Golf - Easter Sunday 4th April 2010

We had a great day for golf today and being Easter Sunday (when it is traditionally raining) it was a real bonus to have blue sky and sunshine.

Our playing partners were Bert & Annie Brink and we had a great day battling the boys for the keno ticket. The girls started off well but by the half way mark it was all square. Then the girls surged ahead to lead by one at the 15th hole when the boys came good with a birdie from Bert at the 16th and a win at the 17th & all us girls could manage at the 18th was a square. We did have some good highlights with our team only being one point off the pace & me winning the Women's Singles Event.

We did have an "incident" at the 14th when a group of our players witnessed some young men at the edge of the creek near the bunkers. Rosalie Dyer hit her drive off the 14th (with great intuition) straight in their direction at the creek, which flushed out these uninvited young men into the open where they rushed onto the green and stole the flag. Before anyone could stop them, the young men made their escape in canoes to the other side of the creek. I understand that several of our members attempted to retrieve the flag using reasonable verbal persuasion which was unsurprisingly ignored by the thieves. This is just an example of typical vandalism that the club has to incorporate into it's overheads.

The Event of the day was a Singles for Men and Ladies Plus Medley Team Event.

We had 110 starters with 10 visitors from Antill Park, Avondale, Oatlands, Tuggerah Lakes & Wyong.

RESULTS:

TEAM RESULTS:

WINNERS: Kay Frewin, Arthur Collien, Steven Cross & Annette Cross - 90 points on a countback

RUNNERS UP: Mitchell Ballard, Brendan Martin, Sam Bagala and Roger Stafford - 90 points

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Neville Walker - 43 points

RUNNER UP: Jim Forrester - 42 points

3RD: Steven Laing - 40 points on a countback

WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Jan Martin - 39 points (Hooray!)

RUNNER UP: Wendy Stapleton - 37 points

3RD: Helen Potter - 36 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: Garry Wilkinson

LADIES 8TH: Margaret Davidson

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: 35 points neat

LADIES: 32 points neat

CCR MEN: 70 (37 points)

AWCR LADIES: 73 (36 points)

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: Bert Brink had a birdie on the 16th; Kerry Cubis had a birdie on the 10th; Des Wilson had a birdie on the 16th; Wendy Stapleton had a nice 37 points; Yvonne Wilson had some nice pars and the girls beat the boys for the keno ticket, Arthur Collien had a birdie at the 3rd; Doon Jansen had a great chip in at the 17th from the edge outside of the bunker for 4/3; Steven Laing had a birdie on the 7th; Michael Norman sank a 20 foot putt for a 4/4 at the 3rd; Rhonda Robertson had a birdie on the 16th; George Foster & Wally Robertson beat their girls for the keno ticket; Rosie Dyer had three 3 pointers in a row at the 15th, 16th and 17th; Wally Bailey had 5/4 at the 10th which could have easily been a 4/5 as the ball stopped at the edge of the hole; Wally Bailey and Ray Presdee beat their girls for the keno ticket; Neville Walker had a birdie 3/4 at he 16th; my highlight was 4/4 at the 7th after a shaky (but positive) putt wobbled its way from the edge of the green into the hole.