VICE-CAPTAIN'S CHOICE

 Blind Stableford Pairs

You’ve got to be kidding. 

The game’s hard enough without playing it with your eyes closed. 

Oh, OK. Your score is added to someone else’s, but you don’t know whose until the game is over. 

It was windy. 

Windy enough to cancel the Rottnest Swim, but the gusts kept temperatures down into the twenties. 

And strangely enough, we seemed to be hitting into the wind off 90% of the holes. 

Certainly explains my poor scores, and possibly a reasonable excuse for anyone else. 

Where's nearest the bunker today?

The last group managed to hoover up all the novelties:

NTP on the 2nd, Andrea, Gary, but Boris closest, although no birdie. 

Ladies’ longest drive on the 4th, Shelley, but trumped by Andrea

Nearest in 3 on the 8th, Kerry, Frances, Shelley, Gerry, all beaten by Popey 

Men’s longest drive on the 15th, Earle, Dave, Gary and Gardy furtherest

The Golden Hole went off! Wayne picked up a useful $117, although he missed the birdie, and

Nearest in 3 on the 18th, Keith, Dave, Lynley but another win for Gardy. 

We heard of Earle having done a ‘Barnes Wallis’ at Wanneroo earlier in the week (a skimmer over the water onto the green)

Birdies a plenty today:

On the 1st, Lynley

On the 13th, Keith

On the 15th, Gary

Dave on both the 11th and 15th, and

Popey on the 17th. 

Well done those ornithologists.

Frances searching for excitement in the bottom of Earle's bag

After the game we decamped to Perry Lakes for the Sausage Sizzle, and excellent sausages they were too. 

The sausage cookers excelled themselves - properly cooked but not a burnt snagger to be seen. 

And a great sizzle, expertly managed by Frances and well supported, as always, by Shelley, Boris and Earle. 

We were delighted to welcome Carol and Vicky to the festivities. 

No prizes for individual scores today, but here are the results

Which means when the pair scores are added together, here are the winners for today:

	Team		Score
	Kerry	James	75
	Dave	Wayne	70
	Shelley	Popey	68
	Barry	Gerry	68
	Steph	Lynley	59
	Earle	Lynne	58
	Gary	Gardy	54
	Keith	Peter	54
	Frances	Roland	54
	Derek	Andrea	52

Winners all

Not much doubt about the winning pair.

Not usually a lollies girl

Next week, it’s Stableford on the Tuart, with a later start time tba.  

SUMMER CUP, ROUND TWO

 

The second round of the Summer Cup.

A punishing stroke competition.

Gerry holds the pose

The forecast was for 35 degrees - a warmish day.

Summer golf

Roland a cool five points clear of the field after the first round.

He’d promised he wouldn’t be there for the second round, but the chasing group weren’t convinced.

There were many glances back to the entrance. Would he be springing a surprise, turning up cheery as ever, with his five stroke lead?

But no, Roland was true to his word, leaving the competition open for a good half dozen players still in contention.

Conditions were perfect - still and sunny, no excuses for a poor round.

An early start, but it certainly warmed up quickly, and those in carts got their money’s worth.

It's all about the hats

Roland wasn’t the only absentee - it was a fairly lean field with only five groups

Which meant there wasn’t long to wait until all the players were in.

Boris received considerable advice on how to turn the lotto wheel correctly. It’s three turns towards you, then a final, slow turn away to eject a ball. Slow, because otherwise it ends up on the floor.

Lessons will be available soon. It’s a bit like chipping onto the green - not a full swing.

They haven't changed a bit - this was over ten years ago!

We wished Wayne a happy birthday.

A reminder to all - it is not Shelley’s job to wrangle carts. If you want to share a cart, make your own arrangements.

Gary sporting the national colours

The novelties were shared around. Not.

No golden hole.

Nearest in 3 on the 18^th, Gary, beaten by Gardy.

Ladies longest on the 4^th, Shelley, Lynne, then Steph.

Men’s longest drive on the 12^th, Andrew, then Gardy.

Nearest on the 2^nd, Popey, then not Gardy, but Gerry.

And nearest in 3 on the 8^th, Popey, and Gardy again.

Well done, Gardy. 

There were birdies,

Frances on the 2^nd,

Gardy on the 6^th

Steph on the 10^th , and

Glen on the 11^th.

You’ve no doubt been watching the Liberal party leadership contests this week. A reminder that our own SOS spill motion will take place on March 21 at the AGM, where all positions are declared vacant and there is an election for those keen for committee positions. Will the far right triumph over the hard left, or will the centre prevail this time? Be there to be part of it

So, the day’s results.

On top - well done, those three

Which leaves the top three aggregate scores for the Summer Cup as follows:

In third place, on 147, are Gardy and Gary

In second place, Popey on 145, and

The winner, on 143, is Gerry.

Gerry with a 70 and a 73 

(which means had Roland played, a score of 77 would have enough for him to win!)

The good news is the committee have decided to increase prizes for the new season to $45, $20 and $15.

A reminder:

Our rule for stroke competitions is a maximum score of 10 on each par 4 and 5 holes, and a maximum of 8 for a par 3. At that point, pick up and record that score on your card.

Next week, it’s vice-captain’s choice at 7:32am. Rumour has it that it will be blind Stableford pairs, with the possibility of a sausage sizzle, but that's all tbc at this stage.

 

SUMMER CUP, ROUND ONE

 

A beautiful summers day greeted a small field of sixteen players contesting the first round of the Summer Cup, one of 5 two week events held during the season that qualifies the winners to play for the Masters trophy.

Past winners in Saturdays round included 5 time winner Colin Kerr, 2 time winners Glen Pope and Paul Gardner and one time winners Shelly Yeo and Keith Barrow.

Roland well kitted out for the round

Former champion Garry 

Two likely contenders

Photo bomber Keith with Earle doing his cricket

umpire impersonation.

Two time champ Glen Pope

One time champ Shelly limbering up 

under the watchful eye of Paul

Gerry back from surgery early and against 

doctors orders (who obviously is not a 

golfer)

Paul doing what he does best

After a couple of inglorious tee shot from the first group, following far too much chatter on the tee the completion was underway, and what a round it proved to be. The dark horse and snappily dressed Roland got off to a steady start in contrast to Gerry, showing a little rust following two rounds of surgery who got off to a horrific start with a triple bogey 7 on the first. The normally Miss Consistency Andrea faulted badly in the outward 9 with, for her tragic 46 stokes. Long absent Gardy made his return to competitive and got off to a flyer with a par on the first spoilt bay a snowman on fifth but showed what he is made of by immediately birdying the next hole going out with a 43 - what could have been if it weren't for the fifth. Shelly recently returned from a luxury golfing experience in that lovely little island off our southeast coast was as consistent as ever. These 5 player would be the ones to fight it out for first round glory. So, to the scores

THE RESULTS

THE WINNERS

In first place with a sensational 82 off the stick for a net 65 and clear winner was Roland.

In second place with a fighting comeback and great exhibition of driving off the tee was Gerry

In third place on a countback was Andrea helped by a brilliant homeward nine of just 38 strokes.

THE LOLLIES

What a leveler golf is!!! After a victory the week previous in the dreaded Par format Earle was brought down to Earth with a thud and took home the lollies. He didn't seem to phased however and took it on the chin.

 BIRDIES

Andrea on the 18th and also pocketing the $53 on offer for Golden Hole 2

Gardy with birdies on the 6th and 12th holes

Coops on the 6th

Popey on the 7th

THE NOVELTIES

Golden Hole No1 Hole # 3 - Club

Men's Long Drive Hole # 7 - Earle, followed by Keith, Followed by Paul B, followed by Popey, followed by Gardy and won by Gary

Longest putt (has to be the first putt - see rules following) on Hole # 10 - Shelly followed b Andrea

Nearest the hole in 3 on Hole # 11 - Keith followed by Andrea

Ladies long drive Hole # 13 - Shelly

Golden Hole No2 Hole # 18 - Andrea

THE ANNUAL PAR 3 COMP AT CLAREMONT

My thanks to Derek for not only organizing the competition but also providing a run down of the evenings action.

Meanwhile, Wednesday evening saw the Annual SOS Par 3 competition at Lake Claremont. The weather was delightful, and Dave Millar commented that the last time he had played the course was as a 12-year old. He tells us scores were entered in Roman numerals back then.

Ready for the off!

This lovely course is a little more difficult than it looks, and there was strong competition, with both the handicap winner and the lollies going to countback. Many players found themselves playing off single figure handicaps for the first time (it is a par 27 course!)

With only two birdies, Andrea on the 4^th and Coops on the 5^th, and Gardy not hitting a single green, even the short 80m holes had their share of disasters. 

Boris considers Earle's tee shot from the third, as he prepares to tee off on the fourth!

Next year, to spare any further embarrassment, we’ll institute a 7-stroke maximum for any one hole - an oversight which we should have anticipated, and would have been appreciated by at least one golfer.

The winning putt

Afterwards, we congregated on the veranda of the T-Box cafe and enjoyed drinks and dinner as the sun went down. There were nearest-the-pins on every hole, and Shelley distributed balls to the winners. Then Andrea gave the results:

		Gross	Net
	Popey	33	29
	Gardy	35	30
	Andrea	31	26
	Frances	43	34
	Earle	36	28
	Faye	37	27
	Dave M	32	25
	Barry	36	25
	Coops	40	34
	Peter	43	32
	Gim	39	29
	Shelley	33	27

A great result, and off the same tees as the guys!

Our handicap champion takes it all in his stride

NEXT  SATURDAY - ROUND 2 OF THE SUMMER CUP

Next Saturday's round 2 of the cup will be played om The Old course with the first group teeing off at 7.56.

Roland a clear leader after the round one with a 5 stoke advantage says he won't be playing because he has a meeting, but no one believes that.

Next Saturday also happens to be Valentines Day so what better way to spend it than on the golf course.