Fellowship Day Trophy

The autumn weather was perfect for the annual competition between a selection of SOS's best and members of the Western Australian Blind & Vision Impaired Golfers Association. A field of 7 players from each club were paired up to contest a stableford competition on the Old Course.

Due to the extended COVID-19 lock-down period mid last year the 2020 contest was unable to be held. 

The 2021 event was originally planned for mid April 2021, only to abandoned when an unexpected 7 day lock-down closed the Wembley Course!  Committee members from both teams worked hard to reschedule the event for 8 May to be followed by a presentation ceremony and BBQ at the Perry Lakes reserve.

SOS President, Brett Fordham, and Social Organiser, Tony James, interrupted their fishing trip in the north-west of the state to send their apologies for being unable to participate in the event!

Group 1

Derek Longhurst, Earle Scarff (S), David Lee (BGA), Des Wilkinson (C) & Shelley Yeo

are the first group to tee off.

S = SOS Defender    BGA = WABGA player      C = Caddie

Peter (BGA) & Robin (C) Drury, Gerry Tessier (S)

Frances Longhurst (S), Deanna (BGA) & Clarrie Minciullo (C) 

followed in Group 2.

Barry Treak (S), Birgit Reinartz, Malcolm Elliot (BGA) & Neville Walker (C)

comprised Group 3.

Photo of Ron Anderson at the BBQ.

Ron competed in Group 4 with Barry Audsley as his Caddie against Tony Gooch.

A photo of Group 4 is missing (or not taken?)! The group comprised

Tony Gooch (S), Ron Anderson (BGA), Barry Audsley (C), Dave Williamson & Ian Holmes.

They may be in this panorama shot taken just before the contest commenced!

 

Group 5 was made up of Glenn Kelly,

 Carol Mill (C), Peter Heinrich (BGA), Keith Barrow (S) & Gary Burgess

The final group consisted of

Maureen (BGA) & Jim (C) Crawford, Stephanie Jeffares (S), Gordon Gryzb and Glen Pope

David Lee tees off for WABGA as Caddie, Des Wilkinson, look on.

SOS players debrief as the last groups are yet to arrive at the BBQ.
 

The Fellowship Day Trophy

It may come as a surprise to some, but the Fellowship Day trophy had been missing since about 2014!

The good news is that, last week, after an exchange of several thousand emails between past and present committee members and some heroic search efforts, including into the dark recesses of a former SOS President's red-back infested garage, it has been found. The last engraving on the burl wood plaque was for the year 2013, making it almost an antiquity!

SOS Club Captain, Gerry Tessier, with the recovered trophy.

To fill in the gaps, SOS archive specialists, Derek Longhurst and Greg Bennett searched previous blogs and came up with the following historic results:

2020 Not held
2019 SOS winners 6:3
2018 SOS winners 5:2
2017 WABGA 3:2
2016 SOS 4:1
2015 WABGA 3:1
2014 SOS  229 : 224
2013 SOS 140 : 139

2012  ?

2011  ? weather?

2010  SOS

2009 WABGA

2008 WABGA

2007 SOS

Which brings us to the 2021 results which was a 5:2 win for SOS!

SOS Club Captain Gerry Tessier accepts the Fellowship Day Trophy

 from WABGA President, Ron Anderson.

	Competitors  - SOS / WABGA	H/C	Score	Caddie	Winner
1	Earle Scarff David Lee	17 35	29 31	Des Wilkinson	WABGA
2	Frances Longhurst Deanna Minciullo	21 33	28 34	Clarrie Minciullo	WABGA
3	Gerry Tessier Peter Drury	19 45	38 21	Robin Drury	SOS
4	Barry Treak Malcolm Elliot	23 41	34 23	Neville Walker	SOS
5	Tony Gooch Ron Anderson	6 45	32 18	Barry Audsley	SOS
6	Keith Barrow Peter Heinrich	11 36	36 27	Carol Mill	SOS
7	Stephanie Jeffares Maureen Crawford	17 43	35 20	Jim Crawford	SOS

SOS Competition

The results of the SOS stableford competition can be summed up as:

From right to left - 1st Gerry, 2nd Keith & 3rd Glenn

Congratulations to Gerry for a commendable 38 points with a 3 way tie on 35 points for the minor placings!

	Player	Daily H/C	Score	Birdies/Eagles
1	Gerry Tessier	19	38
2	Keith Barrow	11	35
3	Glenn Kelly	14	35	14
4	Stephanie Jeffares	17	35
5	Barry Treak	23	34
6	Shelley Yeo	16	33
7	Tony Gooch	6	32	11, 15
8	Derek Longhurst	22	32
9	Glen Pope	9	31
10	Ian Holmes	17	30
11	Gary Burgess	10	30	9, 10
12	Earle Scarff	17	29
13	Frances Longhurst	21	28
14	Birgit Reinartz	38	26
15	Dave Williamson	27	25

SOS Captain reads out the competition results

Ash Tray Fund

Dave Williams took the honors (and the bag of lollies) with the lowest score and read out the general fine categories set by the SOS Fines Committee which enabled members and guests to drain their pockets of loose change.

