Golf - Wednesday 26th November 2008

The Event of the day was a Mens Single Stableford + 2 Ball Aggregate. We had 189 starters with 9 visitors.


RESULTS:

2 BALL AGGREGATE:

WINNERS: Terence Baumback and John Clark - 80 points

RUNNERS UP: Terence Baumback and Gilbert Sullivan - 78 points

3RD: Gordon Hamilton and Stephen Shanahan - 76 points

4TH: Lloyd Radcliffe and Arthur Collien - 74 points on a countback


SINGLES:

WINNER: Rod Fell - 44 points

RUNNER UP: John Clark - 42 points on a countback

3RD: Leonardo Buan - 42 points

4TH: Warren McLean - 41 points

5TH: Gilbert Sullivan - 40 points on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Tony Starbuck - 34 points on a countback

ACR: 70
PAR: 71
CCR: 70

NEAREST THE PINS:
A GRADE: 8TH HOLE : Gordon Hamilton
B GRADE: 8TH HOLE : Neil Hancock
C GRADE: 8TH HOLE : John Webster

BALLS WENT TO: 38 points.

Golf - Thursday 27th November 2008

Today was the Thursday Ladies Golf Closing day for the year. The event of the day was a three person ambrose and we had 57 starters. It was a lovely sunny day and many turned up in Christmas shirts to add some atmosphere to the day. A BBQ lunch was well attended at the end of play and we had a good day for it. From the look of the photos everyone had a super day to finish off the formal golf for this year. With Christmas coming up we now go into the Summer Competition and return to formal competition after the silly season in 2009.

My thanks to Yvonne Wilson who volunteered to be fill-in photographer for me today. I did get caught up with appointments and the Presentation was all over by the time I arrived. My X-ray results revealed some lovely friendly words like "mild', "normal", "moderate', "minor", "minimal' and "reasonably well preserved" which is not too bad for an "elderly lady" so I am feeling confident that I will be repaired in a very short amount of time and be ready to participate in the Summer Competition.

RESULTS:

WINNERS:

Helen Broadbent, Lyn Cruickshanks and Rosemary Cohen - 62 1/6th on a countback

RUNNERS UP:

Sue Hutton, Doreen Trigg and Lynn Puiatti - 52 1/6th

3RD:

Lyn Douglas, Sharon Anderson and Claire Hastings - 63 1/2

LAST:

Robin Incoll, Julie Hazzard and Faye Levenspiel - 73 1/6th

BALLS WENT TO: 65 5/6ths

NEAREST THE PINS:

0 - 30: 14TH HOLE: Georgina Lamb

31 - 45: 14th HOLE: Nerida Hancock

IMAGES ATTACHED: Fay Bailey & Ros Singleton; Jan Fitzgerald & Bev Walker; Rosalie Dyer, Georgina Lamb & Dawn Tromp; Merran Adams, Yvonne Wilson & Ros Singleton; BBQ helpers George Foster and Ray Presdee; Di Beechey, Anne Burgess & Margaret Mackie; Georgina Lamb & Rosalie Dyer; Ros Singleton, Merran Adams & Yvonne Wilson; Rosie Judd & Nerida Hancock; Fay Bailey, Kay Frewin and Lesley Gregory; Helen Stuart & Bev Walker; Helen Broadbent, Lyn Cruickshanks & Rosemary Cohen - winners of the 3 person Ambrose; Doreen Trigg, Sue Hutton & Lynn Puiatti - Runners up in the 3 person Ambrose; Claire Hastings, Sharon Anderson and Lyn Douglas - 3rd place in the 3 person Ambrose.

Golf - Tuesday 25th November 2008

As most of the Gosford Golfers would be aware this has not been the best week of my life!

However this blog is all about highlights and my highlight has been that I am still here and I have no permanent injuries. I will be back playing golf in just a few short weeks I hope.

I would like to thank everyone who have been so wonderful to me over the past week of trials & tribulations and for the lovely flowers (photos attached), cards, phone calls and well wishes. The world would be a sad place without family and friends.

Today was our Ladies Closing Day for 2008 and the event was a Team Stableford 1 x 2 x 3 Nett and Scratch. We had 88 starters on a great day for golf. As you can see by the photos most of our girls dressed up in Christmas attire and looked fantastic. It all adds to the spirit of the day.

From the photos it looks like everyone had a WOW! of a day.

RESULTS:

WINNERS:

Wendy Stapleton, Kay Adams, Sandra Coyle and Debra Wright - 88

RUNNERS UP:

June Bowen, Carmen Fitzgerald, Helen Broadbent and Rosalie Dyer - 86

3RD:

Rosemary Cohen, Bev Adams, Jan Fitzgerald and Di Beechey - 85

4TH:

Ros Singleton, Fay Bailey, Kay Frewin and Robin Incoll - 84 - on a countback

5TH:

Leonie Casey, Glennis English, Susan Bourne and Pam Witt - 84

6TH:

Sue Hutton, Lesley Gregory, Jan Walker and Linda Rankin - 83

SCRATCH:

Lyn Douglas, Debbie Grinham, Rhonda Robertson & Judy Verlander - 49

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD:

Doreen Vines, Nerida Hancock, Doris Morris and Margaret Davidson.

NEAREST THE PINS:

DIVISION 1: 8TH HOLE: Deborah Wright; 14TH HOLE: Sandra Coyle

DIVISION 2: 8TH HOLE: Helen Stuart; 14TH HOLE: Bev Adams

DIVISION 3: 8TH HOLE: Mary Ellis; 14TH HOLE: Ros Singleton

BALLS WENT TO: (Starting after trophy winners) went to 80 on a countback.

