{"id":12333,"date":"2026-02-15T22:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/?p=12333"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:10:57","slug":"headland-headlines-16-2-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/2026\/02\/15\/headland-headlines-16-2-26\/","title":{"rendered":"HEADLAND HEADLINES 16-2-26"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Tony Durkin<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRINCE MICHAEL: <\/strong>With his best-ever Headland score on Saturday, and a first Monthly Medal win in January, Mick Prince is entitled to feel like golfing royalty. \u201cIt felt really great out there today,\u201d said Mick after scoring 43 points to win Division One in Saturday\u2019s Medley Single Stableford, penning 80 for the first time. \u201cThat is my best round by six shots.\u201d Winner of the Handiskins National Championship in 2024 and a member of the winning Headland Handiskins team last year, Mick senses he might be approaching his peak again, heading towards the May finals this year. Playing in drizzly and windy conditions on Saturday on renovated greens, he penned 12 pars and four bogeys, with doubles at tough holes 15 and 16 his only major blemishes. \u201cI three-putted them both, so they weren\u2019t exactly shockers,\u201d informed the 15-handicapper. Mick, who owns and operates Quality Carpet Dry Cleaning and Pest Control on the Sunshine Coast, joined Headland seven years ago, from Gosford. Saturday\u2019s Division Two winner was provisional member, Taksil Dias, with 39 points. NOTE<\/strong>: The Australia-wide Handiskins tournament was first played in 2016, and Mick and fellow Headland member Bruce Heseltine have been consistent standouts. While Mick won in 2024, Bruce was the first Headland member to jump on the podium, finishing third in 2023. And the pair was joined by Doc Fleming, Peter Dunn and Sue Bolton to win the teams event last year.<\/p>\n

CHIPPER ROUND: <\/strong>Forced to play with just three clubs on Thursday for the first time, Lee Heseltine learnt a valuable golfing tip. \u201cI decided to take a chipper, rather than a wedge,\u201d the seven-year member confessed after returning the best score in the three-club plus putter event. \u201cAnd I even managed to successfully get out of a couple of bunkers with it, which was a nice surprise.\u201d Lee revealed that in the past when the annual event was played, she has been away, so was undecided which three clubs to take. She ultimately chose a three-wood, a six hybrid and the chipper, and scored 38 points playing the front nine twice. \u201cIt was a different game, but very enjoyable,\u201d she said. \u201cWith just three clubs, you need to think more about the kind of shots to play, and I was happy with the way I was able to improvise.\u201d In fact, Lee revealed that had a few more putts dropped, her \u2018good\u2019 score could have been \u2018amazing\u2019. Two four-point holes, both on the par-three fifth, highlighted her round, with five-three-pointers and five twos also enhancing her card. Lee won Division Two, while Bev Kelly (37 points) won Division One.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

BOB\u2019S TWINS: <\/strong>Before Tuesday\u2019s round at Headland, octogenarian Bob Trevor had officially either shot or equalled his age in a round of golf on 92 occasions \u2013 a record that must surely rate highly among his fellow amateur golfers. But always keen to continue adding notches to his golfing belt, the former Telecom\/Telstra technician created another first during his Medley Single Stableford round. He beat his age \u2013 81 \u2013 once again, but on this occasion, for the first time, playing the same nine twice. \u201cNo, I can\u2019t recall ever doing that previously,\u201d Bob conceded to HH after shooting six over-par 78 for 38 points and finishing runner-up in the event. Playing the back nine twice, he scored two birdies \u2013 both at the par-four 11th hole \u2013 eight pars, six bogeys and a double at the 16th, the second time around. But Bob, who tends not to \u2018keep score\u2019 during his round, confessed he was surprised with the end result. \u201cIt didn\u2019t feel as though I was hitting the ball that well. And the sixteenth was very messy,\u201d he said after hitting a poor second shot and duffing a chip. Peter Hutchinson (39 points) won the event, while Trevor Simpson and Richard Dinkleman matched Bob\u2019s 38 points.<\/p>\n

PERFECTLY PACED<\/strong>: \u201cI have played in heaps of two-ball Ambrose events, and that is the best gross score my partner and I have ever returned,\u201d announced Chris Pace after he and his wife Natalie won Wednesday\u2019s Medley Two-Ball Ambrose at Headland. In fact, the husband-and-wife team did not just win the event, they smashed the opposition in a field of 116. Playing the front nine twice from a handicap of eight \u2013 Chris GA 7.5, Natalie 26 \u2013 the victors scored three-under par on each flawless nine, with six birdies and 12 pars embellishing their superb 18-hole card. \u201cWe never looked like scoring a bogey,\u201d said Chris, who admitted the sandy greens, because of the current renovations, had helped. \u201cThe ball now stops on the green, and putting becomes less strategic.\u201d Chris was full of praise for Natalie, a champion hockey player who has recently adopted golf as her \u2018other\u2019 sport. \u201cShe played really, really well, and our birdie at the par-three fifth the second time around was all her work. But it was team effort,\u201d he said. Chris and Natalie scored 58 nett, a massive 7.5 shots better than the next best score, jointly returned by the teams of Lydon Hoger and Rory Hanley, and John Harris and Erik Larsen.<\/p>\n

