New Course Records coming up at the 2024 Sanwell Cottesloe Open?
With: Phil Ryan
Round 1 Draw Sanwell Cottesloe Open Saturday 11 April CLICK HERE
The 2024 Sanwell Cottesloe Open on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 May will see the opportunity and likelihood for new current course records being established for both our Men and Women.
As detailed at bottom of the post, Cottesloe Golf Club and our historians have utilised the policy of recognising a new ‘current course record’ for significant rounds after major course changes implemented.
As detailed below the completion of our Graham Marsh Masterplan over the summer of 2023-2024 and launch of the new completed course layout in April 2024 brings that opportunity.
As the lists of recent new current course records and hot scores shows, the Cottesloe Open with a gathering of talented Professionals and Amateurs, has been a source of hot scoring for our men and will will be again. We are delighted that our two women entrants, the talented Jess Whitting and Kathryn Norris will also get the chance to establish a new current Women’s course record on a course they have excelled at before.
We look at our Course Record histories following:
Men: Current record 70 Jack Stanton
Current Course record for our men is 70 by Cottesloe member Jack Stanton, set 13 April 2024 at our first stroke round on the completed layout that opened in April. The previous record stood at 64, shot by Professional Brady Watt on 15 May 2022 at the Sanwell Cottesloe Open.
Jack can light up the course when on song. Back on 13 Feb 2022, playing from 10th in a Sunday Morning competition he managed to shoot 8-under in six successive holes 14th-1st, in a round of 65 that included four bogeys!
The Cottesloe Open is often the source of course records. Brady Watt’s 64 in 2022 was a memorable one. As pictured below he had a chance for 63 on 18 and lipped out, that left him tied with Braden Becker who then holed from 30 feet on 18 for birdie to win the sudden death playoff.
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- Jack Stanton current course record holder
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- Jack Stanton official current record 70
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- Jack’s fun hot round back on 13 Feb 2022 – playing from 10 was 8-under in one six hole burst!
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- Brady Watt setting the previous 64 record in 2022, lipping out for 63.
Our belated congratulations to Jack Stanton for his round and best wishes to him as he joins his six fellow Cottesloe members Michael Hanrahan Smith, Edmund Hall, Tom Bilston-John, Grant Lewis,Jack Patterson and Charlie Parker in the 2024 event. 42 talented male amateurs are playing, all seeking a forward showing and the Kelly Rogers Medal is awarded to the leading amateur.
There were a stunning 25 rounds under 70 at the 2023 Sanwell Cottesloe Open. With our great field, this year including our great champion Curtis Luck playing his first Cottesloe Open since 2015, more hot scoring is assured.
Curtis will be out in the marquee group of himself, Haydn Barron and Jason Scrivener round one Saturday 10 May, 8am from the 1st Tee. That talented grouping should have the spectators out. Round 1 draw for the Cottesloe Open 2024 can be seen here: Round 1 draw 2024 Sanwell Cottesloe Open
The table below from 2008 also records some very memorable ‘Hot Rounds’ that were not eligible for a ‘course records’ under our method used – At Cottesloe Golf Club we have followed the broad policy of only utilising stroke competitions played with no preferred lies and playing from the full course, along with also creating a new ‘official current course record’ after major course changes implemented.
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- March 2017 – Great mates Curtis Luck and Haydn Barron pictured airing their man buns in March 2017
Women: Current Course Record: 70 Ruby Cotton
Our Cottesloe Junior Open Girls champions have provided the last three updated records with Mt Lawley’s Ruby Cotton setting the current course record with 70 on 13 August 2023. In the 2024 Sanwell Cottesloe Open our two women Professionals Jess Whitting and Kathryn Norris will be out to set a new mark, playing from the full red tee course. Kathryn is on the list of past record holders below with her 69 gross when medallist at the 2016 WA Amateur played at Cottesloe and Jess Whitting was the 2016 WA Amateur Champion at Match play in the same championship – so both know their way around Cottesloe!
Originally hailing from Mandurah Country Club, Jess Whitting had been honing her craft on the college golf scene over the last few years at Rogers State University and the University of South Florida.
Turning professional in 2022, her career highlight to date came just weeks into the new year, where a hole-in-one at the Webex Players Series Murray River earned her a $93,000 BMW i4 eDrive35, one seriously life-changing shot. A recent post follows by GolfWA, detailing a 66 by Jess at the Australian Women’s Classic at Bonville, where further play was abandoned due to deluges and Jess was one of 4 unofficial winners with 6-under 66. GolfWA Report here
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- Ruby Cotton on the way to course record 70 at 2023 Cottesloe Junior Open
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- 2023 Cottesloe Junior Open champions Ruby Cotton and Ollie Marsh
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- Amanda Gan 2022 record setter at Cottesloe Junior Open with Boys Champion Josiah Edwards
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- Sheridan Clancy record setter at the 2021 Cottesloe Junior Open with Boys Champion Josia Gilbert
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- 2016: Kathryn Norris a record 69 when medallist at the WA Amateur Championship
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- Jess Whitting in April at Australian Women’s Classic in Bonville
When is a score a ‘Course Record’ and when does it change?
Our Centenary Club History p.580 noted as follows:
The R&A delegates any decision on whether a score is recognised as a course record to the committee of the club in question. However, their guidance on the matter reads:
The term ‘course record’ is not defined in the Rules of Golf. However, it is generally accepted that a record score should be recognised as the official ‘course record’ only if made in an individual stroke-play competition (excluding bogey, par or stableford competitions) with the holes and tee-markers in their proper medal or championship positions. It is recommended that a record score should not be recognised as the official ‘course record’ if a local rule permitting preferred lies is in operation.
At Cottesloe Golf Club we have followed the broad policy of only utilising stroke competitions played with no preferred lies and playing from the full course, along with creating a new ‘official current course record’ after major course changes implemented.
The final completion of the Graham Marsh Masterplan over the summer of 2023/2024 included greens on 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 redone and reshaped with 777 Bent and significant new or amended bunkers on holes 3, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. The full amended course opened for members in early April 2024 and the 2024 Sanwell Cottesloe Open sees the opportunity for the creation of new current course records for both Men and Women.