Summer Cup Round 2

A new look!

And don’t we like a new look.

No, not this one

Which brings us directly to the subject of golf shirts.

The existing design is being retired, it having persisted for three years

And is to be replaced with this.

A design that will enable us to look down on other golf groups less sartorially elegant than us.

As elegant as it gets

You will need to let Shelley know your size, gender and preference for short- or long-sleeved version. Please do so asap so that we can put our order into the supplier.

Should you wish two (or three!) shirts, subsequent ones will incur a cost - short-sleeved are $40, long-sleeved $45. However, your first shirt is paid for by the club.

Wayne on the second, lost 2 balls but found 8!

 

And now to the game. Stroke play on the Old Course, the second round of the Summer Cup.

Paul B encounters a spot of bovver.....

....but deals with it masterfully.

Pug Dog had established a very significant lead from last week, but would any of the chasing pack have what it takes to overhaul the front runner?

The day started unusually windy, and had warmed up quite considerably by the time the first group was contesting the eighteenth hole.

However, the temperature didn’t reach the 37 degrees the BOM had been threatening earlier in the week.

Gerry has had his eyes fixed, which means that while he is still hitting the ball into the bush from time to time, he now knows into which bush he has hit it.

A great step forward.

"Start your engines!"

Good to see Goochy again, he tells us he is getting his old game back again - well, at least the shitty parts of it.

Not a bad drive on the fourth, though

And while there were no ‘anniversaires’ again this week, we did celebrate that on Feb 7^th, 1975, Colin played his first game for SOS. That’s right, 50 years a member. It was suggested  that some members were not even born then, although we were struggling to work out just who that would have been.

Here;s Karl in trouble on the 11th. 

Interestingly (yes, really) back then the SOS newsletter was known as ‘The Sausage’, hence our attempt at a bit of retro styling at the head of the blog this week.

Meanwhile, hats off to  Gary, who managed a very creditable 12^th at the Victorian Open in his category, where he represented the SOS golf group. No mention of sausages there.

The novelties were shared around this week:

Nearest the pin on 2 went to Goochy, who edged out Lynley.

Nearest in 2 on the 15^th, went to Roland

The longest drive on the 14^th was bagged by Karl

Nearest in 3 on the 3^rd saw Lynley again in contention, but beaten this time by Andrea, and

Longest Putt on the 9^th, had Earle on the card, but Colin did better.

The Golden Hole failed to go off, so has jackpotted.

Colin Kerr manages to top off a bad day 
with this on the fifteenth. 

So, to the birdies:

Don on 7 and 17

Paul B on 6

Andrea on 10

Goochy on 1

Pug Dog on 11, and

Roland on 15.

Always nice to start with a birdie, Goochy.

Vicki in a spot of bovver on the tenth

Today’s results were as follows:

 

 

Top of the tree

Do note that Karl also won the raffle - how often does that happen?

Which means that the podium for the Summer Cup competition looks like this:

 

On aggregate scores of 147 were Andrea and Roland,

but just, and only just holding on to his lead from last week:

Pug Dog!

Held off the challengers

Congratulations

Next week, it  is VC’s choice. There was much lobbying in favour of Stroke, but in the absence of the VC, Keith has chosen that the game will be Stableford, played with three clubs and a putter.

We generally find with such games that the scores have not varied much from the usual. We can thus conclude that around ten of the clubs you carry around with you every week are totally superfluous!

Just saying. 

And thanks to all our photographers this week - we couldn’t do it without you!

And remember...