F-Troop - Monday 31st December 2018

F-Troop Morning Tea - Andy Henebury, Kevin O'Brien, Trevor Harrison, Rob Benson, Di Beechey,
Ron Gowing, Peter Martin, John Hollebon, (Duncan Dyer, Terry Coyle & Jan Martin)

Streletzias tidies up at the 15th garden

Streletzias tidied up at the 15th Roundabout garden

Pony Tail Palms at the 15th starting to come into flower

We had a great day at F-Troop this morning with many projects to keep us occupied.

On hand we had Duncan Dyer, Trevor Harrison, Kevin O'Brien, Terry Coyle, Rob Benson, Andy Henebury, John Hollebon, Ron Gowing, Peter Martin, Di Beechey and Jan Martin.

Projects worked on were tree maintenance, rubbish and loose timber pick up around the course, hedge maintenance, cleaning up under the clubhouse, 1st and 10th tees and the Wedding Garden, watering the gardens at the front of the clubhouse, Wedding Garden, Practice green and practice nets, cleaning of the 14th bush toilets and watering of the greenspace gardens, weeding and watering the hedge at the 4th tee, securing of the pot in the tranquility garden at the 6th tee, watering the pots and tidying the tranquility garden at the 6th tee, tidying the ladies 3rd tee and watering the pots, watering the bike garden and the Ladies 9th tee garden, dead heading strelitzia plants at the 15th tee and weeding the gardens.

We had to do a rescue mission to get the Yellow Garden Cart back to the sheds after a malfunction. Hopefully we can find out the problem and get the cart back in action.

We appreciated morning tea today after a hard mornings work.

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF OUR GOLFERS - WISHING YOU ALL HAPPY GOLFING IN 2019.


  

Golf - Sunday 30th December 2018

Tony Starbuck - Runner Up Men's Singles & Neville Walker - Winner Men's Singles.

Wally Robertson - 3rd Place Men's Singles and Rhonda Robertson - Winner - Ladies Singles.

Peter Martin (Winner of nothing) & Carolyn Buttsworth - 3rd Place Ladies Singles

With Carolyn Buttsworth at the 1st Tee

We had a rather warm day for our golf today on the Village Green saved by the occasional breeze that was very much appreciated. Our playing partners were Carolyn Buttsworth minus Ray Buttsworth who was a bit under the weather with a virus. Carolyn was our Champion today playing excellent golf which gave me some encouragement to lift my game to  almost reach a respectable score. Our best highlights were Carolyn scoring 2 four pointers and Peter having a gobbler on the 10th.

The Golf Event of the day was a Single Stableford for men and Women.

We had 60 starters.

RESULTS:

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Neville Walker - 41 points

RUNNER UP: Tony Starbuck - 40 points

3RD: Wally Robertson - 39 points on a countback

LADIES SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Rhonda Robertson - 43 points

RUNNER UP: Lauren Matterson - 40 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH HOLE: Edward Whitmore

LADIES 8TH HOLE: Lorraine Bignall

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: 36 points on a countback

LADIES: 38 points

DSR MEN: 69

DSR LADIES: 72

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: Rhonda Robertson scored a great 43 points getting pars on the 10/11/12/13/15 and 16th holes; Wally Robertson had a 4 pointer on the 11th and enjoyed a nice 39 points; Garry Baillie had a 4 pointer on the 11th; sadly both Garry Baillie and Wally Robertson both wiped the 12th hole; Carolyn Buttsworth had a 4 pointer on the 4th and a 4 pointer on the 16th enjoying 39 points with 2 wipes; Peter Martin had a gobbler on the 10th; Lauren Matterson had a birdie on the 2nd and enjoyed 40 points; Vicki Foster had five 3 pointers on the front 9; Col Matterson sank a 60 foot putt on the 7th (give or take); Tony Starbuck off a handicap of Plus 1 had 6 birdies on the 2/3/5/10/16/18th holes and included a bogy on the 17th; Rosalie Dyer and Lorraine Bignall beat the boys for the Keno Ticket; Lorraine Bignall had a nice 38 points including a birdie at the 8th and winning nearest the pin; Walter Loschi had a birdie on the 2nd; my highlight was playing with Carolyn Buttsworth who inspired me to lift my game on the 2nd 9 bringing me almost to respectable score.

Golf - Saturday 29th December 2018

The Golf event of the day was a Men’s Graded Stableford

We had 163 starters with 2 visitors from Cammeray & Howlong.

RESULTS:

A GRADE:

WINNER: John Rowley - 42 points

RUNNER UP: Derrick Cheetham - 41 points on a countback

3RD: Terry Bowditch - 41 points

4TH: Garry Fitch - 40 points

GROSS WINNER: Duncan Brown - 70 points

B GRADE:’

WINNER: Glen Cheetham - 41 points on a countback

RUNNER UP: Craig Ward - 41 points

3RD: Chris McClymont - 39 points on a countback

4TH: Ross Hendy - 39 points on a countback

C GRADE:

WINNER: Anthony Higgs - 45 points

RUNNER UP: John Harrison - 40 points on a countback

3RD: Wayde Starkey - 40 points on a countback

4TH: Christopher Moffatt - 40 points

D GRADE:

WINNER: Timothy Allard - 46 points

RUNNER UP: John Hollebon - 41 points

3RD: David James - 40 points

4TH: Lou Rostirolla - 37 points

EAGLES NEST 12TH HOLE: Robbie Whyte - 30 cms

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN’S 12TH HOLE: Robbie Whyte

MEN’S 8TH HOLE: David Mundy

BALLS WENT TO: 37 points on a countback

DSR MEN: 73

DSR LADIES: 72

Golf - Friday 28th December 2018

The Golf Event of the day was a Medley Single Stableford.

