Match Play, First Qualifying Round

Oh! It's match play!

Just a little warm-up before the round

Always played in the right spirit at SOS. A bit like this:

Of course, there's a bit of strategy involved.

Cleopatra's asp should be good for a couple of strokes

Eleven pairings today.

It'll be youthful enthusiasm versus old man cunning. What could go wrong?

Three qualifying rounds in total, two points for a win, one if you finish all square.

Right uppercut should do the trick

After three rounds, best eight players go through to the knockout stages of the competition.

Promises to be a close one

Sometimes it goes right down to the last hole.

My chipping versus his putting?

Current holder is Greg, who celebrated his birthday today. Happy Birthday, Greg.

I'm not letting him win just because it's his birthday

It can be a tough gig for some of those lower handicap players, who have to give a lot of strokes away.

Seventeen strokes! 

But a beautiful day on the golf course.

I'll lull him into a false sense of security, then I'll have him for breakfast..

So, the novelties.

	NOVELTY	HOLE	CONTENDERS	WINNER
	NTP	2	Greg	STEPHANIE
	NTP in 3	5	Paul, Max, Gary	BRETT
	NTP in 2	13	Paul	EARLE
	LD	15	Frances, Bernie	BRETT

Gosh, this match play is exhausting

And the results on the course.

	Greg	5/4	Frances
	Dave	5/4	Paul
	Jeanie	5/4	Peter
	Richard Y	6/4	Bernie
	Kerry	1 up	Max
	Earle	6/5	Ross
	Gary	2/1	Stephanie
	Glen	2/1	Shelley
	Derek	4/3	Brett
	Rob	6/5	Vickie
	Jack	1 up	John

Next week, it's the third round of the Club Championship, to be played on the Tuart.

We had fun, lots of fun.

The following week, it's the WA Cup, followed by a sausage sizzle, weather permitting.

I'll take anyone on, just try me.

Then the second qualifying round of the match play.

I was tempted to make this the shot for the caption competition, but thought better of it.

Just to finish, for those of you heading off to Europe for your holidays, here's some information you almost certainly won't need:

But just think how impressed they'd be! 

And you feel you'd like to know a little more about what went on here:

 See you next week.

Club Championship Round 2

Rugged up - it's four degrees out here..

Back to stroke play today - real golf.

That means you have to finish the hole, come what may. (Note to Richard).

And on election day, we finished nice and early, so no excuse for not voting.

Today's winner was Stephanie, who not only managed three birdies on the front nine, but also won the raffle.

	PLAYER	SCORE	BIRDIES
	Stephanie	67	4, 7, 9
	Don	69	4
	Max	72	6
	Dave	73
	Gary	74	4
	Ross	74
	Peter	75	15
	Greg	75
	Richard Y	77
	Glen	77
	Shelley	78
	Brett	78	7
	Derek Bernie	79 79
	Jeanie	81
	Rob	83
	John	85

When you're hot, you're hot.

Hot, hot, hot..

We wished Malcolm a Happy Birthday for Thursday.

No sign of cake.

And we had the draw for the first round of the match play.

The novelties were keenly fought over.

	NOVELTY	HOLE	CONTENDERS	WINNER
	NTP	2	Peter, Max	Stephanie
	NTP in 3	7	Shelley, Max	Brett, Stephanie
	NTP in 2	13	Peter, Gary	Brett
	LD	15	Malcolm	Rob

Except the longest drive. I assume that Rob was the only one who managed to stay on the fairway - he was still a good 150m from the green.

Next week, first qualifying round of the Match Play competition on the Old Course. Here are the pairings:

In the brackets you'll see the player's handicap the last time they played on the Old Course. This may have changed by Saturday - Kerry will have the latest handicaps available.

So, if for instance your opponent has a handicap five lower than you, you will get an extra stroke on your hardest five holes, indices 1 to 5. 

	Frances (19)	v	Greg (23)
	Paul (13)	v	Dave (27)
	Jeanie (36)	v	Peter (19)
	Richard Y (24)	v	Bernie (16)
	Max (12)	v	Kerry (22)
	Ross (27)	v	Earle (15)
	Gary (11)	v	Stephanie (17)
	Glen (9)	v	Shelley (14)
	Brett (11)	v	Derek (24)
	Rob (25)	v	Vickie (26)
	John (12)	v	??

John's a spare at the moment - he'll play for anyone who drops out, or play with any late additions.

Unfortunately, I'm not available...

The next round of the Club Championship is on June 1st. This time it'll be played on the Tuart course.

No coaching, and remember to check the number of clubs in your bag. Fourteen is the limit.

Ever wondered just how hard you can get away with hitting the ball? These guys had fun finding out.