Diggers Trophy - Tuart

The Diggers Trophy was contested on the Tuart Course in a par format. The 7.24am start proved challenging for many as the overnight temperature attempted to climb up to the forecast maximum of 21°c. A persistent strong wind at the start brought the wind chill factor to near freezing!

Thanks to President Gerry for this pic!

Barry, Keith, Dave & Carol attempting to keep warm against the Pro Shop wall!

Crazy temperatures for mid November!

News from Kalgoorlie

The SOS ladies who participated in the 2024 Goldfields Ladies Open Golf Championship at the Kalgoorlie Golf Course last weekend arrived safely back from Kalgoorlie!

While they were unable win any trophies this year, apparently it was an enjoyable trip with Andrea featuring with a full page spread in the Kalgoorlie Miner!

Meanwhile, back to the battle for the Diggers Trophy, President Gerry Tessier found little room for a backswing!

Gerry in a spot of bother?

Wildlife Rescue

Shelley did her best to rescue a Monarch butterfly which had crash-landed on the 10th fairway! The insect, which was showing a bit of wear and tear on a wing, was released on the 2nd cut, hopefully to live another day . . . . . . 

 . . . . . . or, pehaps not!

There were many ducks on the course, with several near misses reported, as the occasional swarm of ducklings were herded here and there by their parents!

 

Carnage narrowly avoided on the 18th tee

Believe it or not, Shelley is shown taking her 2nd shot on the 18th, some 50 metres behind the green tees, after her tee shot hit the left white tee marker and rebounded at astonishing speed, narrowly missing Karl & Peter and some 30 ducks !

To Shelley's credit, her recovery shot cleared the ducks, tee area, water hazard and bunkers to come to rest in front of the green.

 

Shelley executes her recovery shot on the 18th.

How could I have missed that ? ? @#$%^*

SOS President Gerry Tessier welcomed members to the post match meeting and the return of the SOS ladies team that had played last week in Kalgoorlie at the Goldfields 2024 Ladies Open Golf Tournament.  Gerry also welcomed Peter who had returned to competition after a 10 week break  recoving from knee replacement surgery and wrist injury. While the knee is apparently in excellent shape, Peter is complaining of shoulder and wrist pain for today's score!

Gerry noted next week's game is a stableford competition for the President's Trophy which is currently held by Mark Wilson.  The competition will again be played on the Tuart Course (4th week in a row), and will commence at 6.52am !  So set your alarms accordingly.

Competition Results

SOS Captain, Andrea, advised that Peter had managed to claim the lowest score for the day and the bag of lollies! Peter's -7 score was apparently confined to the first 9 holes, while on the back 9 he managed to square each hole! 

Roland Petrie however claimed the Diggers Trophy with a solid score of + 2.

It was a 3 way tie on + 1 with countbacks awarding Glen Pope 2nd place and Earle Scarff in 3rd place. Stephanie was unlucky to be placed 4th in the 3rd countback position.

Roland dsiplays the Diggers Trophy watched on by Glen Pope and Earle Scarff

The Golden hole, on hole 3, was won by Shelley who collected the $74 pot.

A total of 6 birdies were scored by:

   

    Colin on hole 5

    Shelley on hole 3 (+GH) 
    Don on hole 5

    Glen P on hole 16

    Puggy on holes 4 & 18

Results of the Novelties were :

    Hole 1 (All) - Roland, beaten by Andrea

    Hole 10 NTP in 2 - Glen P

    Hole 11  NTP in 3 - Glen p

    Hole 12 NTP - Andrea

    Hole 18 NTP - Earle, beaten by Puggy

Glenn Kelly, aka Puggy, kindly took on the role of Ash Tray crier for the Diggers special list of fines.

It was pointed out that fines raised during November were all donated to maintenance of the Kings Park Avenue Honour plaques. Members were asked to dig deep resulting in a near doubling of the normal 'take' - $58.45 ! 

Puggy reads out the Diggers' fines list

The raffle draw was conducted by SOS Vice Captain and general multi disciplinarian, Glenn 'Puggy' Kelly, with Glen Pope claiming at least two of the prizes!

Steph & Carol discussing the Annual Dinner decorations
 for Saturday, 30 November?

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THE MASTERS

One of the premier events of the SOS Tour, "The Masters" was contested today on the Tuart in prefect conditions. The field was a little depleted with some of the tour's star players in Kalgoorlie for their Annual golfing weekend extravaganza.

"The Masters" is only open to, as the name infers, those players that have won a 2 day event any time prior and they were playing stroke. The rest of the field played Stableford.

No blog is complete without a stock photo of Coops woofing off yet another a egg and bacon sandwich - what an appetite!!

Not to be outdone Earle was also seen woofing off a sandwich of his own making?

Gerry featured prominently in this weeks "Spot of Boffa" with an awkward bunker shot on the 15th that he converted to a par and a crazy bounce off the cart path on the 18th that saw him finish close to the fence of the children's playground that he converted to a bogey. 

Gerry's second on the 18th with a interested onlooker to the right.

On the subject of Gerry he was playing with a new putter, complete with a "fatso" grip that served him well so he has found a new weapon to add to his arsenal. Apparently he had contemplated getting a Scotty Cameron putter, however upon seeing the "schmucky" look he would have to perfect if he purchased the club decided against it - wise choice as things turned out.

We were saved this look.

