Winter Cup Round 1

The 1st Round for the Winter Cup attracted a field of 21 SOS Golf members to the Old Course to compete in the first of 2 rounds of the stroke competition.

As the first group teed up at 8.55 am, a quick look at the BOM radar showed the potential for intermittent showers, but no sign of the deluges experienced earlier in the week!

Gim, Derek, Frances & Barry

Gerry, Mark Hill & Mark Wilson

Thumbs up from Peter, Gerry & Mark Hill 

Life Members Greg Bennett & Colin Kerr

A video on the new putting standard!

Derek & Tony with Adam Scott looking on!

Gary and Barry ready to tee off.

Glenn and Tony on the 1st tee

Earle with bag of novelty markers.

The Game

The playing conditions were generally excellent. One short shower during the round brought out the umbrellas and buggy covers.  There was much evidence of the torrential rain that came down during the week causing washouts and lines of flotsam in bunkers and depressions. However, the greens were well drained and yielded some excellent long putts!

A pair of ducks on the tee as Glen prepares his first shot!

Gerry takes a picture of Peter using his range finder
as he stands atop the 7th hole 150m marker!?

About 140m further uphill, Gerry uses his remote control to steer his buggy off the top face of the green-side bunker! Crushed umbrella in the foreground shows where buggy landed!  Distracted??

Gerry extricates his buggy from the 7th hole green-side bunker!

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President's Address

SOS Golf Group president, Brett Fordham, welcomed members and guests to the post match sausage sizzle at the Perry Lakes reserve and thanked Carol Barrow, Shelley, Maureen and others who had organised the excellent food and drinks!

Carol and Shelley catering wizards!

Brett reminded everyone that the International Night is being held on Saturday evening, 24 July, and that Glen has kindly offered us his premises at LOT SIX ZERO (corner of Station and Hood St) Subiaco, starting at 7pm.  Partners are invited and arrangements are being organised by Carol.

The Results

Congratulations to Gary, Glen and Greg for taking the podium positions. The lowest aggregate score from this and next week's rounds will claim the Winter Cup!

	Player	Daily H/C	Score	Birdies/Eagles
1	Gary Burgess	11	68	2
2	Glen Pope	9	68	1
3	Greg Bennett	23	72
4	Tony Gooch	7	72	1, 10
5	Glenn Kelly	14	72
6	Colin Kerr	16	73
7	Keith Barlow	10	73
8	Frances Longhurst	22	74
9	Maureen Sundari	13	75
10	Peter Baird	21	75
11	Lynne Malone	16	76
12	Derek Longhurst	23	77
13	Brett Fordham	9	78
14	Shelley Yeo	15	79
15	Mark Hill	9	79
16	Gim Ong	23	81
17	Carol Barlow	33	81
18	Gerry Tessier	18	82
19	Barry Treak	22	83
20	Tony James	21	86
21	Mark Wilson	13	87

Club Captain Gerry Tessier presented the podium winners with their prizes.

Birdies & Eagles

Only 4 birdies this week and not an eagle in sight.

No doubt there were numerous 'near misses'!

Eagles & Birdies
Player	Hole	Placing
Gary Burgess	2	1
Glen Pope	1	2
Tony Gooch	1, 10	4

Holes in 1

News from overseas advises Paul Gardner has joined the multiple 'Hole in 1" club with another ace in the UK! However, as Paul left SOS to return to his roots some months ago, it does not count!

Paul at Perry Lakes in May 2020

Paul's latest hole-in-one was on the 5th hole of the Montgomery Course at Celtic Manor (Ryder Cup 2010)

Paul celebrates his ace!

Novelties

It was perhaps inevitable that not one player managed to hit a par 3 green in 1 stroke! It happened on hole 13, a par 3 of some 140 m uphill!

Congratulations to the other winners, particularly to Brett for featuring in all three scoring holes.

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
NTP in 2	6	Frances, Gary, Colin (30cm)	4D
NTP in 3	8	PugDog,  4D	Gary
NTP	13	-	-
LD	17	Maureen, Shelley	4D

Golden Hole

The Old Course Golden Hole was claimed for the second week in a row!

While Maureen claimed the $343 prize last week, Glenn Kelly's prize this week was only around $20.

Glenn Kelly claims the Golden hole!
He looks pleased!

Sadly his birdie putt finished further away. Such is the way of golf!

Best Handicap Improvement

The Club Captain, Gerry Tessier, has introduced a new competition to recognise the player with the best Handicap Improvement over the preceding month. 

		Previous	New	Decrease	%
1st	Mark Hill	13.3	9.7	3.6	27.1%
2nd	Shelley Yeo	15.2	14.4	0.8	5.3%
3rd	Barry Treak	23.6	22.8	0.8	3.4%

Mark is the winner of the current month and receives a $10 gift voucher.

Mark Hill receives a $10 gift card voucher from Gerry Tessier.

Raffle

Mark Hill also takes first prize in the raffle earning him a gift voucher and a high value 'Scratchie'.

Carol rolls the raffle barrel

Ash Tray Collection

There were many fines levied for all manner of abnormal golf strokes, loss in control of equipment, with Tony James gallantly taking on the roll of 'fine master'!

It did not rain on the sausage sizzle!

Next Week

The second and final round of the Winter Cup competition will be held on the Tuart Course on 17 July.

Frances Longhurst won the Winter Cup in 2020 and will, no doubt, bring it next week!

Golf Humor

A man got on a bus, with both of his front pant pockets full of golf balls, and sat down next to a beautiful blonde.

The blonde kept looking quizzically at him and his obviously bulging pants.

Finally, after many such glances from her, he said, “Its golf balls.”

The blond looked at him compassionately and said, “Oh you poor thing. I bet that hurts a whole lot worse than tennis elbow?”

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