SOS Cup Rnd 2

Sponsored by the lovely non-playing Rob Gray.

And at last the bloody sun came out!!!!!

Please stay my long lost friend, we've all really missed you and want you around for a long, long time.

So it all started well.........

So well in fact that there was 'much love' in the air,,,,, 

however for Ross it would appear that it wouldn't last for the whole round,,,,,,,


So what did happen?

Well i'm not going to keep you in suspense any longer so we'll head straight into the scores

The Results
Overall Winner of the SOS Cup 2016 with two splendid rounds of utter consistency was,,,,,,,,,    YES ME, DA BLOGMEISTER EXTRAORDINAIRE

Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

And the winner of the day,,,,,,,,,, with an absolutely EXTRAORDINARY round of 61 was:-

Mighty fine round mate, and i'm sooooo glad you weren't there last week hehehehheheeee

1st. Phil McLeod - magnificent 61 with Birdies on 11th & 17th

2nd. Don Beesley 67 (Birdie 14th)
3rd. Gary Burgess 70 (Birdie 11th)
4th. Stan Tan 70 (Birdie 2nd)
5th. Brett Fordham 71 (Birdie 9th)
6th. Paul Gardner 71 (Birdie 10th)

Lynne Malone 74
Peter Baird, Glen Pope (Birdie 12th), Vickie Scarff 75
Graeme Powell 76
Brenda Jones , Greg Bennett 77
Stephanie Jeffares 79
Dick Osborne 80

Earle Scarff - Captain, lollies recipient, last and fine master for the day - left him a bit exhausted! Oops almost forgot the score - 81

GUESTS: Gavin Fleming (2nd card) 87 gross; Malcolm Corkin 89.
Well done to Gav the Traveller Fleming for his second card-- saving yourself eh for your 'proper' handicap??????
And to Malcolm the Kiwi Corkin for his adventure around the course


Novelties
NTP2--  Gavin
NTP6--  BlogMeister
NTP13-- Peter
LD17--  BlogMeister

Woo hoo,,, yeh baby!

And since there was a paltry $17 on The Golden Hole nobody really tried and it didn't pay out,,,, even Stan the Man Tan didn't want it!!!
Good i hear you cry!


And so onto the best bit:-

Fines of the Week
Let's just get straight into it

Ross-- For going for a Vickie-esque random wander before one of his playing partners had driven off

Don-- For announcing his best shot of the day was from the wrong fairway.
I actually witnessed this ass he held up our tee shots on the 5th,,,, and a quality shot it was too!

Stiff-- For being a complete and utter 'sweary mary' turning the air blue from about the second hole!
It nearly made my delicate ears blush,,,, hehehehehe

Peter-- For hitting a tree and the ball ending well and truely behind him and blaming it on a nearby bee's nest!
In his defence they were pretty grumpy bees.

Peter-- For somehow managing to sneek in a cheeky snooze under his umbrella.
Not enough sleep mate,,, was your pussy keeping you awake again????

Brenda-- When her other three team-mates all ended up in the bush, she was heard to announce loud and proud:-
'Oooh, i'm not going in the bush with them boys, i don't know what they'll do with their balls!'

And last, but by no means least:-

Stan & Glen-- For consistently peering through the 'range-finder' at Stiff's bum.
Their excuse,,,,,,,,, it's what the 'range-finder' kept picking up as the best target,,,, yeh right!! Heheheheee

Fines in November
Please note the fines in November will try to have a few Armed Forces themes as all proceeds will be donated to an Armed Forces Charity.
So come prepared to donate well.


Random Pics

Fixing the card already Malc????

Mr Slim Phil,,,,, it obviously works dude!

Avril gleaming in the sun

What do you mean they were staring at my bum????

The Coach in the distance with a lovely view

Vickie doing a Vickie

Drinks in the sun

Discussing the merits of the 'range-finder'

Brenda being forced to listen to Stan regale another fantastic story

An Englishman & a Irishman were having a drink,,,,,,,,

This is what happens when you give pretty-boy the camera.

For The Scarlet Pimpernel--- Baaaaaaaad kiwis for winning the Bledisloe 3-0

Spring Cup Rnd 1

Sponsored by the inimitable FlyBoy Malcolm.

So it was the return of the Gardner Clan from their first ever cruise.

And what an adventure it was,,,,,,,, all was good until the ship turned into a mobile virus making everybody sick.

Even my alcohol system didn't prevent my normal hardy constitution from succumbing to the evils of The Dreaded Lurgie!!!!



And to make it even worse our first game back was in the FKN RAIN!!!!!!!
Arrrggggghhhhhh just go away and bring on the sun.

PLEASE no more!!!!!








Allied to the rain was the wind which made for a beautiful conditions for quality speedy play,,,,, NOT!

And for one of the first times i had to pay my excessive swearing fine before i had even teed off!!!!!

On the plus side there was the Welcome Guest for Gavin, a big hitting mucker of Ciaran Sticky mcGlue,,,,,,,,,, word was that he nearly drove the 17th with a 4 iron!
I look forward to seeing that live sometime soon dude!!!!!

So what else happened apart from the rain and wind.


The Results

Grumpy Snail

Well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, a very frustrated group of golfers yomped off the course after a round that took some of us FIVE & A HALF HOURS!!!!!!!
Arrrrrrgghhhhhh!

For the love of The Grumpy Snail,,,,,can we please keep pace with the group ahead!
And if you do fall behind,,, as many of us do after looking for golfballs etc,,,,, please try your utmost to catch up.



Despite the slowness there clearly was some quality golf that was played, as you can see by the scores:-

And the winner is Greg Bennett!!!!

