Golf - Sunday 3rd February 2013

If you are interested in hiring the Mustangs for your

special occasion then Richard Casey is your man

Richard is a Member of Gosford Golf Club

and Richard & Leonie are both Members of F-Troop

The Club sponsored the Bridal Expo today which was a big success with many participants promoting their wares and many future bridal parties checking out the venue and stalls.  Hopefully it will mean more business for our clubhouse in the future. The clubhouse was full to the rafters which was good to see.

Thankfully the showers were only light today and it was business as usual at Gosford Golf Course.

The fairways and greens (very slow) were good, the rough was a little long and wet in places but overall we would never know that the course has had something between 8 and 10 inches of rain in the last week which is a vast improvement from previous years when Gosford was known as a bad wet weather course. Apart from the bunkers that were rain affected and in some cases still holding a lot of water - carts were allowed and we had few excuses for a bad score with the majority of complaints being the slow greens where we could not make our self hit the ball hard enough to reach the hole so three putting was our major hazard.


The Golf Event of the day was a Single Stableford for Men and Ladies + Medley Team Stableford
 1 X 2 X 3.

We had 85 starters with 6 visitors from Lithgow & West Wyalong.

RESULTS:

TEAM RESULTS:

WINNERS: Craig Ward, Paul Smith, Wayne Sneade & Robbie Whyte - 88 points

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Richard Henry - 41 points

RUNNER UP:  David Small - 40 points

3RD:  Paul Smith - 39 points

WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER:  Lauren Matterson - 34 points on a countback

RUNNER UP:  Lorraine Bignall - 34 points

3RD:  Lyn Cruickshanks - 33 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH:  Wally Robertson

LADIES 8TH: Wendy Stapleton

EAGLES NEST 12TH HOLE:

WINNER:  Wally Robertson -35 cms - 24 Balls

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN:  34 points (neat)

LADIES:  29 points (neat)

AMCR MEN:  69 (38 points)

AWCR LADIES:  73 (36 points)

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me:  Wayne Sneade, Robbie Whyte, Paul Smith & Craig Ward had a great day and enjoyed the course; Wally Robertson nearly had a hole in one at the 12th hole being 35 cms from the hole - and yes! he got the putt; Rhonda Robertson parred the 1st; Lauren Matterson had a 3/4 on the 12th; Ron Puiatti had birdies on the 10th and the 14th; Team of Brent Frewin, Anne Forrester, Lorraine Bignall & Kevin O'Brien had three birdies and a par on the 14th hole; Anne Forrester birdied the 14th; Vicki Foster & Fay Bailey beat the boys for the Keno Ticket; Rosalie Dyer had pars on the 15th and the 18th; Duncan Dyer had a great long putt on the 1st and a gobbler on the 14th; Peter Martin scored a great 3 pointer on the 17th beating the girls for the keno ticket; my highlight was playing a good chip shot onto the 10th and scoring a 3 pointer.

MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE THE THE 2013/2014 FIXTURES BOOK IS ON THE CLUB WEBSITE.   The hard copy books will be available to the Members as soon as possible.