SPORTY JOSH: <\/strong>Between the State Junior Triathlon Championships and the Queensland Nippers titles, 13-year-old Josh Kay was able to fit in a round of golf at Headland on Sunday. And the one-year member made the most of the opportunity, scoring 41 points to win the Medley Single Stableford competition by four points. Josh, who was playing in just his second comp round and from a handicap of 36, used all his young nous with one four-point hole, five three-pointers, ten twos and two singles on his card. The previous weekend the Grade 8 Sienna Catholic College student finished 25th in a field of 104 at the State Junior Triathlon Championships in Hervey Bay, and this coming weekend will compete in the 2026 Queensland Youth Life Saving Championships at Maroochydore. \u201cBut he is really into his golf,\u201d said his dad Kevin, who has been a member of Headland for four years and predicts he is about to be overtaken by Josh in the handicap stakes. \u201cJosh has played four times this week, and from a starting handicap of 37, is now down to 31.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

LUCKY RICK<\/strong>: Scoring his first win since 2021, Rick Popik reckons he was lucky, because course renovations meant only half the normal Thursday Men\u2019s field was playing. \u201cWe played the same nine twice, so that limited the size of the field. And some of the Fraser Follies members, who always play on Thursday, were visiting Caloundra,\u201d he revealed after scoring 37 points to win a low-scoring Single Stableford event. Rick, who joined in 1988 but severed his playing ties for 16 years when he was based in in North Queensland as a fly-in, fly-out supervisor in the oil and gas fields, is hoping his game has developed some green shoots. \u201cI am embarrassed by my current handicap of 25. It is the highest in my life,\u201d said the once 13-marker. \u201cBut hopefully this win is the start of things turning around.\u201d He disclosed that during the week the lie and loft on his Ping irons had been changed after a visit to the Pro Shop experts, and he has ordered new graphite shafts. \u201cMy short game and my putting have been costing me,\u201d he conceded, after penning five three-pointers and nine twos on Thursday\u2019s winning card. \u201cAnd the bunkers, where I have been having recent trouble, were kind to me today.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SIMPLY THE BEST<\/strong>: Battling persistent rain and wind on Sunday, scratch marker Jack Hourn has won his second Headland STB award for the month of February. Jack carded par 72 for 36 points in the Medley Single Stableford, with 12 pars on his card plus three bogeys on the front nine, and three birdies on the back. Back on Saturday February 7 Jack, playing from a two handicap from the blue tees, shot two-under 70 for 40 points, and a win in A Grade. On Sunday he scored 36 points, from the white tees. Each week in 2026, HH will name our \u2018Simply the Best\u2019 golfer \u2013 those who return the lowest round \u2013 in recognition of the club\u2019s low-handicap golfers.<\/p>\n

WEEKLY RESULTS:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday,<\/strong> Medley Single Stableford – back nine twice – (64 players) \u2013 Peter Hutchinson (39 points), Bob Trevor (38), Trevor Simpson (38).<\/p>\n

Wednesday, <\/strong>Medley Two-Person Ambrose – front nine twice \u2013 (116 players) – Natalie and Chris Pace (58 nett), Lyndon Hoger and Rory Hanley (65.25), John Harris and Erik Larsen (65.25).<\/p>\n

Thursday,<\/strong> Women, Three clubs plus putter \u2013 sponsors, Robyn Boreham, Di Stark, Helen Fraser and Marg Moran <\/em><\/strong>– (64 players) \u2013 Division One, Bev Kelly (37 points), Narelle Hollowood (35), Kirsten Kaergaard (31); Division Two, Lee Heseltine (38), Trudi Russell (37), Lesley Wilson (32).<\/p>\n

Men, Single Stableford (47 players) \u2013 Rick Popik (37 points), Stewart Douglass (36), Dennis Schloss (35).<\/p>\n

Saturday<\/strong>, Medley Fourball Best Ball Stableford (79 players) \u2013 Division One, Mick Prince (43 points), Derrick Bogaart (38), Gary Marr (37); Division Two, Taksil Dias (39), Stewart Smith (38), Peter Wark (38).<\/p>\n

Sunday<\/strong>, Medley Single Stableford (15 players) \u2013 Joshua Kay (41 points), Lincoln Harris (37), Jack Hourn (36).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Tony Durkin\u00a0 PRINCE MICHAEL: With his best-ever Headland score on Saturday, and a first Monthly Medal win in January, Mick Prince is entitled to feel like golfing royalty. \u201cIt felt really great out there today,\u201d said Mick after scoring… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headland-headlines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12337,"href":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333\/revisions\/12337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headland.miclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}