Golf Victoria: September Newsletter

The latest golf news and results from around the State ⛳️

Golf news, views and results from around the state. View this email in your browser Kobori and Kil claim Vic Boys and Girls Champs Kiwi Kazuma Kobori and Bella Kil of New South Wales have won the 2017 Victorian Boys and Girls Championships at Yarra Yarra Golf Club, each by just one stroke. Congratulations to all of the players who teed it up this week in the best field the tournament has seen, including the 47 interstate and 16 international representatives who travelled from far and wide to compete. Plus, a special thanks to our host club Yarra Yarra Golf Club for a fantastic week. Story, results and live stream replay... Share the golf bug during Golf Month this October October is Golf Month and it's the perfect time to introduce your friends, family and co-workers to the game we know and love. Throughout the month of October, clubs and facilities all over the country are hosting a range of fun, welcoming and social golf activities.  Whether it's a day on the green at Mansfield, party golf at Sandhurst, cross country and vintage golf at Mount Beauty or night golf at Pakenham, there's something for everyone! Head to the Golf Month website to find an activity near you. Play your way to Royal Melbourne and The Emirates Australian Open Nine-hole golf is fast, fun and can fit into any busy lifestyle. Next month, you can play your way to Royal Melbourne and The Emirates Australian Open by entering a Play 9 event. Golf Victoria is staging a series of nine-hole events across Victoria. At each event, four players will qualify for a state final at Royal Melbourne where four spots to tee it up at The Australian during the Emirates Australian Open will be up for grabs. Find an event near you... Golf Victoria Magazine Feature: Blair's goal: Include me in Blair Mulholland loves golf. Actually, that's an understatement. He's obsessed by golf. And he talks about it a lot. Blair has faced - and overcome - a lot of challenges in his young life. When he was just three days old, he contracted meningitis. Amongst other things, this caused significant developmental delay. Read article... Sign up for your free copy of the Golf Victoria Magazine iPad and eMag versions GOLF'S HOTTEST PODCAST Join your hosts Andy Maher and Mark Hayes as they delve into what makes golf tick, right around the nation. Listen now... SHOT TO WATCH Jason Day has issued a challenge to the MyGolfers of Australia. How many times can you juggle the ball on your club? Watch... Q&A with Kazuma Kobori and Bella Kil 2017 Victorian Boys and Girls Champions Kazuma, congratulations! How do you feel? I'm stoked actually. I didn't think I had a chance to win but to shoot 3-under and find out I won the tournament is pretty huge for me. You were the only boys player to break par today, shooting 69. Yesterday you shot 79. You must be over the moon with that final round? Yeah I am. I putted pretty mediocre yesterday but today I pretty much holed everything I looked at so it was a nice bounce-back. It was a tightly contested final-round leaderboard. Were you aware of the scores coming down the stretch? No. I had no clue. Coming down 14, 15, I didn't actually think I had a chance to win. One of those guys [at the top of the leaderboard] had even par... I was coming 2nd or 3rd place. But I shot 3-under and went to the 18th and found out I was leading by two, so I'll take it.  Have you had a chance to look at any of the past champions engraved on the trophy?  I have not, I will do that right after this interview. Did you know one of them is Marc Leishman? I did not. That's insane! Bella Kil, the 2017 Victorian Girls Champion, how does that sound? It sounds good to me! You entered the day two shots clear but had a bit of a rocky round. Did you feel like the wheels were starting to fall off? I definitely did. I couldn't concentrate at all. I was going everywhere. My shots were off, my putting was off. I said to myself just make pars, pars, pars and get my head in the game again.  Tell us what hole your confidence started to come back? It never came back. I just thought 'put it on the green and two putt' that's all I was thinking. On the 18th, you knocked it pretty close and had a downhill putt for birdie. That slid 4-foot past the hole so you had to make the putt coming back to hold on for the win. Were you aware of the situation? I knew the situation, so I knew that I had to two-putt for a win. I was so nervous, I was so scared. When the putt went in I thought it was going to lip out but luckily it just dropped in for me. Is this your biggest win yet in your young golfing career? I'll say yes, yeah! We talk to a few of the players who teed it up this week at Yarra Yarra Events September Events 6-7th Victorian Women's Sand Greens Championship 9-10th Victorian Men's Sand Greens Championship 10th Heathcote Open Amateur 11-13th Victorian Senior Amateur Championship 16th Lonsdale Open Amateur 18th Lang Lang Senior Amateur 22nd Joan Fisher Plate (inc. Champion of Champions) 25-26th Northern Senior Amateur September Junior Events 2nd Victorian Junior Sand Greens Championship 16-17th Stuart Appleby Leongatha Junior Open 17th Colac Junior Tournament (Craig Spence Cup) 17-19th Katherine Kirk Classic 19-22nd Gary Player Classic 25-28th Victorian Boys & Girls Championships October Events 1st Kooringal Open Amateur 3rd Torquay Ladies Open Amateur 7th Torquay Open Amateur 8th Sorrento Ladies Open Championship 9th Royal Women's Hospital - Metropolitan Final 10-12th Australian Men's Senior Amateur 12th Curlewis Women's Open Amateur 12th Doris Chambers - State Final #1 14th Curlewis Men's Open Amateur 19th Doris Chambers - State Final #2 21-22nd Victorian Men's Country Teams 23-27th Australian Women's Senior Amateur 23rd Royal Women's Hospital 4BBB - State Final 28-29th Victorian Men's Country Teams Match vs SA 30-31st Melbourne Senior Classic 30-31st Victorian Women's Spring Tournament October Junior Events 2nd Portarlington Junior Masters 2nd Stuart Appleby Rookie Series - Sanctuary Lakes 3rd 13th Beach Junior Open 3-6th JNJG Srixon International 4-5th Stuart Appleby Mornington Peninsula Jnr Open 6th Victorian U16 Junior Classic - Term 4 8th Cerberus Junior Challenge 8th Medway Junior Open Amateur 14th Stuart Appleby Rookie Series - The Dunes (Cups) 15th Junior Kelly Cup 15th Ocean Grove Junior Tournament 15th Trentham Junior Tournament 22nd South West District Boys & Girls Championships Plus Junior Pennant   Join the Golf Victoria community: Copyright © 2017 Golf Victoria, All rights reserved. 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