Irish Stableford

I believe it was supposed to be sponsored by Sticky McGlue, but unfortunately he came unstuck as his 'mates' imbibed a smidgen too much of the Black Stuff and caused him to break his ankle......

GET WELL SOON FELLA!!!!!!

And there we a few 'welcome backs' for such a fine event as we said hello again to Ivar & Judith, Bruce & Mardi, Beardy Dave and Mustang Ross

Apologies to Bruce & Mardi as i was too late in getting pics as you snuck in as i was teeing off,,,,, next time xxx


And of course to Bernie BeJesus

as she offered support her fellow Oirishman as he was recovering in the nearby hospital:-

"Get youself down thr fookin golf course you fookin eeejit Ciaran!"

You'll walk it off, so you will!"

So what happened as the rain decided to come and go,,,,,

The Results

As always many thanks to The Scribe for her endless work in providing the scores on the doors

Irish Stableford 18/3/17
1st Brett Fordham, Stan Tan, Lynne Malone & Thomas Reilly 86

2nd Charmaine Stanger, Roland Stanger, Mardi Freeman & Bruce Freeman 84 (cb)
3rd Vickie Scarff, Earle Scarff, Malcolm Yeo & Shelley Yeo 84
4th Paul Gardner, Kerry Gardner, Derek Longhurst & Frances Longhurst 83
5th Ross Campbell, Don Beesley, Jan Rowling & Bernie Caffrey 81




Stableford (played in conjunction with Irish Stableford)
Thomas Reilly 36 (Birdie 2nd)

Paul Gardner (Birdie 17th), Earle Scarff 35
Vickie Scarff, Judith Holm (Guest), Mardi Freeman (Guest), Kerry Gardner (Birdies 1st for Eagles Nest $5 Par 5 20+ h’cp & 2nd) 34
Jan Rowling, Stan Tan (Birdie 16th), Ivar Holm, Shelley Yeo 33
Roland Stanger (Birdie 2nd), Lynne Malone (Birdie 2nd) 32
Don Beesley 31
Bruce Freeman (Guest), Brenda Jones 30
Peter Baird 29
Fran Longhurst, Richard Yeo, Glenn Pope (Birdie 7th) 27
Derek Longhurst 26
Malcolm Yeo 25

Bernie Caffrey 20 (only excuse for Bernie’s score was that she couldn’t not stop worrying about her fellow Irish golfer’s hijinks on St Patrick’s day resulting in a broken ankle – from some of the scores, there were plenty of other concerned players)

Commiserations to Ciaran, we at SOS hope you have a speedy recovery and hope to see you at drinks on Opening Day with the full story.

Novelties

NTP--  Malc

NTP--  Don

NTP--  Nobody ??????????

LD --   Fordy

Nobody hitting the green on the 14th????? 

Boo hiss people,,,

Golden Hole

And yes it finally went off, but not without some controversy,,,,, as Stan the Man Tan ticked the wrong spot on the sheet, after narrowly beating Fordy on the inside,,,,,,,,, thankfully The Committee, after much thoughtful banter finally saw sense and allowed him his ill-gotten gains!!!!!

Well done mucker!!!!!!!!!

Fines of the Week

Derek & Paul-- for being so stupida as to argue with our respective spouses without realising that whatever happens,,,,,, it's all our fault!!!!

Derek & Paul-- for suggesting to play a couple of holes in The Emperors New Clothes

Stan, Ciaran, Bernie-- for being a little bit sick in the head/ankle/stomach and it affecting their ball striking.

Stan-- for clearly being a little short-sighted due to his sickness and not ticking the correct area on the sheet.

Vickie-- for being angry and aggressive whilst carrying the chairs at the Sausage Sizzle and creating General Carnage, by bumping into people and benches.

Brenda-- for informing us that there are apparently 

"Too many snakes in Ireland!"

 

Earl-- for being like his missus and generally out-of-control of his equipment.

Random Pics

Separated at birth?????

I reckon Stan's marked it in the wrong place, i hope he doesn't get close

Happy Bejesus wid ya

No you can't drive the cart!!!!!

