Ambrose Pairs

A fine Saturday, and it was Ambrose Pairs. How do we know that? Because Peter found the cards after we'd all finished playing. Don't worry, we fined him heavily.

The nice thing about Ambrose Pairs is that if your partner's done a great shot you don't have to worry, and if your partner's done a poor shot you can blame them. Kind of a win-win scenario.

And you probably didn't know this:

The Ambrose system was named by the secretary manager of the Victor Harbour Golf Club South Australia in honor of Richard and Mary Ambrose from Michigan,USA, who lived in the area in the 1960s where they had pastoral interests. It was also called the shotgun game. The Ambrose's brought the game from their home club of Spring Valley Country Club in the US where it was called a different name, most like the shotgun game. The secretary of the Victor Harbour Club named the Australian version after Richard and Mary and it caught on when it was first played in a National Ambrose Competition at the Liverpool Club in Sydney in March 1974 for a prize of $5000. One of the winners of the first event was the professional Lindsay Sharp who had a chain of golf shops which he later sold to Ray Drummond.

So there.

Where Brett's monster drive was outdriven by Bernie's even monsterer drive on the 12th.

We were all a bit hot and weary by the time we'd finished, but that didn't stop us having an excellent raffle, which was won by the grandad-to-be-again-very-soon Richard Osborne.

Meanwhile his little sister had another great round, completing her return from broken ankle, so no more excuses about "just try to hit a few balls to see if I can". She can, and she's hitting them better than most of the rest of us.

We had a bit of a shout out for Greg Bennett - we're missing you Greg, so get back here again as soon as you can manage it.

Guess who won the raffle

So, here are the novelties:

2nd	NTP	Stan
6th	NTP	Richard Yeo
17th	LD Ladies	Frances
17th	LD Men	Don
Golden Hole	Not won

Glen "Mr Cool Shades" Pope will be back with us as soon as his eyes are better

I borrowed my husband's driver,
and hit the Longest Drive for the ladies

And we didn't bother picking up the Golden Hole this week as there wasn't much on it. So - the final scores:

Peter	Richard Osb	71.25
Derek	Bernie	70.25
Gim	Keith	70
Graeme	Roland	69
Tom	Ciaran	67.5
Colin	Don	67.5
Rob	Richard Yeo	67.5
Stan	Charmaine	67
Brett	Frances	66.75
Gary	Carol	66.5
Gordon	Phil McKeague	64

And the winners!! Just love the paper, daddy.

Summer Cup Rnd 2

Sponsored by the lovely Stiff.....


And so we came to the 2nd Round of the Summer Cup, with The Coach being the current leader with a mighty fine round of nett 64,,,,

will he hold his nerve?

will someone stand up to the challenge?

Only time will tell,,,,,

But before we get onto the golf it was great to welcome back Fran The Broken to the fold!!!

Great to see ya back m'dear, let's hope we see you again soon.

And also brilliant to see the Lovely Rita & Ron,,,,, shame we didnt get more of a chance to catch up







So what happened in the golf???????





The Results
Well to keep it short The Coach choked and The BlogMeister came to 'da party' and managed to pip Oirish to the winners circle.....

 So the Winner of the Day was

Ciaran da Oirish


But unfortunately for him not quite good enough over the two rounds 

As Gardi the BlogMeister took home the bacon for the overall Winner of the Summer Cup 2017, getting his name on it for the 2nd time

wooo hooo,,, yeh baby!!!




As for the rest of the results, once again my Score Secretary has let me down, and as i was celebrating my win i didn't take any notes,,,

From memory the combined scores might go something like this for the top few,,,,

1st-  Paul G
2nd- Ciaran
3rd-  Gary
4th-  Kerry G


Novelties
Not a huge amount to say but without any controversy whatsoever the Novelties pretty much went to the trustworthy last group 
hehehheeeee

NTP3-  Ciaran
NTP9-  Ciaran
LDL-    Gim
LDM-   Paul

Yeh baby,,,,,,, woo hooo

And with a paltry amount in the pot, The Golden Hole stayed to accrue for another week.


Fines of the Week
And so the theme goes on with not very much to report, except for the following:-

Brenda-- for daring to have a birfday (yes poor i know!)

Tom--  for admitting to the fact that he got paid, and hasn't actually worked this year,,, lucky bugger!

Tom--  for admitting he was giving up golf to go and join The Vickster at her 'mosaic club'
WTF?????

Tom--  for his announcement of a slight 'romantic error' with his beautiful lady and some wax

Paul--  for drinking and driving in the cart,,,,, 
in my defence it was only to dull the pain of a slow round.

Ciaran-- for announcing that 

'i was robbed,,,,, that trophy would've looked great by my other FIVE'

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