The Gibson team of Sunday 23 August versus Castle Cove at Castle Cove

On a cool spritely morning the Gibson Team amassed to storm the castle.

With expectations of the final series on the horizon, the team lined up on the elevated first tee.

The weight of expectations and leadership weighed heavily on Cpt. Tim ‘Clutch’ Hodder. He popped the clutch and snapped his first tee off out of bounds. The pressure fell to Brett ‘BB’Davies, he tees off straight down the left hand side of the fairway. Alas they were off.

The lead ebbed back and forth, with the match being square for consecutive holes. But against a determined and formidable opponent, Clutch and Brett eventually striding out, winning four and three

The partnership of Wayne ‘ChipIn’ Montgomery and Stephen Charles began laying the ground work for a quick day at the office. With ‘ChipIn’ being one under off the stick after two holes. Living up to his reputation on the second hole, chips in from off the green. The lead also went back and forth, with ‘The Stephen Charles’ going on a four one putt streak to square holes. They to vanquished their opponents 2/1.

Cambell Ring and Nick “Terets”Aravantinos had an easier time of it finishing off their humbled opponents 5/4. We found that Nick was to generous with conceding opponents putts. His opponents never voluntarily conceding one. He had his ”pickup” privileges officially revoked. That decision now lays squarely with Cambell “8iron"

Cumberland razed the Castle winning 3 nil.

Castle Cove are wonderful and generous host, who prepared a challenging course and fast greens.

A big thank you to the Warren Team and their overlord Gary Stephens who stayed behind and supported the boys coming home, while cold beer awaited them.

Now on to the Final Series with a first up game against Bexley in 3 weeks time.

Thanks for the support from those there and who text and send messages.

Brett Porter
Team Manager

Warren Pennant – 23th August 2026

Cumberland’s Warren squad travelled north to take on Castle Cove in the final home and away game of the year, with Castle Cove looking to reverse the 3 nil loss the week previously at Cumberland.

Our team were looking to finish off the season strong with another clean sweep on a short 9 hole 18 tee course with extremely small & fast greens being the defense of this layout.

Our 1st pairing out at 3 was Keith Barton & Aaron Lewis who got off to a steady start trading holes early before turning 2up, now with the knowledge of the course went around again securing a 3up lead early into the back 9 which started to be chipped away by the locals through 14.

They teed off the 17th dormy 2up, with the Castle Cove pairing hoping to sneak a half point & took the boys to the 18th, fortunately for us the bogey was enough to achieve a 1up win.

Our 2nd pairing of Davin Peters & David Harvey had an impressive start to their match with par golf through the first few holes to find themselves 3up after 5 and continued the good golf to turn 5up with Castle Cove pairing struggling on their own course.

With Castle Cove unable to hold the guys off on the back 9 Cumberland secured the early finish with a 6/5 victory.

Our 1st pairing of Michael Holovinsky & Glenn Gibson found themselves in a tougher match with the locals playing some solid golf early with our boys struggling to adapt to the course finding themselves a couple down early before pinching one back on the 9th to turn 1 down.

After the turn and now familiar with the layout Cumberland took the match back to square on the 10th and were never threatened from here closing the match out quickly with a 5/3 win resulting in an overall 3-0 win for Cumberland.

With the result of the other match in our section not going the way we needed this unfortunately resulted in us not progressing to the finals but has us holding our heads high finishing 2nd in the section with 3 wins, 1 draw & 2 losses.

The team would like to pass on their thanks & appreciation to the Board, Management & staff along with Harmony restaurant for the support throughout the season, feedback from all visiting clubs complimenting how well Cumberland host from the facilities to hospitality we cover it all.

Thanks also to all the caddies & supporters that assisted throughout the year, your support was very much appreciated.

Special mention & congrats to Brett Porter & our Gibson team who secured their section along with being seeded high enough to earn the week off before taking on Bexley in the quarters, well done on a great year & best of luck in the finals, keep up the great golf.

Gary Stephens

Manager