Headland Headlines Articles

From Tony Durkin  SKINNY WIN: Dave Cekulis may have won Saturday’s Single Stableford on a countback, but his margin of victory was not as skinny as his body has become. The manager of Star Scaffolding has lost a phenomenal 32kgs… Read More

From Tony Durkin  COMBACK GOLF: Very few golfers start a round with a quadruple bogey and two double bogeys in their first four holes and go on to win the competition, yet Chris McArdle was able to defeat those almost-insurmountable… Read More

From Tony Durkin  FIRST DOUBLE: Adam Richards has scored his first Headland Club Championship/Match Play Championship double with a 4&3 victory over teenager Ben Duncombe in Saturday’s 36-hole Match Play final. Despite winning four Club Championships, dating back to 1994,… Read More

From Tony Durkin  INSPSIRED GOLF: Playing in the same group as Graham Smith a week earlier was the recipe for Lawrence Hireme to break 80 on Saturday, for the first time in his golfing career. “It was inspirational,” said Lawrence,… Read More

From Tony Durkin  BEST WEST: Wayne West was one of six players to beat their handicap in Sunday’s June Wood Duck Challenge at Headland, but his round was easily the most impressive. Playing off a handicap of three from the… Read More

From Tony Durkin  BIRTHDAY WIN: Incredible consistency was the hallmark of the victory by long-time members Monica Knowles and Anne Callanan in Headland’s 66th birthday-celebration Fourball Best Ball Stableford on Saturday. Five players short of the capacity winter field of… Read More

From Tony Durkin  PROUD ADAM: An emotional Adam Richards says winning his fourth Headland Championship over a four-decade period is his proudest achievement in golf. Despite a strong challenge from schoolboy Josh Holbrook in Sunday’s final round, Adam (76-74-74-75, 299)… Read More

From Tony Durkin  RICHO LEADS: Although only six shots separate the top nine players after the first two rounds of the Headland Men’s 2021 Championship, three-time Champion Adam Richards is in the box seat. Adam (76-74-150) has opened a four-shot… Read More

From Tony Durkin  FLAWLESS JOSH: Reigning Junior Champion Josh Holbrook has announced himself ready to challenge for the major title at the upcoming Club Championships with a flawless four-under par 68 at Headland on Saturday. The Grade 12 student started… Read More

From Tony Durkin  COURSE CLOSURE: Headland management greatly regretted the forced closure of the golf course over the three days of the long weekend but, as Course Superintendent Ben Tilley has revealed, there was absolutely no option. “To put it… Read More