SOS Golf: American Foursome on Tuart

A beautiful autumn day, sunshine, white clouds and little to no wind! A total of 24 players including 2 guests, Mr & Mrs Williams, assembled to play a game of American Foursome on the Tuart Course, which was still recovering from recent coring to the green and tees. The 12 paired teams started at a very reasonable 8.52am!

Meanwhile, the green keepers, presumably to help us all celebrate April Fools Day, had placed each of the 18 pin holes in the most fiendishly difficult locations on the greens. Many shots at holing out failed as gravity saw many balls gather pace as they slipped past the hole only to continue for metres down a slope; some even rolling off the green!!

Frances and Greg were teamed up!

Dave, Ian, Glenn & Shelley

We were warned ! !

Shelley closes in on the 12th pin hole as Stephanie and Brett observe!
Even the coloured flags were no indication as to front, middle or back of green.

The difficult pin placements required additional factors to be considered!

Shelley's ball is buried in a decaying grass tree, leaving
Peter no option other than to pick up!

There are over 50 ducks on and around the 18th green as the last SOS group closes in on the final pin!
Tony is in the sand trap having to play Barry's ball as Barry (squatting on the left) and Kerry and Gary on right watch on!

New SOS Booking Fees Bank Account

An additional bank account has been opened with ANZ for the sole purpose of processing booking fees!

Please deposit all future booking fees into the following account:

Name : SOS Golf Group

Type : ANZ Access Advantage

BSB : 016460

Number : 436397176

Birthdays

Best wishes to Colin Kerr whose birthday is in a day or two on 3rd April and also to Paul Boquest who will celebrate on 4th April!

Idle chat as Gerry waits for final pairs to arrive.

A moment of silence as Derek psych's out the raffle balls?!

Looking a little weary at the end of the round?

SOS Captain announces the last placegetters as he prepares to throw
the bag of lollies to Mr & Mrs Williams!!

Gerry delivers the bag of lollies and explains the SOS custom
of awarding a bag of lollies to the last placed getters.

And the winning pair are . . . . .

Tony Gooch & Barry Treak

And by a 3 point margin from Greg Bennett & Frances Longhurst!

Team	Player	Handicap	Score
1^st	Tony Gooch Barry Treak	13	73
2^nd	Greg Bennett Frances Longhurst	20	76
3^rd	Stephanie Jeffares Brett Fordham	11	77
4^th	Gary Burgess Kerry Edwards	19	78
5^th	Andrea Williams Michael Curtis	20.5	78.5
6^th	Lynne Malone Lynley Hunter	12	79
7^th	Keith Barrow Ian Holmes	14	80
8^th	Mark Macnish Paul Cooper	11	80
9^th	Gerry Tessier Glenn Kelly	13	82
10^th	Shelley Yeo Peter Baird	17	83
11^th	Derek Longhurst Dave Williamson	24.5	84.5
Last!	Harold Williams Mrs Williams	?	88.5

PODIUM
Greg & Frances (2nd), SOS Captain Gerry with Barry & Tony (1st)

Golden Hole

A tricky pin placement and the wrong coloured flag helped keep the pot intact for another week!

The current 'pots' are:

Hole 1 - Old $75 Tuart $150

Hole 2 - Old nil Tuart $37

Novelties

Andrea announces the results of the novelty competition

Unfortunately, the relief blogger did not write down the contenders or winners!

However he can recall the following results:

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
NTP in 3	15	?	Peter
LD - Ladies
LD - Men
NTP in 2
NTP

Please email Peter if you know the other results!

Ash Tray Fund Collection (aka 'Fines')

Brett calls the fines and the coins and a $5 note fill the collection trays!

Shelly fingers Boris for a fine, or was she handing out a novelty prize?

In fact, Boris won the raffle !!

Next Week

The Easter Cup is the prize next week! It is a stableford competition on the Tuart Course with a forecast start time of 8.20am.

Captain's Corner

End 💥

SOS Golf

Sunday, April 2, 2023

American Foursome on Tuart