SOS Golf: January 2016

Monday, January 25, 2016

Austraya Day Cup-- stableford

Sponsored by The Coach.

What a beautiful day for a game of golf!
A great bunch of 'dress ups' turned out to celebrate Austraya Day and to compete for the much-coveted Cup.

Many adorned their carts with The Aussie Flag as well as dressing to the max.

A special mention has to go to Shelley's sparkly dress, but unfortunately I don't have any pics

Whilst others just wore Aussie Hats and sported the Aussie Green & Gold.

The question is, did all this work for the golf scores and did it improve or ruin our games????

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As mentioned above The Coach was the sponsor, but this will be his last game for a while as he and his new family head back to Vietnam to show of his new addition,,,,,

Good luck mate and see ya in a few weeks!

We also saw the return of Paul The Chippie King (don't worry mate the nickname will get better, but i'm a bit drained and my imagination isn't working to top speed) and his irish mate, Ciaron from Coleraine.

So onwards and upwards with the competition,,,,, tho some did seem a little bit more relaxed than others,,,,

The Results
And so the scores are in, and it was a mixed bag of results from the good to the not quite so good:-

WELL DONE Rob, a cracking score to win your first cup!!

1^st Rob Gray – 44 (GA h’cp 19.6 & daily hc’p down 1 to 21 for both courses)

2^nd Ian Holmes – 41 (GA h’cp 18.2 & daily hc’p down 1 to 19 for Old Course & remains 20 for Tuart)

3^rd Paul Gardner – 39 Birdies 6^th and 11^th holes

4^th Steve DeSantis – 38 Birdie 10^th hole

5^th Vickie Scarff – 36 (on 2^nd countback)

6^th Colin Kerr – 36

Gary Burgess – 36 (on 1^st countback) (GA h’cp 8.9 & daily h’cp up 1 to 10 for both courses)

Stan Tan – 36 Birdies on 11^th & 16^th

Glen Pope – 35

Shelley Yeo – 34

Phil McKeague - 34

Malcolm Yeo 33

Greg Bennett – 33

Frances Longhurst – 31

Nola DeSantis – 31

Brett Fordham – 31

Earle Scarff – 31

Gim Ong – 30

Kerry Gardner – 27

Derek Longhurst – 24 (recipient of the lollies & an excellent finemaster!)

And for Paul The Chippie King third card a much improved 86.
It looks like the practise is paying off mate

And for Irish Ciaron,,,, i believe it was a disappointing 99.

Novelties
NTP3-- Glenn
NTP6-- Shared by Earl & Paul
NTP15- Gary
LD17-- Earl

Golden Hole

Yyyyaaaaayyyyy it has gone off again,,,, we have a new winner,,,,,,
Well done to Earl as he pockets $124

Nicely timed fella, as you got away without having to buy a drink as we all headed down to Bold Park for the Austraya Sausage Sizzle,,,, lucky bugger!

And to cap it all he walked away with the $10 from the raffle.
When it's your day, it's you day!!!! heheheh

Fines of the Week
Most people were pretty well behaved, but there were a couple of notable exceptions:-

Peter-- after seeing others people's flags, he was overheard saying "i would've brought mine, but my cat pissed on it!" hehehehe classic!

Shelley-- owning up to a bit of Club Abuse (not really as her club head came flying off) and nearly won a NTP!!

Austraya Day Sausage Sizzle
It was great to see Rich Yeo down at Bold Park, we all hope the next stage goes well for ya mate, and we see ya throwing your clubs again with SOS soon!

A big thanks goes out to Shelley for providing the Snags & Lamb, which went down an absolute treat.

And for Deeta and Fran who brought the salads,,,,,,,

Plus, it wouldn't be right to mention the thankless work done by our resident chefs Brett & Earl,,,,

hurdy gurdy gurdy, bud bud bud bud

Cheers fellas the Swedish Chef would be proud!

Best Dressed Competition
And the winners,,,,,,,,,, Derek & Fran.

Nice work peeps!

However there was a small objection put in by The Gardners (Kerry mainly) as they were regailed in Aussie Hat, Aussie Shirt, Aussie Flag on the golf buggies, Aussie Shorts.