Upon completion of the round and returning to the clubhouse we were confronted by Barry with his mitts firmly gripping the "Lolly Bag" and talking possible suicide after returning one of his poorer rounds for the season. Not content with that he was quicker than a starving seagull at a beach café in reaching for the hot chips that arrived at the table.

Glen added his usual flair to "The Wheel of Fortune"

To the days novelties

NTP Hole 3 The Golden Hole - Club

Ladies longest drive on the 5th - Gim

NTP Hole 10 in 2 - Glen Kelly

NTP Hole 12 - Barry

Men's longest drive on he 15th - Mark Wilson

NTP Hole 18 - Glen Pope

Birdies

Glen Pope - 7th

Mark Wilson - 15th & 18th

Paul Cooper - 9th

Glen Kelly - 15th

Kerry Edwards - 18th

Mark Hill - 2nd

The Scores

The Winners

Masters

Glen Pope

Mark Wilson

Greg Bennett

Masters Apprentices

Karl Wolzak

Paul Cooper

Carol Barrow

The SOS PRESENTATION NIGHT & DINNER SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER

LOT SIX ZERO

It saddens me to say that we only have 20 people that have committed to the Clubs main event for the year at the end of the month. We are a social golf club so anyone that hasn't yet said they will be coming please do so now as we have to close the bookings tomorrow.

Hopefully the Kalgoorlie "Mob" will return to Perth much wiser for their experience and not sober having had a great trip and collected a few prizes along the way.

Next week its the "Diggers Trophy" to be played on The Tuart with a 7.24 Tee Off. Glen currently has his mitts on this trophy as well.

I'll leave you with this.

We get a lot of this on the golf course from time to time.

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SOS CUP, ROUND TWO

 

The SOS Cup competition moves to a conclusion.

I'm not going to win if I have too many of these

A hard-fought stroke tussle between some of the clubs foremost golfers.

Who would prevail? Who indeed.

If I was left-handed, and trying to reach the tee-box instead of the hole, I'd be OK. 

The day dawned bright and cheerful.

Today, SOS were the early birds - a 7:30 tee-off beckoned.

Kerry was so early, that she managed to score the #1 parking spot.

It was even rumoured that she had parked there on Friday night to reserve the spot, then walked home.

There were other records broken. Paul Cooper for most ever excessive swearing (he was hatching a 7 on the par 3, so some sympathy from his playing partners).

%^**&!!!#%%! &*(*&)^%!!

and Lynley, for what must be close to an all time record score for a stroke game.

We congratulated Pug Dog on becoming a grandfather for the first time yesterday. The little bloke is to be called Winston, apparently in anticipation of his doing great things later in life.

Pug Dog also managed three putts in the bunker, attempting to just clear the lip and allowing the ball to trickle to the hole. As Gerry puts it - the first time he’d seen someone four-putt with only one on the green.

Unplayable? Never!

We celebrated a hole-in-one from Don on the 18^th - congratulations, Don.

There were birdies galore:

Popey and Andrea on the 5^th

Roland, Lynley, Coops and Paul B on the 18^th

Pug Dog on the 15^th

Roland on the 8^th

and Lynley on the 17^th.

The raffle draw gave rise to an interesting dilemma. Number 46 having been called, we conferred for some minutes while we searched for the holder. There was no doubt that number 46 had been sold, but no-one was prepared to admit to owing the precious plastic disc. It wasn’t until Pug Dog suggested that the prize should be forfeited that Coops discovered he did indeed have the number after all. Everything was amicably resolved and Coops will enjoy his success.

And the Golden Hole marker has been misappropriated. We appreciate that this is a collector’s item, but if it has found its way into your golf bag or some other place of concealment, would you please let Popey know.

 

The novelties were keenly fought over, as always.

Longest Drive for the ladies on #5: Andrea, pipped by Lynley

Nearest the Pin in 2 on the 10^th: Popey, Keith, Lynley, but Keith got closer still.

Nearest on the 12^th: Lynley again!

Longest Drive for the men on the 15^th: Keith had a monster, but Pug Dog got one even further.

And nearest on the 18^th: Keith, Lynley, Roland and Karl all had their names on the marker, but no-one was going to beat Don with an ace!

So, the results for Saturday

Not even close, Gerry!

Which leaves us to add the scores for the two days, and produce the final leaderboard:

	Puggy	139
	Gerry	140
	Colin	140
	Keith	142
	Don	144
	Andrea	145
	Roland	145
	Earle	146
	Karl	146
	Coops	148
	Gardy	149
	Lynne	149
	Popey	151
	Boris	152
	Frances	153
	Mark W	154
	Shelley	161
	Derek	163
	Kerry	164
	Greg	166

Very close, but no doubt about the winner. Congratulations, Puggy - two superb rounds of golf. 

All played well

And now, the Gala Dinner on November 30^th approacheth. Would you let Peter know asap if you are hoping to attend, and with the number of guests, should you be bringing any. Your payment should be to the general SOS account, not the booking account. (But Shelley will fix it if you send it to the wrong one),

Next week, we will be competing for the Masters’ Trophy. To qualify, members need to have won a two-week competition or participated in the Match Play final, at some point during their career with SOS.

For those who do not qualify, there will be a Stableford competition.

For the next couple of weeks, the Blog will be in the secure hands of Karl and Peter. Your photos and assorted ephemera will be appreciated as always.