PRESIDENT'S TROPHY

President’s Trophy on the Tuart course.

The day the President chooses the format.

And what does he choose? 

No surprise there - Canadian Foursomes!

Some old bums about to play golf

Twenty players turned up to play, on a day that was somewhat overcast.

Warm when the sun broke through the cloud.

And a couple of brief moments of fine drizzle right at the beginning, and another towards the end.

So, all in all,  a pleasant day for golf, and a lot of fun besides.

Apologies were banned (just as well!), although a steep fine of $1 was introduced for losing your partner’s ball.

Lost control of my equipment!

Handicaps were calculated as a fraction of the aggregate of both players’ handicaps, with the scores for each hole calculated by the Stableford method. A minimum of six drives needed by each player.

Novelties

The first Golden Hole on the third hole remained unclaimed.

Nearest in one on the 6^th went to Mark Wilson

Andrea picked up the ladies’ longest drive on the 9^th

The second Golden Hole on the 12^th went to Colin, with a great shot on the Par 3

The men’s longest drive on the 15^th had Dave Millar in contention, before Coops did better

And Mark Wilson was in good shape for nearest on the 18^th, before Boris got even closer.

We welcomed Gerry back after an extended lay-off.

He mentioned that his choice of format for today’s game hadn’t been universally popular. We remind him of this:

(And by the way - soon we'll be looking for people to stand for the various committee spots at the next AGM)

Canadian Foursomes is a pairs game, so no individual prizes.

	Players	Score	Birdies
	Gim & Faye	18
	Dave W & Mark W	32	12
	Steph & Jo Ann	32
	Colin & Greg	32
	Earle & Peter	33
	Derek & Gardy	34
	Coops & Gerry	35
	Roland & Wayne	37	10
	Andrea & Boris	37
	Dave M & Karl	42	1, 14, 16

 

Not much doubt about the winners there, Dave and Karl five points clear at the top of the leaderboard, well done those two.

The podium

Many thanks to Gerry for providing generous prizes for the winners. 

No - not the chips

And consolations to Gardy, who had tickets for the third day of the Ashes Test but will now have a quiet Sunday instead.

Those of us who remember watching the great George Best play soccer will recall what an inspiration he was to so many of us. This probably sums up just what made him so inspiring:

Next week - we won’t be congregating after the game, as we’ll be rushing home to put on our make-up and iron our dresses for the Gala Dinner.  

See you there.

 

 

DIGGERS TROPHY

The Diggers Trophy was the prize for winning today's competition. It was a 'Par' format on the Tuart Course and the spring weather promised cloudless skies and a moderate 26°c.

However, Mother Nature found a few tricks to make the game more memorable!

As the game progressed the wind picked up to a very strong south westerly which, while driving off the 15th tee was very welcome, made a misery for many as they proceded toward the final holes!

Dave W, David M, Keith & Roland
basking in the early morning sun!

Karl, Paul G & Barry ready to challenge the Tuart Course
 for the third week in a row.

Paul, Paul & Paul

Paul Cooper & James Axson

No competition for guessing who is wearing the latest in foot fashion. Very nice three colour number with solar powered side mounted lace tension devices!

Whoes shoes?

The tee positions for Hole 1 were very welcome for the 'green' players as black, green and white markers were all within a few metres of each other, making the dogs leg achievable for many players!

Group 2 all teeing off at the front of what is normally
 the white marker teeing area.

Lack of preparation can lose the game!

No photos were received by the blogger covering the first half of the course so it is assumed everyone had a pleasant uneventful game up to that point. However, the peace was broken by the following confronting sign at the 11th tee! 

While it is currently high season for snake activity most players had presumably given the danger little thought in recent weeks.  However, the sign appeared to add further impetus to players to direct their balls toward the centre of the fairways!

To assist SOS members with identifying a dugite at short range the following picture is offered, although if you catch sight of one this close, it may be too late! 

At least Perth's wildlife is unlikely to eat you!

Record Slow Play event

A record was apparently broken as three groups were found stacked on the 9th and 10th tees. No explanation, but perhaps the snake sighting had something to do with it?  The Course Marshall was seen darting about in his cart untangling the various groups involved.

A friendly duck on the course!
Dinner for the snake?

The Clubhouse

There were a number of SOS members who missed the game due to injury recovery and the flu, including our President, Gerry Tessier. Gerry was hoping to play today but requires additional time to recover from knee surgery!

SOS Golf's Club Captain, Andrea Williams, called the meeting to order noting today's competition was for the Diggers Trophy which honours Remberance Day.

SOS donates an amout each year to the Kings Park Honour Avenue Group to assist in the upkeep of the plaques honouring those Austrlians who died in all wars and armed conflict. The Ash Tray donations collected each Saturday during November are used to fund the donation. Unusually, there are 5 Saturdays in November 2025, so please give generously in the next two weeks!