Captain Earl had to be brought in to explain and make an important judgement, stating that you could only win if you were indeed a dinky di Aussie,,, so once again i was disqualified heheh

Maybe next year eh? Hehehheheheheeheh

Random Pics

The highly important bottle opener!

The Chef hard at work.

The progression of my golf clubs,,,,,

Colin looking hungry

What a great FinesMeister!!!!!

Fkn Aussied Up,,,, yeh, nah

More fkn Aussie,,,, too early for a VB,,,
fk nah!

Mmmmm loved the potato salad Deeta.

Calm before the heat

What could've been,,,,,,

And what it actually was,,, heheh

Yes, it did actually end up inside the tree,

Waiting for the awards with a cold one in hand

It got a little bit hot at times,,,

Feeding time at the zoo

Ahhh there was one of the dress,, SPARKLY!

Worst raffle in the world ever, as once again the committee cleans up AGAIN!

SEE YA NEXT WEEK HACKERS!!!

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Stableford Comp on the Old Course

Sponsored by the good ol' SOS, you beauty!

A small field hit the course as a few members heard about the heat predicted and headed to the coast to dip in the sea and cool off rather than face the rather tepid day as the temperature reached a balmy 38.

Some of the Stalwarts did brave the heat, and despite the initial trepidation the scores were pretty bloody good.

The weather didn't put off the 'Return of the Denim' as the keen traveller Colin made a very welcome return and showed us his sartorial elegance

There was also a welcome back to Tomothy, with his first round back after the festivities,,,,, and a second round from Paul,,, please feel free to ask about his interesting invitation to the SOS from Gordo, it should bring a cheeky smile to your face.

Some were looking particularly confident and the mood was positive,,,,,

how that was to change!

Both of them were looking especially 'FIRM' at the beginning,,,,,, eh Phil?

Some however faired better than others,,,,, Grandpa and Grandma aka Phil &

Kerry decided that the heat was tooooooooo much, and got Glenn to call for a cart halfway round as they visibly wilted!

So on with the scores,,,,,,

Results

Well done Greg! top score

1st Greg Bennett 41 (New GA 20.8 and daily h’cp 22 on Old Course)

2nd Ron Conway 40 (New GA 14.1 and daily h’cp 15 on Old Course)

3rd Mal Yeo 39 on a countback

4th Glen Pope 39 Birdies 1st, 14th, 16th

5th Paul Gardner 38 on a countback

6th Earle Scarff 38 (New GA 11.5 and daily h’cp 12 on Old Course)

Colin Kerr 37 Birdie 4th
Vickie Scarff 36 (New GA 21.6 and daily h’cp 23 on Old Course)
Phil McKeague 36 Eagle 11th
Kerry Gardner 33
Peter Baird 32
Phil McLeod 32
Gary Burgess 32
Shelley Yeo 31 Birdie 2^nd (New GA 11.7 and daily h’cp 13 on Old Course)
Gim Ong 31
Don Beesley 28
Brett Fordham 28
Thomas Reilly 26 (New GA 19.4 and daily h’cp 21 on Old Course)

Guest: Paul King 99 gross – 2^nd card

NB:- Kingy-- had a bit of a mixed round as 'allegedly' he hit 14 greens in regulation but just couldn't sink a putt.
A word to the wise Kingy, don't learn to putt until you get your handicap sorted! Heheheheee

NB:- Ron-- after our round he re-named himself RC (pronounced AR*SY) as his luck with the foliage was absolutely extra-ordinary, queue the skinnied rebound on the 4th that was heading towards the road and ended up 15ft from the pin!

Novelties
NTP2 -- Shelley
NTP8 -- Ron
NTP13-- Vickie
NTP15-- Gary

Top shooting peeps!

Golden Hole
The cheeky sum of $100 is up fro grabs on the next round as it didn't really go close to going off!
Woo hoo.

Fines of the Week
Vickie -- for dropping her balls down the toilet,,,, especially as we could hear them bouncing around from the tee,,
hehehehehee

Ron -- shouldn't really be a fine, as it was an awesome idea but for us all to get naked and jump around the sprinklers to cool off!

Next Week

Is the Australia Day Cup, a stableford competition won last year by Gim
so let's have a good turn out as it's guaranteed to be cooler,,,,

plus it will be followed by the infamous sausage sizzle down at the usual place where the announcements and raffle will take place,

So come down and enjoy!!!!