Although played under very hot conditions, the 2017 Tenterfield Junior Golf Classic was heralded a great success with the Tenterfield Golf Club’s greens and the event organisers highly praised.
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There was a shiver of excitement across the fairways when it was thought Ballina player Jay McKenzie had broken the course record hitting 64, with the current record showing at 66 (set by a golf pro at that).
Acting Golf Club president Denis Parsons was able to clarify that a change to the course resulting in the 66 record had been reversed, making the old 63 record set in 2000 stand.
“Still it’s certainly a junior club record,” Mr Parsons said.
For the record, in the 54-hole colts event Jacob Lawson of Bribie Island won the gross and Tenterfield’s Mitch Austin the nett.
In the non-colts 54-hole comp Jay McKenzie was named overall boys winner on the back of his 64, while Gunnedah’s Taryn Maher was overall girls winner (and recipient of coach Charlie Earp’s special most improved player award).
Earp, famous as the coach of Greg Norman, was in attendance for the classic.
Other winners were Dylan Barraclough (A grade gross), Rhys Farrell (A grade nett), Josh Mitchell (B grade gross) and Josh Hynes (B grade nett), Inverell’s Matthew Felton (C grade gross) and Mathew Watt (C grade nett).
The girls 36-hole event was won by Tenterfield’s Mikahla Cutmore (gross) and Uralla’s Courtenay Dade (nett), and the boys by Tenterfield’s Michael Cutmore (gross) and Kooper Tonga (nett).
Boys 9-hole winner was Moree’s Declan McGuire.