Hills Golf Academy in Jimboomba, Queensland | Sports & recreation venue

Hills Golf Academy

Locality: Jimboomba, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5546 0667

Address: 1 Johanna St 4280 Jimboomba, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.hills.qld.edu.au

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25.01.2022 I brought my puppy Dasha out to the Academy to keep a close eye on her because she had a tick removed from her eye. She befriended all the students that day. I realised that many of our international students have their own pets back home and miss them dearly. When they would come in after their rounds on Wednesday, many students would sit beside Dasha and give her some rubs and pats. I realised that it was good therapy for the students to engage in such an activity with a pet because they have been somewhat isolated here in Australia and can't get back home to visit their loved ones and pets. So now, Dasha has become a regular visitor on a Wednesday. She has become the Golf Academy mascot.

19.01.2022 Mirabel Ting shot a third round of 73 to be tied 2nd at the Keperra Bowl. She is 4 shots behind Minji Kweon who had an awesome score of 65 (-7). Minji has a total of 211 (-5). Mirabel is on 215 and tied with Hye Park. Final round is played tomorrow.

18.01.2022 It has been a landmark day for 4 students who are graduating from Hills College and Golf Academy next week. All 4 have signed their intent to represent US Colleges on Sporting Scholarships (Golf) for next year. Jamie Hsieh (University of Washington, Wash), Franklin Lydra (Washington State University, Wash), Zubair Firdaus (San Jose University, Cal) and Jaskaran Sohal (Indian Hills, Iowa) were proud to be part of the official signing ceremony at Hills today. Mr Kevin Lynch (Pr...incipal of Hills College), Ken Berndt (High Performance Coach of Hills Golf Academy), Kurt Tippett (AFL football star), Paul Sohal (Jas's Dad) and Tom Berndt (Director of Golf of Hills Golf Academy) witnessed their tremendous achievement. The Golf Academy has consistently had graduating students gain US College scholarships but in this Pandemic year, it has been amazing to have 4 such quality players fulfill their dreams of playing College golf. See more

18.01.2022 Mirabel Ting leads the Keperra Bowl at the halfway mark with a score of 142 (73,69) -2 to be 1 shot ahead of Queensland Amateur Champion, Lion Higo. A further 3 shots back on 146 are Haruhi Nakatani, Charlie Jacobs (South Australia) and Minji Kweon. Round 3 continues tomorrow. Good luck Mirabel.

15.01.2022 Our Special Development golf group were privileged to have Titleist Guru, Matt Dowling, ran a workshop on understanding the difference in golf balls and how they react. The students were using wedges to observe the ball flight and spin rate on the different golf ball (Pro V1 and Pro V1 X). Matt also gave the students some insights in the history of Titleist and the R&D that goes into creating a high quality product. The Academy wish to thank Matt and the Titleist team for their continued support of our Program.

13.01.2022 Vicious storm yesterday forced our Wednesday competition to be abandoned. Students got in just before the hail came. It bucketed down and water came into the Golf Academy even though we had all the roller doors closed. Proud of the students who saw early lightning and came off the course. Another part of the learning curve is to be aware of the dangers such a storm cell can bring. Well done everyone.

13.01.2022 In the Single v Par event today, Brad Hsu had a gross score of 73 for a +7 total to win the event from Alan Ho and Aaron Chou who had a score of +5. Faye Ye, Yoyo Huang and Steven Chen were on the next rung at +3. Guoxin Chen had the low gross round of 67 with Yoyo Susanto also breaking 70 with a score of 69. Well done to all those students who competed so well today.

13.01.2022 It was the last Wednesday competition for our year 12's who will finish school at Hills next week. It has been an absolute pleasure working with these wonderful golfers. The Golf Academy is amazed at their resilience in this challenging year of Covid. They truly have inspired many of the other students at the Academy and have been the glue that have held the cohort of students together. Thanks for the memories and all the best in the next steps for all of you.

11.01.2022 Some good scoring in today's competition with Aaron Chou coming out on top with 43 points. Aaron has been playing well lately and his handicap is coming down rapidly. On her last competition at Hills, Jamie Hsieh (67) was on the second rung with Steven Chen with 40 points. Ashton Gurung was alone in next place with 39 pts with Guoxin Chen and Harrison Gomez next with 38. Guoxin continues to play consitently well posting an 8 under gross score of 64 today. Others to break 70 were Jamie Hsieh(67) and Yuki Kubota (69). Scores of 71 were returned by Zubair Firdaus, Franklin Lydra and Harrison Gomez. Congratulations to all those mentioned above and farewell to our year 12's.

11.01.2022 Yuki Kubota had plenty to smile about today as he shot an 11 under 61 on the Red tee Challenge. His 43 points edged out Faye Ye who came in with 41 pts. Wayen Hsiao and Rishi Iyer were tied 3rd on 39 pts with rishi posting 8 birdies in his round of 70. Ton Jiadnongyung and Yo Yo Huang were next on 38

10.01.2022 Although the greens had been renovated, the scoring was still very good today in the Wednesday competition. Genta Sasaki won the event with 41 stableford points. He edged out Justin Gu, Faye Ye and Ton Jiadnongyung on 40 pts with another trio of Ella Murray-Williams, Ashton Gurung and Brad Hsu all on 39 pts. Justin Gu had the low round of the day with a 2 under 70. Well done to all those mentioned above.

08.01.2022 Rugthai (Bright) Thongsom has shot a round of 66 which has officially earned him his Oklahoma State University golf bag. OSU have deemed this a criteria for him to be presented with his bag. Bright is in the OSU locker room where OSU alumni like Matt Wolf and Viktor Hovland display their earned gold bags. Well done Bright.

07.01.2022 First week back in Term 4 and Stanley Lin has produced his personal best score of 72 for a massive 44 stableford points. His round was very consistent with 2 birdies and 2 bogeys. New student, Aaron Chou, fired a fine round of 76 for 42 pts to be outright 2nd. Justin Gu also had a fine day with a gross score of 69 for 41 pts to be in 3rd place. Other notable scores were from Mirabel Ting 68 (36pts), Harrison Gomez 69 (39 pts), Guoxin Chen 69 (32 pts), Yuki Kubota 70 (37 pts0 and Yoyo Susanto 70 (36 pts). Great scoring today on a beautiful afternoon for golf.

07.01.2022 Mirabel shot a final round of 71 to finish 4th with a total of 286 (-2). Justice Bosio (283)shot 5 under today to win by 1 shot over Hye Park and Minji Kweon (284) who both bogeyed the tough 18th.

03.01.2022 Final round of the Keperra Bowl is under way. Hye Park, Mirabel Ting and leader, Minji Keeon are in the last group.

02.01.2022 A wonderful celebration last night at our Golf Academy awards dinner. All the students dressed up beautifully and we all enjoyed a 3 course dinner provided by our chef, Michael Francis and his staff. The highlights of the evening were the celebration of the Class of 2020 graduation, acknowledging all our College Championship winners, interview with 2019 graduate, Bright Thongsom who is now playing for Oklahoma State and the farewell speech from Dunks, who is finishing with the Academy after 28 years service.