Golf - Friday 7th May 2010

The Event of the day was a Single Par for Men and Ladies.

We had 102 starters with 13 visitors from Emmaville, Everglades, Mangrove Mountain, Newcastle, Terrigal, Toukley, Tuggerah Lakes & Wyong.


RESULTS:

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Stephen White - Plus 8

RUNNER UP: Jake Gowans (Emmaville) - Plus 7

3RD: Mark Tulett (Wyong)- Plus 6 on a countback

4TH: Roger Stafford - Plus 6

5TH: Gary Laing - Plus 4 on a countback


WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Sheila Williams - Plus 1

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: Stephen Phillips

LADIES 8TH: Not won

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: Square (neat)

LADIES: Minus 2 (neat)

AMCR MEN: 70 (Plus 1)

AWCR LADIES: 73 (Square)


NOTE: K. Burrell - Plus 11 was disqualified - card not handed in.

Golf - Thursday 6th May 2010

The Event of the day at Gosford was a Ladies Single Par - Over the Field and we had 24 starters.

RESULTS:

OVER THE FIELD:

WINNER: Maggie Minjoy - Plus 3

RUNNER UP: Dawn Tromp - Plus 2 on a countback

3RD: Robyn Johnston - Plus 2

BALL COMPETITION:

Michelle Kennett - Plus 1

Anne Burgess - Square on a countback

NEAREST THE PIN 14TH:

0 TO 30: Judy Verlander

31 TO 45 SECOND SHOT: Maggie Minjoy

BALLS WENT TO: Square on a countback

AWCR LADIES: 73 (Square)

One of the reasons that our numbers were down at Gosford today was that there were many of our Lady Golfers supporting Wyong Golf Club Open Day which directs all the profits from the day to Breast Cancer Research which is one of our favourite charities to support.

My playing partners at Wyong today were Shirley Daly, Lola Martin & Deanna Bailey. We had a good day once we defrosted after the first two holes when it became a beautiful sunny day. Our team missed out on a ball on a countback, but we had a good fun day. My highlight being a par on the hardest hole. Gosford players that I saw supporting today were Shirley Daly, Ros Singleton, Margaret Davidson, Doris Morris, Wendy Stapleton, Fay Bailey, Lesley Gregory, Norma Cubis, Lyn Cruickshanks, Julie Hazzard, Helen Broadbent and June Bowen. Because the day was broken into two shotgun starts & people were scattered it was difficult to identify all our members. There were 80 starters from many clubs around the coast and the Sydney area in the morning 7.00 am hit off and I am not sure how many attended the afternoon.

Wyong Club are rejuvenating the ladies locker room with some new amenities with lavender being the primary colour. I was impressed with the look of the lockers.

Golf - Wednesday 5th May 2010

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

We had 190 starters with 9 visitors from Belmont, Everglades, PGA, Windsor, Woolgoolga Ret. Serv.


RESULTS:

2 BALL TEAM RESULTS:

WINNERS: Eric Flood & Greg McGill - 51 points on a countback

RUNNER UP: Michael Brown & Dennis Hardwick - 51 points

3RD: Chris Pearce & Johnathon Homer - 50 points on a countback

4TH: Steve Chay & Paul Deaves (Woolgoolga) - 50 points

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Michael Brown - 48 points

RUNNER UP: Greg McGill - 47 points

3RD: Paul Deaves (Woolgoolga) - 46 points

4TH: Jim Johnston - 43 points

5TH: Michael Wilson - 42 points on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Johnathon Homer - 33 points on a countback


NEAREST THE PINS 8TH:

A GRADE: James Fyfe-Smith

B GRADE: John Allen

C GRADE: Peter Simpson

BALLS WENT TO: 35 points neat

AMCR: 70 (37 points)

Golf - Tuesday 4th May 2010

We had the most beautiful weather for golf today - all blue sky and sunshine which made for pleasant golfing.

Tuggerah Lakes players joined us today for our annual challenge & a good day was had by all .

We had 86 starters with visitors from Tuggerah Lakes and Hammersley WA.

My playing partners were Sharon Anderson, Lea Southon & Anne Cropley and we had an enjoyable day on the course even though we did not bring in any winners.

RESULTS:

TUGGERAH LAKES VS GOSFORD:

WINNERS: Gosford - 375 points to 359 points.

SINGLE STABLEFORD RESULTS:

DIVISION 1:

WINNER: Kay Adams - 38 points

RUNNER UP: Wendy Stapleton - 37 points

DIVISION 2:

WINNER: Fay Bailey - 42 points

RUNNER UP: Yvonne Cumming - 41 points

3RD: Pam Cowin - 36 points

DIVISION 3:

WINNER: Carol Farrell - 43 points

RUNNER UP: R.Ray (Tuggerah Lakes) - 36 points on a countback

3RD: Judy Hughes - 36 points on a countback

4TH: Maggie Minjoy - 36 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

8TH HOLE:

DIV 1: Annette Dunk

DIV 2: Bev Adams

DIV 3: Not won

14TH HOLE:

DIV 1: Helen Potter

DIV 2: Margaret Pratt

DIV 3: Ronda Jordon

BALLS WENT TO: 34 points

AWCR LADIES: 73 ( 36 points)

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: Sharon Anderson had a good back 9; Norma Cubis chipped out of the bunker on 17th for 7/1; Sandra Coyle had a gobbler on the 9th to score 5/3; Carol Farrell played a nice steady game for her 43 points; my highlight was winning one of the raffle prizes which was a lovely set of jewellery (necklace and bracelet) hand made by Sandra Coyle which was a great bonus to my day. Thanks Sandra!

F-Troop Monday 3rd May 2010

We had 12 hard working F-Troopers on duty today and we managed to get through our projects

set down for today.

I saw Duncan Dyer, Geoff Bridge, Martin Gallagher, Noel Fenning, Peter Martin, Warren Gray, Bruce White, Doug Incoll, Arthur Verlander, Georgina Lamb & Anne Burgess working hard out on the course.

Duncan, Martin, Geoff & Noel were dispatched to tree removal duties on the 17th.

Warren, Bruce, Doug & Peter were on sandbagging duty where they bagged 80 bags of loamy sand from the garden on the 1st tee & transported them to the bunker on the 15th where they have been placed as part of a water control project to stop water washing out the sand in the bunker. Eventually when this garden is draining properly via the grass garden that is going to be planted above the bunker then the sandbags will no longer be required. Meanwhile the sandbags have been deemed an integral part of the course so there will be no free drop if you are unlucky enough to find yourself there.

Georgina & I cleaned up around the wedding garden, 1st tee and front entrance to the tees.

After morning tea Martin, Peter, Geoff & I planted out the grove of olive trees on the 15th and a bay tree on the 13th.

Anne Burgess spent her morning at "Camellia Way" and was horrified to find that vandals had struck once again. This time plants including bougainvilleas, a camellia and a the "moonlight" grevillea had been uprooted and thrown away to die. This type of vandalism is so disappointing as it is senseless & disrespectful to Anne Burgess and the ladies who have donated these plants. Anne spends a lot of her private time looking after these gardens which have just began to show great promise. Shame on the person or persons who did this deed. We did manage to find the "moonlight" grevillea & Anne has replanted it - but it may be too late to save it.

Another shameful event last week was the removal of the toilet cistern from the Men's toilet on the 14th. One can only ask "Why" would anyone want to do that? I guess the reason is "because they can". Mindless creatures!

I noticed this week that all of our orchids have produced flower spikes so we can look forward to seeing some more beautiful orchids this year that I hope all the "mindless" people allow us to enjoy.

As an exercise this week I have made up a summary of the number of F-Troopers that we have working on the course throughout the week and have come up with 23 regular workers and 6 or so casual workers who come when they can. A big thank you to all our members who are very much appreciated.

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Golf - Sunday 2nd May 2010

We had a wonderful day for golf today - blue sky and sunshine with the course & greens showing great promise after their recent maintenance programme.

Our golf partners today were Wally & Rhonda Robertson and we had a great day full of highlights - not the least of which was Peter not managing to get his drive onto one fairway until the 18th where he placed his drive in the long grass at the dip & yet still managed to get in excess of 40 points with the help of his friends ( 25 points at the halfway).

The Event of the day was a Texas Individual Stableford which was introduced to the club by Dick & Joyce Bosley and proved to be a very popular choice with our golfers. The rules are that each player is to place a drive, choose the best drive, from that point everybody plays their own ball as a stableford event - 3 scores to count in a team event only.

We had 100 starters with 7 visitors from Kempsey, Teven, Tuggerah Lakes and Everglades.

We had some crazy scores with some individual scores coming in at 50 points due to the advantage of using the best drive. There was no handicapping today so it was essentially a fun day.

RESULTS:

TEAM RESULTS:

WINNERS: Frank Smith, Kurt Burrell, Chris Hatfield & Craig Ward - 152 points

RUNNERS UP: Dick Bosley, Joyce Bosley, Wally Johnston & Robyn Johnston - 146 points on a countback

3RD: Mark Stimpson, Anne Stimpson, Graham Brown & Rae Brown - 146 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: Mark Stimpson

LADIES 8TH: Helen Potter

BALLS WENT TO: 141 points neat

NO HANDICAPPING TODAY.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: Rhonda Robertson had a great drive on the 12th; Wally Robertson had a great 5 iron to the 4th. & fabulous drives on the 2nd and the 13th; Peter Martin had 25 points on the front 9 not using any of his drives; Spencer Walklate put his shot into the garbage tin at the 17th which fortunately was not one of the required drives; Ray Stapleton did not get any kisses today for any birdies or good shots; Irene Hyland from Everglades had 50 points; Annie Brink had 50 points; Anne Stimpson had 49 points including two 5 pointers; Steven Cross objected to the ladies executive choice of Annette's drive on the 2nd until he scored a birdie - when all was forgiven; my highlight was scoring a birdie off of Rhonda's great drive on the 12th.

WINNER OF THE DRAW FOR HARVEY WORLD TRAVEL VOUCHER:

As most Members have been aware there has been a competition running for some weeks a the Club for the purchasers of Bistro Meals. Harvey World Travel have donated a $1,500 voucher which was drawn tonight after presentation.

THE LUCKY WINNER WAS: Warren Gray who was present at the club at the time of the draw.

CONGRATULATIONS TO WARREN & MARY WHO ARE STRONG SUPPORTERS OF THE CLUB.

Golf - Saturday 1st May 2010

The Event of the day was a Men's Stroke - Monthly Medal.

We had 215 starters with 2 visitors from Muree & Trundle.


RESULTS:

A GRADE:

WINNER: Matt Snelson - 68 nett on a countback.

RUNNER UP: Mark Stimpson - 68 nett

3RD: Dan Bosley - 69 nett

4TH: Rob Whyte - 70 nett on a countback

5TH: Jim Johnston - 70 nett on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Gavin Godwin - 72 on a countback


B GRADE:

WINNER: Dean McCarthy - 64 nett

RUNNER UP: Stephen Hogan - 65 nett

3RD: Lee Robb - 68 nett on a countback

4TH: David Grant - 68 nett

5TH: Tony Callaghan - 69 nett on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Dean McCarthy - 80


C GRADE:

WINNER: Malcolm Angus - 67 nett

RUNNER UP: Duncan Dyer - 68 nett on a countback

3RD: Tony Holmes - 68 nett

4TH: John Potter - 70 nett

5TH: John McIvor - 71 nett on a countback

SCRATCH WINNER: Malcolm Angus - 89

NEAREST THE PIN 12TH:

A GRADE: David Flanigan

B GRADE: Bruce Binns

C GRADE: David Baldwin

BALLS WENT TO: 74 nett on a countback

AMCR: 70 (70 nett)