Golf - Sunday 21st March 2010

The temperature on the coast reached 34 degrees today & we certainly felt it on the course having some 'heat distressed' players during the day. Thankfully we did have some moments of relief with the odd breeze coming along occasionally.

Our playing partners today were Steven & Annette Cross and we had a delightful day of golf with some good highlights including a birdie from Peter at the 15th. The best highlight being that the girls beat the boys for the keno ticket.

Another great highlight of the day was from CLYDE CRUICKSHANKS who scored a "HOLE-IN-ONE" at the 5th. CONGRATULATIONS CLYDE !

The Event of the day was a 2 Ball Team + Single Stableford Mixed Men and Ladies.

We had 110 starters with 3 visitors from Terrigal & Everglades.

RESULTS:

2 BALL TEAM RESULTS:

MEN: Sam Bagala and Phillip Anderson - 51 points

MIXED: Bev Way and Phillip Anderson - 50 points

WOMEN: Annie Bink and Sandra Laybutt - 48 points

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Mark Stimpson - 42 points on a countback

RUNNER UP: Sam Bagala - 42 points

3RD: Kurt Burrell - 41 points on a countback

WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Anne Forrester - 39 points on a countback

RUNNER UP: Bev Way - 39 points on a countback

3RD: Rosemary Martland - 39 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: Mark Stimpson

LADIES 8TH: Norma Cubis

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: 36 points neat

LADIES: 35 points neat

CCR MEN: 69 (38 points)

AWCR LADIES: 73 (36 points)

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: As afore mentioned - Clyde Cruickshanks scored a hole-in-one at the 5th; Robyn Johnston's highlight was that her new driver is working; Anne Forrester had a birdie at the 14th & the 16th, 23 points at the turn to score 39 points & to rub it in - the girls beat the boys; Yvonne Wilson had a birdie at the 14th;

Graham Brown had 4/4 at the 6th; Jan Van Den Berg started at the 10th and was 11 points at the turn and then went on to score 22 points on the second 9 (double his first nine); Kerry Cubis had birdies at the 2nd and the 4th; Norma Cubis had a birdie at the 8th and won nearest the pin; Lynn Puiatti had 4/4's at the 4th and the 16th; Bert Brink had many pars to score 39 points; Doris Morris had a gobbler chip in on the 4th hole; Sam Bagala had 42 points & was beaten on a countback; Arthur Haviland, after a plus 5 score yesterday, followed up with 37 points today;

Robin Incoll had a 4/4 on the 4th; Mark Stimpson had 42 points and had 5 birdies at the 10th, 16th, 18th, 4th and the 9th; Peter Martin had a birdie at the 15th; Steven Cross had a good 3 pointer pressure putt at the 4th to square with the girls; my highlight was having a good chip onto the 3rd to save the hole & overall beating the boys for the keno ticket.

Golf - Saturday 20th March 2010

The temperature reached 32 degrees today so it was very hot for our golfers out on the course with not a lot of wind to ease the temperature down.

It was a perfect day for our garden wedding which was held at 3.30pm today. The gardens looked beautiful with the purple tibouchinas & white gardenias starting to flower and it shaded over beautifully for the comfort of guests.

The Golf Event of the day was a Men's Single Par + 2 Ball Team.

We had 192 starters with 8 visitors from Gold Creek, Monash, Morisset, South West Rocks, Taree and Terrigal.

RESULTS:

2 BALL TEAM RESULTS:

WINNERS: Chris Koutsellis and John Farcombe - Plus 12

RUNNERS UP: James Williams and Graham Brown - Plus 10 on countback

THIRD: Colin Willis and Chris Koutsellis - Plus 10 on a countback

FOURTH: John Geerke and John McIvor - Plus 10

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Chris Koutsellis - Plus 7

RUNNER UP: Arthur Haviland - Plus 5 on a countback

3RD: Nigel Asken - Plus 5 on a countback

4TH: Mat Snelson - Plus 5 on a countback

5TH: Ian Craig - Plus 5

SCRATCH WINNER: Phil Watson - Square on a countback

NEAREST THE PINS 12TH:

A GRADE: Matt Hanshaw

B GRADE: Adam Todd

C GRADE: Rob Gavin

BALLS WENT TO : Square

CCR: 69 (69 nett)

Golf - Friday 19th March 2010

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

We had 83 starters with 13 visitors from Bankstown, Everglades, Morisset, Moss Vale, Oatlands, Terrigal, Toukley, Tuggerah Lakes and Wyong.

RESULTS:

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Phil Carter - 43 points

RUNNER UP: Dean Wilbrow - 41 points on a countback

3RD: Steven Thompson - 41 points

4TH: Gilbert Sullivan - 40 points on a countback

5TH: Tom Ballard - 40 points on a countback


WOMEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Tania Burt - 38 points



NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH: F. Parkhouse

LADIES 8TH: L. O'Dea

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: 35 points neat

LADIES: 32 points neat

CCR MEN: 69 (38 points)

AWCR LADIES: 73 (36 points)

Golf - Thursday 18th March 2010

The Event of the day was a Ladies Single Par.

We had 30 starters.


RESULTS:

WINNER: Margaret Nichols - Plus 4 on a countback

RUNNER UP: Soo Chun - Plus 4

3RD: Annette Dunk - square

4TH: Allison Guthrie - Minus 1


NEAREST THE PIN 14TH:

DIV 1 - 0 TO 30 : Annette Dunk

DIV 2 - 31 - 45 SECOND SHOT: Carol Farrell

BALLS WENT TO: Minus 2

AWCR LADIES: 73 (square)

Golf - Wednesday 17th March 2010

It was a lovely day for golf today - and an exceptionally nice day for CARL TELFORD who had a HOLE-IN-ONE at the 14th. CONGRATULATIONS CARL !