Well done Greg for a marvellous round in trying conditions. You were clearly able to keep the ball below the wind.
;-)

1st Greg Bennett 66

2nd Colin Kerr 69 (cb) Birdies 1st & 6th holes

3rd  Paul Gardner 69 (cb) Birdie 11th hole

4th Stan Tan 73 (cb)

5th  Lynne Malone 73 (cb)

6th Bernie Caffrey 75 (cb)

Ross Campbell (Birdie 10th hole),  Earle Scarff, (Birdie 9th hole), Malcolm Yeo 75
Glen Pope, Dick Osborne, Shelley Yeo, Ciaran McGlue, Roland Stanger 76
Graeme Powell 77
Stephanie Jeffares 78
Tom Reilly, Peter Baird (Birdie 9th hole) 79
Ian Holmes, Brenda Jones 80
Don Beesley (Birdie 17th hole), Rob Gray (Birdie 3rd hole) 85
Charmaine Stanger 86
Frances Longhurst (retired injured - came off second best in alteration with water sprinkler hole between 11th & 12th holes) Birdie 6th hole

Guest: Gavin Fleming 89 gross 

Nice work Gavin

Kindness prevents handicapper mentioning many DQ,s

Novelties
NTP3   Glen
NTP9   Earl
NTP15 Greg
LD17   Bernie

Top work people,,,,,,,, 
and you'll all be pleased to hear that the pot grows for the Golden Hole as it failed to go off.


Annual Awards Dinner

Please put the 12th November in your diary for the Annual Awards Dinner.

Dust off your tux, get your party heads on, and prepare for the infamous Cross-Toasting session plus other festivities.

Pretty Boy Brett will forward further details, menus etc nearer the time so get ready and MARK THE DATE!
You have been warned,,,,,,,,,,,


Fines of the Week
First game back for a while and there were a few notable 'performances' worthy of mention in this section.
So in no particular order, as merit has to go to the first one for being one of the best:-

Vickie-- In order to protect the innocent, and the reputation of certain members...... the following is from Anonymous of Wembley.
Allegedly,,, The Captain's Wife had a bit of a dummy-spit after her game and ripped up her scorecard before getting into the bar.
Is this true? Or pure defamatory? We'll find out on saturday hehehhehhehee

Stan-- For identifying & examining Stiff's schoolgirl error of wearing white trousers on a wet, rainy day!

Stiff-- for losing control of her cart in the wind and catching it just before it sunk into the lake.

Paul-- For being a general grumpy old b'stard before the start of the game and having to pay up for Excessive Swearing even before a ball had been hit!  

Don-- When Sticky asked for a match to light his cigarette,,,, being a smart ass and saying:-

"I don't have a match but i've got a Samsung!"

Quality!!!!!!

Fran-- Sorry to fine you Fran but for a random injury,,,, causing a withdrawal from the game.
Damn those sprinkler heads.
We all hope you get well soon Fran.

The TV in the Bar-- for being generally angry and striking two of the SOS members on the head, and acting in a most aggressive fashion!
hehehehe

Random Pics

Post match discussions about the golf, and angry TV's.

Sheltering from the elements

It took nearly 6hrs to get to the Fun Palace!!!

Wahhhaaaayyyy we made it to the pub!

The confused German scratches his weary head.

Club Championship, Round 7

Going to take more than a few drops of rain to dampen our spirits

Round 7, no less.

I feel a good round coming on

Demountables up and gone

It seems some have already fallen by the wayside, but as we know:

"Many are called, but few are chosen."

Well, the plucky few lined up, not having been intimidated by the Bureau of Meteorology's dire warnings of

"heavy showers, high chance of thunderstorms in the morning and afternoon"

which translates as "don't even think of playing golf today"

but we did. And it wasn't really that bad. A few wet holes, one really heavy blustery shower for which we all cowered under our umbrellas and I pretended it wasn't my turn to play.

And it meant we could tee off nice and early, as no-one else had turned up to play before us, and we pretty much had the course to ourselves, and plenty of room in the car park.

Rain or shine, I'm prepared

As they say. "It's an ill wind that blows nobody good".

I knew I should have hit a provisional..

Birthdays to Earle and Bernie.

Yep, I'm the birthday boy..

...and just look at my new swing.

Stop Press: Annual dinner will be on November 12th, not as previously advertised two weeks later. Reason is the venue will not be available later.

Our guest, Greg, turned in a very creditable 65. Very tidy round, Greg.

No, not that Greg..

And here are the novelties:

NTP	2nd	Stan
NTP in 2	6th	Phil McK
NTP in 2	13th	Peter
NTP in 2	15th	Glen
GOLDEN HOLE	$37	Stan

And finally, the last round of the Club Championship 

Nothing that a good pie won't fix

Saving my best game for later in the season

Well, you get a second serve in tennis, so why not?

Player	Score	Birdies
Vickie	86
Lynne	80
Peter	78
Ian	77
Glen	76	16
Bernie	75
Greg	74	15
Brett	74
Shelley	73
Gary	73	14
Stephanie	73
Phil McK	72	3, 16, 17
Ross	72
Thomas	72
Derek	71
Stan	70	1, 2, 10, 11
Earle	68	4
Ciarán	68
Colin	67

Fantastic round, Colin. Congratulations.

Our very own "Gang of Four"

Best chip of the day

Stan attempts to buy all the raffle numbers

The competition counts your best five results, so if you've played all seven rounds, you can discard your two poorest scores. The winner will be announced at the Annual Dinner. 

Many thanks to Ian for his generous sponsorship of today's event. 

Don't tell Fran I won the raffle