SOS CUP FINAL ROUND

A beautiful spring day for the 2nd and final round for the SOS CUP. The stroke competition was played on the Tuart Course and 24 members and one guest turned up to battle for the cup!

Mark Macnish was playing for the first time as an associate member and we welcomed again Nuria Smith as a guest player.

Andrea, Shelley, Glenn, Vickie, Derek, Frances, Gerry & Lynne

Group 1 on the 1st tee
Earle, Mark H & Gary

Gordon demonstrates a custom stroke to Mark S & Mark W

Fairways & Greens

Derek takes 3rd shot on the 4th tee!

Goochy claims NTP on the 18th hole!

Shelley fishing for carp on the 18th water hazard as Greg watches on?

But no!!
 One of them must have lost their ball in the water!

President's Address

SOS Golf Group President Brett Fordham brought the meeting to order and wished happy birthdays to both Earle Scarff and Bernie Caffrey for next Tuesday, 11 October, and Wednesday, 12 October, respectively! Also, best wishes to Frances Longhurst whose birthday is on 24 October when she will be over east visiting family!

Brett reminded members that the Benkerr Cup will be played over the next 2 Saturdays when teams comprising those born in Australia will compete against teams born overseas (aka Rest of the World "ROW"). Do not forget to book!

Planning for the end of year function / annual dinner is well underway  and will be held on Saturday evening, 19 November 2022 at Lot Six Zero, 375 Scarborough Beach Road, Innaloo. Please return any perpetual trophies and note the date in your calendars.

Good news from Dave Williamson who has recovered well from his illness and we hope to see him back on the course very shortly!

President addresses meeting

SOS Shirt Design

At last week's post game meeting Nikkita Passmore, the artist who created the design for the SOS 50th anniversary shirt, gave a short speech on her design. For the benefit of all members the following words describe the artist and her design.

The Artist

Nikkita's art is a mixture of line art and dot art this is because of my connection to both my cultures Maori and Aboriginal. My journey with Art began when I was in high school gradually leading me to be awarded the year 10 Aboriginal art award. This is where my very first mural was done in year 10 and still hangs in the library of my old high school to this day. For years I had lost my desire for art, but suddenly my parents passed away, This is when my partner reconnected me back to art and I used Art as a grieving therapeutic mechanism this is where all things art's and crafts had reawakened. Today I am proud to be on my way to having a clothing line with Australian Aboriginal art. This Piece I have presented to the SOS golf club was in honour of the Club and members.

Meaning of the art piece

This artwork is in representation of the SOS golf club and in honour of its 50^th Year anniversary. The colour to this piece is a reflection of the golf club in itself. The round meeting spots are in representation of the golfing holes and the travel lines connecting to the round meeting holes are the golfers traveling from golf hole to golf hole. 

The very small blue dots are the golf balls being hit from place to place. (They are to look as if they are mimicking the streak lines left from the golf ball as they fly in the air). 

The big meeting groups (in white) are the golf club and the members. The Grey dots are family members and groups that have a connection to the club both past, present and future. 

The curvy lines are the Golf course and the water on the golf course itself.  

The Results

Gerry Tessier, SOS Golf Captain, congratulated SOS President Brett Fordham for winning the 2nd round of the SOS Cup competition scoring a net 69 strokes, narrowly eclipsing Vickie Scarff in a count-back! One stroke further back was Barry Treak on 70.

Vickie modestly admitted this had been one of her best rounds in recent times and was largely attributed to her putting which saw her holing out with numerous single putts!!

Gerry noted a total of 13 birdies from the round, 8 of which were scored by 3 players.

