Saturday, October 31, 2020

Memorial & Masters Trophies


Black Swan hazard!

Derek and Frances were met by this family of swans in their driveway as they tried to set off for golf this morning! As the swans appeared to be leaving Lake Claremont in search of the Swan River, the wildlife friendly Longhurst's first rang the local Ranger and then the Police as they ventured onto the roadway creating a traffic hazard! The outcome is not known as they had to leave for the golf course before either party had turned up to save the feathered state emblem! 

Derek and Frances arrived a bit late but happier for knowing the family of swans
probably survived a grizzly fate!


A strong turnout of 19 SOS members gathered at 7.20 am to contest the Masters Trophy as well as the Perpetual Trophy. Perfect golfing weather greeted the players as they set forth on the Old Course which was in pretty good condition.

Greg, Richard and Malcolm at the first tee. 

A quick look at the SOS Club Rules describes the competition for the Masters Trophy as a 18 hole stroke event to be played on the last day of the Winter Season and in conjunction with another stroke event, in this case the Perpetual Trophy, which is only open to members who have won a 36 hole event or the Match Play Competition in any fixture year. The winner of the Perpetual Trophy is the qualified player with the lowest net score. Minor changes to these rules were required to accommodate delays caused by Covid-19 restrictions. 

Glen and Brett contemplate the 1st fairway.

Stephanie, Birgit, Bernie and Malcolm.

There were several reports of wayward behavior by players on the course including an impromptu Haka performed by Stephanie when she was confronted by a pair of blue tongued lizards!


Stephanie in Haka mode to appease the blue tongues!


The lizard responds with a bit of blue tongued defiance!



Jerry's ball is trapped in the cleft of a tree, but he manages to get it moving
 by adopting a branch hugging technique not often seen on the course.
 



While Frances demonstrates the Toyota leap to celebrate a snappy bit of club work!

We understand Frances did clear the ground by a number of centimetres!


A bit like this 👍

Frances clears the bunker on the 17th !

Also on the 17th, Glen Kelly, aka Pigdog, takes out the longest drive in convincing fashion!


For others there were intermittent glitches as balls were either topped, skied, sliced, drawn, over hit, under hit, bunkered and even lost! Many found their ability to comprehend the forces of gravity wanting!


Post Match at the Wembley Clubrooms 

There was plenty of time for the early players to enjoy a cool drink while the tail end groups cleared the final holes and the results sheet became available.



Gary's call for all perpetual trophies to be handed in ahead of the annual dinner produced a table-full of  silverware from last year's winners.


This included the damaged Memorial Trophy where the two obelisks had come un-stuck from the base.  


The Results

Congratulations to Gary Burgess, our Club Captain, for winning both the Memorial and Masters Trophies for 2020. Gary won with a stapleford score of 42 including a birdie on the 12th hole; while Peter Baird took 2nd place, 2 strokes behind.

Competition was strong with 6 strokes separating the top 10 players!





Gary holds the Masters Trophy

Peter comes in 2nd with a welcome return to better scores!

NOVELTIES

Not many contenders today as the big hitters were in the early groups!



FINES

Tony hands back the fines list to the Club Captain after making a spirited call for offenders to dig deep for their numerous transgressions! 
 



BIRDIES

There were 2 birdies on hole number 12, the index 2 hole, winning two balls each for Gary and James. Nice play!




RAFFLE

Congratulations to Bernie for winning the $10 first prize in the raffle draw! A bag of chips was also thrown in to sweeten the feat! 

Bernie and the chips !

Brett won 4 balls for the day - one for his birdie
 and the other 3 from the raffle!



NEXT WEEK









Members will be playing for the Diggers Trophy on 7 November on the Tuart Course where the Golden Hole has jack-potted to above $200.
A bit of short iron practice is in order!


The Missed Putt















And for those that missed some short putts, it is never too late to practice reading the greens and taking a bit more time to sink that 'tap-in' .




Saturday, October 24, 2020

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP, FINAL ROUND

The first warm(ish) day of the year, and the round finished in plenty of time to catch up with the AFL grand final.  

Jerry gives it a good whack

A stroke round on the Old Course. No place for the faint-hearted, and the last round of the Club Championship competition. 

Peter runs through a few swing thoughts during the back swing

This is really serious golf, or at least as serious as it ever gets at SOS. 

Yep, we're pretty serious

And it looks like you either had a good round, or a bad round. 


The white one, or the blue one. I don't care.


A big hole in the middle of the field, where you usually sit with an OK round that wasn't anything too spectacular. No, it was either hero or zero today. 




And before you get  carried away and rush down to the range, remember:




Perhaps just keep it simple:


Last week, the boys went fishing. Guess what they caught. 







That's right. Plenty of fish. 

So, how did we all go today?

 

 

PLAYER

SCORE

BIRDIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don

65

7,10

 

 

Glen P

70

 

 

 

Tony G

72

 

 

 

Jerry

72

 

 

 

Frances

72

 

 

 

Richard O

74

 

 

 

Colin

74

 

 

 

Greg

74

 

 

 

Peter

78

 

 

 

Vickie

79

 

 

 

Gary

79

 

 

 

Glen K

80

 

 

 

Derek

80

 

 

 

Barry

81

 

 

 

Brett

81

4

 

 

Earle

82

 

 

 

Tony J

85

 

 

Congratulations, Don. Five strokes clear at the top of the table. And in the absence of a photo of the winner, here's the runner-up.


Didn't feel like a great game, but the score was OK.

And another strange outcome. To win one of the novelties today your name had to be Glen. 


DERS

WINNER

 

 

 

 

 

 

NTP

2

Don, Greg

Glen P

 

NTP in 2

9

Brett

Glen P

 

NTP in 3

12

 

Glen K

 

LD

15

 

Glen K

 

 

 

 

 

 

GOLDEN HOLE

 

No-one close!

 


No, I don't know how that works, either. 


Bit grand for SOS? It's just a raffle and the novelties.


And talking of the raffle:

Don't tell Birgit, she'll take it out of my allowance.


Yes, we missed Birgit today, who has a sore foot, but just for her:


A plethora of birthdays. Boris and Frances both celebrated their not very manyth.


Frances completed her first round with us after a longish lay-off, courtesy of the hospital industry, and we were pleased to see Shelley back counting the fines, hoping to be back golfing around Christmas time. 

So who put that 50 Eurocents in? Just because you had to cancel your trip to France
you can't unload all your currency here.

Our hard-working committee put their heads together after the game, to finesse the arrangements for the Annual Dinner. 

The committee meeting

Put it in your diaries, November 21 - that's just a month away. 

Didn't get a birdie, but I got a very nice fish..

And a big thanks to those players who sent in photographs from the day's events. Let's make this a thing - email them into the blogger so that we can all enjoy them. 


Malcolm reunited with his 5-iron, that spent
a couple of happy weeks in my bag.


Thought for the week:

Yeah, but a few, not dozens...


If you recognise this man, please do not phone Crimestoppers. 
He works here.



You will have noticed that the chook raffle was chook-free this week. So,for those of you pining for chooks: