Golf - Wednesday 6th May 2009

The Event of the day was a Men;s Single Stableford + 2 Ball Team Event.

We had 199 starters with 15 Visitors from Everglades, Magenta Shores, New South Wales, PGA, Richmond, Ryde, Parramatta, Terrigal and Tuggerah Lakes.

RESULTS:


2 BALL TEAM RESULTS:

WINNERS: John Castronova and Peter Smith - 47 points

RUNNERS UP: Scott Salter and John Geercke - 46 points

THIRD: Bill Quin and Bill Ballard - 45 points

FOURTH: Doug Incoll and George Lee - 44 points on a countback


MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Jeff Rogers - 41 points

RUNNER UP: Michael Bowditch - 38 points

3RD: George Lee - 37 points on a countback

4TH: Andre Stolz - 37 points

5TH: Bill Quin - 36 points on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Michael Bowditch - 37 points


NEAREST THE PINS 8TH:

A GRADE: Scott Slater

B GRADE: George Lee

C GRADE: Graeme Elliott

BALLS WENT TO : 32 points neat

CCR: 72 (35 points)

Golf - Tuesday 5th May 2009

After all the threats of showers we had a beautiful day out on the course. My playing partners today were Rhonda Robertson & Mary Beard and being a "Par"match we all had our moments. Our main highlight was bringing in the winner of Division 2. Mary Beard had some great highlights on her "plus"scoring holes & was a worthy winner. I brought home the winners on Sunday as well. If this pattern keeps up I will never run out of partners to play with.

The Event of the day was a Ladies Single Par. The number of starters was not noted but we had visitors from Te Puki NZ, Tallwoods, Tuggerah Lakes and Tocumwal.

RESULTS:

DIVISION 1:

WINNER: Alice Collett - Minus One

DIVISION 2:

WINNER: Mary Beard - Plus Two

RUNNER UP: Pam Cowin - Plus One

3RD: Judith Ruitenberg - Minus One

DIVISION 3:

WINNER: Roslyn Singleton - Minus One

NEAREST THE PINS:

DIVISION ONE:

8TH HOLE: Wendy Stapleton; 14TH HOLE: Sue Hutton

DIVISION TWO:

8TH HOLE: Julie Hazzard; 14TH HOLE: Rita Gilmore

DIVISION THREE:

8TH HOLE: Pam Bourne; 14TH HOLE: R. Wilson (NZ)

CCR: 73

PAR: 73

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: Mary Beard had a fantastic 4th shot to the green on the 18th from the midst of the trees on the left, leaving herself a short putt for a lovely Par; Rhonda Robertson had some great putts on the 3rd, 4th & 9th. My highlight was bringing home the winner in our division.

F-Troop - Monday 4th May 2009

F-Troop this week was an amazingly busy day with much achieved. We had 10 volunteers which made light work of removing the tree branches that were endangering the new garden area.

On "tree"duty we had Chief Officer Duncan Dyer and his trusty offsider Ron Dekker with the chain saws. The support crew was made up of Clyde Cruickshanks, Des Wilson, Peter Martin & Warren Gray with Geoff Bridge on the tractor removing the timber. Arthur Verlander did a good shift on the rough cutter. Yvonne and Des Wilson planted out some new ground covers to complete the new magnolia garden. Clyde arranged for delivery of the concrete ready for next weeks setting of the rocks into the new garden.

During the day we planted out some "Bird of Paradise"along the fenceline for privacy from the road. We also collected some beautiful agave plants from Rosalie & Duncan Dyer's place and placed them in the new feature garden. Many thanks to Duncan & Rosalie for their generous donation of Agave plants. They will look sensational when all the garden is completed.

As the branches came down over the top of the work we had already completed I could not watch so I weeded the putting green garden so I did not have to witness any destruction.

All due credit to the Troopers as they removed large branches & removed the debris with great skill.

Warren, Des & Peter also relaid the excess turf from the second from where we made way for the new avenue of Tibouchina Trees. They placed the turf at the 12th where it was badly needed.

The whole area looks much better and allows more sunshine onto the new garden beds.

Well done F-Troopers! Next week hopefully we will get all the rocks set in place & the Agave garden completed.

Golf - Saturday 2nd May 2009

The Event of the day was a Men's Stroke - Monthly Medal.
We had 225 starters with 10 visitors from Elanora, Everglades, Muree, PGA, St Georges Basin, & Virginia.

RESULTS:

A GRADE:

1ST: Mark Sorridimi - 66 nett

2ND: David Boyd - 69 nett on a countback

3RD: Tony Starbuck - 69 nett on a countback

4TH: Steven Craven - 69 nett

5TH: Steven Geary - 70 nett on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER : Michael Bowditch 71 on a countback


B GRADE:

1ST: Malcolm Angus - 68 nett on a countback

2ND: Ian Craig - 68 nett

3RD: Greg Skilbeck - 69 nett

4TH: Bill Ballard - 70 nett on a countback

5TH: Peter McCabe - 70 nett on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Greg Skilbeck - 82

C GRADE:

1ST: Glen Watkins - 66 nett

2ND: Peter Cruden - 71 nett

3RD: Steven Cross - 71 nett on a countback

4TH: Dimi Pesudovs - 71 nett

5TH: Keith Dawson - 72 nett on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Steven Cross - 90



WINNER OVER THE FIELD : Glen Watkins - 66 nett on a countback

CCR: 72 (72 Nett)

BALLS WENT TO: 75 nett on a countback

Golf - Friday 1st May 2009

The event of the day was a Single Stableford for Men and Ladies.