Oh please can i drive,,,, look into these trusting (but slightly jaded) eyes

Damn it's cold

Look at those swings,,,,,,,,

The chefs in action

The lovely platters of goodness

Fun around the fire

Even more fun with a beer










The Gathering begins

mmmmm gotta love a sausage

Par Bisque

He's looking a bit cold, I'll give him a cuddle

Phew, what a scorcher.

Good to see Glen back with eyes intact

Actually, not quite as bad as we were anticipating. Probably because most of us went in carts.

A very slow start, and some pretty slow members of the public in front of us, who got appropriately scolded by the Controller.

It's going to be one of those days

Par Bisque - a game that usually favours the higher handicappers. What happened to us all today - some fairly meagre scores?

Peter prepares to exit before it's even begun

Happy Birthday to Phil McKeague.

Next week it's Stableford, then the following week it's Irish Stableford, so start searching through the wardrobe for something suitably Irish.

Pres takes a snack

Roger's first sighting in the blog

In a fortnight, the AGM will be at Perry Lakes, we'll turn it into a bit of a sausage sizzle. Would you bring folding chairs if you have any, (and would like to be comfortable)

Last sight of Colin before his big Australia tour, make the most of it

OK  - the results.

Nice weather for a hot pie!

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Novelties
2nd	NTP	Phil
9th	NTP in 2	Gordon
10th	NTP in 2	Roger
15th	LD	Glen
		Gordon's practices the winner's waltz, just in case Not even playing today Princess Pink!

And many thanks to Tom for his generous sponsorship of today's event. As today's winner, he magnanimously donated the prize to the runner-up, Earle.

Player	Score	Birdies
Gordon	-5
Richard O	-3
Bernie	-2
Derek	-1
Shelley	-1
Glen	-1
Charmaine	0
Frances	+1	10
Ciaran	+1
Peter	+2	13
Roland	+2
Phil	+2
Malcolm	+3
Don	+3	7
Colin	+3
Roger	+4	10
Earle	+5
Tom	+5	11

It's a great day when the runner-up wins the prize

VC Choice

Sponsored marvellously by SOS.

And so the last Saturday of Summer certainly didn't fail to come to the party as it produced a sweltering 40+ day,,,,, for some this was too much and many decided their time would be better spent on the beach/by the pool/in the aircon/ or anywhere other than the golf course.





For those that did play the majority took the easier option and hired a cart (Wembley actually sold out of them heheheeeee), whilst only the foolish decided to walk (El Pres, The Scarlet Pimpernel & Tomothy)


And some, The Coach, simply brought his own,,,, tho it did look at times that it should have some balancing-training wheels as it precariously traversed the course.

If anybody feels the need to buy him some bumper stickers to help decorate the vehicle please do,,,,,,,, 

though it'll have to wait as The Coach is heading to his annual jaunt to Vietnam with his lovely bride and babs.

Personally i reckon we should give it a name as well????
Any thoughts:-

The Menace of Wembley
Ghost Rider
Rubiks 4 wheeler (due to the difficulty of construction)

And whilst we are talking of general news, a VERY BIG SHOUT OUT must go to Ron Argos Conway for his significant birfday!!!!


CONGRATS MATE,,,, it was a pleasure playing with you, unfortunately the quality of golf didn't shine thro,,, heheheheeeee
i hope you had a marvellous one!




oh and finally,,,,,,,,,

can we all please offer The Booking Officer some sympathy as he's clearly feeling a little under the weather as he sports a fine shiner!

We do hope that it's from the operation and not from an other 'altercation' after a couple of cheeky beverages????










The Results
So what happened in the heat,,,, apart from many red-faces,,,, which wasn't aided by ZERO VISITS from the drinks cart on the back nine!!!!!
Don't worry it was reported!!!!

Many thanks to the ScoringMeister,,, you've been missed,,,,, so you'll actually get a full list for a change


Vice Captain’s Choice

1st Peter Baird 38 (Birdie 14th)




2nd Colin Kerr 35

3rd Glen Pope 34; G (Birdie 17th)

4th Don Beesley 33 (cb) (Birdie 11th Eagles Nest)

5th Gary Burgess

6th Vickie Scarff 32 (cb) (Birdie 5th Eagels Nest)

Shelley Yeo 32 (Birdies 1st & 6th)
Ron Conway 30
Kerry Gardner 29
Roland Stanger 28 (Birdie 4th Eagles Nest), Earle Scarff
Charmaine Stanger, Graeme Powell 27
Thomas Reilly 22

