Monday, December 20, 2021

Christmas Cup

A splendid day for a game of golf and a chance to win the Christmas Cup!


Plenty of cloud cover, temperature in the mid 20's and an occasional gust of wind to add an additional element to be factored in to every stroke!

The 7.15 am start was a bit painful for some however, a total of  24 SOS members lined up for the stableford competition on the Old Course!

  

Gary Burgess & Mark Hill

Vickie, Derek & Ian ready for the challenge!


Peter, Derek & Ian


Birgit & Brett at the 1st tee


Birgit & Shelley about to tee of on the 1st

The Fairways


SOS President, Brett Fordham shows how to
 cut the corner on his first drive.

Barry & Earle on the 1st tee

Earle provides a few pointers on how to
 keep your eye on the ball!!



Keith & Gerry taking a break 


President's Address

SOS Club President, Brett Fordham, welcomed all present to the final post match meeting for 2021.

Brett thanked Jenny and Barry for providing the very comfortable venue for the meeting and to the social organising committee members for serving up a wide spread of delectable snacks!  The drink supply was also well up to its normal high standard making the whole event most enjoyable for all!

There were no birthdays for members to celebrate until early in the new year!

SOS President Brett addresses the gathering.


Everyone watches Keith consume a mini sausage roll!


Brett continues his address.


Snacks & drinks being consumed!


Steph seeks help in choosing her next mini meat pie!


Proceeding at the residence of Jenny & Barry get underway.

The Result

Club Captain, Gerry Tessier, reads out the competition results:


And a big congratulations to Shelley Yeo the 2021 winner of the Christmas Cup, with 40 points, winning by a margin of 2 clear points. The win was all the more commendable as it included 2 birdies, on the 1st and 9th holes.


In 2nd place was Glen Pope on 38 points with a magnificent round including 4 birdies, on the 1st, 11th, 17th & 18th holes!

Making a clean sweep of the podium by committee members was Gerry Tessier in 3rd place with a commendable 37 points!


 

Player

Handicap

Score

Birdies

1

Shelley Yeo

15

40

1, 9

2

Glen Pope

7

38

1, 11, 17, 18

3

Gerry Tessier

21

37

 

4

Richard Osborne

22

36

 

5

Birgit Reinartz

39

36

 

6

Vickie Scarff

33

36

 

7

Mark Smith

32

35

 

8

Earle Scarff

17

34

 

9

Stephanie Jeffares

16

34

 

10

Barry Treak

25

33

 

11

Lynley Hunter

13

33

 

12

Shelley Skinner

25

33

 

13

Peter Baird

22

33

 

14

Colin Kerr

16

31

 

15

Maureen Sundari

13

31

 

16

Mark Hill

13

31

 

17

Keith Barrow

11

30

 

18

Gary Burgess

8

30

2

19

Lynne Malone

16

29

 

20

Gim Ong

24

29

 

21

Ian Holmes

16

29

 

22

Brett Fordham

16

29

 

23

Greg Bennett

21

26

 

24

Derek Longhurst

23

23

 

Shelley's Christmas Cup triumph !

Birdies

Glen Pope's 4 birdies puts him well ahead of the pack in terms of multi birdies in 2021, and included one on the index 4, 18th hole!

And congratulations to Shelley Yeo for including 2 in her score to win the Christmas Cup!

Eagles & Birdies

Player

Hole

Placing

Shelley Yeo

1, 9

1st

Glen Pope

1, 11, 17, 18

2nd

Gary Burgess

2

18th

Golden Hole

After 5 weeks of near and not so near misses the Golden Hole finally 'went off' when Peter hit his ball into gusting  winds, about 5 metres to the left of the flag! The ball obligingly kept its track before bouncing off the left shoulder onto the green and swinging right toward the flag!


Peter's decision to up-club from a 20° to 17° Ping rescue club,
 to account for the wind gusts, paid dividends - $116 to be exact!

 

Peter holds the bag of loot for taking out the Golden Hole!

 Novelties

Congratulations to the winners of the Novelty holes, particularly to Gary and Shelley who had to string together 2 and 3 successive strokes, respectively, to claim the honour.

Novelties

 

Hole

Contenders

Winner

NTP

2

Mark H, Maureen

Glen P

LD

5

Vickie, Gerry, Mark H, Brett

Steph

NTP in 2

13

Barry

Gary

NTP in 3

14

Vickie, Mark III,

Shelley


SOS Club Vice Captain, Earle Scarff, reads out the
 novelty contenders and winners!

Ash Tray

Derek embraced the role of Ash Tray master of ceremonies to call out the list of fines for all manner of indiscrete behaviour, bad &\or clumsy play and other unfortunate acts and omissions! 

Derek has the honor of reading out the Ash Tray fines list !

Shelley either trying to fine someone or wrestle a
 Secret Santa prize from a member!?

Gim & Birgit discussing Ash Tray issues?


Keith making a point!

Raffle

The last raffle for 2021 was spun by ?. . . . . . and won by Lynley!

Lynley wins the Raffle's 1st prize!
Hopefully the scratchie also pays a dividend.

Secret Santa and his Helper


Glenn Kelly stays close to the action as Santa and his Helper
 prepare to start the present handout !


Secret Santa and his Helper, aka Gerry & Vickie,
  receive rapturous applause!

The 'Most Swapped' Secret Santa present -
 The Rooster !


Jenny picks a Thermos from the Secret Santa bag!



Barry and Keith discussing the merits of  dipping their
 mini egg & bacon pies in tomato sauce!?


Club Captain Gerry Tessier takes the opportunity
 to spread the Christmas Cheer ! 

Next Two Weeks

There will be no game next Saturday, 25 December.  Not only does this fall on Christmas Day, but the current weather forecast is predicting 42 C, which might challenge the physical limits of most members!!

However, the following Saturday is New Years Day when a stroke competition will be held on the Tuart Course for the New Years Cup.






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