Golf - Wednesday 31st March 2010

What better day to be booked in for babysitting than a rainy day. My day started at 6.30am & finished at 4.00pm. Being the devoted Nana it was not a problem & I loved every minute. Photo attached from today so you can stay up to date when I am not golfing or in the gardens.

The Golf Event of the day was meant to be a Single Stableford + Team 1 x 2 x 3.

The constant & sometimes heavy rain we have experienced over the last two days was enough to close the course today, so golf was a non-event. That, along with Monday and Tuesday's course maintenance it would have all been a bit ugly.

Having the golf cancelled would have also given all our golfers an opportunity to pay their last respects to Craig Elton (Reggie) at his funeral which was held at 1.30 pm today.

It has been a long time since we have had to cancel a golf event which is indicator that the course drainage has improved substantially & we should be back to golf as normal as soon as the weather clears sufficiently.

The gardens will all be rejuvenated after the hot spell so the rain was good news for them.

Golf - Tuesday 30th March 2010 - Fun Day

The golf course has been under maintenance & closed for competitions for the last two days with the greens being cored and sanded. As such, the Ladies formal competition had been replaced by a "Fun Day" which meant we would be playing the same nine holes twice. The Ladies Committee had gone to a lot of work planning for this day with special prizes etc to encourage our ladies not to miss out on their golf.

Last night it started to rain a nice slow drizzle which increased to steady rain overnight & continued on with light rain for most of the day. David (our Superintendant of the course) would have been doing rain dances yesterday and would be estatic with todays light rain on the course.

The Ladies Fun Day was a non event which is a shame for our hard working committee with all that planning wasted. I am sure there were a lot of dissapointed ladies this morning as the rain did not look like stopping.

From my own point of view, the F-Troopers had put hours of work into watering a lot of the gardens yesterday as they were so parched from our recent hot weather but we could not get around all of the gardens, so this rain is just wonderful. The recently transplanted Nandina's on the 1st would not be unhappy either.

F- Troop - Monday 29th March 2010

We had a huge F-Troop day with an excellent attendance by 15 of our troopers which meant that we could achieve many of today's projects. We had Martin Gallagher, Duncan Dyer, Des Wilson, Geoff Bridge, Peter Martin, Arthur Verlander, Bruce White, Doug Incoll, Bruce White, Garry Trigg, Di Beechey, Jan Walker, Yvonne Wilson & Bev Way who all contributed in a big way to various projects.

Garry Trigg did a long shift on the rough cutter.

Duncan Dyer, Martin Gallagher, Geoff Bridge, Des Wilson, Warren Gray, Doug Incoll & Bruce White tackled the renewal of the security fence along racecourse road & did a great job of the removal of the old damaged fence & replacing it all with new wiring. Bruce White & Doug Incoll cleaned out & rearranged our security containers.

Arthur Verlander was my champion today doing all the hard yakka in digging up and transplanting all the nandina plants for the garden at the first & included removing a very old and very stubborn shrub that had to be pulled out with a tow rope. He was very ably assisted by Di Beechey who worked tirelessly with me for hours until the job was done - coincidentally just before morning tea when we put on the woodchip to finish off the garden .

Morning tea was delicious as usual & well appreciated by our workers. Thank you John!

Peter Martin was the goffer between all the jobs & loaded a trailer load of chipbark for the garden on the 1st.

Jan Walker did some raking and watering at the front of the clubhouse.

Yvonne Wilson watered & weeded around the putting green and the wedding garden & later in the morning worked on the gardens at the 14th with Des.

Bev Way mowed the area around "Camellia Way" near her garden at the 18th, planted two replacements orchids that were donated by Helen Stuart & myself in place of the previously stolen orchids, Bev also tidied her garden and the surrounds.

