Ambrose Pairs

A fine Saturday, and it was Ambrose Pairs. How do we know that? Because Peter found the cards after we'd all finished playing. Don't worry, we fined him heavily.

The nice thing about Ambrose Pairs is that if your partner's done a great shot you don't have to worry, and if your partner's done a poor shot you can blame them. Kind of a win-win scenario.

And you probably didn't know this:

The Ambrose system was named by the secretary manager of the Victor Harbour Golf Club South Australia in honor of Richard and Mary Ambrose from Michigan,USA, who lived in the area in the 1960s where they had pastoral interests. It was also called the shotgun game. The Ambrose's brought the game from their home club of Spring Valley Country Club in the US where it was called a different name, most like the shotgun game. The secretary of the Victor Harbour Club named the Australian version after Richard and Mary and it caught on when it was first played in a National Ambrose Competition at the Liverpool Club in Sydney in March 1974 for a prize of $5000. One of the winners of the first event was the professional Lindsay Sharp who had a chain of golf shops which he later sold to Ray Drummond.

So there.

Where Brett's monster drive was outdriven by Bernie's even monsterer drive on the 12th.

We were all a bit hot and weary by the time we'd finished, but that didn't stop us having an excellent raffle, which was won by the grandad-to-be-again-very-soon Richard Osborne.

Meanwhile his little sister had another great round, completing her return from broken ankle, so no more excuses about "just try to hit a few balls to see if I can". She can, and she's hitting them better than most of the rest of us.

We had a bit of a shout out for Greg Bennett - we're missing you Greg, so get back here again as soon as you can manage it.

Guess who won the raffle

So, here are the novelties:

2nd	NTP	Stan
6th	NTP	Richard Yeo
17th	LD Ladies	Frances
17th	LD Men	Don
Golden Hole	Not won

Glen "Mr Cool Shades" Pope will be back with us as soon as his eyes are better

I borrowed my husband's driver,
and hit the Longest Drive for the ladies

And we didn't bother picking up the Golden Hole this week as there wasn't much on it. So - the final scores:

Peter	Richard Osb	71.25
Derek	Bernie	70.25
Gim	Keith	70
Graeme	Roland	69
Tom	Ciaran	67.5
Colin	Don	67.5
Rob	Richard Yeo	67.5
Stan	Charmaine	67
Brett	Frances	66.75
Gary	Carol	66.5
Gordon	Phil McKeague	64

And the winners!! Just love the paper, daddy.