SOS Golf

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Spring Cup Rnd1

Sponsored by the lovely Charmaine.

And so Spring has finally sprung, the sun is shining, the little lambies are leaping and that can only mean one thing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

(other than the beautiful taste of mint sauce on juicy lamb)

but the First round of the Spring Cup

Let's hope from now on that the only time we need to get advice from The WeatherMan is for how hot it's gonna be, and what factor sunscreen we need to use.

And with the marvellous spring sun, it brought along an old favourite, as Tony Minjee Lee made a welcome showing back with the SOS.

I would fine you for DQing yourself, but since we're not going to see you for sometime it hardly seems worth it,,,,, hehehheeeeee

Great to see ya mate, stay well and we all hope to see you playing again very soon.

Now as you all know Saturday was my birthday,,,, but not only that,,,,,

it was my Mum & Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary, so a massive congrats out to them,,,,,,

Let's hope you got something Beautifully Golden

And how could you top the fact that i was an anniversary present,,,,,, and a date that none of the Gardner Clan could forget.

If you couple this with the fact that my sister and mum both share the birthday of the 19th August, and my dad's birfday is the 19th September,,,,, i'm sure you can all put 2 & 2 together to come up with the fact that Xmas was a real fun time in the Gardner House.

And so to the golf,,,,, what did actually happen on such a lovely day:-

The Results
After much deliberation with rule checks, and phone calls to the Committtee and the PGA i can announce a slight shift in the results from Saturday's order:-

No change at the top as Derek The Deadly came home a true champ, a result for which i believe Wifey Fran will be hearing about it for days,,,
so a big congrats to Deadly shooting a nett 67 and taking a 3 shot lead ahead of the pack for the overall Spring Cup Winner.

2nd-- Lynne 70 via CB (yep a change from Saturday!)

3rd-- Paul 70 via CB

4th-- Brett 70 via CB

5th-- Phil McK 71

6th-- Glen 73 via CB

Ciaran, Gary 73
Stiff 74
Gim, Greg 75
Malcolm, Colin 77
Tom 78
Frances, Peter 79
Roland 81
Charmaine, Stan 83
Shelley 84
Richard 86
Kerry, Gordon 87

Novelties
NTP-- Stiff
NTP-- Shelley
NTP-- Ciaran
LD--- Brett

Congrats to all the winners with some pretty damn good shots!

Golden Hole
The princely sum of $25 oh yeah baby!!!!!
Was picked up by Glen The English Pope

Nice work buddy,,,,, i did get closer, but it was with my 'provisional' for which i will be fined later!!

Fines of the Week
I was way too busy drinking and celebrating to write much down this week, so it will be a tad lacklustre compared to normal,,,,, but here goes:-

Gary-- for acting like a big sulky bear for not getting a write-up in either The Blog or a mention in the paper.
Now somebody did send me your winning pic of accepting the prize, but another gremlin has crept in and taken it away,,,, so you'll have to make do with this heheheheheheheee

Ciaran-- for 'Getting the Thirst' last night.
After saying to his beloved he wasn't going to drink on Friday night, the Evil Drinking Devil jumped him unexpectedly and forced Guinness & Whisky in abundance down his unsuspecting throat.
Damn you Evil Drinking Devil!!!

Gim-- for it all being a little bit too much on the course and having to have a little Nanna Nap on the 13th

Kerry to Paul-- After i had come back from a Bunnings Show with a lovely Teddy Bear named Brett she was heard to exclaim:-
"Come on, get it out and give it to him. I want to see his face when you give it to him!"
I did try to put a 'hex' on the bear, which clearly didn't work, tho you will notice that the bear seems to have a deviant side as he didn't make it out of the choking wrapper.

Vickie-- for providing us with the wrong cards and then sloping off/running away to do something much more betterer.

The above is a 'Wrong Card'-- Google them they're very funny!!!!!!!

Paul-- on the Golden Hole after studying closely the distance, wind direction and elevation,,,,hooking his first into the trees on the lefft and having to play a bloody provisional which he then struck gloriously to within a foot of the hole
He stood perplexed and said "What would Putin do?"
Clearly Putin would never play golf but would fish like a demon.

Random Pics

Congrats again MUM & DAD

Proper Oirish golf atire

Food of the Gods

Pre-match preparations

Let the betting commence

Woohoo it's Spring time

Succumbing to the Thirst

Enjoying the warmth

Not when i'm eating ya b'stard Paul

LONG LIVE THE THIRST!
I fear i have it too Ciaran!

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

American Foursomes

Sponsored by SOS i think.....

And so the The Rio Olympics 2016 are over, and i'm sure the recriminations have already started by every nation as to why they performed so badly, both on the sport field, but more importantly after!

OK so it's not the correct count, but the numbers were small when i first chose it and i can't be bothered to find another one,,,,, but i'm sure you all get the point.

Ironically after the worst off-field performance of The Games, we are playing American Foursomes.

So does that mean to win I had to destroy a toilet, abuse an armed guard and claim i've been robbed?????

aka Ryan the lying bstard yank Lochte?????

Or do i, as all good Olympians, go out and party all night long harmlessly only to be 'rescued' by two Brazilian businessmen the following morning and taken to the Consulate.

I know which one i'd opt for heheheheee

And in the name of Good Sport and Genial Competition,,,,, and with a big smile
on his dial,,,,, Glen The Organiser decided to pair Ze German with The Pom!!!!
And what a day it was going to be,

as for the second week on the trot our group did nothing but chuckle our way round,,,,

and in between we actually played some golf shots!!!

Oh yeh baby.

The only trouble was that it threatened to curtail our good humour with more heavy doses of fkn RAIN!!!!!!!

Our pool is already overflowing, our sandstone path is showing signs of moss, it's my Mumsies & Sissies b-days on the 19th August,,,, and all this rain is really making me miss the English Summer.

So what would Putin-Gardi do?????????

Well he'd find the nearest bear, ask The WeatherMan for the forecast and soldier on,,,,,

and that's what we did.

Results of Sorts
Again due to it being a team game, my scribes being absent for the awards, and my new found love of $9 Guinness (though i don't think the love is reciprocated by sed $9 Guinness- see later pic!),,,, the list of results is pathetic to say the least.

A fantastic score of nett 61 goes to the Grinning Winners

Stiff & Pretty Boy

Second Place-- Ze German & The Pom

Lollies-- The WeatherMan & Axman Gordo

As for the rest of the standings, they may be published at a later date,,,, but then again they may not.

Novelties
NTP-- Charm & Graeme
NTP-- Tomothy
NTP-- Charm
NTP-- Wifey

well done to all of the above for their outstanding play!

And after The WeatherMan scaring it soooo greatly last week nobody dared to get close this week and so
The Golden Hole grows for next time.

Fines of the Week
So where to start,,,,,,, but there is a slight disclaimer of slightly more risque fines this time around:-

Gordo's statement to Charm-- "Good luck today in all that rough African bush, as that's where i'm betting you'll be playing from today, hey boet"

Vickie to Gordo-- "You really should get some relief for hitting your balls in a bag!"

Roland to Ciaran-- (In Arnie stylie) "So whhaaaaaat is your bloody name???? Is it Karen??? How do u pronounce eeetttt?"

Brett to Fran-- After poor Derek was unfortunately stung by a bee and being nursed by Stiff for the evil bite,,,, Fran was 'instructed' to 'look after' him in the most wifely manner,,,,

Peter-- for using a very lame excuse for not playing very well and blame on the blister that he has on his finger,,,,,,,, after practising too bloody much!!!!!!!!