Stableford and AGM

A good turnout and a very enjoyable day's golf on the Old Course. Strangely, most of us seem to have mastered that drive off the first tee - it was in the more obscure parts of the course where we came undone.

Congratulations to Gary and LInh, who were married on Wednesday. Good to see you got a leave pass, mate.

Point of Order, Mr President - I'm handicapped by my handicap!

Guests and prospective members had some very respectable scores - Jason hit an 87, Brett came home with 99, Glenda a very impressive 39 points and Step with 32. Brett has applied for membership, and been accepted.

Today's novelties:
 

NTP	3rd	Step
NTP in 2	6th	Gary
LD 20+ hcp	10th	Stephanie
NTP in 3	12th	Judith

The jackpot on the 16th remains unclaimed!

I've just invented a new fine

And today's scores

Frances	19
Paul	24
Peter	26
Vickie	27
Richard	28
Derek	29
Ivar	30
Don	30
Bernie	31
Greg	31
Ian	31
Gim	31
Earle	32
Oliver	32
Kerry	32
Glen	33
Stephanie	33
Lorenzo	33
Lynne	33
Gary	34
Judith	35
Phil	36

That's the great thing about the treasurer sponsoring the prize - you don't get salad servers!

Many thanks to Peter for his generous sponsorship today.

Yes, I choked. You get that at top level of golf like this.

And then we had the AGM: a quick summary of the important stuff -

• We currently have 36 members, with another 6 or 7 prospective

• Finances are in good shape - so good in fact that your thirtieth game this calendar year will be free!!

• Membership will stay at $65

How come there's only the girlie balls left when I win one?

And the new committee looks like this:

President	Kerry Gardner
Captain	Earle Scarff
Vice-Captain	Judith Lotuft
Treasurer	Peter Baird
Booking Officer	Glen Pope
Communications Officer	Lorenzo Ferrentino
Social Committee	Stephanie Jeffares
	Shelley Yeo
	Malcolm Yeo
	Bernie Caffrey

We wish you all the very best, and thanks for volunteering - your efforts are much appreciated.

That's the last time. I'm not doing this crap any more now I'm Vice-Captain.

Irish Stableford

Irish Stableford? We're still having trouble with the ordinary sort.

Phew - that was complicated, but I think we'd got the hang of it by the eighteenth.

Warm, but not unpleasantly so, and a real spread of individual scores, plus of course the St Patrick's Day sausage sizzle, which the kookaburras had been holding out for .

Not much that a good snag doesn't make better

Remember, next week is the AGM - the cafe is reserved and there will be platters of food. At the moment there are no motions for consideration, so we're anticipating a quick meeting and then into the grub.

Off to Dublin in the green, tra la la.

Today's results - welcome back to Brett, who scored a very creditable 88 off the stick, well done sir.

Bernie decided as she was sufficiently Irish already she didn't need to dress up

And the novelties:

NTP	3rd	DJ
NTP	6th	Kerry
NTP	9th	Phil
LD	10th	Kerry

Bugger the golf, at least I get the most Irish prize

Today's individual scores:

Gim	22
Frances	23
Greg	25
Bernie	26
Glen	27
Vickie	28
Richard	29
DJ	29
Ross	29
Judith	30
Don	30
Allan	30
Stephanie	30
David W	31
Lynne	31
Colin	32
Derek	32
Toni	33
Kerry	35
Phil	36
Lorenzo	37
Peter	38
Paul	39
Ian	42

Some days, those putts just drop in the hole

and the team scores:

The Shamrocks	97
Four-leaved Clovers	103
The Avengers	103
The Internationals	106
Dynamic Leprechauns	110
Team Seven	114

And the most imaginative team name award goes to...

Par Bisque

Old Course, at Wembley Golf Complex, 9 March 2013.

One of toughest golf day ever, ... not for the golf itself, but for the maths and logic tests that the rules of the Par Bisque were posing, ... some of us did not pass the test :)

Delighted to have our guests today:

Brett: 95 gross, birdie on 8th

Steph: 88 gross

Glenda: 112 gross

Without further ado, here come the scores

Par Bisque, Old Course
Leaderboard, final score:

Peter: -4
Ross: -3
Oliver: -2
Glen: -2
Ian: -1
Gim: +1
Greg: +1
Tony: +2
Earle: +3
Vickie: +4
Allan: +5
Lynne: +5, with birdie on the 17th

3rd place: Kerry +6

After count-back from the 10th hole:
2nd place: Lorenzo +7, with birdie on the 9th

And the winner is:
1st place: Richard +7

Well done Richard

Novelties:

NTP #2: Earle

NTP in 3 #5: Gim

NTP in 2 #6: Richard

Longest Drive #11: Brett

Next week: Irish Stableford, in honour of St Patrick's day (March 17th)

Vice-Captain's Choice

Vice-Captain's Choice - and what did he choose? Stableford, on the Tuart.

They say practice makes perfect.

And did he do well? Hmm - that depends if you think avoiding the lollies on a double countback counts as success. Some of us clearly do.

Longest Drive, here we come.

But a very pleasant day of golf, with the weather on our side for once, avoiding the 35 degrees of yesterday, and something equally unpleasant tomorrow.

A bad day at golf is still better than a good day at work.

A special welcome to Glenda and Stepan, who joined us today as guests, both having very respectable rounds.

We didn't realise guests have to pay double fines

Today's novelties:

Ist hole, longest successful putt: Glen
9th, NTP  Judith
10th, Mens Longest Drive:  Don
11th, Ladies Longest Drive: Glenda

There's no rule says you can't play in Man Utd colours

And the scores:

Greg
Earle
Derek       24
Judith
Stepan
Gim           27
Frances    28
Vickie       29
Tony         30
Glen          31
Allan
Ian
Kerry       32
Richard  
Glenda    33
Lorenzo
Peter       35
Ross
Don
Toni        36

Today's winner - David with 37 pts. Congratulations.