Peter Moore and Eddy Tiemens took top billing in a reduced Dawnbusters field on 20 July. Photo: Supplied.
With four regulars in Mossman vying for Open glory, it was always going to be a small field that greeted the rising sun at Carpentaria Golf Club on 20 July.
Eight players and one non-combatant – being Grant Crossley, who told Cape York Weekly he was “still nursing a dramatic and horrific knee injury” – teed off on the front nine in the weekly instalment of Dawnbusters, with Peter Moore returning to the clubhouse as the best of the reduced bunch.
Moore (46/24) took the chocolates from runner-up Eddy Tiemens (55/25), but he will be teeing off with a handicap 12 strokes lighter the next time he dons his Dawnbusters cap for his efforts.
Scott Triffitt had the best gross round of the day with a 44 off the stick.
In an either impressive or greedy display, Moore also bagged the men’s long drive on hole one, with Beth Dall taking women’s honours and the Hoffman’s gong for the day.
Jon “Rhinestone Cowboy” Dall returned to his (extremely rare) scintillating best form to claim the nearest to the pin prize on the ninth hole, with his tee shot followed by a successful birdie putt.
Players will take on the back nine on 27 July, with new golfers welcome to join the fun from about 6:45am.
