Golf - Tuesday 7th December 2010 - Ladies Christmas Party and Presentation

We had a wonderful day for our Annual Christmas Party & Presentation Day. There was a good roll up of Members to enjoy the day which was beautifully presented by our Committee girls.

The day began at 11.15am with nibbles and drinks on the balcony. We then retired into the Magnolia Room for Presentation & Lunch.

The Magnolia Room was dressed in Black & Silver and looked stunning overlooking our beautiful golf course.

President Christine Drakeford welcomed all the Lady Members and that was immediately followed by the presentation of trophies by Captain Annette Dunk & Vice Captain Wendy Stapleton.

PRESENTATION RESULTS:

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS:

DIVISION 1: Michelle McGrath

DIVISION 2: Robin Incoll

DIVISION 3: Pam Witt

These trophies are presented at Club Presentation.

CHAMPIONSHIPS ECLECTIC:

DIVISION 1: Di Thomlinson (Donated by Sue Scobie)

DIVISION 2: Anne Burke (Donated by Sue Scobie)

DIVISION 3: Margaret Nichols (Donated by Sue Scobie)

CLUB FOURSOMES CHAMPIONSHIPS:

DIVISION 1: Lyn Bates and Michelle McGrath

DIVISION 2: Merran Adams and Felicity Mead

These trophies are presented at Club Presentation

SINGLES KNOCK-OUT:

DIVISION 1: Wendy Stapleton (Donated by Rosalie Dyer)

DIVISION 1 RUNNER UP: Norma Cubis (Donated by Tania Burt & Doreen Trigg)

DIVISION 2: Judy Verlander (Donated by Alice Collett)

DIVISION 2 RUNNER UP: Julie Hazzard ( Donated by Jackie Davidson)

FOURBALL KNOCK-OUT:

WINNERS: Di Thomlinson & Kay Adams (Donated by Sheena Asken & Doon Jansen)

RUNNERS UP: Sheena Asken & Lyn Bates (Donated by Wendy Stapleton & Kay Adams)

MEDAL OF MEDALS: Sharon Anderson (Donated by Ruby Cohen)

WGNSW MEDAL:

DIVISION 1: Sheena Asken

DIVISION 2: Helen Stuart

DIVISION 3: Silvia Lee and Val Anderson

CCWGA STAB. BROOCH:

DIVISION 1: Robin Incoll

DIVISION 2: Lyn Bates

DIVISION 3: June Bowen

These trophies are presented at Club Presentation

SEASONS ECLECTIC:

DIVISION 1: Debbie Grinham (Donated by Bev Adams)

DIVISION 2: Sharon Anderson (Donated by Merran Adams)

DIVISION 3: Margaret Nichols (Donated by Bev Way)

SEASONS BEST 6 GROSS ROUNDS: Di Thomlinson (Donated by Berry Hanley)

BEST 5 STABLEFORD ROUNDS:

DIVISION 1: Fay Bailey (Donated by East Gosford Newsagency)

DIVISION 2: Bev Adams (Donated by June Hayes)

DIVISION 3: Val Anderson (Donated by Ronda Jordon)

BIRDIE COMPETITION:

DIVISION 1: Wendy Stapleton (Donated by Fay Bailey)

DIVISION 2: Leonie Casey (Donated by June Bowen)

DIVISION 3: Elizabeth McNamara (Donated by Sue Hutton)

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD: Nerida Hancock (Donated by Debbie Grinham)

THURSDAY ECLECTIC:

DIVISION 1: Judy Verlander (Donated by Anne Burgess)

DIVISION 2: Margaret Nichols (Donated by Judy Hughes)

BEST SINGLE NETT SCORE: Lyn Bates (Donated by Di Thomlinson)

GOBBLER COMPETITION:

DIVISION 1: Debbie Grinham (Donated by Rosemary Cohen)

DIVISION 2: Silvia Lee (Donated by Robyn Johnston)

DIVISION 3: Margaret Nichols (Donated by Lesley Gregory)

BEST 6 NETT MEDAL ROUNDS: Sharon Anderson (Donated by Margaret Mackie)

MOST +'S IN PAR ROUNDS: Mary Beard (Donated by Marianne Lanham)

3BBB QUALIFYING TEAMS:

Kay Frewin, Kath Small, Lynn Puiatti

Christine Drakeford, Di Beechey, Dawn Tromp

The trophy presentations were followed by the Veterans Presentation hosted by our Veterans Delegate Chris Dekker.

