SOS Golf

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

The Wonderful Game of PAR

Very kindly sponsored by the beautiful, if slightly scatty, Vickie! x

What a glorious day it was as we started off in the relative warmth for a game of PAR!

After consultation with Peter 'The WeatherMan' Baird he declared it was going to be 'slightly damp!'

And how true he was as many of us were ever so slightly worried when we heard and felt the thunder & lightning.

Anyway on with the commentary as we welcomed Paul 'The Chippie' King for his first official round as part of the now infamous SOS Group, who was joined by Ciaron 'Super Oirish' McGlue for his second card.

And also a welcome back to Graeme The Stig Powell who returns, especially after waltzing through an RBT on Sat morning

Good to see ya mate!!!

So on with the golf,,,,,,

The Results
And the winner of the PAR round is,,,,,,,,,

WELL DONE RON

Enjoy the prize, which is quite ironically, a StarGazing Telescope! Now if you wish to regift it i will gladly take it off your hands.

1^st Ron Conway - +3 on 1^st countback

2^nd Vickie Scarff - +3 (GA hcp 20.5 and daily hcp for Tuart down 1 to 22)

3^rd Lynne Malone +2 on 1^st countback - Birdie on 9^th (GA hcp 12.7 and daily hcp down for Tuart down 1 to 14)

4^th Greg Bennett +2 on 1^st countback (GA hcp 20.5 and daily hcp down for Tuart down 1 to 22)

5^th Phil McKeague +2 - Birdies on 2^nd & 12^th + Golden Hole jackpot

6^th Glen Pope +1 on 1^st countback - Birdie on 4^th

Brett Fordham +1

Graeme Powell 0

Paul King 0 – Birdie on 1^st

Ian Hunter 0

Tom Reilly -1 – Birdie on 3^rd (GA hcp 18.3 and daily hcp down for Tuart down 1 to 20)

Steve DeSantis -1

Paul Gardner -2

Earle Scarff -3

Peter Baird -3 – Birdie on 8^th

Kerry Gardner -4

Richard Osborne -4

Frances Longhurst -5 – Birdie on 9^th

Malcolm Yeo -6

Derek Longhurst -8

Shelly Yeo -8 – Lollies on a countback!

Guest: 2^nd card – Ciaran McGlue +3

Nice work all, and here's to next week.

Novelties

Now i wanted all the novelties to be Longest Drives, 2 for the men and 2 for the ladies but i was out-voted by Earle The Captain Scarff!

Boo hiss i say heheheee

NTP Phil McK

NTP Lynne

LD Sheilas Kerry

LD Blokes Phil McK

Golden Hole

And yes it goes off again, for the princely sum of ~$20 goes to Phil Mickelson McKeague,,, don't spend it all at once mate!

hehheheee

Fines of the Week

And after a long round of swearing, cursing and general silliness there were a few fines to be had and the Golden Group of Glenn The Style Pope, Brett PrettyBoy Fordham, Steve Da Man DeSantis and Paul Gardi Gardner were to offer up a couple of crackers.

Though it does have to be said that many of then are too crude to be put into such a refined document as this.

Glenn--- after walking up to the 3 of us waiting he declared, "why the fk are we waiting here fellas?"

To which the reply from Brett was succinct and to the point, "for you to hit your fkn ball!"

Paul--- upon walking onto the 6th tee which was back towards the "Tiger Tees" leaving our carts in close proximity i joked, "we better watch out for those carts boys hehehe"

Fortunately we all missed them on our drives, but after searching in the scrub on the left for my wayward drive (unusual eh?),,, i chose to try and 'duck-hook' my second around the corner,,,,, ONLY TO BLAST IT INTO MY OWN BAG!!!! Bugger!

Paul--- After duffing my next shot, it was shouted out by Glenn that i should be eating 'Humble Pie',,,, to which i replied by opening my golfbag and digging into a piece of homemade pizza! Heheheee

Rita--- after stating that she was going away and leaving Ron to his own devices,,, the subject of cleaning came up (but i'm not sure of the exact reference) she said "it's not what's been dusted, it's about it being polished!?"

The Chippie--- having to throw clubs at the crows as they swooped and flew off with his bacon and egg roll! B'stards (or should it be bustards???) but damn clever!

Next Week
Oh yes and it's one of mine as the current holder of the Summer Cup,,, as it's the first round!
Unfortunately Wifey & I will be away for the next 2 weeks,,,,, so good luck one and all!

Summer Cup - Round 1 (stroke) with Round 2 the following week.

Last year’s winner – Paul Gardner

Note: Summer Cup is open to all members who have submitted 5 cards within the previous 3 months (Will not apply to winner of the comp for the day & sponsor’s prize). GA handicaps do not alter during the event although the daily handicap may differ as one round played on Old Course and the other round played on Tuart Course.

