Golf - Tuesday 29th April 2008

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More blue sky & sunshine today with a brisk little breeze in the morning to keep us alert.

I was very happy to be back out on the course after a few weeks break and had a lovely day with my playing partner Dawn Tromp & our opposition team of Fran Maclean & Helen Stuart. They were great company & we had some laughs along the way. I finished with a just 'respectable' score after turning at the half way with 17 points. My highlight being the seventh hole when I was on the green for 3 and sunk a thirty foot putt to score 4 points after Helen encouraged me by commenting that I should putt like Adam Scott did yesterday. That caused a lot of noise and distruption for a while.( I get excited about moments like this).

We saw some great features of nature out there today with some 'magic fairy mushrooms' on the 17th; and some tiny white flowers growing naturally behind the 17th green; and where else would you see fresh flowers on the loo in the "Bush toilet"; and we spotted the owl back in the tree on the 18th fairway.

It was still quite damp in places & it was hard to find balls in the 'rough' at times. I lost one ball today and found three others - so that was an added bonus. I understand that Gosford was the only Golf Club closed last Sunday which shows just how much the water effects our course.

It was a special day for us today being our Annual playoff against Wyong which is always a popular event. This year we won the 'Cup" with a 6 1/2 to 2 1/2 win over Wyong.

The event of the day was a single stableford with 2BBB team in conjunction.

We had 97 players with visitors of course from Wyong.

RESULTS:

2BBB winners:

Wyong : Marion Patchett & Carol Clausen with 41 points

Gosford: Carmen Fitzgerald & Helen Broadbent with 46 points on a countback.

Single Stableford results:

Division 1:

Winner: Rhonda Robertson 37 points

Runner Up: Helen Broadbent 36 points

Division 2:

Winner: Lyn Cruickshanks 38 points

Runner Up: Kathy Small 35 points on a countback

Division 3:

Winner: Tania Burt 37 points

Runner Up: June Bowen 35 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

Division 1: 8th: Bev Adams; 14th: Margaret MacLachlan

Divsion 2: 8th: Di Beechey; 14th: Yvonne Wilson

Division 3: 8th: Tania Burt; 14th Lyn Puiatti

CCR: 70 (Par 71) and balls went to 31 on a countback.

Highlights today as reported to me: Kathy Small had a birdie on the 14th scoring 2/4, also had a great chip shot onto the 15th to score par after two rather ordinary shots previously; Helen Stuart had 3/4 on the 5th; Yvonne Wilson had a birdie on the 14th and also won nearest the pin; Lyn Cruickshank and Norma Cubis both had birdies.

Images attached: With my playing partners Dawn Tromp; Helen Stuart & Fran Maclean at the 1st tee; Fresh camelias in the Ladies 'Bush Toilet"; Mushrooms growing on the 17th; Natural flowers on the back of the 17th; Owl in the tree on the 18th; Di thomlinson accepting the Club Challenge Trophy today on behalf of the Gosford Club; Winners of the Stableford event - Rhonda Robertson - Div 1; Lyn Cruickshanks - Div 2; Winners of the Gosford 2BBB event - Carmen Fitzgerald & Helen Broadbent.

F-Troop work - Sunday/Monday 28th April 2008

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"F" Troop

Greenkeepers Volunteers

Every Monday Morning

(Excepting rain or corporate days)

Start 7.30 am -------Noon

(or whatever time you can spare)

# General maintenance work

#Remaking pathways

#Removal fallen trees

#Breakfast supplied by Bartos

###Thanks Jason Barton

Meet at Greenkeepers shed.

All Welcome!

This week has started well with some wonderful work from Ron Beechey, Di Beechey, Ross Drakeford & Christine Drakeford on Sunday at the BBQ area. As you can see in the above photos all the old timber around the BBQ has been replaced with new and it really does look good. We are looking forward to using this area more often now that it has been refreshed and ready for use. Keep your eye out for BBQs in the future and support them when you can as it is a club facility for you all to enjoy. Thanks Ron, Di, Ross and Chris - your dedication to this area has been outstanding.

Today we had another good turn up of troopers and achieved many tasks in need. The troopers renewed the gravel & removed rubbish at the BBQ area; cleaned up fallen trees after last nights wind blasts; renewed paths at the 12th & the 18th; raking & cleaning up around the putting green & the first tee; garden fertilizing; mulching & trimming on the 2nd tee gardens.

Many thanks to Wendy Stapleton for her efforts in weeding and clearing the 2nd tee gardens last week.

Images attached: Sunday's work on the BBQ area; F- Troop at work today; Golfers at play today ( a nice change from last week); Barto's "breakfast" contributions (together with Meat pies & sausage rolls); 2nd tee gardens after mulching & trimming.

F-Troop - Monday 28th April 2008

I have had confirmation from F-Troop Captain Clyde Cruickshanks that F- Troop work will definately be on tomorrow. Anyone who would like to contribute a few hours towards course maintenance can meet Clyde at the greenkeepers shed tomorrow morning 7-00 to 7.30 am otherwise meet up with the group when you can.

F-Troop -Monday 21st April 2008

The current wet weather is causing interferance to the course. Because it is so wet underfoot with more wet weather promised for tomorrow F-Troop Captain Clyde Cruickshanks has cancelled tomorrow's planned maitenance programs. Use of heavy equipment can cause havock on the fairways so all is postponed until next monday (28th April) when hopefully the course will have dried out.

Golf report - Saturday 19th April 2008

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B Grade medal winner : Tony Callaghan being presented with his B Grade medal trophy for having 75/14 net 61 in B grade. Welcome to A grade Tony!!

Rules of the mug: Captain Mark Stimpson explaining the rules of the mug to Tony.

Tony Callaghan skolling from the sacred medal mug.

Richard & Leonie Casey: Our two newest F-Troop recruits standing alongside their elected garden at the front entrance where they put in some hard yards today - starting at 10.30 am and still there at 4.30 pm. Well done guys!!!!

Today's report was sent in for the blog by Martin Gallagher - Thanks for your contribution Martin.

F-Troop - Monday 14th April 2008

We had another good turn up of volunteers for maintenance work today. Work done included path repairs, trimming, rubbish removal, whipper-snipping, removal of dead tree at the putting green. It is great having someone like Duncan Dyer on side who even brings his own chain saw & ropes.

We had cleaned up around the first tee, raking the grassed areas & sweeping the paths clean when a couple of our "Irish" workers (photo attached) decided to remove the rubbish off the roof of the starters box creating a minefield of debris right where we had just cleaned. Good one guys!

Some more good work done through the week was by Richard & Leonie Casey who have volunteered to look after the front street gardens ( a huge job ). Even just a small amount of tidying up there makes such a difference as it has been overgown for a long time. Well done Richard & Leonie. YES, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Images attached: Our two "Irish" workers today (Warren & Pete) at the starters box area; photos of the practice putting green garden; the beautiful Tibouchena tree - in full view now that the old dead tree is out of the way; the front street gardens in early stages of maintenance & looking much better already.

New Fairway Mower - Thursday 3rd April 2008

This picture was taken by Martin Gallagher this morning at the golf course. The new fairway mower cost $52,000, was fully imported from the USA and is specifically designed for cutting golf fairways. Martin thinks that we should get some "good lies" out of it!

Fully imported from the USA - very impressive! I want to read the fine print to see if it was made in China and assembled in the USA (like everything else).

In any case, now that we have this "you beaut" mower there will be a battle to see who gets to drive it ......and....... yes, we are looking forward to the results on the fairways.