Published Monday 3rd July 2023.
Please see the Sharp Cup semi final below.
Sunday senior results
Simpson Cup | Sanderson Cup | Bonnar Cup | Pike Cup
Junior results
Monday results
Semi Final
Royal Adelaide 2 lost to Kooyonga 3
Sunday 2nd July at Glenelg Golf Club
Report to follow.
Round 5
Royal Adelaide 3 defeated The Grange 2
Sunday 25th June at Kooyonga Golf Club
Report courtesy of Michael Jay
The last minor round game was played in cold, windy conditions on the immaculately conditioned Lockleys course. We had a finals berth sealed so it was just a matter of where in the top four we would finish. Grange had the stronger team on handicap and with our normal number one playing for the Sanderson team it was going to be a challenge.
The short par 3 14th was out, so bringing into play their extra hole after the 10th , arguably the best looking one on the entire layout.
Mitch Zander playing 5 always seemed to have the better of his opponent and ran out a comfortable winner at the 13th.
The opposite was the case with Hudson Haynes. A couple of what turned out to be missed opportunities might have seen the momentum change but the match finished with a 5/4 loss.
Isabelle Watson got her nose in front and never relinquished the lead. She played an amazing chip on 11 from the back of the green to a tight back pin for a gimme 4 and then won the next 2 for a comfortable 5/4 win.
Inyoung Kim playing number 1, was quickly 4 down but then played solidly to hold her own until the long par 3 15th which she lost going down 5/3.
The match then was then hanging on the Lewis Antell v Billy White encounter. The two are good friends with Billy being a member at Royal Adelaide but home club Grange. Although significantly out hit distance wise, Billy rarely makes a mistake and is deadly around the greens so he kept Lewis more than interested for the entire round until the last couple of holes. A win with a well constructed 5 on the par 5 16th and another par on 17 saw him win 3/1 for a 3/2 victory for Royal Adelaide.
This places us comfortably on top with a semi final against the 4th placed Kooyonga next week. Well played team and thank you to the supporters and caddies.
Sharp Cup Semi Final
Royal Adelaide (1) v Kooyonga (4)
Sunday 2nd July at Glenelg Golf Club
1st tee at 11.45am
Round 4
Royal Adelaide 4 defeated Kooyonga 1
Sunday 18th June at Tea Tree Gully Golf Club
Report courtesy of Michael Jay
A cold and windy day greeted the junior pennant teams in the north eastern foothills for the clash of traditional rivals Royal Adelaide and Kooyonga in the Sharp Cup.
Our No. 1 player Alice Cho had been promoted to Sanderson Cup but we regained the very talented Inyoung Kim as our number 1 and she didn’t disappoint. Square or down for most of her match, but when it mattered over the last half a dozen holes showed her class and sealed it on the par 3 17th with a stunning tee shot to within 3 feet for a 2/1 win.
Lewis Antell, ably supported by his father caddie, stepped into the No. 2 position, jumped out to an early lead and held this for the duration of the match and a comfortable a 4/3 win.
Isabelle Watson continued on her undefeated run this season, as much as 3 up during the match, never really being seriously threatened , finishing on the 16th for a 3/2 victory.
Hudson Haynes was always down after several early losses. On the 8th hole he played a career 100 metre approach shot from under a tree with only half a backswing to within 5 feet of the pin. His opponent however chipped in from off the green and he missed his birdie putt to go 4 down. He played steadily from then but could not wrest the momentum back in his favour and he finished down on the 15th.
Our number 5, Mitch Zander, always seemed to have his nose in front but never more than 1 hole. However he executed when needed with his tee shot on the par 3 17th being just what was required to close the match for a 3/1 win.
Although a seemingly comfortable 4 – 1 win, coming down the last half of the 2nd 9 holes, the match was reasonably balanced, albeit in our favour and some solid golf meant the team managed to grind out a good win. Well done to all, with a special mention mention for our caddies.
Sharp Cup Round 5
Royal Adelaide v The Grange
Sunday 25th June at Kooyonga Golf Club
1st tee at 12.00 noon
Round 3
Royal Adelaide 3 defeated Tea Tree Gully 2
Sunday 4th June at Royal Adelaide Golf Club
Report courtesy of Peter Maddern
The blue light disco at TTP drained early last night as the Tea Tree Gully Sharp Cup team withdrew to contemplate the morning ahead; the long drive for a 7.30 tee off! At? Camelot – where, as it happened, the fullest of full moons also touched down nearby today (maybe it does every day) – and, as well we know, ‘the rain never falls ‘til after sundown and the heat exits March the 2nd on the dot’ (or something like that.)
With positions still up for grabs, who will make the finals line-up in the weeks ahead? Promoted Mitch Zander? Well, this morning he played like Sir Lancelot. Did he ‘bash and crash’ his opponent? No, he did but ‘smash and mash’ him, uncharacteristically leading from the start to win 6/4. Prince Hudson Haynes we know can produce the big shots, but today it was the sword; ‘with a wicked thrust’, his opponent ‘‘twas dust to dust’ on his way to a 3/2 win.
Queen Isabelle Watson was not at her best but muddled her way to an ever growing lead until a sublime chip to 6 inches from beyond the 15th green must have made her adversary feel that ‘from fore to aft he could feel a draft’ with the match done there and then.
