SOS Golf: August 2022

Excellent early spring weather to contest the final round of the Spring Cup. It was cool, a few minor showers, windy gusts at times, but lots of blue skies and white clouds. The galahs, cockatoos and ducks were all very active, with many ducklings trooping after their parents!

As there were only four group bookings allocated to SOS for the day, only 16 players could tee off. Several players heroically gave up their places to allow others, possibly more likely to win the Spring Cup, to participate!

On the Fairways & Greens

Tony Gooch cut a fine figure as he smashed his first ball off the black tee marker, over the tree at the dogs leg and landed in the middle of the fairway only some 160m short of the green!

On the 8th hole, Goochy, Gerry and Peter all found themselves at the top end of the left side bunker with another 120m or so to the pin! Both Goochy and Peter managed to make the green! Meanwhile, Mark S was catching up some hundreds of meters away having hooked his tee ball to the far side of the adjacent fairway!

Goochy lines up his bunker shot.

Goochy launches his ball onto the green!

President's Address

SOS President, Brett Fordham opened the meeting and apologised for the inability to accommodate all those who had wished to play today!

Brett noted that production planning for the 50th anniversary annual dinner and shirts was well underway with the final shirt designs becoming available for review in the coming weeks.

He reminded members that the match play final takes place in 2 weeks time and will be followed after the game by a BBQ and award ceremony at the Perry Lakes picnic area.

The SOS Committee is meeting this afternoon to address current issues and plans to call a general meeting of members, to coincide with the BBQ event, to address some current issues effecting the SOS Group.

Brett noted that no members had a birthday to celebrate this week!

Brett Fordham addresses the members.

The Results

Club Captain Gerry Tessier also apologised for today's booking problems. The fact is that SOS has four confirmed groups (16 players) booked each week and often seeks one or more additional groups if a large number of members wish to play. However, today the golf course was fully booked and it was not possible to accommodate more than 16 players! Gerry extended a special thanks to Kerry, Vickie and Earle for giving up their places to others.

Spring Cup - Round 2

Congratulations to Peter Baird for winning Round 2 with a net score of 70, narrowly outplaying Gerry Tessier who also scored 70 and Greg Bennett one point behind on 71 points.

However, none of these scores were good enough to win the Spring Cup!

	Player	Handicap	Score	Birdies
1	Peter Baird	21	70
2	Gerry Tessier	17	70
3	Greg Bennett	21	71
4	Lynley Hunter	11	72
5	Stephaniev Jeffares	16	72
6	Barry Treak	21	73
7	Lynne Malone	17	74	10
8	Mark Smith	22	75
9	Paul Boquest	8	77	5
10	Derek Longhurst	23	78	2
11	Shelley Yeo	14	79
12	Maureen Sundari	10	79
13	Brett Fordham	9	79
14	Tony Gooch	7	80
15	Gary Burgess	9	80	15
16	Frances Longhurst	22	81

Spring Cup Final

Barry Treak is the 2022 winner of the Spring Cup with two consistent rounds totalling 144 points!

Barry Treak
winner of the
2022 Spring Cup

	Player	Round 1	Round 2	Total
1	Barry Treak	71	73	144
2	Lynley Hunter	75	72	147
3	Lynne Malone	73	74	147
4	Gerry Tessier	77	70	147
5	Frances Longhurst	70	78	148
6	Stephanie Jeffares	76	72	148
7	Peter Baird	78	70	148
8	Mark Smith	74	75	149
9	Derek Longhurst	72	78	150
10	Brett Fordham	72	79	151
11	Greg Bennett	79	72	151
12	Shelley Yeo	73	79	152
13	Gary Burgess	73	80	153
14	Maureen Sundari	75	79	154
15	Paul Boquest	78	77	155

Round 2 Podium
3rd Greg Bennett, 1st Peter Baird & 3rd Gerry Tessier
with Barry Treak holding the Spring Cup

Eagles & Birdies

No eagles and only 4 birdies reported from today's play!

Congratulations to Derek, Lynne, Gary and Paul for showing it was possible!

Eagles & Birdies
	Hole	Placing
Derek Longhurst	2	10^th
Lynne Malone	10	7^th
Gary Burgess	15	14^th
Paul Boquest	5	9^th

Golden Hole

Yet again, no winner this week so the pot continues to accumulate!

Novelties

Congratulations to the Contenders and Winners of the novelty holes!

Maureen was in the last group and to win the longest drive, had only to keep it on the fairway, as no player before her had managed to do that!

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
NTP in 3	3	4D	Lynley
NTP in 2	6	Boris, Lynley	Greg
LD - Ladies	10	-	Maureen
LD - Men	11	Boris	Goochy
NTP in 2	13	Boris, Stephanie	Mark S

Greg won NTP in 2 on #6

Tony Gooch, SOS Vice Captain, reads out the Novelty results.

Ash Tray Collection

As Frances and Gary had 'done a runner' it was left to Goochy to call out the fines and accept the bag of lollies for the highest score!

Members dug deep to pay for their errant shots into trees and bunkers, uncouth language, etc. etc.

Shelley assisted in collecting the fines!

Tony accepted the bag of lollies for coming 3rd last!

Raffle

And the winner of last weeks raffle was Lynne Malone!

Can anyone remember who had the winning ball this week??

Stephanie mastered the raffle barrel spin and called
the numbers, including one of her own!?

Next Week

On Saturday, 3 September, the 6th round of the Club Championship competition will be played on the Old Course. There are a total of 7 rounds in the competition, with each players 5 best rounds added together to determine a final score. Results of the competition, which involve a number of different categories, are announced at the annual dinner.

Captains Corner

1. Golf Rules

The following link leads to a video covering 6 often misunderstood golf rules;

https://youtu.be/_pqzY0PNoAQ

2. The Benefits of booking your SOS game early

As the Wembley Golf Course becomes more and more popular there will be increasing pressure on the SOS Booking Officer in securing sufficient places each Saturday for members wishing to play.

SOS has 4 confirmed groups booked each week which accommodates 16 players. If more than 16 players book for a game, the SOS Booking Officer will seek additional groups. However, there is no guarantee that Wembley Golf Course will be able to provide those additional groups if the public, or other golfing clubs, have already received confirmed bookings!

Accordingly, to obtain the best possible chance of a confirmed booking, it is recommended payment of the course fee is made to the Booking officer's (Glen Pope's) bank account as soon as you decide you want to play. The deadline for advising the Booking Officer and paying the course fee is 5.00pm Wednesday.

3. Wembley Golf Course ('WGC') Colored Tee Marker System ('CTMS')

The following is a short review of the origin of the CTMS and how SOS currently applies the system to each member.

On 9 January 2022 WGC introduced the CTMS with a view to speeding up play and making the game more enjoyable.

SOS adopted the system on 9 January 2022 subject to a review at the AGM held on 20 March 2022. At the AGM it was decided to continue using the CTMS and evaluate it after another 3 months. That subsequent review, in late June 2022, considered many comments that had been received from lady members and others, discussions with WGC management, as well as benchmarking with other ladies groups playing at Wembley. Based on this input, on 3 July 2022, the SOS committee decided to modify the application of the CTMS as follows:

Female members may elect to play from the white tees unless a female member has a preference to play from the green tees, in which case they may elect to do so. Male members with a handicap of 10 or less should play from the black tees and male members with a handicap of 11 or more should play from the green tees. However, male members with a handicap of 11 or more may elect to use the black tees, but not the white tees.

As it is proposed to have a general discussion on the CTMS at the general meeting on 10 September 2022, members may find this short summary useful.

End 😀

Sunday, August 28, 2022

Spring Cup Final