After morning tea Duncan Dyer, Martin Gallagher and Geoff Bridge replaced some more damaged fencing at the 2nd fairway. Doug Incoll & Bruce White did some rubbish & timber pickup around the course. Arthur Verlander did some poisoning of nuisance weeds. Di Beechey did some watering at the gardens at the BBQ area. Peter & I removed rubbish from the gardens at the 2nd, watered gardens at the 2nd ladies tee, the avenue of tibbouchinas, the crepe myrtles, golden penda, abelias at the 2nd fairway, the Ladies 3rd tee garden, the 5th tee gardens, garden behind the 5th green, chinese elm garden at the 6th, tanika grasses at the 17th bunker, the camellias & bougainvilleas along "Camellia Way"

It was a huge workload but made achievable through having more hands on deck. A big thank you to all our F-Troopers who contributed today. Your assistance is invaluable.

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Golf - Sunday 28th March 2010

We had a lovely day at golf today with our partners Norma & Ray Presdee who are great company. Peter had a wonderful day scoring an easy 44 points obviously being inspired by Ray Presdee who had scored 44 points the day before ( see Golf report for Saturday 27th March 2010). The boys won the keno ticket which we did not mind as Peter had played so well.

It was rather a hot day tempered by a little breeze which helped and there were a lot of good scores as you can see by the results.

The Event of the day was a 2 Ball team + Single Stableford Mixed Mens and Ladies + NSW Mixed 4BBB Qualifying Round.

We had 115 starters with 6 visitors from Corowa, Everglades, Magenta Shores, Tanilba Bay and Terrigal.

RESULTS:

NSW MIXED 4BBB QUALIFIERS:

1ST MIXED QUALIFIERS: Clyde Cruickshanks and Lyn Cruickshanks - 49 points

2ND MIXED QUALIFIERS: Pauline Norman & Michael Norman - 46 points on a countback

3RD MIXED QUALIFIERS: Bert Brinks and Annie Brinks - 46 points on a countback

2BBB TEAM RESULTS:

2 BALL MEN'S WINNERS: Brad Place and Jimmy Roche - 49 points on a countback

2 BALL MIXED WINNERS: Clyde Cruickchanks and Lyn Cruickshanks - 49 points

2 BALL WOMEN'S WINNERS: Lyn Cruickshanks and Chris Dekker - 48 points

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Peter Martin - 44 points

RUNNER UP: Peter Laybutt - 41 points

3RD: Graham Brown - 40 points

WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Lyn Cruickshanks - 44 points

RUNNER UP: Rosemary Martland - 38 points on a countback

3RD: Yvonne Wilson - 38 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: Charlie Crook

LADIES 8TH: Annie Brink

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: 36 points neat

LADIES: 32 points

CCR MEN: 69 (28 points)

AWCR LADIES: 73 (36 points)

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: Peter Martin had a birdie on the 4th and scored a nice even 44 points (22 points front and back); John Hazzard had a gobbler on the 1st for 4/3; Wally Bailey had 39 points (Hooray!); Bob Knox had a birdie at the 1st hole; Jim Forrester had no highlights today but was still on a high from holing in a chip on the 2nd on Wednesday; Michael Norman almost got a hole in one at the 5th; Lyn Cruickshanks played a lovely steady game and always got herself out of trouble with a great recovery shot; Clyde Cruickshanks had a birdie on the 16th; Gary Sammons had a birdie on the 13th only 2" off an eagle shot; Bert Brink had a birdie on the 6th; Warren Gray had a birdie on the 15th and on the 18th had a super drive which just caught the metal hoops at the walkway & finished up nearly back at the ladies tee; Doug Incoll had 22 points at the turn; Bruce White had a birdie at the 8th for 2/4; Robin Incoll had a nice par 4/4 on the 4th; Shirley Daly had 4/4; my highlight was scoring a 5/3 on the 9th to get on the 2 Ball team score sheet between Peter's scores.

Another highlight during the week was Ron Puiatti scoring a HOLE-IN-ONE at St Michael's and rumours have it that the prize for that was $1,000 worth of red wine.

It's your shout Ron! CONGRATULATIONS!

On a much sadder note : the funeral for the late Craig Elton (Reggie) will be held this coming Wednesday at 1.30 pm.

Golf - Saturday 27th March 2010

Another perfect day for golf & weddings - blue sky and sunshine as was required.

