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2024 SGA Autumn Classic a Blast in Bright

2024 SGA Autumn Classic a Blast in Bright and Myrtleford

Awesome weather, jaw-dropping scenery and a pair of wonderful golf courses greeted golfers at the 2024 SGA Autumn Classic, held in Victoria's High Country towns of Bright and Myrtleford on April 19-21, 2024

The booked-out field enjoyed sunshine, great golf, plenty of laughs and heaps of camaraderie, with some stellar scoring in the Pairs Better Ball and Individual Stableford competitions.

Friday - Warm-up Day

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Many of the golfers enjoyed an early start to the weekend's festivities, taking part in the optional warm-up round at Bright GC. With blue skies, warm autumn weather and a golf course in top condition, the field were treated to fun, relaxing and rewarding day on the fairways.

Atholl Johnstone took the day's honours, with a solid 34 points. He edged Joel Matthews (32), with Duncan Lendrum third on 31. Rounding out the top 5 were Drew Hallam, Chris O'Reilly and Richard Fellner, all on 30 points.

Saturday - R1

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A gorgeous day for Round 1, as our golfers teed it up at the beautiful Myrtleford Golf Club. The course proved to be a stern test, but thoroughly enjoyable.

In the individual comp, Tony Sturesteps and Chris Mchale jumped to the lead with 38 points, narrowly ahead of Paula Brockfield (37) and Michael O'Sullivan (34) and Matthew Leahy (34).

In the Teams Better Ball, Team Thompson + Sturesteps led the field on 43 points, ahead of Brockfield + de Silva (42), Jones + Burfield (41) and Bizzotto + Leahy (41)

Sunday - R2

Round 2 was a chilly (er...FRESH) morning. But when the sun came out, the guns came out, and there was some serious jockeying on the leaderboard.

In the Individual Event, Chris Mchale took top honours on a solid two-round total of 68 total points, edging Michael O'Sullivan and Tony Sturesteps on 66. Margaret Summerhill was one shot back on 65, with Phoebe Burfield rounding out the top 5 on 62 points.

For the Teams BB event, Phoebe Burfield and Ivan Jones took the trophy with an impressive 82 total points. In 2nd place were Judy Hay and Margaret Summerhill on 79 points, on countback from Cameron Thompson and Tony Sturesteps. Rounding out the top 5 were the teams of Michael O'Sullivan + Hamish Macphee, and Nathan O'Sullivan + Jeremy O'Sullivan, both teams on 78 points.

Final leaderboard here: https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/10083848186545339133

Thanks

We'd like to thank our host clubs, Myrtleford Golf Club and Bright Country Golf Club for having us. Special thanks to Michael and the team at Bright Chalet for the lovely accommodation, food and the assistance in hosting the event.

A warm thank you to all of our players for joining us for a great weekend - you are the reason why our events are so fun and successful. A special thanks to our sponsors, Srixon Australia & New Zealand, MGI Golf, Garmin Australia, Drummond Golf, Heathcote Winery and TCN for their generous prizes.

Final Scores - 2024 SGA Autumn Classic

Pairs Best Ball

Pos.	Team	Total Stableford Points	R1	R2
1	Jones + Burfield	82	41	41
T2	Hay + Summerhill	79	39	40
	Thompson + Sturesteps	79	43	36
T4	O'Sullivan + Macphee	78	39	39
	O'Sullivan + O'Sullivan	78	39	39
6	Mchale + Goyne	77	39	38
7	Fellner + Johnstone	76	37	39
T8	Bizzotto + Leahy	75	41	34
	Brugman + Chow	75	40	35
10	Brockfield + de Silva	74	42	32
T11	Lendrum + O'Reilly	72	37	35
	Warwick + Matthews	72	36	36
	Hallam + Clelland	72	36	36
14	Hayes + Jones	68	37	31
T15	Elisaia + Hannah	67	31	36
	Porter + Nightingale	67	34	33
	Steer + Doran	67	38	29
	Anandeswaran + Dunleavy	67	34	33
19	Dunn + Andrew	65	33	32
20	Nickeas + Hornblower	64	34	30

