Pennants
Echunga Golf Club enters teams within the pennant competition run by the Southern Golf Group and prides itself on having a strong and successful pennant program with the matchplay format proving very popular amongst the members. The golf club regularly fields the most pennant teams of any club within the Southern Golf Group and has been successful across all grades.
2019 Men's Pennant Wrap Up
The 2019 pennant season started with the usual practice match the week prior to the start of the season. It was the captain's versus the vice captains team.
18 players showed up and each took the sacred vows of allegiance, and set out with either Ben Slack or Randy Jones in their hearts, and defending their honour in battle on their minds. Although Ben and Randy were no where to be seen, and we forgot to work out who was on who's team, remembering only after the first group (2 matches) had teed off. So the remaining seven matches were allocated teams and it was decreed that we would toss a coin after the game to decide the first 2 matches. We thought this would turn out to be quite exiting, but as it were, the captains won all seven of those matches, so we just decided to give the other 2 winners to the captains team as well to make it a 9-0 shellacking.
Captains team Vice captains team
Derek Parrott def Steve Nailer
Ray D'Alessandro def Rob Eibisch
Neville Jordan def Peter Anderson
Derek Jones def Cohen White
Bruce Agnew def Tony Spry
Bill Guy def Suthee Singtho-Ogg
ViV Smith def Pat Buying
Brian Wallace def Andy Amberg
Martin Henderson def Warren Ryan.
The season itself was a mixed bag of good wins, half chances and near misses.
The C1 team was our most successful team this year. They won their first 4 matches well, and secured a finals berth with 1 round to play, which was just as well because they were belted in the last round, but then got their act together nicely to win the final in style, and grab the pennant for the second year running. Well done to, The skip (Rob), The pres (Ray), The twins, (Wazza and Andy), Martin (Hendo) Henderson, Angry Anderson, and Darren Bloody Wilson. Well done to all players including others who played in this team during the season. They are Bill Kid, Neville Jordan, Craig Fromm, Colin Stevens, Alan Bailey, and Brian Wallace who would have played in the final, but fell sick during the week before and pulled out. Wal did recover in time and came out and caddied, so huge effort, well done Wal.
The B1 team won 3 of 5 matches and were unlucky not to have won more to make it into the final. The 3 games was enough to go into a countback for the second final spot. Unfortunately we lost the countback by only half a game and missed out on a finals berth.
The B2 team struggled from the outset loosing the first 2 matches before winning the 3rd and halving the 4th. They couldn't make the final but did avoid finishing bottom with 3 points and games up.
The A1 team started ok with a narrow loss to the eventual winners, Aston Hills, in round 1. Then followed up with a disappointing loss against lady Bay, losing 5 matches on the last or second last hole. A good win in round 3 restored hopes somewhat, but another disappointing loss in round 4 snuffed out any hopes of making the final. Much like round 2 the matches were close and the result could just as easily have gone our way. So the last round became a relegation final for our team against Murray bridge and a win was needed however it was only a half that our boys could manage, which sent us into a countback situation with South lakes who also finished with 3 premiership points. Thankfully we won the countback by 1 game and avoided relegation. Phew!
Players of the year were the twin towers Andy Amberg and Warren Ryan, each with 4 out of 5 wins during the minor round. And they both went on and had big wins in the final too.
Thanks to all people who played, be it regularly or as a fill in, and to all caddies and anyone who came out to watch during the season. Thanks to all of the team captains for organizing the teams and making my job much easier.
Looking forward to Next year when we can hopefully build on this year and have a bit more success.
Jamie Burt (Pennant Coordinator)
The 2019 pennant season started with the usual practice match the week prior to the start of the season. It was the captain's versus the vice captains team.
18 players showed up and each took the sacred vows of allegiance, and set out with either Ben Slack or Randy Jones in their hearts, and defending their honour in battle on their minds. Although Ben and Randy were no where to be seen, and we forgot to work out who was on who's team, remembering only after the first group (2 matches) had teed off. So the remaining seven matches were allocated teams and it was decreed that we would toss a coin after the game to decide the first 2 matches. We thought this would turn out to be quite exiting, but as it were, the captains won all seven of those matches, so we just decided to give the other 2 winners to the captains team as well to make it a 9-0 shellacking.
