Presidents Trophy

The warmest Saturday so far this summer saw 21 SOS Members and 2 guests, Mitchell and Mark Smith, line up to contest a stableford competition for the Presidents Trophy.

The temperature got up to over 30 c requiring liberal use of sun block, hats and umbrellas.

 

The 1^st Tee

Greg, Colin & Frances

Ian, Gerry & Gim

Richard, Earle, Mark, Shelley S & Derek

Darren, Dave, Gerry, Tony J, Mitchell & Mark Smith

 

The Fairways

We can only dream of this happening to us! 

Nothing much was reported on any antics during the round, although a number of balls got swallowed by the pond on the 14th hole! A floating dead carp may have received one on the head!

Mark Hill's tee shot on the 15th went some 300 metres only to disappear amongst the short second cut and native grass trees on the right side.  What might have been another birdie ended up as a wipe as Mark declined to walk back up the hill for another shot!

No photographic evidence of this or other calamities were received by the Blogmaster at the time of publishing

Birthdays

Birgit Reinartz celebrated her birthday on 13 November.

Happy belated Birthday Birgit from the SOS mob!!

President's address

As our esteemed President, Brett Fordham, is still enjoying an extended holiday, Club Captain Gerry Tessier brought the meeting to order and announced the competition results.

Everyone enjoying a wind-down from the hot weather!

The Results

Unfortunately for Mark Hill, 2 birdies were not enough for him to escape the honour of last place and being awarded a bag of lollies!

Similarly, for Mitchell Smith who won the game with 36 stableford points but, as a guest, was ineligible to win the trophy!!

So, the winner of the Presidents Trophy, for the second year running, is Peter Baird who managed to scrape up 35 points to beat Gim Ong by 1 point and David Williamson by 2.

In a low scoring, close contest only 6 points separated the top 15 players! Surely some sort of record?

	Player	Handicap	Score	Birdies
1	Mitchell Smith	31	36
2	Peter Baird	20	35
3	Gim Ong	21	34
4	David Williamson	25	33
5	Gerry Tessier	18	33
6	Tony Gooch	5	32	14th
7	Tony James	21	32
8	Stephanie Jeffares	14	32
9	Shelley Skinner	24	32
10	Ian Holmes	16	31
11	Barry Treak	21	31
12	Derek Longhurst	21	30
13	Glenn Kelly	12	30	6th
14	Earle Scarff	15	30
15	Greg Bennett	19	30	6th
16	Mark Wilson	14	30
17	Mark smith	30	29
18	Darren Hedley	18	27
19	Gary Burgess	8	27
20	Richard Osborne	20	27
21	Frances Longhurst	19	26
22	Colin Kerr	14	25
23	Mark Hill	10	25	6th & 8th

The winners Podium
Dave, Gim, Peter & Club Captain Gerry

Golden Hole

Congratulations to Stephanie Jeffares for claiming the Golden Hole on the 18th.

As the hole had been claimed last week, the win only yielded $21. 

Eagles & Birdies

There were many near misses for birdie but those that actually were holed were few and far between!

Congratulations to the following who demonstrated above average shot making! 

Eagles & Birdies
Player	Hole	Placing
Mark Hill	6 & 8	Last!
Tony Gooch	14	6th
Glen Kelly	6	13th
Greg Bennett	6	15th

 

Barry and Glenn K were in the last group
 and had to settle for the back table.

Glenn returning to form with a birdie on the 6th hole

 after recently surviving an arduous charity bike ride!

Novelties

Gary claimed half the balls from the Novelties with some nice strokes!

Mark H and Derek cleaned up the rest!

 

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
NTP	6th	Dave Williamson	Mark Hill
LD	9th	Mark Wilson	Gary Burgess
NTP in 2	12th	Earle Scarff	Gary Burgess
NTP in 3	13th	-	Derek Longhurst

Ash Tray Collection

Mark Hill did an excellent job reading out the 'Diggers' fines list. Many players had to toss the coins in to atone for their hapless playing skills!  All for a good cause during November!

Raffle

The raffle balls rolled and Tony James picked up 1st prize!

Tony James lunges toward the camera in jubilation!
(Cause of blurred image)

 

Annual Dinner

Two weeks to go before the annual dinner is held on Saturday evening, 27 November! Guaranteed to be a great night off merriment, prizes and more!

If you have not already done so, please advise Shelley if you are coming, or not! If you are and have not yet paid, please transfer funds either to the SOS Bank account, or give cash to Shelley next Saturday.

Details are:

·         Saturday 27th November

·         Restaurant is La Casetta, 298 Cambridge St, Wembley ( cnr of Nanson St, 2 blocks east of the IGA)

·         Time: 7 for 7.30pm.

·        Go to the bar area on arrival  and gather before going into the dining area. There will be a bar tab of about $20 per person.

·         Parking area behind (enter off Nanson St). Be careful to follow parking signs if parking on Nanson St or Cambridge St.

·         Cost is $45 for members and $65 for guests

Next Week’s Game

A stableford Ambrose 4 competition will be held on the Tuart Course.

Groups of four players work as a team. Each player hits off the tee, the best shot is selected and all other players pick up their ball and place it, within one handspan, alongside the best ball. Each person then hits a second shot from the same spot. The best shot is again selected. This continues until the ball is in the hole. On the putting green the best ball is marked and the other balls are played from this position.

One score is thus recorded on each hole. This is the sum of the best shots used throughout the hole.

During the course of the round all player's drives must be used on a set number of occasions. Generally this is three. Club Captain, Gerry Tessier will confirm the details.

End