Headland Headlines Articles

HEADLAND HEADLINES 30-5-22

From Tony Durkin  COURSE UPDATE: In view of no rain – and some sunshine – since Thursday, the Headland Golf Course will re-open for competition golf tomorrow (Tuesday) with a Single Stableford for both women and men. And, not surprisingly,… Read More

headland headlines 23-5-22

From Tony Durkin  COURSE CONDITION: For the second successive week no competition golf has been played at Headland, and the course is again likely to be closed for at least the next two days. More than 530mm of rain has… Read More

HEADLAND HEADLINES 16-5-22

From Tony Durkin COURSE INUNDATED: As a result of continuous rain for more than a week, Headland’s golf course is not expected to re-open until tomorrow (Tuesday), with carts on paths – providing no further rain is recorded. Since rain… Read More

HEADLAND HEADLINES 9-5-22

From Tony Durkin  CHAMPIONS REMAIN: Defending Headland Champions Josie Ryan and Adam Richards remain in the quest for the respective Women’s and Men’s Match Play titles for 2022, albeit by different paths. Josie is in to Saturday’s semi-final via a… Read More

HEADLAND HEADLINES 2-5-22

From Tony Durkin  ADAM AGAIN: He is 48 years of age and has won the Headland Club Championship four times previously, yet Adam Richards has never been prouder than when he walked off the 18th green on Sunday as the… Read More

HEADLAND HEADLINES 25-4-22

From Tony Durkin  COMEBACK CHAMP: Apart from last year’s Pennant season, Adam Rydwanski has played scant regular competition golf for the past 18 months, but has still managed two superb opening rounds in the 2022 Headland Men’s Championship, sponsored by… Read More

HEADLAND HEADLINES 18-4-22

From Tony Durkin LEFTIE AGAIN: For the second successive year a left hander has won the Walsh Consulting Engineers Men’s Sunshine Coast Open Amateur Championship, played at Headland over the Easter weekend. Brookwater-based Will Florimo, the nephew of former Australian… Read More

HEADLAND HEADLINES 11-4-22

From Tony Durkin  TEENAGER WINS: Ionna Muir, at 14 years of age, has become the youngest female to win the prestigious Headland Women’s Championship crown. But while she comprehensively conquered the field, Ionna – who had played just one competition… Read More

HEADLAND HEADLINES 4-4-22

From Tony Durkin  IONNA LEADS: Not surprisingly, Headland’s lowest-handicapped female member, Ionna Muir, is a runaway leader after the first 36 holes of the 2022 Women’s Championship. The 14-year-old Siena Catholic College student had rounds of 75, 79 over the… Read More

HEADLAND HEADLINES 28-3-2022

From Tony Durkin  EVENTUAL WIN: Peter Raymond and Jeff Lovell have been Headland members, and mates, for a collective total of 70 years, but have never combined to win a team’s event prior to Saturday. The Headland ‘heavies’ – Peter… Read More