VETS RESULTS:

BEST 5 STABLEFORD ROUNDS:

DIV SS: Robin Incoll ( Donated by Val Scott)

DIV S: Val Anderson (Donated by Ronda Jordon)

DIV V: Lyn Bates (Donated by June Bowen)

HANDICAP DIVISIONS:

DIV 1: Rhonda Robertson (Donated by Bev Adams)

DIV 2: Fay Bailey (Donated by Chris Dekker)

DIV 3: Jan Walker (Donated by Lady Vets)

GOSFORD VETERANS CHAMPIONSHIPS:

VETERANS CHAMPION: Di Thomlinson

NETT WINNER: Sheena Asken

DIVISION 2 GROSS: Robin Incoll

DIVISION 2 NETT: Julie Hazzard

DIVISION 3 GROSS: Pam Witt

DIVISION 3 NETT: Dawn Cook

MABEL MACKENZIE BROOCH:

DIVISION 1: Di Thomlinson

DIVISION 2: Linda Rogers

DIVISION 3: Lynn Puiatti

SENIORS: Pam Witt

VWGA COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS:

DIVISION 1 GROSS: Sheena Asken

DIVISION 1 NETT: Rhonda Robertson

DIVISION 2 GROSS: Fay Bailey

DIVISION 2 NETT: Jan Fitzgerald

DIVISION 3 GROSS: Helen Stuart

DIVISION 3 NETT: Dawn Tromp

SENIOR VET: Helen Stuart

Following the trophy presentations President Christine Drakeford did a presentation to Rosemary Cohen in celebration of the arrival of her new black poodle.

Christine also presented appreciation gifts to the club staff who have assisted the Ladies throughout the year.

We had a sumpteous lunch served to us by the club kitchen & we also had a personal Christmas Cake on the table for each of us made by Carmen Fitzgerald.

We were entertained by Lynda Hartley who sang a couple of songs and she had us enthralled with her beautiful voice.

Rosemary Cohen kept us very amused with one of her famous jokes.

The finale for the day was a "Michael Jackson" skit by Lyn Douglas, Debbie Grinham & Robyn Krahe that had us rolling in the aisles.

It was a good day and CONGRATULATIONS must go to all of the Committee Members and the Social Committee for such a great effort this year.

F-Troop - Monday 6th December 2010

We had a good day at F-troop this morning even though we were down on numbers with 12 volunteers we did manage to get a lot of work done.

We had Duncan Dyer, Geoff Bridge, Peter Murphy, Des Wilson, Warren Gray, Peter Martin, Fred Middleton, Bruce White, Di Beechey, Jan Walker & Rosalie Dyer.

Warren was on roughcutting duty for the morning.

Duncan, Geoff, Des & Fred were the "tree gang" working their way through the fairways removing low hanging branches.

Bruce White & Peter Murphy were one team for the removal of branches and rubbish off the course using the F-Troop Ute.

Peter Martin was on pick up duty with the car & trailer & worked on his own due to our depleted numbers today. Peter alone collected four trailer loads of rubbish during the morning.

Di Beechey started early cleaning up the BBQ area & the carpark nearby.

Jan Walker did some cleanup work at the front of the clubhouse.

Rosalie Dyer worked on the gardens & grounds at the 1st tee.

My mission today was to clean up at the 3rd & 5th tees & then helped Peter with the clean up of the cart path at the back of the 2nd green. I was amazed that we collected two trailer loads of rubbish just from the edge of the path. The path is two feet wider than it appeared to be yesterday just by clearing off all the rubbish that had settled on the path over the years.