The Wedding Garden looked beautiful today with all the purple and white theme flowers now starting to bloom. White camellias, roses and gardenias - off set with the purple tibouchinas are a great blend. Today the bride chose to scatter rose petals around the red carpet which was a nice touch. The Wedding had a beach theme and the colours were aqua for water and pebble grey for the beach. The theme carried through to the Magnolia Room which looked very impressive with the white, aqua & pebble colours.

There was also a 21st birthday party scheduled for the Sunset Room so it was a busy place.

It was very sad to hear of the passing of Craig Elton - one of our young Members who lost his life in a road accident yesterday. Our sympathy & thoughts go to his family and friends at this time.

The Event of the day was a Men's Single Stableford + 2 Ball Team plus qualifying round NSW Mens 4BBB Championships.

We had 193 starters with 5 visitors from Muree, Pennant Hills, RAE & South West Rocks.

1ST QUALIFIERS: Spencer Walklate & Ray Presdee - 51 points

2ND QUALIFIERS: Steve Hooper & Ted Jones - 48 points on a countback

3RD QUALIFIERS: Rex Sullings & John Potter - 48 points on a countback

2 BALL TEAM RESULTS:

WINNERS: Spencer Walklate & Ray Presdee - 51 points

RUNNER UP: Mitchell Ballard & Bill Ballard (Muree) - 49 points

3RD: Steve Hooper & Ted Jones - 48 points on a countback

4TH: Rex Sullings & John Potter - 48 points on a countback

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Ray Presdee - 44 points

RUNNER UP: Michael Jackson - 43 points on a countback

3RD: Ted Jones - 43 points

4TH: Dean McCarthy - 41 points on a countback

5TH: Rex Sullings - 41 points on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Gavin Godwin - 36 points on a countback

NEAREST THE PINS - MEN'S 12TH:

A GRADE: Ron Puiatti

B GRADE: Phil Robson

C GRADE: Dave Wilson

BALLS WENT TO: 36 points neat

CCR: 69 (38 points)

Golf - Friday 26th March 2010

The Event of the day was a Single Stableford for Men and Ladies.

We had 90 starters with 17 visitors from Ashlar, Everglades, Morisset, O/S, St Georges Basin, Terrigal, Toukley, Tuggerah Lakes and Wyong.

It was a very hot day for golf at 33 degrees but we still got some good scores in as you can see by the results.



MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Anthony Sepetauc - 44 points on a countback

RUNNER UP: Michael Hogan - 44 points

3RD: Stephen White - 42 points on a countback

4TH: William Benden - 42 points

5TH: Chris Hatfield - 41 points on a countback


WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Helen Broadbent - 34 points


NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: Mick Wilson

WOMEN'S 8TH: Not won

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: 37 points neat

LADIES: 31 points neat

CCR MEN: 69 (38 points)

AWCR LADIES: 73 (36 points)

Golf - Invitation Day - Thursday 25th March 2010

We had a wonderful day for our "Invitation Day" at Gosford today. It was not too hot with a bit of cloud cover to keep things comfortable & the course was playing well enough for some great scores to come in as you can see by the results.

We had a very enjoyable game, my playing partners being Yvonne Wilson, Robin Incoll and our visitor Joy Reardon (Toukley). Joy played a lovely round of golf and contributed well to our score. Thanks Joy! Hope to see you at Gosford again soon.

The Event of the day was a Team Par with 1 score to count.

We had 68 starters with 23 visitors from Terrigal, Mangrove Mountain, Everglades, Tuggerah Lakes, Toukley, Asquith and Wyong.

