Par on Tuart

Eighteen SOS Members and two guests, Gemma Clarke and Andrew Crevald, assembled at the Tuart's 1st tee for a game of PAR. There were clear skies, temperature around 30° c, but much cooler at the 7.14am start.

The gusty wind was from the south east and became stronger as the game progressed!

Barry, Colin, Gerry, Paul & Earle. 

Members and guests at the 1st tee !

Fairways & Greens

Nothing was reported by players as to misadventure, poor etiquette, moments of despair etc. etc., so we have to  rely on the only two pictures taken by the blogger at the 15th green where Michael C had the misfortune to send his ball into the greenside bunker!

Fortunately, it only took Michael one stroke to escape the bunker and land on the green!

Michael swings down on his bunkered ball at the 15th green.
The ball on the bunker's lip belongs to Ian Holmes who narrowly missed the sand party!!

Michael admires his handiwork !
Next to play was Ian who managed to get close to the hole,
 while Peter sank a long putt for a birdie!!

Surely there must have been more interesting play that was not reported to the blogger??

Derek contemplates his options for escaping from the grass tree

Pictures from Manjimup Country Club

Colin Kerr has sent pictures from his holiday course at Manjimup showing some of the 'distractions' to be found on the fairways!  Could this catch on at Wembley?

Plenty of dead trees around! 

Stance is a bit wooden!

Brahman cows!

The long wait?

Post Match Meeting

SOS Captain, Gerry Tessier opened the meeting, noting the President, Brett Fordham, was not present to receive the meetings ovation for his birthday next Wednesday, 18 January!!

Gerry opens the meeting

Annual Subscription Fees

Gerry also advised members that the SOS annual subscription fee of $140 was now due and any member that has not paid by month-end will become un-financial. Payments can be made in cash directly to Treasurer, Shelley, or to the SOS ANZ bank account (not Glen's booking fee a/c).

Par 3 Golf at Lake Claremont - Thursday late afternoon 2nd February

Not too late to pay your $33 fee and join the fun! Derek circulated a choice of food on Saturday. If you have yet to advise Derek of your meal choice and/or participation in the game, please do so now!

Results

Congratulations to Mark Hill for scoring +3 to take 1st place in the PAR competition.

Peter Baird (2nd) and Ian Holmes (3rd) both were 'all square'.

Only 3 points separated the next 9 players showing how costly a lipped out putt can be!

Even PGA players get sloppy with 'gimme tap ins'! - see  https://youtu.be/k_6b4uclMpY

	Player	Handicap	Score	Eagles	Birdies
1	Mark Hill	12	+3		8, 18
2	Peter Baird	20	□		15
3	Ian Holmes	17	□
4	Nuria Smith	42	-1
5	Colin Kerr	15	-1
6	Kerry Edwards	32	-1
7	Carol Barrow	30	-2
8	Keith Barrow	10	-2
9	Glen Pope	9	-2
10	Derek Longhurst	23	-3
11	Shelley Yeo	10	-3		1, 18
12	Andrea Williams	17	-3
13	Glenn Kelly	11	-4		4
14	Paul Boquest	7	-5
15	Barry Treak	18	-6		3
16	Earle Scarff	13	-7
17	Michael Curtis	27	-7
18	Gerry Tessier	16	-7

THE PODIUM

Winner Mark Hill (CF), Ian Holmes 3rd (L), Peter Baird 2nd (R)
with Club Captain, Gerry Tessier

Eagles & Birdies

Only 7 birdies today, far cry from the 20 birdies + 1 Eagle of a few weeks ago!

Congratulations to the following:

Eagles & Birdies
	Hole	Placing
Mark Hill	8, 18	1st
Peter Baird	15	2nd
Shelly Yeo	1, 18	11
Glenn Kelly	4	13
Barry Treak	3	15

Golden Hole

The Golden Hole was placed on the 12th green today, but no-one managed to get close enough to pick up the pot!

Novelties

Five different winners and only Colin and Mark H as contenders!!

Andrea reads out the Novelty results after untangling the 'bird's nest"!

Congratulations to Barry, Shelley, Kerry, Puggy & Popey!

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
NTP	3	-	Barry
LD - Ladies	5	-	Shelley
NTP in 2	8	-	Kerry
NTP in 3	11	Colin, Mark H	Puggy
LD - Men	16	-	Popey

Ash Tray Collection

Michael Curtis accepted the honor of reading out the list of fines, although Gerry appeared with the same score, but lower on the count-back! ?

Carol points a finger at Keith!?

The collection tray's looked a little low in coins by the time the last item was read out, but perhaps most were gold in colour!?

Michael announces the fines, assisted by Earle holding the collection tray.

Raffle

Andrea spun the barrel and the fist number down the shute was held by Ian Holmes, who received a $20 gift voucher from our sponsor, Lot Six Zero.

Not just a good golf score, but winning the Raffle as well!

Captain's Choice & Next Week

The Captain's competition choice for next week is Canadian Cha Cha Cha (Australian waltz)!

Teams of 3 or 4 will be selected by Glen.

The scoring will be ONE best ball on the 1st hole (CHA), TWO best balls on the 2nd hole (CHA CHA), THREE best balls on the 3rd hole (CHA CHA CHA).

Keep the same rotation throughout, ie., one best ball on the 4th hole, two best on the 5th hole, three best on the 6th hole, and so on.

Use your regular score card and one player per team (captain of the team) will record the team score on a manual card.

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