Gerry Tessier reads out the competition results

SOS CUP  -  Round 2

	Player	Handicap	Score	Birdies
1	Brett Fordham	7	69	7, 15, 18
2	Vickie Scarff	30	69
3	Barry Treak	19	70
4	Frances Longhurst	21	71
5	Lynley Hunter	10	72	14
6	Gordon Grzyb	10	72
7	Tony Gooch	7	73	10, 16, 18
8	Mark Smith	21	73
9	Andrea Williams	20	76
10	Derek Longhurst	23	76
11	Shelley Yeo	13	76
12	Earle Scarff	16	77
13	Mark Wilson	10	77	17
14	Mark Mcnish	8	77	15
15	Gary Burgess	7	77
16	Lynne Malone	15	78	15
17	Glen Pope	8	78	7, 13
18	Glenn Kelly	12	79	7
19	Mark Hill	10	80
20	Peter Baird	20	80
21	Gerry Tessier	17	81
22	Colin Kerr	13	81
23	Greg Bennett	20	83
24	Don Beasley	14	94

SOS CUP SCORES - Rounds 1 & 2

The winner of the 2022 SOS Cup is Brett Fordham with a score of  142.

In a 3 way count-back on 146 strokes, Barry Treak came 2nd and Tony Gooch 3rd.

Gary Burgess came 3rd in the count-back and placed 4th!

One stroke behind on 147, and left to lament the odd missed putt, came Vickie, Derek and Lynne!

 

	Player	Round 1	Round 2	Total
1	Brett Fordham	73	69	142
2	Barry Treak	76	70	146
3	Tony Gooch	73	73	146
4	Gary Burgess	69	77	146
5	Vickie Scarff	78	69	147
6	Derek Longhurst	71	76	147
7	Lynne Malone	69	78	147
8	Frances Longhurst	78	71	149
9	Andrea Williams	74	76	150
10	Lynley Hunter	78	72	150
11	Shelley Yeo	75	76	151
12	Mark Wilson	77	77	154
13	Greg Bennett	73	83	156
14	Earle Scarff	81	77	158
15	Mark Smith	85	73	158
16	Colin Kerr	79	81	160
17	Glen Pope	82	78	160
18	Mark Hill	81	80	161
19	Peter Baird	82	80	162
20	Mark Macnish	86	77	163
21	Gerry Tessier	84	81	165
22	Don Beasley	88	94	182

The 2nd Round Winners Podium
Barry (3rd), Vickie (2nd & Brett (1st)
with Brett holding the SOS Cup trophy as outright winner

Eagles & Birdies

Another good haul of birdies from the regular contributors!

Eagles & Birdies
	Hole	Placing
Brett Fordham	7, 15, 18	1st
Tony Gooch	10, 16, 18	7th
Glen Pope	7, 13	17th
Lynley Hunter	14	5th
Mark Wilson	17	13th
Mark Macnish	15	14th
Lynne Malone	16	16th
Glenn Kelly	7	18th

Ash Tray Collection

Greg had the honor of calling out the fines assisted by collectors Gerry and Tony.

Novelties

Goochy was obviously in good form taking out 3 of the 4 categories available to him!

Lynley was in group 2 and eclipsed the chances of any ladies following in later groups!

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
LD - Mens	2	Mark W	Goochy
LD - Ladies	8	-	Lynley H
NTP in 2	12	Gary, Mark W, Colin, Don	Goochy
NTP in 3	15	Earle	Lynne
NTP	18	Earle, Lynley, 4D	Goochy

Raffle

Glenn was back from the north in time to take control of the barrel of balls, with Vickie and Mark W watching on closely!

After several miss draws Vickie's willpower persevered and her number came up! 

Winner of the Raffle Draw . . . . Vickie, of course!

Vickie displays her gift card prize for picking the first drawn number!

Next Week

The 1st of 2 rounds of the Benkerr Cup will be played by the Australians vs Rest of the world.

The competition will be on the Tuart Course and is due to commence at 7.24am!

Details of the teams and the competition are set out below under 'Captains Corner'.

Captains Corner

The Benkerr Cup is a 2 week competition between Team Australia / ROW (Rest of World).

Week 1

15 October  Tuart Course  7.24am start

Competition is a 4BBB stableford with 2 players playing as partners, although the hole is played by each of them using their full individual handicaps. After the hole, the player recording the highest number of points has his or her score entered on the card.

Team captains:

    Australia - Greg Bennett & Colin Kerr

    ROW - Glen Pope + TBA

Scores - Points from 1 to 10 with best 5 scores of each team will be selected.

Team captains are to organise the teams they want to play together.

Referee for competition (if necessary) - Brett Fordham, Tony Gooch & Gerry Tessier.

Week 2 - to be advised next blog.

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