The Mount Gambier Golf Club’s Thursday Stableford competition saw a large field of 113 enter with visiting players from Kooyonga GC (Adelaide) and Yering Meadows (Yarra Valley).


With such a large field, the pressure was on to have an excellent score to be in contention for the chance to win – and excellent scores were certainly achieved with four golfers scoring 40 or more points.


Dave Evans (22) ended at the top of the leader board with 46 points.


Evans had 22 points to his credit at the halfway point with four pars, four bogies and a solitary double bogey on the par five seventh hole.


But Evans did not rest on his laurels there, carding another 24 points on the back nine with three pars, three bogeys, two double bogeys and the highlight of his round a birdie on the last.


Evans was runner-up last week with 41 points, so his handicap should certainly a take a hit soon.


One point back on 45 points was Pat Dempsey (11).


Dempsey defied his 11 handicap by shooting a one under the card 35 off the stick to have 24 points up after his front nine.


This consisted of six pars, two birdies, on the first and the sixth holes, and a bogey on the par three eighth hole.


The 10th saw Dempsey score another birdie, followed by a par on the 11th.


A hiccup on the 13th resulted in a triple bogey, before three more pars, a bogey and another birdie on the 16th had Dempsey shoot a two over 74 off the stick for his 45 points.


John Miles (16) shot splits of 21 and 20 to finish with 41 points, followed closely by Mathew Knowles (5) who ended on 40 points.


Knowles hit a hot streak to fire four birdies on successive holes – 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th.


This was followed by three pars on the final holes to have him score a three under the card 33 off the stick and 20 points for the back nine.


With the high scoring, players required 35 points or better on to earn one of the remaining 35 balls.


Pro Shot winners were Peter Ballard (24) on the eighth and Graeme Armstrong (17) on the 16th, each picking up five balls plus the extra birdie ball for rolling in their putts.