American Foursome in Pairs

Another magnificent autumn day welcomed the SOS players to a game of American Foursome (played in pairs).  The game was played on the Tuart Course starting at 9.24 am. Lots of woolly white clouds and little to no breaze should have enabled players to perform at their best.

Shelley Yeo, our bookings Officer, was tasked with the pairings which should have resulted in a close competition as each teams handicap was half their combined handicap. 

The rules were simple - each drives off - each then plays their partner's ball - select the best ball and play alternate shots until the ball is sunk!

However, the results were anything but close with a 24 stroke difference between top and bottom scores! The Golf Gods sorted out many teams that failed to produce a 'good round', while others capitalised by having one member produce excellent distance shots supported by accurate putting from the other member! Other teams displayed the occasional slice, chilly-dip, shank and other unplanned events leaving their partner in disbelief of an opportunity lost!

As is usually the case, the preponderance of 'missed putts' passed downhill of the cup!

Ready for battle !
 With guest Harold Williams on the right.

Roland tops the fashion stakes with a tribute to ANZAC day ! 

Lynley, Faye & Shelly in the first group

Shelley tees off on the 1st hole.

Later in the round Shelly spotted an interesting chunck of wood fungus while negotiating the trees lining the 14th hole fairway!   

Earle, Andrea, Puggy & Frances followed in group 2.

Stephanie & guest Jo

Many players arrived early enough for a short practice session . . . . 

Maureen makes Paul work in the woods!

Paul giving instructions to Maureen on how
to play his 'trespassing ball' on hole 8/9.

Who's hand is this?

Dave managed to locate his ball after
 Gary's eagle eyes followed it from the tee directly into the native grass bush!

Kerry's ball off the tee provides
 Dave with a tricky lie!

Gary getting another 'Birgit ball' out of trouble!

Post Game Meeting

SOS President Gerry Tessier opened the post game meeting by welcoming back Wayne Bradford and a guest, Harold Williams.

And a particular welcome to two new members, Faye Millar (introduced by Dave Millar) and Jo-Ann Cooper (introduced by Stephanie). 

Gerry noted that today's competition was a fun event but reminded members that next week is the first of seven SOS Club Championship rounds. There are 5 trophies awarded in the competition as explained in Article 2.2 of the SOS By-Laws. Eligible players must register scores in at least 5 of the 7 rounds.

Gerry also advised that at next week's post game meeting SOS's donation to Charlie's Angels Foundation will be handed over to Glen Pope's daughter.

SOS Captain Andrea Williams announced the winning pair in todays American Foursome competition were Mark Hill and Wayne Bradford with an impressive net score of 62 strokes.

Runners up on 64.5 strokes were Roland Petrie and Peter Baird.

Wayne Bradford & Mark Hill won today's competition.
Peter Baird holding the Easter Cup he won last week.

The team results were:

Place	Teams	Score
1	Mark Hill & Wayne Bradford	62
2	Roland Petrie & Peter Baird	64.5
3	Mark Wilson & Barry Treak	65.5
4	Gerry Tessier & Paul Cooper Glenn Kelly & Frances Longhurst	67.5 67.5
6	Karl Wolzak & Stephanie Jeffares	70
7	Paul Boquest & Maureen Sundari	71
8	Birgit Reinartz & Gary Burgess Shelley Yeo & Lynley Hunter	71.5 71.5
10	Earle Scarff & Andrea Williams	73
11	Jo-Ann Cooper & Harold Williams	77
12	Dave Millar & Greg Bennett	77.5
13	Dave Williamson & Kerry Edwards	86

The Tuart Course Golden Hole (hole 3) had toppped out at $150 but no-one managed to get close enough, so the amount will roll over to next week. Meanwhile, the Tuart's 2nd Golden Hole currently has $15 in the pot which will be augmented by next weeks contibutions.  Novelty supervisor , Karl Wolzak, will decide where the GH #2  marker will be placed (ie some other Tuart Course par 3 hole).

Wayne, Mark W & Mark H watching he footy on the TV !

The Novelty holes were keenly contested , with the results being:

Hole # 17  -  Ladies longest drive - Kerry, won by Steph

Hole # 6    -  NTP in 1  -  Roland

Hole # 8    -  Mens longest drive  -  Earle, Gerry, Gary, won by Paul B

Hole # 10  -  NTP in 2  -  Peter, won by Maureen

Hole # 18  -  NTP in 1  -  Shelley


A total of $87 was raised from the raffle which was conducted by Raffle Master, Glenn (aka Puggy) Kelly:

Puggy draws the winning raffle number #85 held
 by Roland who received a $10 Wembley Gift Card!