TEAM RESULTS :

WINNERS: Susan Bourne, J. Murray (Everglades), Glennis English and Judy Shanks (Everglades) - Plus 14 on a countback

RUNNERS UP: Robyn Johnston, Fay Bailey, Rita Fealy (Tuggerah Lakes), Shirley Hines (Tuggerah Lakes) - Plus 14

THIRD: Pam Cowin, Carol Farrell, Liz Stedman (Terrigal) & Claire Hastings - Plus 12 on a countback

NEAREST THE PINS OVER THE FIELD:

14TH HOLE - 0 TO 30:

VISITOR: Judy Shanks

MEMBER: Norma Cubis

14TH HOLE - 31 TO 45:

VISITOR: Betty Flakelar

MEMBER: Val Anderson

BALL COMPETITION: plus 10 on a countback

Norma Cubis, Judy Verlander, Lynn Puiatti and K. Edwards

Christine Drakeford, J. Curren, Dawn Tromp and Wendy Stapleton

Doon Jansen, Chris Dekker, M. Wilks and S. Boundy

M. Webber, A. Baker, Helen Potter, and Maggie Minjoy

Jan Fitzgerald, Bev Adams, Annette Dunk and P. Crowe

Lea Southon, Di Beechey, Kathy Small and A. Walsh.

NO HANDICAPPING TODAY

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: Joy Reardon from Toukley had 3 plus's and 3 squares on our card; Robin Incoll contributed 2 plus's; Kelly Edwards from Wyong had her first competition game today and was on the card about 6 times (well done Kelly); my highlight was getting 3 squares and 4 plus's on the card after I was woken from my trance by Captain Robin Incoll.

I received a complaint today about F-Troop's slackness on the course maintenance. Christine Drakeford suffered from invasion of cobwebs while she was hitting her shots out from under the trees and has requested that F-Troop get out their feather dusters and get that matter under control.

I wore my nice brand new "Gosford" shirt today. While extracting my ball from an "Out of Bounds" area near the left bunkers on the 14th I brushed up against some very dirty mangroves that were near my ball (which I did manage to salvage). Maybe some "spray & Wipe" will be necessary in that area. I will speak to our F-Troopers about these important matters.

I didn't gather any other highlights today as it was a day to socialize with our guests.

Golf - Wednesday 24th March 2010

The Event of the day was a Men's Singles Stroke - Autumn Medal.

We had 200 starters with 9 visitors from Everglades, PGA, O/S, Roseville, Colonial, Trundle, Tuggerah and Wyong.


RESULTS:

A GRADE:

1ST: Charlie Crook - 64 nett

2ND: Kerry Cubis - 65 nett

3RD: Bob Morris - 66 nett on a countback

4TH: Zac Churcher - 66 nett

5TH: Tom Wilkinson (Wyong) - 67 nett on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Matt Hanshaw - 71 on a countback

B GRADE:

1ST: Stephen Phillips - 66 nett on a countback

2ND: Warren McLean - 66 nett

3RD: Joshua Parr - 69 nett

4TH: Duane Winslade - 70 nett

5TH: Michael Geary - 71 nett on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Stephen Phillips - 81


C GRADE:

1ST: Dick Leaver - 68 nett

2ND: John Slight - 69 nett on a countback

3RD: Chris Dick - 69 nett

4TH: Duncan Dyer - 71 nett on a countback

5TH: Airas Kari - 71 nett on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: John Slight -89 on a countback


NEAREST THE PINS 8TH:

A GRADE: Zac Churcher

B GRADE: Mike Geary

C GRADE: Stuart Graham

BALLS WENT TO: To be advised

MEN'S CCR: 71 (71 nett)

Golf - Tuesday 23rd March 2010

We were lucky enough to have a perfect day for golf - a bit hot at times but the course is in good condition & with the latest spell of sunshine there is a bit of run back on the course which brings back some of the good scores that we got today.

My playing partners were Rosalie Dyer and Shirley Daly & we were very happy to bring home a trophy winner in Rosalie who had a great day scoring a net 71 with some lovely pars along the way including some great putting.

The Event of the day was a Single Stroke - Club Medal .

We had 77 starters.

