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Graham Blizard wins the 2012 NSW Senior Classic at The Lakes and The Australian Golf Clubs

Michael Leedham wins the 2012 Tasmanian Senior Amateur Championship at Mowbray Golf Club

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

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2012 NSW Senior Classic
February 6-7, 2012
The Lakes & The Australian GCs

2012 NSW Senior Amateur Championship
February 28 - March 1, 2012
Lynwood Golf Club

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AUSTRALIAN SENIOR RANKINGS
CURRENT POINTS TABLE - TOP 20
Rolling 12 months points after the
2012 NSW SENIOR CLASSIC

1	Stefan Albinski	NSW	161.07	7
2	Denis Dale	NSW	113.93	7
3	Peter King	QLD	107.69	7
4	Roy Vandersluis	NSW	94.39	8
5	Bill Banks	ACT	79.97	6
6	Chris Coats	QLD	78.01	7
7	John Beaumont	SA	75.48	7
8	Vince Clark	NSW	72.47	7
9	Graham Bowen	WA	70.06	9
10	Alan Bullas	VIC	69.07	9
11	Greg Corben	NSW	67.32	6
12	Richard Greville	NSW	65.62	6
13	Rick Oliver	NSW	65.26	5
14	John Wheeler	VIC	64.77	8
15	Tony Gover	ACT	64.24	10
16	Ross Percy	VIC	61.73	7
17	Gra MacDonald	QLD	61.39	7
18	Paul Maslen	NSW	60.26	4
19	Colin Hallam	QLD	57.46	6
20	Trevor Box	QLD	56.59	9

AUST. SENIOR NET RANKINGS
2011-12 YEAR - TOP 10
NEW COMPETITION BEGINNING
2011 ACT SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

1	Brad Doolan	NSW	37.84	1
1	David Edwards	NSW	37.56	3
3	Trevor Durand	QLD	27.67	2
4	Paul H Walker	NSW	26.27	3
5	John Dubois	NSW	26.20	1
6	Stephen Hall	NSW	26.00	1
7	Doug Knowles	TAS	23.70	1
8	Peter Bence	VIC	26.10	1
9	Denis Dale	NSW	23.40	1
10	Greg Stanford	NSW	23.10	2

AUSTRALIAN SENIOR 65+ RANKINGS
CURRENT POINTS TABLE - TOP 10
Points after the
2012 NSW SENIOR CLASSIC

1	Bill Banks	ACT	79.97	6
2	Ian Read	QLD	49.23	8
3	Vince Clark	NSW	47.37	4
4	Bob Angus	NSW	43.29	7
5	Alex Cleave	WA	41.59	4
6	Pat Giles	VIC	39.07	5
7	Paul Lulofs	VIC	28.71	5
8	Tony Gresham	NSW	27.14	2
9	Wayne Aigner	VIC	27.14	5
10	Geoff Everett	NSW	29.75	6

2012 SENIORS
ORDER OF EVENTS
Nov 2011 - Oct 2012

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 NSW Senior Classic

Teeing off in second place after a fine round of 78 at The Lakes, New South Wales Golf Club member Graham Blizard (above right) played well again for a solid score of 75 at The Australian and a well earned 3 stroke victory in the 2012 NSW Senior Classic. This was the first national event for Blizard and he has the rare distinction of claiming a title in his first start. More wins are certainly in store for this talented senior.

Greg Stanford (above left) had the equal best round of the day at The Australian with a two over par 74. This gave hime second place in the 36 hole event and his best finish in a national event. Third place went to Wyong senior Norm Hollis (79-78) and a deserved result for one of only two players who broke 80 in each round - well done Norm!
The NSW Senior Classic was rated a level 3 event in the Australian Senior Rankings.

The important handicap competition was won by Windsor golfer Stephen Hall with net rounds of 76-71 =147. He finished four shots clear of Graham Blizard and five clear of Greg Stanford. Hall earns 130 points for his handicap win and he will now climb right up the rankings table for the year long handicap competition.

Leading Scores:
  1    153    Graham BLIZARD    78 - 75 - NSW - New South Wales
  2    156    Greg STANFORD    82 - 74 - NSW - Mona Vale
  3    157    Norman HOLLIS    79 - 78 - NSW - Wyong
  4    158    Stephen GIBSON    76 - 82 - NSW - St Michaels
  4    158    Paul MASLEN    81 - 77 - NSW - Concord
  6    159    Greg ELLIS    80 - 79 - NSW - Oatlands
  6    159    Scott RICHARDSON    82 - 77 - NSW - Pennant Hills
  6    159    Keith THORNLEY    85 - 74 - NSW - The Lakes
  9    160    Tony GOVER    81 - 79 - NSW - Royal Canberra
10    161    James MALKUS    81 - 80 - NSW - Cabramatta
10    161    David EDWARDS    83 - 78 - NSW - Pennant Hills

More details and scores here 2012 NSW Senior Classic.

2012 NSW Senior Amateur

Closing date for entering the 2012 NSW Senior Amateur Championship is Friday February 10, 2012.

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

More details and entry form available here 2012 NSW Senior Amateur Championship.

Leedham Wins Tassie Senior

Previously a four time winner of this event local member Michael Leedham made it five titles with a comfortable victory in the 2012 Tasmanian Senior Amateur Championship played at the Mowbray Golf Club.

After sharing the round one lead with Ross Percy and then extending his lead to two strokes after the second round Leedham played flawless golf in the final round for a round of 70 and a 54 hole total of one under par (69-72-71=212). In second place and seven strokes behind Leedham was the defending champion Victorian Ross Percy (69-74-76=219).

These two top class seniors had held the top two places from the first round and it was fitting that they should finish in the top two positions when the tournament was over. Third place went to Queensland newcomer David Burton (74-74-73=221) and it should not be too long before this very talented senior claims a major title. Burton is actually a Kiwi living in Australia but he is looking forward to a major assault on the 2012 Australian Senior Ranking competition.

Victorian John Wheeler (74-73-76=223) had a very successful tournament and finished alone in fourth place. The top five was completed by yet another Victorian, Alan Buckley (76-72-77=225) and he will be hoping he carries this form into the New Zealand Seniors when he crosses the ditch for this event next week.

Royal Hobart senior Graham Roberts (75-79-74=228) played consistently for sixth place as did two more Victorians - Pat Giles (78-76-75=229) and Alan Bullas (76-78-75=229) who shared seventh position.

The handicap competition was very keenly contested and the result was a tie for first place between local Mowbray member Doug Knowles who stormed home with a final net score of 65 to catch Peter Bence who was very consistent with net rounds of 68-67-73. Third went to another local David Hamilton with rounds of 65-69-75.

All three will climb into the top ten of the 2012 Australian Senior Ranking Handicap Competition. This competition runs parallel to the traditional scratch competition with medals presented at the end of the year to the top three seniors on the handicap table (see left).

Leading Final Scores:
212    Michael LEEDHAM    69-72-71 TAS
219    Ross PERCY    69-74-76 VIC
221    David BURTON    74-74-73 QLD
223    John WHEELER    74-73-76 VIC
225    Alan BUCKLEY    76-72-77 VIC
228    Graham ROBERTS    75-79-74 TAS
229    Pat GILES    78-76-75 VIC, Alan BULLAS    76-78-75 VIC
231    Mike PEECK   80-77-74 QLD, David EDWARDS   80-74-77 NSW
231    Vince CLARK    77-76-78 NSW
232    Peter BENCE    75-76-81 VIC

More details here 2012 Tasmanian Senior Amateur Championship.

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

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 .