SOS Golf: IRISH STABLEFORD

To be sure, it happens every year, and to celebrate we play Irish Stableford, which means you add up how many you score but you don't count everyone, except you do once you get to some other holes, but to begin with it's two or three but only for some of the holes, so ....oh, never mind. Gary will work it all out.

Paul gets into the swing of things Irish

Sibling rivalry today

A fairly lacklustre expression of Irishness today, possibly explained by everyone wanting to show off their new SOS shirts. I mean, just take a look at these historical pictures from the SOS archive:

Ah well - we'll all try harder next year.

And a team game for a change, with five teams participating.

Man in black

Today's the day!

But individual Stableford scores were entered as well, although no prize for today's Stableford winner.

Harsh, but fair.

Please feel free to try

We welcomed Tony for another round at SOS.

Somehow I think I know who at SOS would have said this..

Tony has applied for membership, and only needs one more round before the committee will pronounce.

Pronounce what?

According to the Guiness Book of Records, the hardest word to pronounce is Chrzqszcz.

This is, of course, the Polish for beetle.

But we digress. The exciting news today is that the Golden Hole went off.

Congratulations to Ian, who could probably do with a new set of tires on that 4WD having

circumnavigated Australia several times in the last few months.

Feeling pretty confident at this stage

Today was a team event, but there were novelties.

NOVELTY	HOLE	CONTENDERS	WINNER

NTP	2	Gim	Richard Y
NTP in 2	7		Bernie
LD	11	Gim, Barry, Earle	Paul
NTP in 2	13	Keith	Gary, Shelley
Golden Hole	16		Ian

(We should mention that someone who prefers to remain anonymous commented that it was

unfair having nearest the pin in two on the seventh because none of the girls could reach it in

two.)

Well, it's not until Tuesday anyway

And we kept a note of the individual stableford scores.

PLAYER	SCORE	BIRDIES

Barry	40	1
Tony Gooch	37	4
Shelley	36
Ian	36
Glen	35	1
Derek	35
Keith	35
Earle	34
Frances	34
Paul	34	11
Bernie	33
Gim	31
Brett	30	12,17
Gary	30	13
Richard Y	30
Stephanie	30	4
Don	29
Richard O	28
Peter	26
Greg	22

Well done, Barry. Unfortunately not enough to carry the rest of your team home.

The bookend pair

Barry and Tony certainly hitting a good stretch of form over the last few weeks. Does anyone

have an old bent putter they wouldn't mind lending.

...but not at SOS

Now for the Irish Stableford competition. The results were close, with two places determined by

countback, but only one winning team.

TEAM				SCORE

Gary	Keith	Ian	Gim	82
Don	Richard O	Greg	Glen	82
Brett	Tony	Bernie	Peter	86
Richard Y	Barry	Stephanie	Shelley	86
Frances	Paul	Derek	Earle	90