The big golf news of the week was Peter ‘China’ Brien and Johnny Potter winning the Net division of the NSW Four-Ball-Best-Ball Championships in Trundle over the weekend.
There was a huge field of 200 golfers and Cobar had 16 players and former Cobar players in contention this year.
The winners of the gross event were Nathan Schnieder and Vaughan Saunders of Beechworth and Thurgoona with a winning score was 89 stableford points.
The best-placed Cobar player was Andrew Bartlett, who was paired with former Cobar golfer, Warrick Doulman.
They finished with a score of 80.
However, it was the Net event where the real golf came from and, as predicted last week, big things were expected from Brien and Potter and they didn’t disappoint when they won by one shot with a score of 97 points.
Their win throws all the theories of golf preparation out the window: apparently all you have to do is forget golf practice and play regular bowls (as China did), or play one game of golf every six months (like Potter does) and that’s…Full report in this week’s edition out now!
