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Peter King and Australia win at the 2011 Asia Pacific Senior Championship at Royal Perth Golf Club

Bill Banks wins the 2011 ACT Senior Championship at Gold Creek, Capital & Murrumbidgee GCs

Stefan Albinski wins the 2011 Australian Senior Matchplay Championship at Thirteenth Beach Golf Club

Stefan Albinski wins the 2011 Victorian Senior Amateur Championship at Rosebud Golf Club

Stefan Albinski wins the 2011 South Australian Senior Amateur Championship at Victor Harbor Golf Club

Greg Corben wins the 2011 Queensland Senior Amateur Championship at Southport Golf Club

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2011 ACT Senior Amateur Championship
November 15-17, 2011
Gold Creek, Capital, Murrumbidgee GCs

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AUSTRALIAN SENIOR RANKINGS
CURRENT POINTS TABLE - TOP 20
Rolling 12 months points after the
2011 ACT SENIORS CHAMPIONSHIP

1	Stefan Albinski	NSW	148.65	9
2	Peter King	QLD	107.69	7
3	Denis Dale	NSW	107.38	8
4	Roy Vandersluis	NSW	92.73	9
5	Bill Banks	ACT	86.00	6
6	Richard Greville	NSW	78.67	8
7	Chris Coats	QLD	78.01	7
8	John Beaumont	SA	77.98	8
9	Greg Corben	NSW	77.61	7
10	Vince Clark	NSW	75.95	7
11	Rick Oliver	NSW	70.90	6
12	Alan Bullas	VIC	70.30	9
13	Graham Bowen	WA	70.06	9
14	Ross Percy	VIC	69.30	7
15	Gra MacDonald	QLD	67.34	8
16	John Wheeler	VIC	63.90	8
17	Tony Gover	ACT	63.71	9
18	Ian McPherson	WA	57.68	9
19	Colin Hallam	QLD	57.46	6
20	Mike Peeck	QLD	56.65	7

AUST. SENIOR NET RANKINGS
POINTS TABLE FOR 2011-12 YEAR
NEW COMPETITION BEGINNING
2011 ACT SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

1	Brad Doolan	NSW	22.86	1
2	John Dubois	NSW	18.71	1
3	Denis Dale	NSW	16.71	1
4	Paul H Walker	NSW	15.57	1
5	Paul Street	ACT	14.71	1
6	Bill Banks	ACT	14.00	1
6	Russell Rogers	NSW	14.00	1
8	Chris Gray	NSW	12.71	1
8	Ross Rees	ACT	12.71	1
8	Roy Vandersluis	NSW	12.71	1
11	Stefan Albinski	NSW	11.14	1
11	Trevor Durand	QLD	11.14	1
11	Clark Gibbons	NSW	11.14	1
11	Bradley Tepper	ACT	11.14	1
11	Les Browne	NSW	11.14	1

AUSTRALIAN SENIOR 65+ RANKINGS
CURRENT POINTS TABLE
Points after the
2011 ACT SENIORS CHAMPIONSHIP

1	Ian Read	QLD	52.45	8
2	Alex Cleave	WA	41.59	4
3	Pat Giles	VIC	39.12	5
4	Geoff Everett	NSW	31.10	6
5	Paul Lulofs	VIC	28.71	5
6	Tony Mazzone	SA	28.00	5
7	Tony Gresham	NSW	27.14	2
8	Wayne Aigner	NSW	27.14	5
9	Michael Jackson	VIC	19.54	2
10	Clark Gibbons	NSW	17.38	6
11	David Titcume	NSW	12.82	5
12	Jack Parker	NSW	12.79	3
13	Peter McGregor	NSW	11.43	3
14	Alan Fensom	NSW	10.06	3
15	Brian Baker	NSW	14.45	6

2012 SENIORS
ORDER OF EVENTS
Nov 2011 - Oct 2012

All events to be confirmed

1.  ACT Seniors
2.  Tasmanian Seniors
3.  NSW Senior Classic
4.  NSW Seniors
5.  West Aust. Seniors
6.  WA Lake Karrinyup
7.  VIC National Masters
8.  N. Territory Seniors
9.  Queensland Seniors
10.  QLD Gold Coast Masters
11.  South Aust. Seniors
12.  Australian Seniors
13.  SA Grange Senior Open
14.  Victorian Seniors
15.  Aust. Senior Matchplay

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2012 Tasmanian Seniors

The first Australian Senior Ranking event for 2012 is the Tasmanian Senior Amateur Championship to be held at Mowbray Golf Club February 1-3.