We had 107 starters with 12 visitors from The Spring, Magenta, Shelly Beach, Wyong, Taree, Bexley, Leura.

RESULTS:

A GRADE:

WINNER: Troy Pfeffer - 43 points

RUNNER UP: Richard Henry - 42 points

3RD: Gary Worboys - 39 points on a countback

GROSS WINER:  Troy Pfeffer - 36 points on a countback

B GRADE:

WINNER: Trevor Harrison - 42 points on a countback

RUNNER UP: Duane Winslade - 42 points o a countback

3RD: Rob Benson - 40 points

C GRADE:

WINNER: Peter Clare - 43 points

RUNNER UP: Rhonda Robertson - 41 points

3RD: Stephen Turner - 40 points

NEAREST THE PINS: 

MEN’S 12TH HOLE: Jim Ritchie

LADIES 8TH HOLE: Cathy McGowan

BALLS WENT TO: 36 points on a countback

DSR MEN: 69

DSR LADIES: 72

Golf - Wednesday 26th December 2018

The Golf Event of the day was a Medley Single Stableford.

We had 108 starters with 8 visitors from Dubbo, Magenta, Shelly Beach, Palmer Colonial, Nambucca Heads Island, Maitland and Killarney.

RESULTS:

A GRADE:

WINNER: Zachary Duffy - 40 points on a countback

RUNNER UP: Bill Andrew - 40 points

3RD: Richard Singer - 38 points

SCRATCH WINNER: Maximilian Duffy - 68 points

B GRADE:

WINNER: Robert Twible - 40 points

RUNNER UP: Paul Brennan - 38 points

3RD: Michael Cheetham - 37 points on a countback

C GRADE:

WINNER: Brian Hilton - 38 points on a countback

RUNNER UP:  Robert Harrington - 38 points

3RD: John Bell - 36 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN’S 12TH HOLE: 

A GRADE: Ron Carpenter

B GRADE: Michael Brown

C GRADE: Noel Fenning

MEN’S 8TH HOLE - OVER THE FIELD:

WINNER: Matthew Shepard

BALLS WENT TO:  35 points on a countback

DSR MEN: 70

DSR LADIES: 73

F-Troop - Monday 24th December 2018 - Christmas Eve

F-Troop Morning Tea - Andy Henebury, Steve Hogg, Kevin O'Brien, Trevor Harrison, Ron Gowing, Paul Scholberg, Peter Martin, Duncan Dyer, Don Nicholls, (Rob Benson, Garry Trigg, Terry Coyle, John Hollebon, Di Beechey & Jan Martin)

The marking of all the car parking spaces has now been completed.

F-Troop John Hollebon working on one side of the 10th hedge

F-Troop Ron Gowing working on the other side of the 10th Tee Hedge.

We started early this morning as the course was going to be full of social
players.

On hand we had 14 volunteers which was great - giving us the opportunity to get some good projects finished. Duncan Dyer, Trevor Harrison, Kevin O'Brien, Rob Benson, Terry Coyle, Steve Hogg, Garry Trigg, Andy Henebury, Don Nicholls, Peter Martin, John Hollebon, Ron Gowing, Di Beechey & Jan Martin.

Projects worked on today were completing the marking of all the car spaces in the car parks, painting the gate near the Green Keepers shed, loose timber and rubbish pick up around the course, clean up behind the clubhouse, clean up in front of the clubhouse, BBQ area and Wedding Garden, trimming of the large hedge on the 10th tee, cleaning of the 14th Bush toilets, watering the pots at the 6th, 3rd, bike garden, ladies 9th tee, 9th green, wedding garden, weeding of the tranquility garden at the 6th tee, clubhouse maintenance.

We needed our morning tea to recover from a hard morning's work.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF OUR MEMBERS & HAPPY GOLFING!

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Golf - Sunday 23rd December 2018

Carolyn Buttsworth - Runner Up Ladies Singles with President Paul Scholberg

With Kerry & Grant Williams at the 1st Tee


We had just the best day for Sunday Golf leading up to the Christmas break.  The weather was perfect, the course was in great order and we had just the best company with Grant & Kerry Williams, our playing partners today. We had some highlights between us with Grant playing a very steady game, Peter playing some great shots, Kerry & I getting some 3 pointers, the best of which was some good pars from Grant.

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

We had 49 starters.

RESULTS:

MEN'S SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Stuart Horgan - 40 points on a countback

RUNNER UP: Brendan Potter - 40 points on a countback

3RD: Bradley Seabrook - 40 points

LADIES SINGLES RESULTS:

WINNER: Gail Williams - 40 points

RUNNER UP: Carolyn Buttsworth - 39 points

NEAREST THE PINS:

MEN'S 12TH HOLE: Stuart Horgan

LADIES 8TH HOLE: Geraldine Turner

BALLS WENT TO:

MEN: 36 points

LADIES: 37 points

DSR MEN: 69

DSR LADIES: 72

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY as reported to me: Carolyn Buttsworth scored a great 39 points helped by two 4 pointers - birdies at the 6th and 12th; The Dyer/Asken group reported that the boys beat the girls for the Keno Ticket; Fran James had four 3 pointers in a row at the 10/11/12/and 13th holes; Owen James had a birdie at the 8th; Grant Williams played a very steady game with some great shots to the green and some good pars; Peter Martin had some good chances hitting some good shots to the green; Kerry Williams started off with a couple of 3 pointers and added a couple more later; I had some 3 pointers and finished with the same ball I started with, fortunately avoiding the bunkers and the water hazards.