Captains team Vice captains team
Derek Parrott def Steve Nailer
Ray D'Alessandro def Rob Eibisch
Neville Jordan def Peter Anderson
Derek Jones def Cohen White
Bruce Agnew def Tony Spry
Bill Guy def Suthee Singtho-Ogg
ViV Smith def Pat Buying
Brian Wallace def Andy Amberg
Martin Henderson def Warren Ryan.
The season itself was a mixed bag of good wins, half chances and near misses.
The C1 team was our most successful team this year. They won their first 4 matches well, and secured a finals berth with 1 round to play, which was just as well because they were belted in the last round, but then got their act together nicely to win the final in style, and grab the pennant for the second year running. Well done to, The skip (Rob), The pres (Ray), The twins, (Wazza and Andy), Martin (Hendo) Henderson, Angry Anderson, and Darren Bloody Wilson. Well done to all players including others who played in this team during the season. They are Bill Kid, Neville Jordan, Craig Fromm, Colin Stevens, Alan Bailey, and Brian Wallace who would have played in the final, but fell sick during the week before and pulled out. Wal did recover in time and came out and caddied, so huge effort, well done Wal.
The B1 team won 3 of 5 matches and were unlucky not to have won more to make it into the final. The 3 games was enough to go into a countback for the second final spot. Unfortunately we lost the countback by only half a game and missed out on a finals berth.
The B2 team struggled from the outset loosing the first 2 matches before winning the 3rd and halving the 4th. They couldn't make the final but did avoid finishing bottom with 3 points and games up.
The A1 team started ok with a narrow loss to the eventual winners, Aston Hills, in round 1. Then followed up with a disappointing loss against lady Bay, losing 5 matches on the last or second last hole. A good win in round 3 restored hopes somewhat, but another disappointing loss in round 4 snuffed out any hopes of making the final. Much like round 2 the matches were close and the result could just as easily have gone our way. So the last round became a relegation final for our team against Murray bridge and a win was needed however it was only a half that our boys could manage, which sent us into a countback situation with South lakes who also finished with 3 premiership points. Thankfully we won the countback by 1 game and avoided relegation. Phew!
Players of the year were the twin towers Andy Amberg and Warren Ryan, each with 4 out of 5 wins during the minor round. And they both went on and had big wins in the final too.
Thanks to all people who played, be it regularly or as a fill in, and to all caddies and anyone who came out to watch during the season. Thanks to all of the team captains for organizing the teams and making my job much easier.
Looking forward to Next year when we can hopefully build on this year and have a bit more success.
Jamie Burt (Pennant Coordinator)
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Program
2019 pennant program |
Historical Results
Pennant Play of the Year - Honour Roll
Awarded to the player with the best record for the pennant season (minor round only). Players with the same record will be awarded as joint winners:
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2019
2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 |
A Amberg
B Guy H Griffin R Jones C Bedson D Spaven A Keogh B Guy R Jones A Keogh S Kinnane J Burt Z Bilandzic N McNicol M Hickman B Slack S Koop L McNicol J Norman T Brooks R Shaw L Edwards M Jenkins C Forth R Manning G Klatt M Healy B Nicol A Norman A Norman K Little P Podzuweit M Sara M Sara E Mason E Mason D Stokes E Mason T Dolman D Beames J Donnelly B. Hill |
W Ryan
M Henderson B Guy - - - B Spaven W Ryan A Evans - - - G Palmer - - Z Bilandzic - J Jonas G Day - - J Norman - - T Phillips - M Raven - M Raven - - - A Norman - P Robins - - - - - - |
V Smith J Hyland - - - - - H Griffin - - - M Wilson - - - - A Schultz - - - - - - M Hickman - P Podzuweit - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
- - - - - - - J Westerholm - - - - - - - - M Haslett - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |