SOS Golf

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Club Championship Round 6

What a difference a week makes! Last Saturday the Old Course greens were unplayable due to deep puddles, saturated ground, hail, rain and strong winds. This week the skies were blue, the temperature balmy and not a zephyr of breeze!

Guest Ian Anderson together with 22 SOS members set off on the Tuart Course to chalk up another score in the 6th round of the Club Championship competition.

It was definitely Spring weather, notwithstanding it officially commences on 23 September.

Ahhh! A truly magnificent day to play golf !!

Keith & Gerry about to launch down the 1st fairway.

Shelley, Gary, Gim & Dave basking in the morning sun!

Waiting on starter's orders!

Only two entrants to today's monthly photo competition - Andrea (1) and Peter (all the rest).

As the blog is significantly improved with a range of candid photos of your fellow players in strife everyone is urged to keep your camera ready to capture an award winning picture and forward it to the blogger of the day.

Birgit won last month's photo prize and received a $10 gift voucher.

Andrea's drive on the 14th was long and straight
however, landed in a tricky spot!

With only a fragment of details available the blogger was informed that a near fatal incident occurred on the 17th fairway when Earle's electric buggy 'ran away' and came perilously close to killing Frances!

Both Gary & Andrea's tee shots on the 18th appeared to be
heading for a possible "HIO" after they cleared the bunker
and rolled out of sight towards the pin!

Gary's ball flew higher and stopped a few metres short!

Which left Andrea with a tap-in birdie!

NB: the ball has already been hit which accounts for Andrea's stance.

Dave Williamson was not so fortunate on the 18th, scoring 9 after balls were lost in both the left and right water hazards

Post Game Celebrations

SOS President, Gerry Tessier, opened the session by welcoming all present including guest Ian Anderson; and also advised there were no birthdays to celebrate this week! Gerry noted the magnificent weather conditions today and provided the following details of coming events:

Next Week - the postponed semifinal of the Matchplay competition will be played on the Tuart Course. Start time is scheduled for 9.08 am. Those not playing in the semi-final will play stableford.

The semi-final contestants are:

Gary Burgess vs Colin Kerr

Keith Barrow vs Shelley Yeo

Country Cup - Shelley has requested that payments and bookings for participation in the Country Cup should not be made before 1 September. Details of the Country Cup at the Pinjarra Golf Course have been sent out to members in recent days. Cost to SOS members is $45 for 18 holes plus a shared cart. Food and drink will be a private cost.

The Next Sausage Sizzle - will be held at Collier Park on 29 September after the final of the Matchplay Competition.

The Competition Results

SOS Captain, Paul G, reads out the scores, starting with Lynley Hunter
who won the bag of lollies with a score of 84

However, the day's competition was won by Tom Munson who scored a very respecable 68 off a 25 handicap.

One stroke behind, came Karl Wolzak and Paul Gardner on 69.

Paul & Karl both scored 69.
Tom won with 68 but had to leave early.

The MiScore results are shown below.

Eagles & Birdies

No Eagles were reported however, there were 5 birdies!

Congratulations to:

Gardy - hole 3

Karl - hole 9

Goochy - hole 15 (nearest to 100m marker after bouncing off a tree!)

James - hole 17

Andrea - hole 18

Novelties

Golden hole on #3 - no winner

Nearest to bunker #5 - Karl

NTP in 3 #7 - Goochy, Andrea won by Earle

Longest Putt #12 - Gary

Nearest to 100m marker #16 - Goochy

NTP #18 - Andrea

Raffle

First prize in the raffle draw was won by Gardy who received a $10 Wembley Gift Card.

Ash Tray Collection

The list of fines was read out by James with assistants Lynley and Lynne collecting the coins and a few notes from the hapless transgressors. A total of $28.90 was raised to swell the Ash Tray Fund, which enables SOS to fund several charity donations during the year.

Gim makes a donation!

The money pours in!

An enjoyable day of golf!

A number of greens on the Tuart played havok with the line of the ball for a number of players, including the blogger! Holes 2, 5, 7, 11, 13 & 16 come to mind! Yet again, hasty preparation and execution led to too many near misses!

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Saturday, August 8, 2026

MATCH PLAY SEMI-FINALS AND STABLEFORD

We were warned.

The weather forecasts didn’t pull any punches.

A very big cold front, with heavy showers, small hail and the possibility of thunderstorms.

For once, the BOM was right on the money.

But did we believe them?

We did not.

The few, the intrepid few, teed off into the teeth of a gale.

Telling themselves, it would get better. But it didn't.

It actually got worse.

By the time we got to the fourth green, it was under water.

The thunder was getting closer and closer.

And the small hail was no longer so small.

How am I going to find my ball in all that?

Already, the more sensible were making their way back to the bar, where they ate hot chips and played drinking games to decide who was to be awarded the WOW.

That’s the Wimp of the Week award.

Meanwhile, the remnants of the last two groups battled their way to the ninth, in what had by then become a social round.

The sun's coming out!

And there the day came to an end.

The match play semi-finals had been abandoned.

There were no novelties.

Consistency scores went unrecorded.

There were no contributions to eclectics.

And scorecards went into the bin.

Every so often, you have to have a day like that.\

It is, after all, a winter sport.

The golf gear will dry out. Umbrellas will be refurled, and the semi-finals will be rescheduled.

All will be well.

And you're probably thinking it's been a while since we had a sausage sizzle. Fear not, there will be one on August 29th, after the last of the Club Championship rounds.

Next week - it’s another round of the Club Championship. That’s back to stroke.

And before we signoff, I wonder how many of us have had a conversation like this?

Sunday, August 2, 2026

Club Championships Round # 5

The Championship competition is going on and voila, here we are:

5th round of our Championship...Stroke Play... Old Course.... get your game together to get your name on the trophy.

Who was last year's winner?? Let me know!

WAITING TO TEE OFF

Shelley had to shuffle around a couple of tee times and as Lynley was left short of her playing mate Lynne, she came up with a different set up.:

Meet Ms Lynley Hunter, aka HDL (Harley-Davidson-Lynley)

Who else is around?

Derek is capturing his wife Frances after a lengthy
holiday apart.

Andrea showing Karl how "miScore" works..
or why the serious faces??

The bloke on the left was graciously allowed
to join the first tee team. SOS member worthy??
Apologies Derek, for "cutting" off your left foot!

Shelley is over her jet-lag and ready
to hit the balls.
Yet another cut off foot! 😕

Stretching.....

and more stretching.....

Demonstrating girl power
can go hand in hand...

...with losing (remote) control of a buggy...

DURING THE GAME

There was not much photo evidence of any golf playing....except group #4:

Gim managed to chip her ball
onto the green, only to put (!) it into
the bunker, not taking out her sandwedge
she used the putter to get
the ball out close to the pin and putted in
for "5".
Does that count as a 3-put??