Dave W reads out the fines list as members and guests
 donated a total of $36.50 to the Ash Tray Fund

Many thanks to Birgit and many others for the photos and comments.

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THE EASTER CUP

 Perfect conditions, albeit a little chilly, greeted a field of seasoned professionals vying for the coveted East Cup that was celebrating its 45th playing. The winner of the cup last year Stephanie, managed to arrived just prior to her allotted tee time. The ideal conditions were promising of some very impressive scores, sadly that was not the case, and we'll get to that a little later.

Little effort was put into dressing for the occasion however, the Easter Bunny did manage to drop off a basket full of eggs, albeit a little early

.Some ladies were quick on the uptake

Roland was as usual dressed immaculately, as was Garry holding Coops coffee

Good to see both Earle and Vickie teaming up with Vickie returning a solid round, and a top 10 finish

We also welcomed Faye Millar to the club as a guest, and hopefully new member. We need more ladies to participate and restore a healthy balance to the membership. 
 

SPOTS OF BOVVER

After a complete absence of spots of bovver last week the norm was reestablished with a couple of doozy's

Dave Millar found himself tight up against a substantial tree on the 17th but still managed a smile and score a point

Not to be outdone Gerry regressed to his Canadian Lumberjack days and found himself in a particularly woody lie. Actually I'm not sure what he's up to, possibly gathering wood for a sausage sizzle on the Barbie

Coops woofed  off his bacon and cheese toasty so quickly that time lapse photography was required and the SOSage's limited budget doesn't extend to that level of sophistication. In desperation we have reverted to a stock photo.

THE SCORES

(could have been a lot better given the conditions on the day)

THE WINNERS & LOSER

(Unfortunately no photos)

First place - Peter Baird (back to his old form following a successful knee replacement)

Second place - Captain Keith Barrow RN (Ret.). Ask Keith to explain this to you when you next play.

Third place - Karl (and very grateful for it after a prolonged slump in form resulting in being "Soft Capped" by GA. Oh the embarrassment and indignity of it)

Unbelievably Goochy took home the lollies

Despite last weeks prediction on Coops potential to come back from winning the "Mugs Cup" to take out the Easter Cup this week he instead narrowly missed taking the lollies.

Stephanie forgot to bring the Easter Cup with her (maybe she doesn't want to part with it) and I'm therefore blaming her for my failure to take a photo of the winners..

BIRDIES

(not many)

#13 - Peter

#15 - Andrea

#2 - Maureen

#4 - Mark W

#17 - Glenn K

NOVELTIES

Nearest the pin in 1 on #2 - Andrea, followed by Gary, followed by Maureen

Nearest the pin in 1 on #6 - Paul B

Nearest the pin in 2 on #9 - Mark W

Men's longest drive on #11 - Dave W followed by Gerry, followed by Paul B

Ladies longest drive on #18 - Frances, followed by Faye, followed by Maureen

Golden Hole #16 - Club Which has now jackpotted to more money than Hesta hold in the superannuation fund. Next week it's my understanding that two holes on the Tuart will be nominated as Golden Holes, is that correct?

Great day out for the Boquest's on their return as the dynamic duo. It was quite a day for dynamic duo's with Earle & Vicky, but no Derek who missed out on an Easter egg.

POST MATCH PRESENTATIONS & FESTIVITIES

CLUB NEWS

Unfortunately Glenn's daughter couldn't make it today for the handing over of the money raised by our club for the Charlies Angels Foundation, so that will now be next week. 

With Gardy away on holiday in Thailand the fines bucket was looking a little lean.

FROM THE PRESIDENTS DESK

Did you know that the club has a Facebook page? Well we have, and Gerry is the FB master.

It is a private group for our members and we can make it more active !

 If you would like to share some pics or some news with our members, add something like a golf video lesson or funny video or even to sell something (mainly golf item or something else). Also between us If you would like to share some rules info (We have album for Rules , interesting info )

 Any interesting item you thinks can be added. 

The FB page is not replacing our Famous Blog, it is in addition 

COACH'S CORNER

As a result of some fairly ordinary scoring we have added this new section to the blog. Who knows someone might read it and find it useful

Please remember golf is meant to be relaxing and enjoyable, sure I hear you say. Check out these guys from the past who were reasonably good golfers, and maestros in the art of playing a very relaxed style of golf. No stress there.

NEXT SATURDAY - 26 APRIL

Next Saturday we are playing American Foursomes on the Tuart Course with a very civilized tee time of 9.24, yes 9.24 (finally). Plenty of time for Coops to woof off a proper breakfast and potentially make a return to the winners circle!!