A good field of more than 80 seniors will line up for the championship although with many of the best senior players getting ready for the trip to take on New Zealand there are only five of the top twenty rated seniors attending. These include the defending champion, Victorian Ross Percy, who won in sensational fashion last year with an eagle two on the final hole.

Australian representatives Vince Clark and Alan Bullas are in the field and are very strong chances along with the other top twenty players, John Wheeler and Mike Peeck. The local champion and multiple winner of this title, Michael Leedham, is always hard to beat on his home course.

A player to watch is a newcomer to Australian senior golf - David Burton from Queensland. A very talented golfer and currently on a plus 1 handicap, Burton is a New Zealander who lives in Australia. After this event he returns to his homeland to take his place in the Kiwi side that plays the Aussies at Christchurch Golf Club starting February 14.

More details and a list of the full field and round one draw is available here 2012 Tasmanian Senior Amateur Championship.

2012 Senior Calendars

There have been some recent changes to the 2012 SENIOR GOLFING CALENDAR.

Both the mini calendar to the right and the larger calendar (click Senior Calendar button on the left) have all the latest changes but do remember to always check events before making any travel and/or accommodation plans.

A combined NSW, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Australian Calendar is available by clicking on the Senior Calendars 2012 link to the left. This calendar may be the best for printing.

State Order of Merit Updates

The NSW and Victorian 2012 Senior Order of Merit competitions are now underway. And South Australia has announced their very first Order of Merit competition.

NSW
In NSW the opening event was the NSW Senior Foursomes Championship played at the very testing The Coast Golf Club. Located alongside St Michael's and the NSW Golf Club this is a very enjoyable course. The 2012 winners were Greg Stanford and Stefan Albinski with a fine score of one over par 71. The over 65 champions were the Pennant Hills pair of Darcy Cluff and Tony Gresham with a good score of 80. More details here 2012 NSW Senior Order of Merit

VICTORIA
The 2012 Doug Bachli Senior Order of Merit began with an 18 hole event at Keysborough Golf Club. The comfortable winner was newcomer and local member Dale Collins who returned a score of 73 to defeat regular competitors Michael Jackson, Wayne Aigner and Alan Evans by three strokes. Defending Order of Merit champion Ross Percy was next with a score of 77. More details here 2012 Victorian Senior Order of Merit

SOUTH AUSTRALIA
South Australia begin their inaugural Order of Merit competition with a total of six events in 2012. There are four new eighteen hole events at Blackwood, Mt Osmond, Flagstaff Hill and Tea Tree Gully Golf Clubs. These events will be worth 100 points. The 36 hole Grange Seniors will be a 200 point event and the 54 hole South Australian Senior Amateur Championship a 300 point event. The organisers are already looking to expand in 2013 - good luck guys! More information should be available soon here Golf SA Web Site

2012 NSW Ranking Events

Entry forms for the 2012 NSW Senior Classic to be held at The Lakes and The Australian Golf CLubs on February 6-7 are now available.
More details and entry forms here 2012 NSW Senior Classic.

Entry forms for the 2012 NSW Senior Amateur Championship are also available.

This championship will be played at the Lynwood Golf Club near Windsor in western Sydney from February 28 to March 1.

More details and entry forms here 2012 NSW Senior Amateur Championship.

Australia vs New Zealand

2012 SANCTUARY COVE TROPHY

Following the announcement of the Australian team New Zealand Golf has now announced the names of the twelve senior golfers that will represent them in the annual Sanctuary Cove Trophy match. This competition is played in a President Cup format and in 2012 will be held at the Christchurch Golf Club in New Zealand from February 13-15, 2012

There are only two changes from the New Zealand team that was defeated by Australia in July of this year at Sanctuary Cove Golf Club. David Burton (Nelson) and John Sanders (Christchurch) are replacing Dave Headland and Murray Brown.

