Golf - Friday 23rd October 2009

The Event of the day was a Single Par for Men and Ladies and we had 79 starters with 9 visitors from Everglades, Howlong, Toukley, Tuggerah Lakes and Wyong.

RESULTS:

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: John McLennan - Plus 6

RUNNER UP: Michael Cheetham - Plus 4 on a countback

3RD: Ronald Ball - Plus 4 on a countback

4TH: Ian Craig - Plus 4

5TH: Keith Potter - Plus 3

WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Lorraine O'Dea - square

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: Paul Beaven

LADIES 8TH: Helen Broadbent

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: Plus 1 ; LADIES: Minus 2

CCR MEN: 69 (Plus 2)

AWCR LADIES: 73 (square)

During the week F-TROOP have been rescuing the new trees recently planted at the 2nd fairway. The trees have been suffering from poor soil and the recent wet weather had washed the top soil away from them exposing some of the roots. We were fortunate enough to get a donation of a trailer full of top soil from Geoff Bridge on Monday and Peter Martin has put in some good hours on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday replacing the soil, enriched with compost and fertilizer, replanting the trees and watering them in with seasol. A mammoth task but it will rejuvenate the trees which have also been suffering from some rabbit damage.

Thanks Geoff & Peter for your efforts.

Some more good news is the succulent garden at the 3rd Ladies tee is recovering from the recent attack from cockatoos and the damaged plants are reshooting. The cockatoos have not returned so hopefully they did not enjoy their first meal and will not return. That garden was topped up with some more donated begonias and some additional donated succulents today which should have the garden looking colourful for the Christmas period when we will be having a lot of visitors.

The fertilizers and compost for these gardens were financed from our F-Troop "Timber sale" fund - thanks to Martin Gallagher for his efforts in selling off so many bags of firewood this year which has raised in excess of $700 which is going towards F-Troop garden projects. Both of the above projects have been completed at zero cost to the club which is a great achievement.