Paul Gardner (score withheld!!)
Paul’s new motion for AGM: Ice cream instead of lollies in summer & meat pie in winter




Novelties
NTP3--   Char
NTP9--   Kerry
NTP15-- Colin
LD17--   Shelley

And since we were playing off The Tiger Tees all day the GOLDEN HOLE didn't go off again


Ball Count

And now for a slightly new item, that will be an occasional thing to remind us all of what 'balls' we are owed

Colin-- 1
Stan-- 4







Fines of the Week
Plenty to work with this week, so read 'em and weep tears of joy

Rich O--  For asking The Booking Officer why his name wasn't down for this weeks event only to be told that you texted earlier in the week stating

"It's too hot for an old git like me so can you take me off the list"

CLASSIC Tricky.....

Tom-- for the worst joke in the world evers,,,,

"What do you call bees that come from the US of A?"

"USB's"

GROAN for the Dad joke,,,,,, which i do actually like heheheeeee

Tom-- for being in the bar, due to turning his golf balls into submarines when i had my ONLY good hole for the day!

Paul-- for it simply being the Worst Round of Golf Evers

Gary-- for needing Training Wheels on his new toy

Rita-- for pretending to be in a Destruction Derby and crashing, and bending, poor old Tomothy's cart,,,,,,, and therefore making a bad day ever so slightly worse.

DON'T FORGET THE DATE FOR THE AGM ON 18TH MARCH

Please forward any agenda items direct to Shelley asap to avoid missing out on discussing those urgent matters!!!!



And just a couple of Random Pics

The look of disdain as The WeatherMan stumbles into the table spilling Ze German & CharChar's beer!!!!!

Sacrilege my dear boy,,,

Nearly forgot this one,, and should really be TOPPING the Fines of the Week

Ambrose Pairs

A fine Saturday, and it was Ambrose Pairs. How do we know that? Because Peter found the cards after we'd all finished playing. Don't worry, we fined him heavily.

The nice thing about Ambrose Pairs is that if your partner's done a great shot you don't have to worry, and if your partner's done a poor shot you can blame them. Kind of a win-win scenario.

And you probably didn't know this:

The Ambrose system was named by the secretary manager of the Victor Harbour Golf Club South Australia in honor of Richard and Mary Ambrose from Michigan,USA, who lived in the area in the 1960s where they had pastoral interests. It was also called the shotgun game. The Ambrose's brought the game from their home club of Spring Valley Country Club in the US where it was called a different name, most like the shotgun game. The secretary of the Victor Harbour Club named the Australian version after Richard and Mary and it caught on when it was first played in a National Ambrose Competition at the Liverpool Club in Sydney in March 1974 for a prize of $5000. One of the winners of the first event was the professional Lindsay Sharp who had a chain of golf shops which he later sold to Ray Drummond.

So there.

Where Brett's monster drive was outdriven by Bernie's even monsterer drive on the 12th.

We were all a bit hot and weary by the time we'd finished, but that didn't stop us having an excellent raffle, which was won by the grandad-to-be-again-very-soon Richard Osborne.

Meanwhile his little sister had another great round, completing her return from broken ankle, so no more excuses about "just try to hit a few balls to see if I can". She can, and she's hitting them better than most of the rest of us.

We had a bit of a shout out for Greg Bennett - we're missing you Greg, so get back here again as soon as you can manage it.

Guess who won the raffle

So, here are the novelties:

2nd	NTP	Stan
6th	NTP	Richard Yeo
17th	LD Ladies	Frances
17th	LD Men	Don
Golden Hole	Not won

Glen "Mr Cool Shades" Pope will be back with us as soon as his eyes are better

I borrowed my husband's driver,
and hit the Longest Drive for the ladies

And we didn't bother picking up the Golden Hole this week as there wasn't much on it. So - the final scores:

Peter	Richard Osb	71.25
Derek	Bernie	70.25
Gim	Keith	70
Graeme	Roland	69
Tom	Ciaran	67.5
Colin	Don	67.5
Rob	Richard Yeo	67.5
Stan	Charmaine	67
Brett	Frances	66.75
Gary	Carol	66.5
Gordon	Phil McKeague	64

And the winners!! Just love the paper, daddy.