We had 78 starters with 7 visitors from Everglades, Magenta Shors, Terrigal & Tuggerah Lakes.

RESULTS:

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Alex Pitty - 43 points

RUNNER UP: Tony Starbuck - 40 points

3RD: Anthony Baffis - 39 points on a countback

4TH: Grant Pride (Everglades) - 39 points

5TH: Gilbert Sullivan - 37 points on a countback


WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Chris Dekker - 33 points

RUNNER UP: Lorraine O'Dea - 32 points


NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: G. Pride

LADIES 8TH: Not won

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: 34 points neat; LADIES: 30 points

CCR MEN: 71 (36 points)

AWCR LADIES: 73 (36 points)

Golf - Thursday 30th April 2009

The Event of the day was a Ladies Single Stroek - over the field. We had 23 starters with visitors from NZ.

RESULTS:

WINNER: Cheryl Davidson - 69 nett

RUNNER UP: Lorraine Linnert - 73 on a countback

3RD: Michelle Martin - 73


NEAREST THE PINS 14TH HOLE:

0 - 30 : Lyn Cruickshanks

31-45 Second Shot: Ros Singleton


AWCR: 73 (73 NETT)

BALLS WENT TO: 75 nett


Congratulations to the following pairs who were successful today in their knockout matches:

Kay Adams and Wendy Stapleton

Jan Walker and Helen Stuart.

Golf - Sunday 3rd May 2009

What a wonderful day we had for today's important Central Coast 2009 Mixed Foursomes Championship - blue skies and sunshine on cue. I did look up the forecast prior to play to find that we should be expecting 50% chance on rain and thunderstorms so I arrived complete with wet gear expecting a rather unpleasant day out on the course.

To the contrary we had a most pleasant day with great company and also brought home the winners of our division - so how good can it get. Our playing partners today were Lyn & Clyde Cruickshanks (the eventual winners with a net score of 69 1/2 (gross 85) and John & Bev Moore from Everglades who were delightful company.

We had approximately 100 starters and the 27 Hole competitors having a sudden death playoff at the 1st hole to add to the excitement of the finish.

RESULTS

27 HOLE SCRATCH WINNERS: Dave Willett and Yvonne Boardman - 118 points

27 HOLE SCRATCH RUNNERS UP: Simon Trickett and Rebecca Goldsmith - 118 points

18 HOLE SCRATCH WINNERS: Clyde and Lyn Cruickshanks (Gosford) - 85 points

18 HOLE SCRATCH RUNNERS UP: Glen Gardner and Bev Masters - 87 points

18 HOLE NETT WINNERS: Ross Drakeford and Christine Drakeford - 72 1/2 on a countback

18 HOLE NETT RUNNERS UP: June Bowen and Fred Middleton - 72 1/2 points

BALLS WENT TO (18 Holes) : 76 1/2 points

We have had a very busy time in the gardens at the club this week with further improvements made to the new garden at the Practice Nets and the planting of an avenue of Tibouchina Trees

to compliment the 2nd fairway alongside the school farm. As some of you may recall we had some drama on several occasions with the school farm animals eating the oleanders that formed an avenue along the fence. These oleanders were poisonous plants to the animals so there was a need to replace them with something safer, attractive and non poisonous. The school financed the replacement of these trees which should look fantastic in years to come with a blaze of purple colour from the trees as they mature. Another garden highlight this week is the evidence of new flower shoots on the orchid plants at the 14th and 18th. As these orchids were broken up and replanted only just last year it is a bonus that they are going to produce new flowers so quickly.

Many thanks to our adopt-a-garden Yvonne Wilson, Bev Way and Enone Sammons who are looking after the orchids for us and keeping them happy enough to reproduce so quickly.

As some aside highlights - Peter & I attended the Narara/Wyoming Cricket Club Presentation last night. We were not surprised to find Members of our Golf Club in attendance.

Peter & I annually present a trophy for the "Colt of the Year" award (Best Player of the year aged under 21 at the start of the season) in memory of our late son Greg. We were delighted that the winner this year was Peter Gallichan.

Another winner on the night was Richie Gallichan who received a batting trophy from Arthur Morris (one of Australia's cricketing greats - Arthur played alongside Don Bradman as part of the invincibles team.)

Other golfers in attendance were Peter Davidson and Greg Smith who presented trophies in their capacity as Life members of the Club. Arthur Morris gave us some interesting insights into his days of preparation (as it was in those days) needing to take five/six weeks on a ship to reach England to play cricket as the Ïnvincibles". It was good to catch up with all the life members a lot of whom have continued their sporting interests to golf while still maintaining their contact with the cricket club.