Next Week's Game

The President's Trophy will be the prize for next week's winner. The competition (format TBA) will tee off at 8.04am on the Tuart Course. Karl Wolzak won in 2024.

Andrea announces the results

The Diggers Trophy was won by Paul Boquest with a score of +3, closely followed by Dave Williamson and Shelley Yeo, both on +2

                                                   The Podium!                                                       Shelley (3rd), Paul B (1st), Dave W (2nd)!

In 22nd place (last) was Glen Pope who received the bag of lollies and the task of reading out the 'Digger Fines List',

The full results were:  

The Diggers Trophy with its new custodian, Paul Boquest

Glen P claims the bag of lollies!

Golden Holes & Novelties

Neither of the two Golden Holes were claimed.   Hole 3 remains at $150 while the 2nd GH is accumulating from $21.

Nearest to pin on Hole 6 won by Earle

Ladies longest drive on Hole 8 claimed by Shelley, but outdistanced by Andrea

Mens longest drive on Hole 15 saw Boris first on the board outdistanced by Roland, then Keith and finally Paul Boquest won the gift card!

Nearest to the pin on Hole18 claimed by Earle, then closer by Don

Eagles & Birdies

No Eagles today, but no less than 7 birdies:

Roland - 3 & 8

Paul B - 5 &15

Dave M - 8

Shelley  - 18

Don   -  18

Best dressed ?

Paul and Roland strong contenders for best dressed!

Ash Tray Collection

A total of $43.60 was raised from today's collection with Paul G and Greg scooping up the cash.

Plenty of fines swelled by the strong winds on the back nine.

The fines money goes flying!

Shelley levies fines for slow play?

Raffle

The raffle raised $73.60 and the winning number was held by Boris who also won a secondary prize - $15 in total.

Barry also came 5th in todays competition, the only player to score par!

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MASTER'S TROPHY

Near perfect conditions greeted a very impressive field of 28 players for the 47th playing of the Masters Trophy. Amazingly Shelly's timesheet had no alterations to the original (see photo following) until Barry, who was suffering from a cold and woke up Saturday morning feeling slightly better, made a late call to see if a spot was available. Luckily, or perhaps unluckily for Barry one spot was available in Group 1, that was accommodated without necessitating an alteration to the tee timesheet.

Unbelievable - A Clean Sheet

Look at all the "M's" on that timesheet

As the players gathered ahead of their tee times Andrea was heard to say "I have never got the Lollies". This created quite a stir with all those that have got the lollies in the past and were left in a state of disbelief. One was heard to say "well that will undoubtably bring it on".

The disbelievers with Andrea striking a defiant pose

Shelly & Peter deep in conversation about?

Barry generously passing on his cold to Garry

The Army Boys

Rarely seen photo of Coops with and egg and bacon toasty and coffee

Lynley in her puffer jacket feeling the cold?

and Roland with matching everything, including underwear apparently!!!

Coops read this sign somewhere and instantly decided to adopt this approach to life. He did however tweak it slightly by adding a a egg and bacon toasty to it prior to, and after a round of golf.

A round rarely goes by without some Spots of Bovver and yesterdays round was no exception. Three players owned up and judging by the scores there were may others that went unrecorded.

SPOTS OF BOVVER

Garry on the second

Dave on the lucky 13th

Lynley still managing a smile

THE RESULTS

THE WINNERS

The Master for the 5th time - Garry

The winners on the day - Kerry with a comfortable 2 stokes over Garry who was one stroke ahead of Greg.

THE LOLLIES

Stephanie, who in a truly spotting gesture gave then to David

NOVELTIES

Golden Hole 1 (the Big One) - Hole #3 - Club

Golden Hole 2 (The little one) - Hole # 6 - Coops (will keep him in toasty's for a couple of rounds)

Ladies Longest Drive - Hole #9 - Faye pipped by Lynne

Nearest in Two - Hole #12 - Popey pipped by Kerry with a magnificent shot to within inches of the hole

Men's longest Drive - Hole #15 - Paul B

Nearest in One - Hole #18 - Karl (arguably the shot of the day. Karl also took a hit for the club (mostly Shelly) by defecting and errant bunker shot setting up an unlikely birdie chance for Shelly. Could be a kidney replacement next week!!) 

BIRDIES

Hole #12 - Kerry

Hole #9 - Garry

Hole #10 - Wayne

Hole #15 - Keith & Paul B

Hole #7 - Roland

Hole #6 - Coops

Unbelievably Andrea did not feature in any of the above but did receive a crown in recognition of past achievements. Somehow Coops managed to steal it form her while eating yet another toasty at the same time. Who says men can only do one thing at a time.

Our best wishes go out to Gerry. Hope to see you back on course shortly.

NEXT WEEK

We are back on the Tuart for the "Diggers Trophy" with tee of at 8.04

I'll leave you with these snippets