RESULTS:

DIVISION 1: 0 TO 20

WINNER: Annette Dunk - 72 nett

RUNNER UP: Debra Wright - 73 nett

GROSS WINNER: Sheena Asken - 88 on a countback

PUTTING: Sandra Coyle - 30 putts

DIVISION 2: 21 - 30

WINNER: Yvonne Cumming - 70 nett

RUNNER UP: Rosalie Dyer - 71 nett on a countback

3RD: Soo Chun - 71 nett on a countback

GROSS WINNER: Rosalie Dyer - 93

PUTTING: Rosalie Dyer - 29 putts

DIVISION 3: 31 - 45

WINNER: In Lee - 63 nett

RUNNER UP: Val Anderson - 70 nett

3RD: June Bowen - 71 nett

GROSS WINNER: In Lee - 103

PUTTING: In Lee - 30 putts

NEAREST THE PINS:

DIV 1:

5TH HOLE: Marianne Lanham

12TH HOLE: Wendy Stapleton

DIV 2:

8TH HOLE: Pam Witt

14TH HOLE: Maggie Minjoy

DIV 3:

8TH HOLE: Val Anderson

14TH HOLE: Not won

BALLS WENT TO: 76 nett on a countback

AWCR LADIES: 73 (73 nett)

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY s reported to me: Helen Stuart had a nice par on the 6th; Soo Chun had a birdie on the 14th; Silvia Lee had gobblers at the 4th and the 18th; Lynn Puiatti parred the 8th; Rosalie Dyer had pars on the 1st, 5th, 12th, 14th, 15th and 16th; Yvonne Cumming played a lovely steady game for her 70 nett; In Lee was 10 under at half way and finished with a lovely 63 nett after having a 10 on one hole; Norma Cubis birdied 5th and had a gobbler birdie at the 10th, her playing partners Robyn Johnston - birdie at the 14th; and Debra Wright a birdie at the 6th;Doris Morris chipped in for a birdie at the 12th; my highlight was a par at the 15th.

It was reported to me that Judy Verlander was playing the 10th hole and lost her ball. As the group behind caught up - Judy played another ball which went about 5 foot into the rough where they had difficulty locating the ball. Judy picked a ball up and declared that it was not hers, then remembered that she played a second ball, so had to penalize herself for picking up her second ball. Judy replaced the ball to play it where she found it. Having done that, her group ahead of her called out that they had found her original ball. Judy immediately picked up the ball again and had to penalize herself a second time as she had already played her second ball- at this stage her score was 7. Judy finished the hole with an eleven. Well sometimes we just have these days! Lucky we have a sense of humour playing this game especially during a stroke round. Judy will be okay - she is still on a high from her "Hole-in-One" a few weeks ago.

F-Troop Monday 22nd March 2010

F-Troopers had another full-on day with a lot of jobs cleared from the list. We had 10 troopers on duty today which was good as many of our regulars were not available to work. We welcomed back John Coddington to the fold and others I saw on duty were Duncan Dyer, Garry Trigg, Geoff Bridge, Peter Martin, Doug Incoll, Bruce White, Di Beechey and Georgina Lamb.

Garry Trigg did a long shift on the rough cutter including cutting between the wedding garden & 1st tee near where we were working today.

Duncan Dyer & John Coddington took care of some tree maintenance with the chain saw at the 17th & removed some old shrubs at the 1st that were past their use by date.

Doug Incoll and Bruce White did timber pick up using our trailer as our two usually reliable ute's were not available today. Geoff Bridge backed up with support with the tractor & trailer. Between the two groups they had multiple trips to the dump with some very large branches & huge piles of rubbish taken out of the garden at the 1st. There were additional large branches down on the course due to some high wind last night including a huge branch that came down overnight in the lower carpark (just as well there were no cars parked there)

I was fortunate to have two garden helpers today which meant we could make a serious effort at the garden at the 1st. Georgina Lamb & Di Beechey made a mighty effort in helping me clear the garden bed - which was a lot bigger than it first looked. With all that girl power we managed to get the most of it done before morning tea. We transplanted one of the tropical plants to the garden at the 2nd & cleared out all the old tired plants, replanted one of the Nandina shrubs.

This garden has been in a state of neglect for some time so hopefully we can bring it back with some TLC.

Morning tea was another treat - scones, cream & jam and apricot pastries. Lovely! Thanks John & Nick!

After morning tea it was all hands on deck to clear all the rubbish from the 1st tee & clean up as much as possible. Everyone stayed until mid day or after today which was a great effort by everybody.

Thank you Troopers!

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!