Images attached: Debbie Grinham & Judy Verlander - first on the scene this morning in their Christmas attire; Debbie Grinham, Judy Verlander and Lynn Puiatti; Debbie Grinham & Judy Verlander on decorated cart - ready to go; Leonie Case, Susan Bourne, Glennis English and Pam Witt; Ellie Van Den Berg; Helen Stuart, Sharon Anderson, Tania Burt, Lynn Puiatti & Yvonne Wilson; Doreen Trigg, Barbara Stratford & Jan Fitzgerald; Rhonda Robertson, Debbie Grinham, Judy Verlander & Lyn Douglas; Ellie Van Den Berg; Presentation Table goodies; Carmen Fitzgerald winner of one of the Chritmas Hams; Rosemary Cohen with her new saucepan which was presented to her because she burnt her old one whilst trying to cook while talking on the phone; Sandra Coyle, Kay Adams, Deborah Wright and Wendy Stapleton - winners of the nett; Rosalie Dyer, Helen Broadbent, Carmen Fitzgerald and June Bowen - Runners Up in the Nett; Di Beechey, Bev Adams, Rosemary Cohen and Jan Fitzgerald - 3rd place in the nett; Ros Singleton, Fay Bailey, Kay Frewin and Robin Incoll - 4th place in the nett; Lesley Gregory, Linda Rankin, Jan Walker & Sue Hutton - 6th place in the nett; Glennis English, Pam Witt, Susan Bourne & Leonie Casey - 5th place in the nett; Judy Verlander, Lyn Douglas, Debbie Grinham & Rhonda Robertson - winners of the Scratch; some of the beautiful flowers & cards delivered to home this week - thank you everyone for caring.

F-Troop - Monday 17th November 2008

It was an awesome effort by F-Troop today. If anyone would have stood still today for any length of time at the club this morning they could have been trimmed; transplanted; cut off at the feet; raked; weeded; watered; mowed;power blowed; concreted; burnt at the stake or carted off in the rubbish truck. It was all action & a fantastic result as you can see by the photos.

We had a wonderful turn up of F-Troopers for our "power" day. Those that I saw were Clyde Cruickshanks, George Foster, Noel Fenning, Duncan Dyer, Garry Trigg, Doug Incoll, Gary Sammons, Peter Martin, Richard Casey, Leonie Casey, Bruce White, Rod Martin, Shane Martin, Gary Grant, Geoff Bridge, Di Beechey, Mark stimpson, Peter Murphy, Anne Burgess, Judy Hughes. Helping out for the first time today was Gary Grant and Geoff Bridge. Welcome aboard Gary & Geoff. YES, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Some honourable mentions today :

To Wayne Tomkinson who delivered to us today 100 lovely petunia plants for the beautification of our course. Thank you Wayne for your very generous donations of plants for our gardens;

To the Central Coast fieries who skillfully controlled the burning of the excess timber and rubbish storage area that had become a dangerous eyesore on our course.

To Leonie Casey for polishing up the "Gosford Golf Club" plates at our front entrance gates. I wonder how many of us realised that the plates were there!!!!!

To Ron Beechey and Ross Drakeford for building the enhancing timber slatted wall that hides the entrance to the public toilets at the BBQ area. (photo attached)

To Rod Martin for voluntering his time and skill as a concreter and being responsible for the laying of the concrete path & to Shane Martin for being leading hand for also voluntered his time to help.

To Jason Barton (who deserves an honourable mention every week) for continuing to sponser F-Troop and making available to the F-Troop every Monday some pies, doughnuts & slices. Thanks Jason - much appreciated.

It was a very busy day trying to get around & cover all of todays projects. We removed the old pine trees from the putting green; cleaned out and added garden soil to the the area next to our front gates where Richard & Leonie created a new garden today; cleaned out the magnolia garden, removed rubbish & added 100 petunia plants to our front entry and at the magnolia garden and bubbler garden; cleaned up the native garden on the 6th tee including the area behind the tee, trimming back some of the natives, cleaned up along the creek edge, removed rubbish; cleaned out the drains at the back of th 14th tee; completed the concrete path on the 18th; removed loose timber from around the course; mowed the rough.

The concrete path was still setting this afternoon and we had some people on "Concrete watch" duties as we are aware that we have a few people on this course that have a little too much space between their ears and would think it amusing if nothing else to deface the finished work. Up to early afternoon the path was fine - and on the final last two checks we found not one defacing but two!!!! I took a photo of the first one which you can view above and the following photo when we had to ruin the finished work to remove the damage. After this there was a further defacing on the second check with the initials "A.H" and "CH" "2008". The finished work had to again be ruined to remove the defacing. It is a shame these players did not have any appreciation or respect for the work that F-Troop do or care less that people have put a lot of time and skill into getting the job perfect. I may start a "SHAME FILE" to deal with these people.

Thank you to our F-Troop one and all for your efforts today. Our course is improving every week and your input does make a difference.

Images attached: Some of the F-Troopers on the 16th today; Richard & Leonie Casey's new garden at the front entrance gates; the shiny "Gosford Golf Club" Plates at our front entry; Pine trees removed on the putting green to be replaced with standard white iceberg roses to match the other side; petunias in the magnolia & bubbler gardens; burn off of the excess timber on the 17th; newly cleaned drains by Di Beechey on the 14th; clean up of the native garden on the 6th; concrete being laid on the 18th; defacing of the new concrete path before and after repair; slatted timber wall covering the public toilets at the BBQ area built by Ron Beechey and Ross Drakeford. Thanks guys - great job!