Lewis Antell was seemingly somewhat unsettled even before play got underway and why not? With the Super Coach out of town, who was this old dude on his bag in the red jacket? Was he here to help or had the Chief Steward got lost in the dark on his way to Morphettville? As it happened, not even Club Captain Tim Jordan, could settle this steed until the second nine but the challenge at that juncture, Lewis’ first time in the number 2 slot, was too great – down 3/1.
Finally, Alice Cho was also out of sorts, at least after she had led by two after three. Dormie down after 15, a superb iron on the 16th and strong shots on the 17th took the match to the last putts, but ‘alice’, no heroics this game.
So, after three rounds, our Sharp Cup team is top of its table. ‘For one brief shining moment’? Never – bring on the jousting in July!
(With apologies to Alan Jay Lerner.)
Ed: Members will be pleased to know Mr Maddern will be absent until the end of the season and so from here on Sharp Cup reports will be, like our other pennant reports, only about golf.
Sharp Cup Round 4
Royal Adelaide v Kooyonga
Sunday 18th June at Tea Tree Gully Golf Club
10th tee at 12.00 noon
Round 2
Royal Adelaide 4.5 defeated Country Districts 0.5
Sunday 28th May at Willunga Golf Club
Report courtesy of Peter Maddern
It’s a slightly quaint little course Willunga; with its various wooden bridges it looks like it was designed by a registered golf architect with the help of Claude Monet. Yet, there seems to be something menacing about the place as well; as if one has walked onto the location of the film Deliverance.
Certainly there was Russian roulette played on the approach shots to the par 5 4th with Lewis Antell spinning his chamber and firing a 7 iron successfully over the dam while immediately after Inyoung Kim spun hers only to see her white marble die in the depths.
Despite the handicap spread suggesting a commanding advantage, the unease on course was palpable approaching the turn when the contest was still all tied up. However once the team had traversed the rapids – well the wispy little stream that winds its way across the property – ratings kicked in.
The Course Whisperer, Isabelle Watson (who had distributed notes during the week about how to play this, her home layout) finally found her voice and won all the middle third of her scheduled match (eventually winning 5/4.) Lewis Antell took to playing like a man possessed (6/5) and by the time Inyoung Kim reversed two down (4/3) it seemed those duelling banjos made famous in that film were being whipped up into a frenzy and could be heard all across the course. It was enough to get the Albino kid out to watch on from his rocky outcrop.
Before all that, to get the audience’s attention, Hudson Haynes had clobbered his first drive and his approach to the 9th green, securing his half way advantage with those bookends. Taking the 16th ended his match. Then, late in the afternoon, with the credits already starting to roll, Captain Cho, always hitherto behind, shared with her opponent good shots and luck for a dozen holes or more before a powerful par on the last allowed her to also share the point.
The result, like any good Hollywood flick, all came out well by the end – 4.5 – 0.5.
Sharp Cup Round 3
Royal Adelaide v Tea Tree Gully
Sunday 4th June at Royal Adelaide Golf Club
1st tee at 7.30am
Round 1
Royal Adelaide 4.5 defeated Glenelg 0.5
Sunday 21st May at The Grange Golf Club (East)
Report courtesy of Peter Maddern
It’s been 5 weeks since the Shark and his new best friends rolled into town and, apart from a few revellers from the Party Hole still sleeping it off under the eucalypts, The Grange was back looking great for Round 1 of the new Sharp Cup season.
The RA team is a class improved on our last campaign with the handicap spread of 5 to 15 in 2022 now down to +1 to 11 but the contest against Glenelg required it.
The CHOsen one has been tapped again, this time as team captain. Alice called the coin toss right and, in a tight tussle, called her six metre putt on her 16th similarly before her opponent missed his from as many feet. That was enough to get her game done on the following green 2/1.
Inyoung Kim never led by more than two, then had to jostle throughout an even second half of her afternoon before sharing the point.
Lewis Antell has reached a rebellious phase of his life and took to ignoring his caddie’s (Super coach Matt A) advice early on, preferring use of fairways not exactly assigned to the holes he was playing. Off the first he went more left than Lidia Thorpe, off the second he was more right than any retired surgeon. Had the super coach met his match? Don’t you worry about that, as Lewis powered a birdie 2 on the third and never lost another hole, being the first to shake hands with a 6/4 win.
Isabelle Watson in the number 4 slot skipped away early and was never threatened to win 4/3 – it’s a mark of the side’s improved strength that while her handicap has improved by five but she is down one in the RA batting order.
Finally Hudson Haynes, a new recruit to team RA that has followed that well trodden path from Mount Osmond. In his own words, he didn’t play his best but redeemed himself with three terrific shots; a scorching 4 hybrid on his 5th, an alley oop out of his 8th’s green side bunker that was caught by the back stop which escorted it back towards the cup and the there was his 16th. Back to all square, and with the afternoon still in the balance, from 40m, a slam dunk!
It was a shot that earned the recognition of all those present who took to the latest golf craze and started throwing drinks onto the green. For mine, this behaviour here, that it seems threatens to become some sort of tradition thanks to Circus 54, was a bit over the top, given Hudson still had two holes to play.
But with those successfully negotiated, Haynes gave us the winning point that ultimately led to 4.5 – 0.5 win and as many bowls of hot chips.
Sharp Cup Round 2
Royal Adelaide v Country Districts
Sunday 28th May at Willunga Golf Club
1st tee at 11.30am
