SOS Golf: July 2018

Saturday, July 28, 2018

WINTER CUP, ROUND 1

Winter Cup, Round 1. A testing stroke competition, but the weather was much kinder than last week.

Good to see the stress of moving house isn't getting to the Scarffs.

We put away all that wet weather gear, left the umbrella in the car, and in a few cases, managed to play pretty terribly.

But that's golf. If it was an easy game, there'd be no point in playing.

We know just how he feels

Now here are a couple of pix from the archives. Remember this bloke?

And this glorious day, back in 2015?

Gary's starting to collect names for the country cup on September 30th, to get a rough idea of numbers.

An app we could all use from time to time

Nearer the time, you'll be selecting your lunch. To start you thinking, the menu is published below.

Bet you're feeling hungry now?

Here are a couple of suggestions for the new SOS uniform starting in 2019.

Not really. It's just eye candy. But then again..?

The Golden Hole failed to go off today, much to John's disappointment. He'd been visualising the perfect shot all week, only to fluff it fifty metres off the tee.

Never mind - there'll be another opportunity in a fortnight's time, with the jackpot now well over $200.

It's glamour, glamour, glamour all the way at SOS

Apparently there have been complaints that there haven't been enough pictures of grumpy old men in the blog.

Easily fixed.

So, the novelties:

NOVELTY	HOLE	CONTENDERS	WINNER
NTP	2	Lynne	Stephanie
NTP in 2	6	Ross, Peter	Jan
NTP in 3	10		Brett
LD	15	Rob, Thomas, Shelley	Paul

A reminder for next time we're playing par (and I'll remind you then, too) - if you want your score on the hole to qualify for the eclectic, make sure you enter the number of strokes, not just +, - or 0. It's unreasonable to ask Lynne and Vickie to recalculate your score by going back to your handicap for every hole.

There are a whole host of new rules coming in on Jan 1, most of which are eminently sensible. A couple that are worth bearing in mind - a dropped ball is now to be dropped from knee height, not shoulder height, and there will be no penalty for a double hit.

Max showing the style that the rest of us aspire to

By the way, next time you're in Drummonds, why not pick up a pack of these?

Camo balls - Never been seen before - and never will again.

So - the all important first round scores:

PLAYER	SCORE	BIRDIES

Ross	89
Jack	87
Derek	85
Peter	84
Stan	83
Bernie	83
Thomas	82
Earle	81
Dave	81
Frances	79
Stephanie	78
Glen	78	16
Gary	78
Shelley	78
Gim	77
Jan	77
Richard Y	76
Rob	76	13
Greg	76
Vickie	75
Max	75
Ian	73
John	73
Brett	71	10
Lynne	70
Paul	67

A cracker of a round there from Paul, who actually managed to par the second nine.

Thanks for your sponsorship, Malcolm

And we now have a result from the third quarter final of the Match Play - Paul prevailed against Peter.

Next week, the second round of the Winter Cup, and (probably) a sausage sizzle after the game - weather permitting.

See you all then.

Saturday, July 21, 2018

Match Play Quarter Finals, and 4BBB

So, after a week of the weather bureau promising us deluge and flood for Saturday, what did we get?

That's right, deluge and flood.

We couldn't say we weren't forewarned, so what did we do? Did we tough it out, like true sportsmen and women?

Did we ever. Apart from the dogged first group, who played on for eighteen holes blissfully unaware that they were the only people left on the whole course. (Except for the very soggy foursome from the Stirling Club in front of us, who were also playing for sheep stations).

Jan prepares to pitch over the river to the pin from five feet on the tenth green.

(She nearly holed it, too)
So, not a great deal to report. Most players seemed to have abandoned play somewhere around the last couple of holes on the first nine, with the second group of quarter finalists completing ten holes before deciding to resume their contest sometime later in the week.

Great weather for ducks.

The novelties that made it before the day was abandoned were just the nearest the pin in two on the third, where Kerry managed to pip Paul for the honour..

First, I'll lull him into a false sense of security..

..and the Golden Hole, which was carried off by Richard, for the princely sum of $21.

In the only quarter finals to be completed, Jan beat Derek 3 and 2, and Steph beat Richard on the sudden death 17th, after they finished all square after eighteen holes, with Steph sinking a putt from off the green to par the hole and win the round.

We're not going to take any notice of that weather forecast nonsense..

In the other quarter finals, Greg is 1 up against Brett and Paul is 5 up against Peter - these two games are suspended due to the rain, and will resume from the 11th hole.

And for a bit of fun, go back and take a look at the blog for this event two years ago.

http://sosgolf.blogspot.com/2016/07/matchplay-qf-and-4bbb-par.html

As most players had quite reasonably drifted off home long before the end of play, there was no raffle, and I'm assured there were also no hot chips. However, we mustn't fail to mention the birthdays this week, as there are three to celebrate - Stan, Richard Osborne, and Derek.

So, what do you reckon? Seven iron then breaststroke to the pin?

Last week there was some real rain too, although it held off until the evening as we were travelling to the French-themed evening at Kerry's. A very enjoyable evening, and many thanks to all those who worked hard to make it so, including Kerry and Paul for putting up with us all, and Kerry,Vickie, Shelley, Frances, Lynne, Max, Jack and everyone else for looking after food and drink.