IRISH STABLEFORD

To be sure, it happens every year, and to celebrate we play Irish Stableford, which means you add up how many you score but you don't count everyone, except you do once you get to some other holes, but to begin with it's two or three but only for some of the holes, so ....oh, never mind. Gary will work it all out.

Paul gets into the swing of things Irish

Sibling rivalry today

A fairly lacklustre expression of Irishness today, possibly explained by everyone wanting to show off their new SOS shirts. I mean, just take a look at these historical pictures from the SOS archive:

Ah well - we'll all try harder next year.


And a team game for a change, with five teams participating.

Man in black

Today's the day!

But individual Stableford scores were entered as well, although no prize for today's Stableford winner.

Harsh, but fair.

Please feel free to try

We welcomed Tony for another round at SOS.

Somehow I think I know who at SOS would have said this..

Tony has applied for membership, and only needs one more round before the committee will pronounce.

Pronounce what?

According to the Guiness Book of Records, the hardest word to pronounce is Chrzqszcz.

 This is, of course, the Polish for beetle.

But we digress. The exciting news today is that the Golden Hole went off. 

Congratulations to Ian, who could probably do with a new set of tires on that 4WD having 

circumnavigated Australia several times in the last few months. 

Feeling pretty confident at this stage

Today was a team event, but there were novelties.

	NOVELTY	HOLE	CONTENDERS	WINNER
	NTP	2	Gim	Richard Y
	NTP in 2	7		Bernie
	LD	11	Gim, Barry, Earle	Paul
	NTP in 2	13	Keith	Gary, Shelley
	Golden Hole	16		Ian

(We should mention that someone who prefers to remain anonymous commented that it was

unfair having nearest the pin in two on the seventh because none of the girls could reach it in

two.) 

Well, it's not until Tuesday anyway

And we kept a note of the individual stableford scores.

	PLAYER	SCORE	BIRDIES
	Barry	40	1
	Tony Gooch	37	4
	Shelley	36
	Ian	36
	Glen	35	1
	Derek	35
	Keith	35
	Earle	34
	Frances	34
	Paul	34	11
	Bernie	33
	Gim	31
	Brett	30	12,17
	Gary	30	13
	Richard Y	30
	Stephanie	30	4
	Don	29
	Richard O	28
	Peter	26
	Greg	22

Well done, Barry. Unfortunately not enough to carry the rest of your team home. 

The bookend pair

Barry and Tony certainly hitting a good stretch of form over the last few weeks. Does anyone 

have an old bent putter they wouldn't mind lending. 

...but not at SOS

Now for the Irish Stableford competition. The results were close, with two places determined by 

countback, but only one winning team. 

TEAM				SCORE
Gary	Keith	Ian	Gim	82
Don	Richard O	Greg	Glen	82
Brett	Tony	Bernie	Peter	86
Richard Y	Barry	Stephanie	Shelley	86
Frances	Paul	Derek	Earle	90

A team effort, all contributed..

Tony James had his second game with us, scoring a creditable 102 off the stick.

Next week, it's the AGM, so after the game we will decamp to Perry Lakes, (weather permitting), 

where there will be food and refreshments. 

In the meantime, here's some fun golf to enjoy