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ROUND 2 May 18th
After a short break to celebrate Mother’s Day the Public Course Pennants season resumed for us at the soon to be renovated ?? North Adelaide Golf Course, home away from home for some of us.
All 4 North Adelaide teams competed at home with the Division 1 and 2 teams on the South Course and the 2 Division 3 teams doing battle on the challenging North Course.
NAGC Division 1 team resumed the ongoing challenge with the Sandy Creek crew with the morning chill evaporating into the almost perfect day.
The round 2 team line up was Chantha Kong, Alex Martinson, Yung Bok Kim, Toby Maddern, Atila Koca, Paul Haines, Steven Darch and Joe Scriva.
The guys used their local knowledge to their best advantage and were able to cruise away with a well-deserved win scoring 4 up 2 down and 2 halved.
Our Division 2 team followed the Div 1 guys taking on Sandy Creek in what was glorious conditions especially for the middle of May.
This week’s team consisted of Brett Murphy, Frank Kong, Anthony Clapp, Ian George, Luis Madriz, Andrew Ross, Kelly Kim and Mihyun Park.
Again, local knowledge helped our team, except for when the flat stick was in use, which battled hard against some stiff opposition to come away with a 5 and 3 win.
First off on the North Course was the Division 3 North (Red) team also taking on the Sandy Creek mob.
The team consisted of Huynh Van Lahn, Brian Roberts, Louise Park, Greg Forrest, Darryl Treasure, Murray O’Neil, Jamie Chambers and Carla Hirst.
The match proved to be a challenging one for our team and they suffered the pain of a negative result going down 2 and 6.
The Division 3 South (Blue) team followed the Red team on the North Course taking on the North Haven group.
This week’s team consisted of Jeong-ae Choi, Kamal Haider, Jason Yap, Peter Adams, Shahid Bhatti, Brett Heaven, Damwon Kim and Threetip Wongsala.
To say they cruised is an understatement, well done team coming away with a very impressive clean sheet winning 8 and 0, what a fantastic showing.
Thanks to those who stood at the BBQ to provide us with the after-match delights, greatly appreciated by the players from all teams and to those members who ventured out to support our teams, many thanks.
As always the results are posted on the NAGC website at SA Public Courses Pennant – SAPCPGA Season 2025.
Next weekend we have 3 teams taking on challenging Mawson Lakes course while the Div 3 Blue team will venture out to Penfield to do battle with the locals to see if they can produce another result like yesterday.
Until next week, head down, hit long and straight.
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.