Wal “You Know I’ve Won This” Welsh waits for the winner of Saturday’s Cooktown Golf Club showdown to be announced. Photo: Supplied.
After behaving herself for the club’s premier event the weekend before, Cooktown’s golf course bared her teeth on 6 July as players struggled with wind gusts of around 65 kilometres per hour as they challenged for the Sovereign Resort July Medal.
In a brutal affair, Steve Butler found the going to his liking for the first nine holes with a two over par off the stick, but stumbled on the back nine like a drunken ballerina to open the door for Wal Welsh, who smelt the blood in the water and went to work on carding a personal best one over par 33 for the same nine holes.
Welsh caught the field with its pants down to claim the medal by three shots with a nett 63, with Butler (nett 66) securing runner-up honours a mile from the rest of the field.
Nearest to the pin glory went to Daniel on 2/11, Darren on 14, and new member Ryan on 9/18.
A Cooktown contingent will head to Mossman next weekend for the club’s 2024 Open, while those remaining on eastern Cape York will tee off in a white tee Stableford.