Dave Williamson wins the bag of lollies for scoring 25 points!

Novelties

Well done to the winners who showed the pack a thing or two about shooting straight !

Novelties
		Hole	Contenders	Winner
NTP	SOS	2	Barry, Tony	Keith
NTP in 3	WABGA	2	David, Deanna	Peter
NTP in 2	SOS & WABGA	6	Shelley, David	Earle
LD	SOS	15	Shelley	Gordon
LD	WABGA	15	Deanna	Peter

Birdies & Eagles

No eagles today, but 5 birdies from three players. Well done to the following:

Eagles & Birdies
Player	Hole	Placing
Glenn Kelly	14	3rd
Tony Gooch	11, 15	7th
Gary Burgess	9, 10	11th

Golden Hole

No one got close to the pin on the par 3, 16th hole, so the jackpot rolls over to next week when the second round of the Club Championship will be played on the Old Course.

Birthdays

Congratulations to Richard Yeo who celebrated his birthday on 3 May.

There are 4 other members who have birthdays later in May!

Derek, Dave, Ian and Tony guard the cooked sausages while they keep hot on the BBQ.

Unusually, not a kookaburra in sight to dive bomb the unsuspecting with food in their hands!
There must have been a cull!

Deanna and Ron in foreground dig into the food!

Carol Barrow & grandson (?) discuss the vagaries of putting?

Earle Scarff and Des Wilkinson

Award Ceremony

After the BBQ, a presentation ceremony was held which included speeches by Gerry Tessier, as Club Captain of SOS and Ron Anderson as President of the Western Australian Blind & Vision Impaired Golf Association.  Both agreed the event had been a great success!

While Gerry Tessier accepted the Fellowship Day Trophy on behalf of SOS for 2021, Ron Anderson's speech provided the SOS members with an informed account of the origins of blind golfing in Australia and how events such as this provide their members with a challenge and sense of enjoyment on the course. Ron also gave thanks on behalf of his association for the donation by SOS of $400 which will assist in meeting the association's objectives. 

Ron Anderson, Gerry Tessier & Glen Pope

Ron Anderson gives an impassioned speech in accepting
a donation from SOS to the WABGA. 

Shelley Yeo tucks in to her sausage roll while David Lee
 savors his victory in Group 1 !

The BBQ Group Photo after award of the Fellowship Day Trophy

Des Wilkinson, Frances Longhurst and Peter Drury

Vickie Scarff, Birgit Reinartz & Robin Drury

Next Week

The 2nd Round of the Club Championship will be held on the Old Course on 15 May 2021.

Treasurer's Dilemma

The money jars are missing!!

Treasurer, Shelley Yeo, has been unable to locate the two money jars used to collect Saturday's Golden Hole and Eagles Nest monies!  Can anyone recall what happened to them as the last several groups teed off at the start? The money jars are normally left on the table outside the Pro Shop to accommodate late arrivals, and then picked up by someone in the last group or two.

Fortunately SOS will not have to file for insolvency if they cannot be found as the maximum monies presently lost are in the order of $20.50.

Trivia

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Par on Tuart

After last week's golf-free Saturday we SOS'lers were keen on getting back onto the course. We were welcomed by a strikingly blue sky and frisky temperatures in the low 20ties. Morning greetings were exchanged while assembling the equipment. 

Ian & Dave chatting away while
Derek & Frances are getting their equipment ready. 

Today PAR was on the menu and to our dismay, we were greeted by sanded greens. While this technique is necessary for the health of the greens it causes headaches and frustration to even the best putter.

Captain and treasurer seemingly discussing
serious club matters
Shelley, this glove looks brandnew.

Steph, Frances & Birgit "social distancing" with
Ian photobombing in the background

 "Besties" Dave and Ian enjoying their 
pre-match flat white

Frances, Gerry, Derek & Shelley 

Derek, Gerry, Barry & Greg

The players probably discussing their strategy for the day or how to record the PAR results on their scorecards. "Mate, are you drawing a square or a circle on your scorecard"? 

The captain is setting an example by bringing his "keep-cup", rumours are that his wife is keen on protecting the environment.

Keith, Earle & Shelley 
with Malcolm in the driver's seat

The first group eager to tee off, driver Malcolm wearing this protective mask. 

Well done keeping us safe!

Glenn, Carol, Dave

Group 2: good luck Carol, keep that mask on. 😁

Colin, Ian, Greg & Frances

3rd group: Ian yet photobombing yet again.....Barry? Where is Boris?

Derek, Goochie, Birgit & Steph ready for combat

4th group: Another good example of social distancing or Derek are you tiptoeing away?

THE GAME

No dramas were reported, no drained equipment, no killed wildlife it just seemed that 2 members were not happy playing on the fairway, but needed a bit of a holiday feeling.

