Tasmania Golf Club has won the Claremont Shield by fifteen strokes from Launceston. The Southern Metropolitan Golf Association placed third a further four strokes adrift.
2017 CLAREMONT SHIELD – TOP FIVE
Pos Vs Par Total Club
1 -6 484 Tasmania
2 +9 499 Launceston
3 +13 503 SMGA
4 +14 504 Kingston Beach
5 +19 509 Claremont
Tasmania Golf Club’s Paul Read has won the individual section of the championship. Read carded 67 and 66 for a seven-under-par total of 133. Launceston’s Mitch Van Noord was runner-up and the Southern Metropolitan Golf Association’s Josh Spaulding placed third.
Pos Vs Par Total Name Club 1st Rnd 2nd Rnd
1 -7 133 Paul Read Tasmania 67 66
2 -3 137 Mitch Van Noord Launceston 64 73
3 -1 139 Josh Spaulding SMGA 68 71
T4 EV 140 Matthew Glover Kingston Beach 71 69
EV 140 Richard Kube SMGA 71 69
EV 140 Mark Schulze Tasmania 69 71
Host club Claremont picked up the Eric Bourke Memorial Shield, five and a half strokes clear of Burnie Golf Club in second.
2017 ERIC BOURKE MEMORIAL TROPHY – TOP FIVE
Pos Vs Par Total Club
1 -6.5 483.5 Claremont
2 -1.0 489 Burnie
3 +2.0 492 SMGA
4 +5.5 495.5 Riverside
T5 +6.5 496.5 Kingston Beach
+6.5 496.5 Penguin
Further final results can also be downloaded from the Golf Tasmania website http://www.golf.org.au/eventdisplay/claremont-shield/10871