Singles Stableford

Pos.	Player	Total Stableford Points	R1	R2
1	Chris Mchale	68	38	30
T2	Michael O'Sullivan	66	34	32
	Tony Sturesteps	66	38	28
4	Margaret Summerhill	65	32	33
5	Phoebe Burfield	62	27	35
T6	Matthew Leahy	61	34	27
	Paula Brockfield	61	37	24
	Ivan Jones	61	34	27
T9	Hamish Macphee	60	29	31
	Richard Fellner	60	32	28
T11	Jeremy O'Sullivan	59	31	28
	Paul Bizzotto	59	32	27
	Krishnan Anandeswaran	59	31	28
T14	Cameron Thompson	58	29	29
	David Warwick	58	32	26
T16	Duncan Lendrum	57	28	29
	Drew Hallam	57	29	28
T18	Chris O'Reilly	56	28	28
	Oliver Chow	56	28	28
T20	Judy Hay	55	32	23
	Jan Hayes	55	28	27
	Rohan Goyne	55	23	32
T23	Ragna Porter	54	28	26
	Nathan O'Sullivan	54	30	24
	John Brugman	54	28	26
T26	Frank Elisaia	53	25	28
	Cameron Dunn	53	25	28
T26	Atholl Johnstone	53	22	31
T29	Tyrone de Silva	52	32	20
	Bill Nickeas	52	26	26
T31	Annie Jones	49	27	22
	Gavan Doran	49	29	20
	Joel Matthews	49	26	23
34	Ian Steer	48	26	22
35	Fehan Dunleavy	47	21	26
T36	Geoff Hannah	46	16	30
	Peter Andrew	46	28	18
38	Allison Nightingale	45	20	25
T39	Al Clelland	43	26	17
	Bernard Hornblower	43	23	20

2024 SGA Autumn Classic

The 2024 SGA Autumn Classic

Bright and Myrtleford, Victoria

April 19-21, 2024

All Golfers Welcome!

April 19-21, 2024
Bright GC and Myrtleford GC
36 Holes of Golf
Individual and Pairs Stableford
2 Nights' Accommodation
Breakfasts and Dinners, Prizes and more

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More information about the 2024 SGA Autumn Classic

Played on a pair of fun and challenging courses, in the gorgeous Victorian High Country, The 2nd Annual SGA Autumn Classic is set to be a cracker. Played as both an individual Stableford event AND two-person team Better Ball Stableford event, the weekend features our unique blend of fun, frivolity and excitement!

Bright Country Golf Club

Situated at the foothills of the Victorian Alps, the Bright Country Golf Club is considered to be one of Victoria's best regional courses. Nestled alongside the Ovens River, the unique 18-hole course, designed by Tony Cashmore, features a par-72, 6097m easy-walking layout with manicured grass greens and beautifully developed tree-lined fairways. The course is a favourite of SGA Staff ... especially as there are no bunkers! (But don't let that fool you, it is challenging, fun and spectacular.).

Myrtleford Golf Club

Situated in the heart of the beautiful Ovens Valley, Myrtleford boasts an 18-hole course with tree-lined fairways - (some of the River Red gums are reputed to be 300 years old). It is a challenging course with accuracy at a premium on the narrow fairways and small greens. It's another easy-walking course, with most of the fairways being flat -- with only the 9th and 18th being on a hill.

The Bright Chalet

Located just outside of Bright, the Bright Chalet is a third-generation family business, which is popular year-round. Featuring 26 rooms over two floors, the chalet is the ideal home-base for our event. There is a full-service kitchen and dining area, dedicated bar, pool and function area. The rooms are comfortable and fully-equipped with large LCD screens, reverse-cycle air conditioning/heating, refrigerator, en-suite plus access to a balcony, with views of the surrounding mountains.

Event format - Single Stableford PLUS Pairs Better Ball

Here's everything you need to know about this 36-hole, weekend golfing adventure:

The Autumn Classic is a 36-hole golf tournament for amateur golfers. The event format for the individual grades is single stableford over two rounds. In addition, there is a team element (Pairs Better Ball/ 4BBB) event to add some extra fun and interest to the tournament. For this, only a team's best stableford score for each hole (i.e. Better Ball) is counted. These are added to make the daily team total. The team with the best total over two days wins the title.

