Match Play Quarterfinals

Another magnificent day for a round of golf at Wembley. This week the Tuart Course was in play with its several water hazards, tricky par 4's and some narrow fairways. 

With clear blue skies and little to no wind the 3 pairs of match play quarter-finalists had every opportunity to demonstrate their best game however, as we know, golf play is a fickle business! The remaining pair, comprising Shelley Yeo and Andrew Crevald, will play their match at a later date.

That left the remaining 17 players to enjoy a round of stableford!

The match-players have already teed off leaving
 Frances, Greg, Colin, Paul & Andrea at the first tee! 

Mind games were inevitably clouding ones judgement at critical points of the match!

Did everyone get in enough practice before the start?

Paul and Keith looking relaxed as they wait on the 3rd tee with Mark Macnish.
Bernie, the 4th member of this group, was teeing off on the white markers!

Gerry's tee shot on the 2nd found its way underneath
 a pile of broken branches which took some time to clear!

Andrea takes a pic of Nuria attempting to redirect

 her ball from the base of a tree!

The 18th hole with group 2 putting out.
Only 91 metres from the green markers with many, either on purpose
 or inadvertently, sneaking their ball past the safe side of the left hand sand bunker! 

Hot chips were much welcomed!

Gim and Shelley were last in and made do with the rear table!

President's Message

SOS President, Tony Gooch, welcomed members present and congratulated those with birthdays to celebrate this week! 

President, Tony Gooch, wishes Derek a happy birthday for tomorrow
 and also to Richard Osborne and Mark Hill for later in the week!

Tony also referred to the email received by SOS members this week from Glen's daughter, Kelly, concerning the tragic loss of their newborn son, Charlie, to a genetic disease and their desire to raise funds for research for preventing birth defects and genetic disease in children. The SOS committee believes the raising of funds for the cause, to be donated to the Children’s Medical Research Institute for research into kids born with a birth defect or a genetic disease, to be something the SOS Group can support. The Club Captain, Gerry Tessier, has outlined the fundraising procedure in 'Captain's Corner' toward the end of this blog.

Match Play Results

Congratulations to Derek, Gary and Keith for claiming victory in the match-play quarterfinals.

All hard fought matches decided in the last three holes!

Player	Score	Birdies
Derek Longhurst   def. Earle Scarff	3/1	- 10
Gary Burgess  def.  Tony Gooch	2/1	1 2
Keith Barrow      def. Paul Cooper	3/2	- -

These three results have caused $395 to be wiped off the auctioned investments made by Tony (in himself) and Michael C (in Coops & Earle) !

Still in the money are Gerry, Fran, Boris, Gonch & Pugdog who bet on Andrew, Derek, Keith, Gary & Shelley, respectively!

Stableford Competition Results

Congratulations to Stephanie, for taking 1st place, scoring an outstanding 40 points, 4 points clear of Frances on 36 points (2nd) with Bernie on 35 points (3rd).

Shelley, who has returned from a brief absence won, the bag of lollies coming in with 22 points.

Stephanie & Frances congratulated on their
 podium finishes by Club Captain, Gerry.

Bernie, who placed 3rd, was not able to stay for the podium photo as she left before the post game meeting in order to commence her multi week global odyssey!!  Bon voyage Bernie!

Raffle

Derek took the honours to roll the barrel of numbered balls under the eye of Carol. 

Derek had much to celebrate!
A match play win and a birthday!

And the winner was Carol who scored a $20 gift card from Lot Six Zero!

Golden Hole

Well done Andrea who won the Golden Hole on the Tuart's 3rd hole. Unfortunately, the prize pool was only $40 comprising $18 carried over from 1st July, plus $22 from today's players.

Eagles & Birdies

No eagles, however 7 birdies were scored, 3 by those playing match-play*.

Eagles & Birdies
	Hole	Placing
Earle Scarff	10	L*
Tony Gooch	2	L*
Gary Burgess	1	W*
Mark Macnish	1	9th
Bernie Caffrey	14	3rd
Gim Ong	10	12th
Andrea Williams	3	10th

Novelties

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
NTP in 2	7	-	Mark W
LD - Ladies	10	Nuria	Andrea
LD - Men	13	Earle, Keith, Mark Mc	Gardi
NTP in 3	15	Steph, Frances	Andrea
NTP	18	Gary, Keith, Mark W	Gardi

Nice work from Paul G who placed 4th in the stableford competition and 2 novelty wins.

        been married before!

Next Week

On Saturday 29 July the Club Championship No 5, stroke play, will be played on the Tuart course  commencing at 9:16am.

Only 5 more days to go until Saturday ! ! !

Captains Corner

Raising Funds for Charlie Big Heart - Kelly & Family (Glen's daughter)

We all have received Kelly’s message about raising funds for the Children’s Medical Research Institute for research into kids born with a birth defect or a genetic disease.  The SOS committee in the name of all SOS group members would like to support the cause so, as of next week, for the next 4 weeks, all Ash Tray fines and also the chips budget will go to the cause and SOS will match the total amount up to a ceiling of $250.

We count on all of you to be generous for the fines and to support it …and if some one wants to buy the chips …you are going to be VERY popular as well !

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