Par Plus on the Old Course

Wembley put on the best of spring weather as 16  SOS diehards set forth for a game of Par Plus on the Old Course.  Blue skies, a bit cool to start, but warmed up with occasional light breezes providing ideal playing conditions.

No pictures of the start, however, this is group 2 on the 18th green closing in for their final putts.

Tony, Glenn & Drue.
Gordon out of frame on back right.

Stephanie uses a putter to rescue her ball from a large tree trunk!

Earle chooses a rescue club to get his ball back on the fairway! 

The next photo is a celebration of the art of the long hitter! 

Brett's tee shot on the 12th landed on the hole 16 tee after failing to cut the corner of the dogs leg!!
His next shot was rifled down the 15th fairway . . against the flow of play
 before a third shot made it up and over the line of trees back onto the 12th fairway!

With the 18th green in the background (behind Andrea's legs) the
left side bunker bears the scars of Brett's out of control buggy
 which fell off the top and into the bunker!

Recovery made, Brett uses remote control
 to steer his buggy out of the bunker!

President's Address

SOS President, Tony Gooch, welcomed all present top the post game meeting and announced that Vickie is celebrating her birthday today!

Happy Birthday Vickie ! !  🎈  🎆🎇🎈🎉

Also, the final round of the club championship will be held next week on the Tuart Course.

Tony also noted the annual SOS Country Cup event (which is held on a Sunday) is coming up soon with plans to hold it at the Sun City Resort at Yanchep. Further details and confirmation of venue will be available soon.

While not on the podium, Brett did score 3 birdies!

The Results

Congratulations to Gordon and Greg for each scoring +2 to come 1st and 2nd respectively.

Keith narrowly beat Glen P for 3rd place, also on a countback!

The Podium
Gordon 1st (centre), Greg 2nd (right) and Keith 3rd

Golden Hole

Last week, Paul C claimed the $150 pot #1 on the 16th hole, with the $33 #2 pot on the 2nd hole unclaimed.

Today, no-one claimed the Golden Hole on the 16th although there were several near misses! The pot was $49 comprising $16 for today's players and $33 carried over from the Old Course #2 pot of $33.

Next week the Old Course pot will include a carry over of $61 from 29 July 19 & 26 August.

Eagles & Birdies

Tony Gooch scored a magnificent EAGLE on the par 5, 17th and very nearly scored a second birdie on the 18th hole when his 3rd stroke bounced on the green, from about 50 metres, before running up to the hole, doing a 360° in the cup and stopping just a few centimetres from the hole! 

Goochy shoots for par on the 18th!

A total of 8 birdies were scored by 5 players:

Brett :  9, 11, 17

Goochy :  10 (+ Eagle on 17th).

Greg :  9

Glen :  11

Gordo :  11

Ash Tray Collection

Earle and Drue shared the honor of coming last on -10 ! Earle read out the list of fineable events and managed to get members to cough up a total of $38.55 for the Ash Tray fund!

Novelties

Congratulations to Steph for taking out 40% of the novelty prizes! Enough gift cards for a sleeve of new balls?

Novelties
	Hole	Contenders	Winner
NTP	2	4D, Drue	Earle
LD - men	4	Gordo	Puggy
LD - women	4	Vickie	Steph
Nearest bunker	14	4D, Drue	Steph
NTP in 4	17	Glen P, 4D (ITH)*	Goochy  (Eagle)

*in the hole

Next Week

Final Club championship round on the Tuart Course starting around 8.36am.

Captains Corner

Club Captain Gerry Tessier is still enjoying the Canadian fall weather, but should be back with us soon!

Hopefully Gerry does not encounter a bull moose in rut while playing golf!

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