Late News- Phil Mosley out injured and replaced by Dave Headland.

Michael Barltrop
(Royal Auckland)

Rodney Barltrop
(R Wellington)

John Batley
(Titirangi)

Robbie Bell
(Ashburton

Frank Borren
(Paraparaumu)

David Burton
(Nelson)

And McKechnie
(Hamilton)

Murray Martin
(New Plymouth)

Dave Headland
(Whitford Park)

Arthur Parkin
(Maungakiekie)

John Sanders
(Christchurch)

Tony Treen
(Titirangi)

2012 New Zealand team - story from iseekgolf.com.

This will be the sixth time the two countries have met for the Sanctuary Cove Trophy. Following a close victory in 2011 Australia now leads with three wins to the Kiwis two.

Full details of the Australian team plus other information is available here 2012 Australia vs New Zealand.

SA Senior Pennant Final

Ken Brown from Tea Tree Gully GC has submitted the following report. Note the challenge at the end of the report!

Thanks to Mike Jackson from Mt Osmond an Adelaide Men's Senior Pennant competition commenced in 2007 and has continued successfully every year since.

Tea Tree Gully continued their dominance of the competition with a fifth straight victory in the final held at Kooyonga Golf Club that was presented in it's normal immaculate condition with the fairways just superb.

Tea Tree Gully senior pennant players Chris Everett (Capt), Kevin Bew (Paradise Mazda), Phil Smith, Bob Crosby, John Lucas, Ken Brown, Mike Richards, Ron Davidson & Doug Gerow celebrate their vistory.

The Tea Tree Gully team defeated West Lakes GC (Riverside was the old name) 6 matches to 1 and has now won the pennant every year since it commenced (yes 2007 to 2011). The score line in our last 5 matches was 32 won, one lost and 2 halves. Not bad!

If any of the winning teams from other states want a match we are more than willing to take them on! I am sure we could arrange to meet half way or there abouts.

New Aussie Golf Show

Those of you with a few minutes to spare might enjoy this new Internet Golf Show - The Aussie Golf Show.

The first edition of the show features the Lynwood Golf Club - the venue for the 2012 NSW Seniors Championship.

Visit the site here: The Aussie Golf Show.

Aussies Win Asia Pacific

The Australian B team has ended a dramatic final day with a great come from behind victory in the 2011 Asia-Pacific Senior Amateur Championship played at Royal Perth Golf Club.

Team B: Winners - Team Championship

Peter King
82-79-71

Chris Coats
76-79-82

Paul Maslen
80-86-74

Team A: Runner Up - Team Championship

Roy Vandersluis
78-77-77

Stefan Albinski
79-77-77

Denis Dale
76-79-83

Australian Team B member Peter King closed with a tournament best one under par 71. King fired five birdies in a magnificent round that saw him make up a 10 shot deficit in the individual event and force a tie with Australia A member Roy Vandersluis who also came from 4 behind. In the play off it was Peter King who took the title with a rock solid par on the first play off hole. Stefan Albinski finished in third place, just one stroke out of the play off.

Team B also took the team trophy from Australia A when Paul Maslen improved on his opening scores with a very good round of 74. Earlier Chris Coats' opening rounds of 76 and 79 had kept Team B in the race and they were a very happy team as they passed Team A for a memorable win. After sharing the lead with one round to go the New Zealand team finished in third place.

The New Zealand scores were as follows: Murray Martin 75-76-83, Phil Mosley 78-80-78 and Arthur Parkin 79-79-84.

Apart from the great final rounds from Peter King and Paul Maslen it was mainly a day highlighted by "spectacular" scores. Chris Coats opened with a triple bogey 7 start, then Murray Martin had a quadruple 8 on the fifth hole only to be beaten by Denis Dale's 9 on the same hole. Later Martin, when leading the individual title, added a double and triple bogey on 16 and 17. Royal Perth was definitley setup for a championship and only the very best players scored well.

Full scores available here AUSOOM - 2011 Asia Pacific .