Derek on a bushwalk

Colin on the beach

RESULTS

Rank	Name	Hcp	Score	Birdies
1	Lynne Malone	16	+5
2	Glen Pope	8	+3	3
3	Colin Kerr	14	0 C/B
4	Greg Bennett	21	0
5	Ian Holmes	16	-1 C/B
6	Glen Kelly	13	-1
7	Keith Barrow	10	-2
8	Maureen Sundari	10	-3 C/B	6 & 15
9	David Williamson	25	-3
10	Gary Burgess	8	-3
11	Frances Longhurst	19	-4 C/B
12	Carol Barrow	30	-4 C/B
13	Shelley Yeo	14	-4 C/B
14	Barry Treak	20	-4 C/B
15	Birgit Reinartz	35	-4
16	Lynley Hunter	11	-5 C/B
17	Stephanie Jeffares	15	-5
18	Gerry Tessier	17	-6 C/B
19	Mark Hill	11	-6
20	Earle Scarff	15	-7	4 & 2
21	Derek Longhurst	20	-8 C/B
22	Tony Gooch	5	-8	15

Novelty	Hole	Contender	Winner
NTP in 3	7		Mark
NTP in 3	15	Earle, Keith, Colin	Tony Gooch
NTP	18	Keith, Tony	Ian
LD women	2		Shelley
LD all	8	Earle, Barry, Frances	Maureen

Winner Lynne and runner-up Glen
Colin No. 3 on the podium was absent

Goochie is todays 
 "most honest player" and
winning "The Lollies!

GOLDEN HOLE

YESSS!!! Glen hit the jackpot and won $ 62. Congratz Glen, well done and don't spend it right away.

FINES

Goochie did a good job collecting fines, I'm worried though that no one came forward with a "Garcia" (it's a 4 putt isnt' it?). At least one or two of us should have managed to 4 putt in todays condition.

I heard that "assault on wildlife" was rephrased to "assault on wife", but I doubt that this will pass the commitee.

A request to introduce a new fine "Doing a Barry" (missing a 10 cm putt) is more likely to be implemented.

Players who didn't fill in the score card correctly (e.g. marker name missing) were fined on the spot by the captain. 

RAFFLE

Glenn, the raffle apprentice
in conference with Keith

Keith won the first raffle price and 
is keen to handing it over to Carol.

MISCELLANEOUS

** Any suggestions for novelties can be send to Earle, to improve your chances that the mail is being read you should copy Vickie. 😀

** We welcomed Mark Hill as a new SOS member. Welcome Mark!!

** Frances Longhurst has been re-baptised as "France" also known as the capital of red wine, baguette and cheese. 😀

Info from the captain and booking officer

Last weeks cancelled game with the blind golfers association will take place Saturday, the 8th followed by a BBQ at Lake Perry. Hurry to secure your space, at the time of the after game gathering there were only 18 spots available.

Last but not least

A nun walks into the Mother Superior’s office and plunks down into a chair. She lets out a sigh, heavy with frustration.

“What troubles you, Sister?” asked the Mother Superior. “I thought this was the day you spent with your family.”

“It was,” sighed the Sister. “And I went to play golf with my brother. We try to play golf as often as we can. You know I was quite a talented golfer before I devoted my life to Christ.”

“I seem to recall that,” the Mother Superior agreed. “So I take it your day of recreation was not relaxing?”

“Far from it,” snorted the Sister. “In fact, I took the Lord’s name in vain today!”

“Goodness, Sister!” gasped the Mother Superior, astonished. “You must tell me all about it!” 

“Well, we were on the fifth tee — and this hole is a monster, Mother — 540 yard par 5, with a nasty dogleg right and a hidden green … and I hit the drive of my life. The sweetest swing I’ve ever made. And it’s flying straight and true, right along the line I wanted … and it hits a bird in mid-flight!” 

“Oh my!” commiserated the Mother Superior. “How unfortunate! But surely that didn’t make you blaspheme, Sister!” 

“No, that wasn’t it,” admitted the Sister. “While I was still trying to fathom what had happened, this squirrel runs out of the woods, grabs my ball and runs off down the fairway!” 

“Oh, that would have made me blaspheme!” sympathized the Mother Superior. 

“But I didn’t, Mother!” sobbed the Sister. “And I was so proud of myself! And while I was pondering whether this was a sign from God, this hawk swoops out of the sky and grabs the squirrel and flies off, with my ball still clutched in his paws!” 

“So that’s when you cursed,” said the Mother Superior with a knowing smile. 

“Nope, that wasn’t it either,” cried the Sister, anguished, “because as the hawk started to fly out of sight, the squirrel started struggling, and the hawk dropped him right there on the green, and the ball popped out of his paws and rolled to about 18 inches from the cup!” 

The Mother Superior sat back in her chair, folded her arms across her chest, fixed the Sister with piercing stare and said … 

“You missed the f#$%ing putt, didn’t you?”