American Foursome

SOS - American Foursome -  6 July 2019

Fickle weather kept players guessing as sunshine greeted starters as they milled outside the pro shop for a delayed start!

Enough time for the booking officer to balance the till . . . . 

 . . . . and a bit of a chat

However, by the time half of the SOS players had departed the rain started and it was a matter of retreating to the relative comfort of the pro shop awning!

For Group 5 it was 'umbrellas up' at the first tee.

 Mercifully, the rain was light and short in duration, with very light winds providing optimal conditions for low scores.

The GOLDEN HOLE was won in convincing style by John whose ball landed 2 feet in front of the pin and rolled just past it!  John confided it was as close as he had got to a Hole in 1.

Blue skies and stripped to short sleeves by the 9th hole.

Teeing off at the 12th! With the pin located at the front of the green those with range finders should have had an advantage. No so the blog poster who, having ascertained the exact distance, executed a ferocious tee shot 'windy' moving the ball off the tee and rolling several centimeters, but not reaching the blue tee markers.  Oops!

The water hazard at the 14th hole has claimed many a ball but John, having inadvertently grounded his putter on a longish putt, expressed his frustration by drop kicking his putter which, instead of taking a vertical flight as intended, proceeded in a lateral direction into the water! The picture below shows Vickie and Paul supervising the recovery operation with John successfully using Peter's ball retrieving device.

 

The team results were hotly contested with Brett & Greg prevailing by an impressive 3.5 point margin!

		TEAM	SCORE	TEAM H’CAP
	1st	Brett & Greg Dunkeld	60.5	16.5
	2nd	Derek & Stephanie	64.0	19.0
	3rd	John & Peter	64.5	15.5
	4th	Gary & Jeannie	68.5	21.5
	5th	Shelley & Kerry	69.0	17.0
	6th	Vickie & Paul	70.5	19.5
	7th	Dave & Bernie	70.5	20.5
	8th	Rob & Richard	71.5	23.5
	9th	Max & Frances	72.0	15.0
	10th	Keith & Earle	72.5	14.5

Team handicaps are included to show that lower handicaps provide no indicator of better scores. The two lowest came 9th & 10th!!

Brett receiving his prize from Club Captain Kerry.

The results of the novelties competition are:

	NOVELTY	HOLE	CONTENDERS	WINNER
	NTP in 2	6		Jeannie
	NTP in 3	9	Max & Fran	Derek & Steph
	LD	13		Greg Dunkeld
	NTP	18	Fran, Earle	Max

At the post game venue the President welcomed Jason, a guest sponsored by Brett.
It was noted the venue had been moved outside to accommodate a child's birthday party!

The raffle, ably run today by Steff & Burnie, was won by Shelley!




President Derek advised that he would be absent for several weeks while he took an overseas vacation. He advised that Brett has agreed to stand in as interim President until he returned.

Also, Peter has agreed to take over the Blog for the time being.








Next round on 13 July will be Round 5 of the Club Championship