Club Championship Round 5

The forecast was for scattered showers however they all missed the Wembley Golf Course enabling the 22 SOS Members to enjoy a very pleasant round on the Old Course.

The 5th round of the 7 round Club Championship enabled a number of members to consolidate their aggregate scores, whilst others hoped their inflated scores would be eliminated from their 'best of 5 rounds'.  Only 8 players managed to score 75 net, or less!  Ten players scored over 100 strokes gross!!

At the 1st tee . . .  Mark S, Earle, Derek & Greg

Gerry photo-bombs Shelley!

Mark Smith contemplates his first tee shot?

Stephanie is early!  Or did Glen's initial players list
 show a 9.06 start instead of 9.30? 

Earle, Shelley, Derek in Group 5 & Glen in Group 6.

 'The black Tee Box Mob' ready to tee off!

Fairways & Greens

What better way to start than to watch oour SOS Club President, Brett Fordham, in effortless form, as he powers his first tee shot down the fairway!

Andrea, Gary & Derek catch some early morning sun!

Mark is happy to be back but will be off to the UK soon!

Recent storms had littered the ground with twigs, leaves and sticks.
 Stephanie does a bit of housekeeping!

Before launching her ball back onto the fairway !

Meanwhile . . 

Gerry thought this was his orange ball, but
 it turned out to be mandarin peel!

Group 4 'selfie' while Brett was hitting his ball!

Barry's putt on the 17th green just would not drop
 despite foot stamping,  a lengthy wait and loud exhortations!!

It was sooooo close!!

 

President's Address

SOS President, Brett Fordham opened proceedings by calling the meeting to order!

Brett congratulated Mark Hill who celebrated his birthday last week on 27 July.

Brett noted the SOS annual Country Cup event was fast approaching and will be held on 25 September 2022 at the Araluen Country Club, in the southern Perth foothills. Further details will be announced in coming weeks.

The Results

SOS Club Captain, Gerry Tessier, had a hard time containing his excitment as he listed off the players from last place to first!

Mark Wilson, who is normally higher up on the results list, humbly accepted the bag of lollies and fines list, with a net score of 89.

However, in first place Gerry had to congratulate himself for scoring a net 69 points, 3 points clear of Stephanie in 2nd place on 71 points and Birgit another one point more on 72.

	Player	Handicap	Score	Birdies
1	Gerry Tessier	18	69
2	Stephanie Jeffares	17	72
3	Birgit Reinartz	36	73
4	Shelley Yeo	14	73
5	Gary Burgess	9	73
6	Paul Boquest	8	74
7	Tony Gooch	7	75	11, 18
8	Andrea Williams	22	75
9	Glen Pope	9	76
10	Maureen Sundari	12	76
11	Lynne Malone	17	77
12	Michael Curtis	29	77
13	Brett Fordham	9	77
14	Lynley Hunter	10	79
15	Derek Longhurst	23	80
16	Greg Bennett	21	80
17	Barry Treak	20	81
18	Mark Smith	22	83
19	Peter Baird	20	84
20	Earle Scarff	17	84
21	Gim Ong	24	84
22	Mark Wilson	12	89

The Round 7 Podium
Gerry 1st, with Birgit 3rd & Stephanie 2nd.

Golden Hole

Jackpots again !!!  The pot must now be well into 3 figures!

Eagles & Birdies

No eagles and only 2 birdies, both scored by Tony Gooch! Tony scored on the 11th hole and the 18th hole, the latter being the Index 2!  Great effort!

Novelties

We have 2 weeks of Novelty results this week as the previous week's results were incomplete as well as inaccurate!

The results for 30 July were as follows:

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
LD - Men	3	Goochy	Paul
LD - Ladies	4	-	Stephanie
NTP in 3	8	Goochy, Michael, Puggy, Birgit	Mitch
NTP in 2	15	Peter	Goochy
NTP in 4	17	Michael	Puggy

The current week's results show Paul in good form winning 2 'NTP's'. Congratulations to Gerry, Steph & Brett for winning the other categories!

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
NTP	2	-	Paul
NTP in 3	5	Mark W	Gerry
NTP in 2	13	-	Paul
LD - Ladies	15	Lynley	Stephanie
LD - Men	17	Gary	4D

Ash Tray Collection

Mark Wilson did a great job in rattling the tin as members tossed in their loose change to pay for their poor golf strokes, profanity, abused equipment . . . and many other misdeeds!

In the video we see Earle helping to collect fines as fingers are pointed at potential donors!

Raffle

The first ball is drawn by Goochy, assisted by Boris!

The barrel was churned and the first number drawn was 30, held by Peter, who was too busy taking photos to realise he was the winner of a Lot Six Zero $20 gift voucher! Thanks to Gim to spotting the winning disc amongst Peter's paperwork!

Shelley approaches the photo-taking blogger with the prize!

Next Week

The Match Play semi-final will be played next week on the Tuart Course. The semi finalists are:

Tony Gooch vs  Barry Treak

Michael Curtis  vs  Gerry Tessier

A stableford competition will be held for those who have not made the semi-finals. The format will be announced by Glen later in the week.

Captains Corner

Winter rules are the name of the game at this time of year. The following link provides a useful reminder of how to make the best decisions when confronted by wintery conditions.

https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/XmtI4F56

If the link does not work, try cut & pasting it into your browser!

https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/Xmtl4F56

Remember, the Preferred Lie is the length of your scorecard.

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