Friday

Optional Warm-up

Get your weekend started early with an optional warm-up round. This will be an individual Stableford event, complete with prizes for the day

Saturday

Round 1

Individual Stableford PLUS Team Better Ball Stableford. A Team's best stableford score on each hole counts towards the Team Total.

Sunday

Round 2

Individual Stableford PLUS Team Better Ball Stableford. A Team's best stableford score on each hole counts towards the Team Total.

Rules:

Handicaps: Each pair will play via their official Golf Australia Handicaps, adjusted for the course/slope, etc. Daily results for all players will be entered on GOLF Link and will count towards players’ handicaps. Each player is personally responsible for ensuring that he or she is playing off the correct daily handicap on each day.
Nearest-the-Pin, plus Drive & Chip (NTP in 2 shots): will be held as some usual tasty ‘side action’ between teams.
Playoffs: In the event of a tie, a countback will be used to determine the winners.
Note that a player may only win one of the events (teams or singles). If the individual/singles winner is also one of the winning pairs team, then the next-highest-ranked individual score will be named the individual winner - this ensures we have three Champions for the event.
Prizes are awarded to the top Team, plus individual winner.

Entry subject to SGA Terms and Conditions

Itinerary

Day	Date	Time	Event	Course
Friday	April 19	12:30pm	Single Stableford (Optional Warm-up Round)	Bright
Saturday	April 20	10:30am	Single Stableford PLUS Pairs Better Ball	Myrtleford
Sunday	April 21	8:00am	Single Stableford PLUS Pairs Better Ball	Bright

The 2024 SGA Autumn Classic Packages

Twin-share

$499 per person

Two nights accommodation at Bright Chalet
2 x Buffet Breakfasts and Buffet Dinners
36 holes of golf on Saturday & Sunday
Bus Transfers (Myrtleford - Sat)
Tournament entry fees, trophies and prizes
(Optional: Add a shared Cart for $25 per person per day)

Extra Golf

$60 per person

Optional warm-up round (Walking) on Friday - includes prizes and results on GOLF Link.
Add a shared Cart for $25 per person.

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Exciting finish at inaugural SGA Autumn Classic

Thrilling finish at Inaugural SGA Autumn Classic

It was an absolutely incredible weekend at Murray Downs Resort for the Inaugural SGA Autumn Classic, held May 5-7, 2023.

While much of the country saw rainy and miserable conditions throughout the weekend, the booked-out field at Murray Downs enjoyed sunshine, great golf, plenty of laughs and heaps of camaraderie.

Despite a few chilly morning starts, the golf heated up throughout the weekend, with some stellar scoring in the Pairs Better Ball and Individual Stableford competitions.

Round 1 - Saturday

The most notable score of the day was a spectacular 41 points from Geoff Hannah. That placed him firmly atop the Singles leaderboard, with SGA's own Matthew Pitt one shot back on 40. Ben Sterck rounded out the top 3 on a very solid 38 points.

Much to the delight of Hannah and Sterck, they were also teammates in the Pairs Best Ball Competition, which (not surprisingly) saw them at the top of the board on 50 Best Ball points (!). Next best were Steve Pettit + Paul Pearce (44 points), and Drew Hallam + Al Clelland (also on 44).

Round 2 - Sunday

Round 2 was a chilly (er...FRESH) morning, which saw teams (and one car) struggle to get started. But when the sun came out, the guns came out, and there was some serious jockeying on the leaderboard.

When the final scores were tallied, the Hannah/Sterck team managed to limp over the line and squeak out an Inaugural SGA Autumn Classic victory in the Pairs comp with 85 total points, on a Countback from the fast-finishing team of Kathy Ridley and Mick David. 3rd went to Drew Hallam and Al Clelland, one shot back on 84. In 4th were Phoebe Burfield and Salli Fox (83), with four teams tied for 5th on 81.

