, Yung Bok Kim, Alex Martinson, Atila Koca, (fresh from his runaway success at The Open) Toby Maddern, Steven Darch, Joe Scriva and Paul Haines.
Our team battled hard against the locals, but unfortunately local knowledge must have been the difference going down 2 and 6.
The Division 2 team packed the lunchbox and headed into the arid North to Kapunda to take on the locals on their very well-presented course.
First up challengers were Brett Murphy, Frank Kong, Anthony Clapp, James (Rosewater) Abiero, Zac Baig, Luciano DeGuia, Ian George and Luis Madriz.
Thanks to a couple of the team having a reconnaissance round to scope the course gave us the necessary edge to eventually pull away from the opposition to record a well-earned 6 and 2 win.
Our NAGC Division 3 South (Blue) team took to the park after the Division 1 crew again against the Regency Park locals.
The first up team consisted of Jeong-ae Choi, Kamal Haider, Shahid Bhati, Brett Heaven, Robert Berg, Damwon Kim, Threetip Wongsala and Susan Bywaters.
Well, these guys managed to reverse the result for our earlier team and come away with a solid 5 and 3 win to get the season off in the best possible way.
To round out our PCP teams Division 3 North (Red) ventured out to the Playford Lakes course to match it with the Playford Lakes team.
The team consisted of Huynh Van Lahn, Jinwoo Lee, Brian Roberts, Louise Park, Darryl Treasure, Gareth Bridges, Jamie Chambers and Alan Potts.
With the excitement of the new season and the quest to win the team took it right up to the locals and ended up going down by the barest of margins, 3 ½ to 4 ½.
We take a break now for Mother’s Day and resume the competition May 18th where we will have all 4 teams competing at home, Divisions 1 and 2 will do battle on the South Course and the 2 Division 3 teams will take on the challenging North Course at the sociable start time of 10.00am.
Given the competition time it would be great to have a bunch of fellow members out on the courses to support those that are playing on behalf of NAGC.
Special thanks to the 4 team members that have taken on the duties of Team Captain for the day / season.
All results are posted on the NAGC website at SA Public Courses Pennant – SAPCPGA Season 2025.
Til next time, happy golfing.