20 Apr Qld Senior Teams Challenge
The 2023 Qld Senior Teams Challenge series kicked off at Maroochy River on Thursday 20 April. The series is run by Golf Australia and is a mid-week team’s match play event of 8 players playing 4 singles scratch matches and 2 four ball handicap matches. Participants must be over 55 years of age.
This year saw a very good number of members respond to Club Captain Andy Meldrum’s call for nominations. A total of 15 members have been selected to provide coverage across the three (3) month home and away series. Teams in the same group as Maroochy River are:
- Bribie Island
- Indooroopilly
- Nudgee
- Redcliffe
- Royal Queensland, and
- Virginia
Maroochy River’s 2023 campaign got off to a good start with a win at home against Bribie Island 4.5 to 1.5. In the singles, Team Captain Keith McDermott squared his match, Neale Turner went down to a super strong competitor, Shane Gesch had a walkover after his opponent failed to arrive and Michael Beavis had a great first up 8 and 6 win.
In the four ball matches the combinations of Jim Chiles/John Grimshaw and David Dickson/Phil Yardley were both too strong for their opponents winning 3 and 2.
Matches coming up in the next month are against Redcliffe at home on 27 April, at Indooroopilly on 9 May, Virginia on 16 May and Royal Queensland on 25 May.
Photo: 2023 Senior Teams Challenge, round 1 team
Back row L-R: Phil Yardley, John Grimshaw, David Dickson, Keith McDermott (Capt), Neale Turner.
Front row L-R: Jim Chiles, Michael Beavis, Shane Gesch