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

We had 198 starters with 8 visitors from Emmaville, Everglades, Howlong, PGA and Tuggerah.


RESULTS:

2 BALL TEAM RESULTS:

WINNERS: Fred Middleton & David Connerton - 49 points on a countback

RUNNERS UP: Bert Jodon & Bruce Gittoes - 49 points on a countback

3RD: Sharman Singh & Ron Puiatti - 49 points

4TH: Michael Crehan & Geoff Johnson - 48 points on a countback


MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Bert Jordon - 45 points

RUNNER UP: John Burg - 43 points

3RD: Michael Crehan - 42 points on a countback

4TH: Steve Binns - 42 points

5TH: Geoff Johnson - 41 points

SCRATCH WINNER: Alex Pitty - 38 points


NEAREST THE PINS 8TH:

A GRADE: T. Bowditch

B GRADE: R. Smith

C GRADE: P. Buckmaster

BALLS WENT TO : 35 points neat

CCR: 70 ( 37 points)

Golf - Tuesday 16th March 2010

It was a wonderful day for golf today - perfect weather & we got a good roll up of players to participate in our Annual St Patrick's Day Event which has been sponsored again this year by Yvonne Wilson.

Our team of Yvonne Wilson, Rosalie Dyer, Kath Payn & myself were resplendent in our green & gold Irish Leprechaun outfits. We tried hard all day and had some good highlights but kept just missing those vital putts by a smidgen.

The Event of the day was a single Stableford + Team 1 x 2 x 3.

We had 92 starters with visitors from Tuggerah Lakes.

RESULTS:

TEAM WINNERS: Marianne Lanham, Lesley Gregory, Sue Hutton & Faye Levenspiel - 86 points.

SINGLE STABLEFORD RESULTS:

DIVISION 1 - 0 TO 20:

WINNER: Marianne Lanham - 37 points

RUNNER UP: Debbie Grinham - 35 points

DIVISION 2 - 21 TO 30:

WINNER: Faye Levenspiel - 40 points

RUNNER UP: Christine Drakeford - 39 points

3RD: Robin Incoll - 36 points

4TH: Margaret Pratt - 35 points

5TH: Margaret Davidson - 34 points

6TH: Claire Hastings - 33 points on a countback

DIVISION 3 - 31 TO 45

WINNER: Silvia Lee - 35 points

RUNNER UP: In Lee - 34 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

8TH HOLE:

DIV 1: Leonie Casey

DIV 2: Bev Adams

DIV 3: Val Anderson

14TH HOLE:

DIV 1: Glennis English

DIV 2: Faye Levenspiel

DIV 3: Elizabeth McNamara

BALLS WENT TO: 30 points on a countback

AWCR LADIES: 73 (36 points)

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: I did not collect any highlights today as we played near the end of the field and time ran out. A couple of birthday highlights - Robyn Johnston celebrated her birthday this week & Alice Collettt celebrated her 70th birthday today.

If I had advance notice I would have had some roses there from my garden for such a special occasion. Judy Verlander received her Hole-in-one trophy today (photo attached) and June Bowen received her District Awards (Photo attached).

F-Troop - Monday 15th March 2010

F-Troop was missing our senior managers Martin Gallagher, Peter Martin, Duncan Dyer & Garry Trigg today who were absent for various reasons.

We had 10 members on duty and we achieved a huge amount of work tidying up areas that were not on the 'active' part of the golf course as the vets had a big day starting early this morning.

Warren Gray, Geoff Bridge, Des Wilson, Arthur Verlander, Anne Burgess, Judy Hughes, Yvonne Wilson, Jan Walker & Georgina Lamb all worked hard today in their various elected jobs.

Anne & Judy worked in the Bougainvillea garden at the back of the 10th green; Arthur Verlander assisted with rubbish pick up & completed various areas of the gardens & grounds that needed to be treated with round up; Warren, Des & Geoff concentrated on rubbish pick up & helped me to trim back the ferral bougainvillea that was growing out of control on the front street. It took three truck loads to remove all the cuttings. Yvonne worked at the front of the club watering, weeding & trimming where required & later worked out at the 14th garden with Des, Jan Walker tidied up around the putting green and the paths at the front of the club. I was firstly occupied with settling in the two new camellias that were donated to our club and planted on the "Camellia Way" by Martin Gallagher yesterday. While there I trimmed back some of the shrubs and nuisance weeds from the pathway to make that area tidier. Later Georgina & I started on the garden at the 1st tee which has become very overgrown. We filled two garbage tins in a very short amount of time - so we decided to give it a lick and a promise today & give the job no 1 priority for next week when we will have more time & helpers on hand.

We received a donation of two palm trees from Judy & Arthur Verlander which I have potted while waiting for a perfect position to plant them. We also received a donation from Anne Burgess of an axe to add to our collection of work tools. Now that we have a lock up shed we can now keep all of our tools on hand at the club where they are needed. Thanks Judy, Arthur & Anne. All of these donations contribute greatly to our F-Troop efforts.

We have received 5 orders of timber & have already delivered a couple of loads which has given us some cash to proceed with. This weeks purchases included a bag of Dynamic lifter, a 20 kilo bag of Camelia & Azalia food & a bag of cow manure for use in our gardens.

Keep your eye on the "Little Gem" magnolia at the front of the club - it is just about to burst forth with another gorgeous bloom. Have you noticed the burst of purple coming from all the tibbouchina trees & plants around the course. They look magnificent at this time of year.

We have received notice that there is yet another large hole been made in the security fencing along the 2nd fairway - another job for F-Troop next week.

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!