We still have got more work to do in that area before we can green tick it.

Morning tea was very welcome as the morning had got quite hot & we needed refreshments.

Chef John did not disappoint with some lovely slices of iced cakes to accompany our tea & coffee. Thanks John!

The course was busy with social players today but we still managed to cover a wide area of maintenance.

At 6.00pm tonight we decided to do a test run using the poison wands to kill off some of the rogue grasses that are invading our fairways. We want to systematically work through each of the fairways with the assistance of Member volunteers & are trying to work out the best way of doing it. We had three volunteers for today - Mark Stimpson, Peter Martin & myself & we managed to rope in two other Members Col Matterson & Alan Graham who were innocently at the club at the time & their help was appreciated. We will see how effective our efforts have been over the next week & then will plan for further treatments. Any Members who can volunteer some time late in the afternoon to treat the fairways in the next few weeks please contact Mark Stimpson or myself. Your help would be appreciated.

My thanks to Anne Stimpson for her contribution of the "grasses" photos.

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Golf - Sunday 5th December 2010 - Annual Mixed Gala Day

Once again we have been very fortunate to escape any rainfall during our special Annual Mixed Gala Day which had a 12.30 pm Shotgun start. The course was in remarkably good condition after all the recent rainfall and there were only small pockets of casual water on the fairways to interfere with any golf shots. The greens in particular are in the best condition and everyone that has been playing at Gosford recently will know just how good they are.

Our playing partners today were Lorraine Bignall & Craig Ward and they were great company with both Lorraine & Craig playing very steadily overall & they carried me for most of the day.

The Event of the Day was a Team Stableford 1 x 2 x 3 + Singles.

We had 111 starters with 2 visitors.

RESULTS:

TEAM STABLEFORD RESULTS:

WINNERS: Col Adams, Kay Adams, Russ Davidson & Jacquie Davidson - 89 points

RUNNERS UP: Mark Douglas, Lyn Douglas, Steve Thomlinson & Di Thomlinson - 88 points on a countback

THIRD: Peter Laybutt, Sandy Laybutt, Terry Bowditch & Mary Beard - 88 points

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Michael Norman - 44 points

RUNNER UP: Brian Zimmerli - 43 points on a countback

3RD: Col Adams - 43 points

WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Tania Burt - 41 points

RUNNER UP: Pauline Norman - 40 points on a countback

3RD: Norma Cubis - 40 points on a countback

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: Warren Gray

WOMEN'S 8TH: Chris Dekker

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: 36 points (neat)

WOMEN: 34 points (neat)

MEN'S AMCR: 70 (37 points)

WOMEN'S AWCR: 3 (37 points)

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: Lorraine Bignall had 3 pointers on four consecutive holes at the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th holes; Craig Ward played a nice steady game & was a good team player; John Hazzard had a gobbler putt on the 9th; Lynn Puiatti & Rosalie Dyer beat the boys for the keno ticket; Ron Puiatti had birdies at the 13th & the 18th; Graham Brown had 4/4 on the 5th and the boys beat the girls on the second last hole; Duncan Brown had 4 pointers at the 6th and the 11th; Mark Douglas had 2 birdies and Steve Thomlinson had 3 birdies; Kerry Cubis had a birdie at the 6th; Norma Cubis scored 40 points; Pauline Norman had gobbler 5/4 on the 13th; Kevin O'Brien had a birdie on the 15th; Michael Norman Drove well all day and drove the green on the 1st; Judy Clarke had 5/4 on the 11th; Terry Kay had a birdie gobbler on the 10th; Leigh Kay had 4/4 on the 17th; my highlight was the first hole I played at the 8th where I drove to the green and scored 3/3 for the team and was happy with a chip shot over the bunker on to the green at the 11th. I was not able to make it right around the room before presentation so I am sorry if I missed other great highlights of the day.

SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT - A new grandson for Mary Beard & Terry Bowditch (No 3 all up) born this week - "Javier" - 7lbs 3 ozs (photo to come) . CONGRATULATIONS MARY & TERRY !

ANOTHER SPECIAL EVENT - Today was Maggie Minjoy's birthday. We celebrated with a big chocolate cake that Maggie shared with all the Members. (photo attached) Maggie is our Handicapper & does a great job of compiling the competition results each day & promptly gets a copy of the results to me so that this blog can be published. Thanks Maggie and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Golf - Saturday 4th December 2010

Louise Stimpson attending the 2010 "Molly Awards" of the Options Theatre Company of which Louise is a Member and performs regularly in their theatre shows. Attached is a photo of the medal that Louise received at the Awards Evening held on Thursday Evening 2nd December 2010.

The 2nd Fairway gardens at the temporary 2nd green got some TLC today and all the new plants are responding to all the rainfall and are showing nice new growth. This corner of the golf course will be a blaze of colour when all of these plants mature to full growth & will be a picture in their flowering months.

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

We had 150 starters with 6 visitors Cammerary Hawks Nest, Ryde Parramatta, Tokyo and Wyong.

RESULTS:

A GRADE:

WINNER: Kerry Cubis - 66 nett

RUNNER UP: Frank Potter - 67 nett on a countback

3RD: Enn Karm - 67 nett

SCRATCH WINNER: Kerry Cubis - 74

B GRADE:

WINNER: Ronald Brown - 66 nett

RUNNER UP: Brennan Wood (Cammeray) - 68 nett on a countback

3RD: Michael Crookes - 68 nett on a countback

C GRADE:

WINNER: Darcy Ellis - 65 nett

RUNNER UP: Michael Porteous - 66 nett on a countback

3RD: Brad McLean (Ryde Parramatta) - 66 nett

NEAREST THE PIN 12TH:

A GRADE: John Geerke

B GRADE: David Lenihan

C GRADE: Tony Ahearn

EAGLES NEST: John Geerke - 24 cms - 9 Balls

BALLS WENT TO: 72 nett (neat)

AMCR: 70 (70 nett)

Golf - Friday 3rd December 2010

We had further reprieve from the rain today which made for good golfing.

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

We had 66 starters with 5 visitors.

RESULTS:

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Colin Willis - 44 points

RUNNER UP: Adam Gilbert - 43 points on a countback

3RD: Keith Potter - 43 points

4TH: Robin Benson - 41 points

WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Pauline Norman - 38 points

NEAREST THE PINS: To be advised

BALLS WENT TO: To be advised

AMCR MEN: 70 (37 points)

AWCR LADIES: 73 (36 points)

Golf - Thursday 2nd December 2010 - Closing Day

The weather held fine for our lady golfers for their Thursday Closing Day.

The Olive Grove got some TLC this morning to encourage the growth of the trees which have shown signs of thriving on the 15th fairway. Some of the trees have fruited and have they have nice new foliage shoots. Today they were weeded, fertilized, trimmed and re-staked which should give them a good start for the summer months ahead.

The golf event of the day was a Ladies Team Event 3 Ball Ambrose and we had 18 starters.

RESULTS:

WINNERS: Sharon Anderson, Di Beechey & Margaret Mackie - 67 points

RUNNERS UP: Lesley Gregory, Dawn Tromp & Maggie Minjoy - 69 1/2 points

3RD: Julie Hazzard, Lynn Puiatti & Elly Van Den Berg - 69 2/3rd points

BALL COMPETITION:

Annette Dunk, Rosie Judd and Michele Kennett - 70 5/6th points

Bev Adams, Kath Small & Claire Hastings - 70 2/3rd points

BALLS WENT TO: 70 2/3rd points

NO HANDICAPPING TODAY.

NEXT TUESDAY 7TH DECEMBER 2010 IS OUR LADIES CHRISTMAS PARTY & PRESENTATION STARTING AT 11.00AM.