Golf - Saturday 17th January 2009

The Event of the day was a Men's Single Stableford - 3 Grades. We had 224 starters with 13 visitors from PGA; West Wyalong; Gunnedah; Morisset; South West Rocks; Taree; Terrigal and Tuggerah Lakes.


RESULTS:

A GRADE:

WINNER: Kerry Cubis - 43 points

RUNNER UP: John Shine - 42 points

3RD: Michael Connors - 40 points on a countback

4TH: Robbie Whyte - 40 points

5TH: Shanon Hardgrave - 39 points on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Kerry Cubis - 37


B GRADE:

WINNER: Blair Sunderland - 43 points

RUNER UP: Greg Skilbeck - 39 points on a countback

3RD: Bob Knox - 39 points on a countback

4TH: Ron Brown - 39 points on a countback

5TH: Craig Elton - 39 points on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER : Blair Sunderland - 30


C GRADE:

WINNER: Howard Ainsley - 44 points

RUNNER UP: Chris Myers - 40 points on a countback

3RD: Luke Wilby - 40 points

4TH: Arthur Haviland - 39 points

5TH: Warren Phelps - 38 points on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Chris Myers - 21 points on a countback


NEAREST THE PINS 12TH:

A GRADE: Michael McLaren

B GRADE: Mark McCormack

C GRADE: D. Thompson


EAGLES NEST won by: Michael McLaren - 54 cms. (60 balls)

CCR: 70 (37 points)

BALLS WENT TO: 35 points on a countback.

Golf - Friday 16th January 2009

The Event of the day was a Single Stableford for Men and Ladies. We had 87 starters with 15 visitors from UK; Castle Hill; Dunheved; Everglades; Griffith; Magenta Shores; Terrigal; Toukley; Tuggerah Lakes and Wingham.



RESULTS:


MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Soon Lee - 44 points

RUNNER UP: Dennis Hardwick - 42 points

3RD: Rod Tromp - 40 points on a countback

4TH: Kevin O'Brien - 40 points on a countback

5TH: David Thompson - 40 points on a countback


WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Denise Bentlin - 37 points



NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: To be advised ; LADIES 8TH: To be advised


BALLS WENT TO: MEN: 36 points neat; LADIES: 34 points neat.

CCR MEN: 69 (38 points); AWCR LADIES: 73 (36 points)

Golf - Thursday 15th January 2009

We had extremely high temperatures forecast for today which caused a lot of drop outs in the field. I was at the Hunter Valley at the time and it was very hot there - enough to keep me in front of the air conditioner.

The event of the day was a Single Stableford and we had 15 starters with 3 visitors.


RESULTS:


WINNER: Georgina Lamb - 42 points

RUNNER UP: Sally Hopkins - 39 points

3RD: Lynn Puiatti -33 points

4TH: Judy Hughes - 32 points


AWCR: 73

PAR: 73

CCR: 73



I think everyone who turned up should have got a prize just for being out there in such high temperatures & congratulations to the winners who scored so well.

Golf - Wednesday 14th January 2009

The Event of the day was a Men's Single Stableford + 2 Ball Team. We had 209 starters with 16 visitors from UK; Everglades; Gloucester, PGA; Riverside Oaks, The Colonial, Tuggerah Lakes; West Wyalong & Wyong.


RESULTS:


2 BALL TEAM RESULTS:

WINNERS: Graham Chee & Chris Fuchs - 50 points

RUNNERS UP: Barry Robertson & Gary Steele - 48 points

3RD: Martin Gallagher & Darren Wotherspoon - 47 points on a countback

4TH: Leonardo Burn & Duminda Siriwardhane - 47 points


MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Darren Wotherspoon - 43 points on a countback

RUNNER UP: Barry Robertson - 43 points

3RD: Andre Stolz - 42 points on a countback

4TH: Garry Fitch - 42 points

5TH: Ron Gowing - 41 points

SCRATCH WINNER: Barry Robertson - 33 on a countback


NEAREST THE PINS:

A GRADE: Bob Knox

B GRADE: Brian Cahill

C GRADE: Terry O'Dea


BALLS WENT TO: 34 points neat


CCR: 69

Golf - Tuesday 13th January 2009

The weather was quite hot but that did not stop some of our good golfers coming with great scores. My partner today was Judy Verlander. Our golf scores were not fantastic but the company was good. We made good time around the course & were happy to get into the airconditioning at the clubhouse after the event. I was not able to stay long enough for presentation so I have no photos of the winner for today.

My appologies for the late publishing of the blog this week. I have had places to go & things to do this week which included two nights at the Crown Plaza Hunter Valley and golf at Kooindah Waters & Crown Plaza Hunter Valley. Life is full of priorities as we all know.....and somebody has to do it! This will be happening again shortly when I go to Riverside Oaks next week for two days and Byron Bay for two weeks at the end of next week. The results will be published ASAP.