In the Singles Overall competition, Salli Fox (74 points) pipped Mick David (72), with Lyn Mayne & Matthew Pitt equal 3rd on 67. Rounding out the top-5 were Al Clelland and Tony Grant, both on 66.

Thanks

A warm thank you to all of our players for joining us for a great weekend - you are the reason why our events are so fun and successful. Thanks, too, to the entire staff at Murray Downs Resort and the Golf Club for hosting us at your spectacular facility. Finally, a special thanks to our sponsors, Srixon Australia & New Zealand, Garmin Australia, Drummond Golf, Heathcote Winery and TCN for their generous prizes.

2023 SGA Autumn Classic - Photo Galleries

Friday - Warm-up Day

Saturday - R1

Sunday - R2

Final Scores - Inaugural SGA Autumn Classic

Pairs Best Ball

Pos.	Team	Total Stableford Points	R1	R2
T1	Hannah + Sterck	85	50	35
T1	Ridley + David	85	41	44
3	Hallam + Clelland	84	44	40
4	Burfield + Fox	83	42	41
T5	Whitehouse + Eland	81	41	40
T5	Fellner + Thomas	81	39	42
T5	Pitt + Matthews	81	43	38
T5	Wallace + Payne	81	41	40
9	Grant + Somerfield	80	40	40
T10	Mayne + Stephenson	78	38	40
T10	Garioch + Garioch	78	38	40
12	Lawson + Lawson	77	41	36
T13	Grant + Grant	75	41	34
T13	Connell + Doran	75	37	38
T13	Williams + Tuau	75	37	38
T13	Fernandez + Scott	75	37	38
T17	Pearce + Pettit	74	44	30
T17	White + Jones	74	42	32
T17	Deacon + Deacon	74	40	34
T20	Bament + Burford	73	37	36
T20	Henderson + Hall	73	39	34
T22	Caio + Bird	70	33	37
T22	Steer + Calverley	70	35	35
24	Strobel + Murphy	68	37	31

Singles Stableford

Pos.	Player	Total Stableford Points	R1	R2
1	Salli Fox	74	37	37
2	Mick David	72	36	36
T3	Lyn Mayne	67	34	33
T3	Matthew Pitt	67	40	27
T5	Al Clelland	66	32	34
T5	Tony Grant	66	36	30
T7	Geoff Hannah	65	41	24
T7	Andrew Wallace	65	34	31
T7	Mike Payne	65	32	33
T7	Baiden Eland	65	33	32
11	Ben Sterck	64	38	26
T12	Joel Matthews	63	32	31
T12	Steve Pettit	63	38	25
T14	Matty Thomas	62	30	32
T14	Ian Steer	62	32	30
T14	Andrew Grant	62	35	27
T14	Mostyn Whitehouse	62	33	29
T18	Jodene Tuau	61	31	30
T18	Lisa Garioch	61	28	33
T18	Robert Garioch	61	29	32
T18	Dennis Williams	61	30	31
T18	Mark Deacon	61	33	28
T23	Richard Fellner	60	33	27
T23	Chris Lawson	60	30	30
T23	Kathy Ridley	60	29	31
26	Drew Hallam	59	33	26
T27	Reece Bament	58	31	27
T27	Jodie Deacon	58	34	24
T29	Paul White	57	29	28
T29	Dean Connell	57	35	22
T29	Lorenzo Caio	57	28	29
T32	Steve Murphy	53	28	25
T32	Christopher Fernandez	53	24	29
T32	Paul Pearce	53	34	19
T35	Ivan Jones	52	32	20
T35	Mark Henderson	52	29	23
T37	Peter Lawson	51	28	23
T37	Gavan Doran	51	19	32
T37	Chris Hall	51	25	26
T37	Matthew Somerfield	51	24	27
41	Jenny Stephenson	50	24	26
T42	Yvonne Grant	48	30	18
T42	Phoebe Burfield	48	23	25
T42	Luke Scott	48	26	22
T45	Carson Strobel	41	25	16
T45	Peter Calverley	41	19	22
47	Greg Bird	39	19	20
48	Robert Burford	37	20	17

(Full leaderboards via Golf Genius here)