Headland Headlines Articles

From Tony Durkin BIG MAT LEADS: Big hitting Mat Walkenhorst, one of the trumps in Headland’s winning A Grade Pennant team and the lowest handicapper in the club on plus two, is the one-shot leader at the halfway mark of… Read More

From Tony Durkin AMBROSE AMBUSH: Josh Vearing (handicap 15) and Bruce Heseltine (31) had never clapped eyes on each other before Saturday’s two-man Ambrose event, but the accidental pairing proved to be the best in the capacity winter field of… Read More

From Tony Durkin  POPE BLESSED: Englishman Wayne Pope feels blessed to be regularly playing a golf course as challenging and in such great condition as Headland, but concedes he has been struggling for decent scores during the two years he… Read More

From Tony Durkin  HEADLAND HEROES: Headland’s A Grade men’s team has caused the boilover of the 2018 Sunshine Coast Golf Zone Pennant season with a thrilling 4-3 final win over raging favourites Maroochy River at Cooroy Golf Club yesterday. Among… Read More

From Tony Durkin STUNNING WIN: Headland’s A Grade Pennants team has won its way into the final against Maroochy River next Sunday following a thrilling 5-2 win over Noosa at Mt Coolum yesterday. The result was in the balance throughout… Read More

From Tony Durkin CLEVER TREVOR: Bob Trevor, who at 73 years of age plays off a handicap of four, totally appreciates the phrase ‘ageing like a good red wine’. And that is why, after shooting his age in Saturday’s Single… Read More

From Tony Durkin  CAPTAIN’S MEDAL: Headland’s Junior Pennants captain Patrick Walsh, who has three wins and a draw in the competition to date, scored his breakthrough Monthly Medal victory on Wednesday. Playing off 27, the Year 12 Sienna College student… Read More

From Tony Durkin  EASTER TOURNAMENT: In one of the most exciting Sunshine Coast Men’s Open Amateur Championships in recent memory, eight play-off holes were needed yesterday before Nambour’s Jake Crowther was declared the 58th winner of the event which was… Read More

From Tony Durkin  ADAM’S AWARD: When research company Golf Business Advisory Services polled Headland Golf Club members last year, the highest score recorded for member satisfaction in any area was 9.1 (from a possible 10) for Golf Operations. The score… Read More

From Tony Durkin  MIXED FORTUNES: When Josie Ryan – dressed in her green shirt on St Patrick’s Day and wearing a Shamrock (three-leaf clover) badge – found a homeless $10 note on the morning of Headland’s 36-hole Mixed Foursomes Championships,… Read More