WARIALDA’S Kim Cleal is the Central North Vets Open champion after firing his way to a two-point win on the first of three big days on the Uralla fairways.
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Cleal carded 39 points to take out A grade division of the stableford event.
Uralla’s Darrel Carson was second on 37 points, pipping club-mate Bruce McMullen on a countback, with Jerry Wissink (Armidale) another point back in fourth.
Cleal wasn’t the only Warialda winner, with Ken Hayne topping B grade with 41 points.
He finished ahead of Inverell’s David Gibbs (39), Inverell’s Ken Rainger (38) and Glen Innes’s Peter Black (36).
The C grade honours went to Glen Innes’s Bill Blyth on 43 points, on a countback from Uralla’s Jack Mitchell.
Mitchell produced arguably the shot of the day picking up a hole in one on the third.
Glen Innes’s John Hillard was another two points back with Armidale’s John Garner fourth with 40.
The women’s competition was extremely close.
Uralla’s Rhonda Mellor took home the silverware with 39 points but it was congested after her, with a countback required to decide the three other placings.
In the end, Walcha’s Margaret Higgins was awarded second, Armidale’s Cheryl McDonald third and Lil Faulkner fourth.
Almost 100 teed off from clubs right across the Central North fraternity.
Some will be backing up in today’s Central North Golf Association Mixed Open.
The event has attracted 26 pairs.
Another 120 or more will then play in the Uralla 4BBB Open tomorrow.