The Event of the day today was a Single Stableford. We had 62 starters with 3 visitors from Muswellbrook, Terrigal and Tuggerah.

RESULTS:

WINNER: Lesley Gregory - 39 points on a countback

RUNNER UP: Rosemary Cohen - 39 points on a countback

3RD: Margaret Nichols - 39 points

4TH: Judy Ruttenberg - 38 points on a countback

5TH: Christine Drakeford - 38 points on a countback

6TH: Doon Jansen - 38 points

7TH: Norma Cubis - 37 points

8TH: Linda Rankin - 36 points on a countback

9TH: D. Bragg - 36 points on a countback

BALLS WENT TO: 33 points on a countback

CCR: 36 PAR 73

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: Judy Verlander had a par on the 13th; Rhonda Robertson had birdies on the 18th and was 4" off an eagle on the 4th (wow!) ; Norma Cubis played a nice steady round to score 37 points; Rosemary Cohen tossed in a nice gobbler on the 2nd to score 5/4 and on the 15th a great shot in over the trees to score 5/3; Carol Farrell had 4/4 on the 1st; my highlight of the day (and there was only one) that was a 4/4 par on the 17th.

IMAGES ATTACHED: With Judy Verlander on the first tee; the 3rd dam water in progess; Ray Presdee on duty rough cutting at the 5th tee (between chatting up the ladies).

The latest news on the water situation as I understand it is that we can get Bore Water from the Council. It does have some salt content, but that can be treated - so it is looking a lot more promising that our water situation can get under control.

F- Troop - Monday 12th January 2009

We had another very successful "F-Troop" day today getting a lot of work done around the course. Led by Martin Gallagher today the troops did some tree trimming, loose timber and rubbish pickup & removal, raking, planting of new native and Mondo grasses recently donated to the club. We had about 15 workers & those that I saw were Martin Gallagher, Peter Martin, Garry Trigg, Gary Sammons, John Coddington, Peter Murphy, Geoff Bridge, Warren Gray, Arthur Verlander, Di Beechey, Anne Burgess, Yvonne Wilson, Des Wilson & Noel Fenning.

The rough cutters were out of action today so Garry Trigg applied himself as a good raker & cleaner around the course helping Peter Martin pickup with the tractor.

Yvonne Wilson pruned & deadheaded the Hydrangeas on the 3rd tee.

John Coddington arrived late and was immediately put on the job of digging in the grasses with me on the path leading to the practice nets and under the trees nearby. John did a fantastic job & with the help of Di Beechey we managed to get all the grasses in place & watered in by morning tea. A task that I thought would be impossible judging by the amount of grass we had to deal with. Di & I planted a little more of the Mondo grass on the second tee after morning tea & that dealt with all of the grass.

I had earlier planted the "Little Gem" Magnolia in the small garden near the entrance path to the first tee. It will grow beautifully there & is just about to come into flower (Large white flowers).

Anne Burgess watered the bourganvilleas at the back of the 10th.

Later I finished trimming , fertilizing & watering the azaleas in the front car park.

I did not get out to the rest of the course until later but I believe that there was some cleaning up done on the 6th and some tree trimming done around the course.

The promised "King Tide" was not as big as I had anticipated. The gardens at the 15th were still intact with no water damage & the tide was going back out at 12.30pm.

We had a look at the new watering system from the Council Bore which is to be fed into the 3rd dam. When I left today it was all hooked up and ready to go - so I hope we have some water happening in the 3rd dam tomorrow if all went well. (photos attached).

Images attached: The new "Little Gem" Magnolia; planting of the grasses with the help of John Coddington & Di Beechey; Garry Trigg & Peter Martin doing a rubbish pickup at the practice nets; various photos of the bore water connection to our old fairway watering system so that it can be filtered into the 3rd dam & put to good use on our fairways.

Golf - Saturday 10th January 2009

The Event of the day was a Men's Single Par + 2Ball Team. We had 228 starters with 9 visitors from Hawks Nest, Massey Park, Moore Park, PGA, Taree, Terrigal, Tuggerah Lakes; Wee Waa & West Wyalong.


RESULTS:

2 BALL TEAM RESULTS:

WINNERS: Mark Sorridimi & John Fulton (Tuggerah Lakes) - +14

RUNNERS UP: Ken Couchman & Paul King - + 12 on a countback

3RD: Zach Churcher & Scott Bowman - + 12 on a countback

4TH: George Lee & Michael Jackson - +12 on a countback


MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Scott Bowman - +8

RUNNER UP: Michael Tunny - +6 on a countback

3RD: Ken Couchman - +6 on a countback

4TH: John Fulton (Tuggerah Lakes) - +6 on a countback

5TH: George Lee - +6 on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Phil Watson - square


NEAREST THE PINS:

A GRADE: Peter Davidson

B GRADE: Steve Craven

C GRADE: Keith Dawson

BALLS WENT TO: +1 on a countback

CCR: 69 (+2)