MATCH PLAY FINAL AND AMBROSE PAIRS

Finally, the final. Eagerly anticipated, the final showdown between Greg "The Mauler" Bennett, and Peter "Terminator" Baird.

Good to see the game being played in the right spirit

Peter confessed that he'd been sticking pins in his little doll all week. Gary asked how he expected to be able to blow it up now. 

Good to see him back..

,,,and good to see him back too.

Off the first tee, both went left. It didn't look good. After that, they disappeared, somewhat appropriately, into the light. We didn't see them again. 

So, the rest of us dribbled around with Ambrose Pairs. A nice relaxed game, no-one seemed to get too excited about the play, or even the result. The weather was kind, the greens were not. 

Finally, we made it back into the clubhouse.  

Talk was of Peter's shot off the fifteenth tee, where he managed to smash his drive into the women's tee marker before watching it sail back over his head for SLUT OF THE DAY. 



So, two fines:  Abusing course equipment and a SLUT. 

Which reminds me, we haven't received a membership application from this young lady

Ross, rather than slink off to the ATM to cover his multiple fines, managed to persuade Shelley to underwrite his obligations. Not sure if she realised quite the extent of his misdemeanours. 

So, the novelties:

	HOLE	NOVELTY	CONTENDER	WINNER
	3	NTP	Earle	Rob
	6	LD	Peter, Paul	Jan
	13	NTP in 4	Paul, Earle	Shelley, Ross
	15	NTP	Paul	Frances
	GOLDEN HOLE		No-one

We've got a plan

A fine pair

And the Ambrose Pairs:

Thats 0.8 hectare and 5.08 cm for metricians..

	AMBROSE PAIRS		SCORE
	Ian	Stephanie	71.25
	Derek	Gary	70.25
	Jan	Rob	68.25
	Ciaran	Frances	67.75
	Shelley	Ross	67.25
	Earle	Gordon	64.00
	Paul, Kerry	Lynne	60.50

A resounding victory

Not our best day on the golf course

Revv'd up and ready to go

But the big one? 

Yes! Best raffle ever..

No, I mean the match play. 

I'm getting a new mantlepiece for it

Greg beat Peter 2 and 1. A close match, by all accounts, with the lead changing multiple times. 

I'll just get the engraver to add ditto marks

Congratulations to you both; a good fight, well fought!

Club Championship, Round 5

Proper parky..

As we piled into the bar, drenched and battered, the president opened her address with a comment about the beautiful weather. 

Having finished some thirty minutes earlier, she hadn't had to putt through this on the 17th!


But, golf is, after all, an all weather sport, right? Between teeing off and putting out on that hole, we'd had sun, wind, driving rain, pounding hail, and back to bright sun. So, that's what they mean by all weather? The only thing missing was fog.

Double shot to get me going

Next week, the match play finals. 

Great Grizzly Greg plays Power Panther Peter. We'll be opening a book on the result shortly. 

The three stooges? Not these three...

These are my performance enhancing druggs

Roland's complaining that the blog is too Anglocentric, so here's a special one for him:



It's surprisingly funny for a German joke. 

(Dear fellow, you've been a doctor for years now, yet you're still terrible at golf. What on earth do you do all day?)



By the way, did you hear about the player who spent so much time in the bunker he got mail addressed to Hitler?

We're going to enjoy ourselves, whatever the result

Yes, well, we'll have to take their word for it....

So, how'd we go on the novelties? 

	Novelty	Hole	Contenders	Winner
	LD	1	Frances	Paul
	NTP in 4	4		Vickie
	NTP in 2	6	Frances, Paul	Shelley
	NTP in 3	11
	NTP in 2	13	Shelley
	Golden Hole	16		Earle

I've just put our vacuum cleaner on eBay. Well, it was only gathering dust.

 Golden Hole has gone off this week - Earle made sure of it with a shot that was just a few inches from the hole. No need for a measuring stick on that one. 

And, the fifth round of the Club Championships. Those who got in before the weather should have had an advantage here, but it didn't seem to make much difference. 

	Player	Score	Birdies
	Malcolm	94
	Thomas	87
	Peter	83
	Vickie	83
	Roland	82
	Charmaine	82
	Kerry	82
	Frances	80
	Stan	81
	Stephanie	79
	Gary	79
	Brett	79
	Paul	78	6, 17
	Shelley	76	6, 13
	Derek	76
	Greg	76
	Brenda	75
	Jan	74
	Graeme	74
	Earle	73
	Ron	69

I coloured it in myself

We missed the blog last week, so here are the details, courtesy Vickie:

Only five to beat? Should have a chance.

Tie breaker? Let's settle it with fisticuffs.

Matchplay semi finals:

Greg d Stephanie 1 up

Peter d Gary 2/1  Peter has a birdie on 9^th hole.

Pants in the wash

Let battle commence..

Stableford comp:

1^st Jan Rowling 34 Birdie on 14^th hole

2^nd Roger Blatchford 31

Rain? Never!

3^rd Dave Williamson 30

4^th Earle Scarff 29

Winner of Stableford - too shy!

Look, no wet weather gear

5^th Shelley Yeo 26

6^th Mal Yeo 23

Reported to Vickie after the game that as there were only 6 players in the stableford comp, 1^st prize received a sleeve of golf balls plus $100.00.  Not verified with the Treasurer but heard from a reliable source!

Unfortunately the beard was attacked by moths