Headland Headlines Articles

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Tony Durkin  JUNIORS WIN: Promising Sunshine Coast juniors Shae Coghlan and Ionna Muir – both 14-year-olds – have combined to become Headland’s youngest Mixed Foursomes Champions. The teenagers shot rounds of 78-79 for a 36-hole 15-over total of 157… Read More

From Tony Durkin WINNING FAREWELL: Brad Williams is unlikely to play another round of golf at Headland for at least 12 months, which makes Thursday’s win by the fly-in fly-out crane operator an especially memorable one. A member since May… Read More

From Tony Durkin SHOULDER ARMS: Shoulder replacement surgery last year may have taken Les McClymont away from his plastering business and stalled his love of golf for six months, but it has proved well worth the adjournment. From 25 years… Read More

From Tony Durkin COURSE UPDATE: After walking the course on Sunday morning, Superintendent Ben Tilley described the condition of the general surface of Headland as ‘soup’. As a result of incessant rain since late last week, Ben has predicted the… Read More