Ambrose 4 Ball

Variety is the spice of life, so the saying goes! And for 25 SOS Members and 3 guests, a game of 4 Ball Ambrose on the Tuart Course certainly provided some excitement!

Weather wise, it was a magnificent day for golfing with the temperature in the mid 20's, lots of cloud cover and a bit of a breeze to factor into the calculations!

Guests included Paul & Kerry Gardner and Phil Weary.

Barry (aka Boris), Derek & Gerry ready to roll!

Gary, Mark & Nuria at the No.1 tee

Lynne takes a selfie with Colin, Lynley & Greg
Group 2 looking like winners?

Why do balls do this to you?
Greg 'treed' on hole 2 last week ?! 

Group 4 lining up for their 2nd shot !
This is as close as anyone in the group got on the 18th!!

Hitting Up?

While team 3 was putting out on the 17th green a ball came whistling over the trees and landed on the front of the green, coming to rest about 10 metres from the pin! Whoooaaahh! Where did that come from team 3 chorused, as they jumped to avoid being hit?    Turns out that Paul Gardner has not lost his touch and apologised profusely to each of team 3's members while they were teeing up on the 18th!!

Post Competition Meeting

In the absence of President Brett Fordham, The SOS Club Captain, Gerry Tessier, took the floor and welcomed members and guests.

Gerry advised that birthday wishes can be sent to Greg Dunkeld for 23 November and Gim Ong on 2 December.

Also, a big thank you to Greg Bennett who, today, has provided each member with a copy of the 'Season Results for 2022'.  The results sheets contain an extraordinary range of information which Greg collects each week from players cards, then collates the data to determine the winners of the Championship trophies which are awarded at the annual dinner.

Copies of the Season Results being read as members wait for
 the competition results to be calculated.

Frances chats with Mark while Shelley writes cheques
 to pay for the annual dinner costs!

Andrea and Vickie . .  with Gerry, waiting for all groups
 to arrive, so Gerry can calculate the scores.

Its a thumbs up for Barry and Andrea 

The Results

Gerry gets ready to speak.

As it turned out, Group 1 narrowly won the competition on 55.38 points with a miniscule 0.12 point margin over Group 5.

In third place was Group 7 some 2.25 points further behind.  

The remaining 4 teams, while competitive, lagged a total of 2.375 points further back.

On the Podium we have SOS Captain Gerry Tessier congratulating the winning team of:
Nuria Smith, Barry Treak, Stephanie Jeffares, Derek Longhurst

Last week's finalists were Glenn Kelly (1st), Lynne Malone (right of pic. - 2nd) & Gordon Gryzb (3rd)

Golden Hole

No-one got close to either the 1st GH with its $150 pot, or the 2nd GH - $40 approx.

Eagles & Birdies

It is assumed that every group scored at least several birdies. However, there were no reports of any Eagles being scored, which could only have occurred as a hole in one when playing Ambrose 4's !

Novelties

Congratulations to the winners for doing it better than the others on the day!

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
Longest putt	2	Barry, Lynley	Goochy
LD - Mens	8	Phil	Goochy
LD - Ladies	9	Nuria, Lynley	Andrea
Longest putt	11	-	Boris
NTP	18	-	Lynley

Raffle

Stephanie took charge of the raffle barrel, with assistance from Nuria and Boris, and spun the balls!

And the winner was Shelley who handed herself a Lot Six Zero gift card

Shelly in the background as Stephanie spins the barrel!

All the buttons are handed back after the last ball is drawn!

Ash Tray Collection

Kerry & Paul each accept a bag of lollies from Shelley, making up half of the team with the highest score!  Gerry and Phil, out of camera shot, also each received a bag. 

There appeared to be more than an average number of coins flowing into the collection boxes as the final week of the donations for the Diggers Honor Avenue collection was made.

Collections were boosted by Paul's spectacular hitting up on the 17th. The 17th fairway was also where Peter lost control of his buggy, which has a remote control, but it would not engage as the buggy sped down the elevated tee and headed for the trees and bushes near the 13th green! With Paul and Mark M in hot pursuit of the runaway buggy in their cart, Andrea, who was attempting to tee off at the lower tee, could only watch on!

Kerry & Paul get bags of lollies

Next Week

A stroke competition for the Anniversary Cup will be played on the Old Course commencing around 7.24 am.

Captains Corner

Always useful to brush up on the rules!

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