Random Pics

The calm before the storm

Escaping the elements

Not a bad set-up pal

Smiling cos he wasnt even playing

The very serious matter of the post-match conference

I doff my cap to you, my fellow team-mates

Hehehehe i'm off with the girls, says Rita.

Look at the concentration over the beer,,, trying to use The Force to lift it

A shell-shocked Malc

Mmmm food

A vision in red, i feel like Glenn!

Who am i gonna be stuck with next week???
hehehee

Ahh what a sweet pic

Heading towards the building site???

Sporting the lovely shade of pink

Discussing hair styles

Looking very serious matey!
Bad day at the office eh???

SEE YA A FEW WEEKS PEEPS

HIT THEM HARD

HIT THEM LONG

AND

SCORE WELL

xxx

Monday, January 25, 2016

Austraya Day Cup-- stableford

Sponsored by The Coach.

What a beautiful day for a game of golf!
A great bunch of 'dress ups' turned out to celebrate Austraya Day and to compete for the much-coveted Cup.

Many adorned their carts with The Aussie Flag as well as dressing to the max.

A special mention has to go to Shelley's sparkly dress, but unfortunately I don't have any pics

Whilst others just wore Aussie Hats and sported the Aussie Green & Gold.

The question is, did all this work for the golf scores and did it improve or ruin our games????

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As mentioned above The Coach was the sponsor, but this will be his last game for a while as he and his new family head back to Vietnam to show of his new addition,,,,,

Good luck mate and see ya in a few weeks!

We also saw the return of Paul The Chippie King (don't worry mate the nickname will get better, but i'm a bit drained and my imagination isn't working to top speed) and his irish mate, Ciaron from Coleraine.

So onwards and upwards with the competition,,,,, tho some did seem a little bit more relaxed than others,,,,

The Results
And so the scores are in, and it was a mixed bag of results from the good to the not quite so good:-

WELL DONE Rob, a cracking score to win your first cup!!

1^st Rob Gray – 44 (GA h’cp 19.6 & daily hc’p down 1 to 21 for both courses)

2^nd Ian Holmes – 41 (GA h’cp 18.2 & daily hc’p down 1 to 19 for Old Course & remains 20 for Tuart)

3^rd Paul Gardner – 39 Birdies 6^th and 11^th holes

4^th Steve DeSantis – 38 Birdie 10^th hole

5^th Vickie Scarff – 36 (on 2^nd countback)

6^th Colin Kerr – 36

Gary Burgess – 36 (on 1^st countback) (GA h’cp 8.9 & daily h’cp up 1 to 10 for both courses)

Stan Tan – 36 Birdies on 11^th & 16^th

Glen Pope – 35

Shelley Yeo – 34

Phil McKeague - 34

Malcolm Yeo 33

Greg Bennett – 33

Frances Longhurst – 31

Nola DeSantis – 31

Brett Fordham – 31

Earle Scarff – 31

Gim Ong – 30

Kerry Gardner – 27

Derek Longhurst – 24 (recipient of the lollies & an excellent finemaster!)

And for Paul The Chippie King third card a much improved 86.
It looks like the practise is paying off mate

And for Irish Ciaron,,,, i believe it was a disappointing 99.

Novelties
NTP3-- Glenn
NTP6-- Shared by Earl & Paul
NTP15- Gary
LD17-- Earl

Golden Hole

Yyyyaaaaayyyyy it has gone off again,,,, we have a new winner,,,,,,
Well done to Earl as he pockets $124

Nicely timed fella, as you got away without having to buy a drink as we all headed down to Bold Park for the Austraya Sausage Sizzle,,,, lucky bugger!

And to cap it all he walked away with the $10 from the raffle.
When it's your day, it's you day!!!! heheheh

Fines of the Week
Most people were pretty well behaved, but there were a couple of notable exceptions:-

Peter-- after seeing others people's flags, he was overheard saying "i would've brought mine, but my cat pissed on it!" hehehehe classic!

Shelley-- owning up to a bit of Club Abuse (not really as her club head came flying off) and nearly won a NTP!!

Austraya Day Sausage Sizzle
It was great to see Rich Yeo down at Bold Park, we all hope the next stage goes well for ya mate, and we see ya throwing your clubs again with SOS soon!

A big thanks goes out to Shelley for providing the Snags & Lamb, which went down an absolute treat.

And for Deeta and Fran who brought the salads,,,,,,,

Plus, it wouldn't be right to mention the thankless work done by our resident chefs Brett & Earl,,,,

hurdy gurdy gurdy, bud bud bud bud

Cheers fellas the Swedish Chef would be proud!

Best Dressed Competition
And the winners,,,,,,,,,, Derek & Fran.

Nice work peeps!

However there was a small objection put in by The Gardners (Kerry mainly) as they were regailed in Aussie Hat, Aussie Shirt, Aussie Flag on the golf buggies, Aussie Shorts.

Captain Earl had to be brought in to explain and make an important judgement, stating that you could only win if you were indeed a dinky di Aussie,,, so once again i was disqualified heheh