President's Report & Results Gordonvale 19 June

Hi All,

As usual at this time of the year there was a bit of a nip in the air when we first arrived at Gordonvale today but it turned into a beautiful day. The course was in fairly good condition, particularly the fairways and surrounds. It is great to see the improvement in the condition of the greens and is a credit to the green staff and the volunteers. It is obvious that some of the greens are very much impacted by the shade from trees and it appears to be those greens that are taking the longest to return.

We had 98 players take to the field today 77 men and 21 ladies. They competed in a Stableford event, the results of which counted towards our Consistency Trophy. The event was sponsored by KENNEDY’S BETTA HOME LIVING, a long term and very valuable sponsor. Bill Kennedy, a principal of the firm apologised to Secretary Lou for not being in the position to have a game with us today but wished us well.

We had three new members join today, Tony Tanner from Cairns, Glenda Thomas from Gordonvale and Nick Boskov from Queanbeyan. Today it was great to see the Finches arrive after their migration north for the Winter. I’m referring to Tom and Margaret Finch, a pair of inveterate “Grey Nomads” who are always most welcome by all members of the F.N.Q.V.G.A.

Nominations for the day at Mirage on 6^th July, closed today with a total of 83 nominations accepted. This is comprised of 67 players who nominated for the original game and re-nominated for the second with the remaining 16 coming from the full number of nominations on the “reserve” list. Further information on the day will appear on the Blog over the next couple of weeks.

As a change to our weekly Stableford events, next week at Atherton we will be playing a Two Man Ambrose. It is strongly recommended that you arrange your partner prior to arriving up there. If you can’t, our team will provide you with a partner.

See you all up there.

Take care,

Greg

“El Presidente”

TODAY’S RESULTS

MEN

DIVISION I

Winner: Ross Ellen, 40 points.

Runner Up: Dave Lawler, 38 points.

DIVISION II

Winner: Allan Dredge, 43 points.

Runner Up: Graeme Chappell, 42 points.

BALL RUNDOWN:

40 Points: Bill Foster.

39 Points: Peter McMemamin

37 Points: Tom Finch, Robin Tonks, William Matthews.

36 Points: Wal Anthony, Mark Buckle, Tae Zheng, Peter Clarke, Brian Norris, John Tolhurst.

35 Points: Merv Elms, Dave Jackson, Doug Christison, Cec Turner.

34 Points: Darryl De Clifford, Rick Gooderham, Darryl Chandler, Bill Leonard, Brian Rowan, Ken Temple, Marcus Morse, Ross White.

33 Points: Michael Taylor, Bruce Walters, Neil Hamilton, Russell Lawrence, Geoff Thomas, Bob Billingham.

N.T.P.’s: 5^th Graeme Chappell, 8^th John Tolhurst, 12^th Marcus Morse, 17^th Bob Billingham.

LADIES

Winner: Suda Woodward, 38 points.

Runner Up: Glenda Thomas, 37 points.

BALL RUNDOWN:

36 Points: Kay Bergiel.

35 Points: Lois Tait, Tracey Dickinson, Meryl Gil.

33 Points: Liz Edmonds.

32 Points: Edna Atkinson, Georgie Jarred.

31 Points: Joy Evans.

29 Points: Judy Guzzwell, Ruth Kingston.

N.T.P.’s: 5^th Suda Woodward, 8^th Meryl Gil, 12^th Glenda Thomas, 17^th Gail Wright.

Next Game Gordonvale 19 June

All,

Our next game is a single stableford Consistency event at Gordonvale.

 As their Championships are on this weekend, the course will be in good condition. The drains have been mowed so are more welcoming, but some greens are still recovering.

 Sponsor for the day is Kennedys Betta Home Living.

 See you there.

 Louis

PS  FNQ Golf World Cairns Championships are on at Gordonvale 7/8 July.  Registration from  https://www.mitournament.com:443/tournament/viewTournament

President's Report & Results Mareeba 12 June

It was beautiful morning at Mareeba today although there was a bit of a nip in the air and, as it turned out, the course was in great condition. It is is a credit to Rod Cade and his band of volunteers for the way the course was presented.

A field of 80 men and 13 ladies took to the tees in another round of the Consistency Trophy which was sponsored by BROTHERS LEAGUES CLUB, a regular and much appreciated sponsor of Far North Veterans Golf. If you want a good night out just keep Brother’s in mind.

We welcomed three new members today, Ken Temple from Belvoir Club which is in the Bendigo area and Robyn and John Southam from Werris Creek in N.S.W. With 155 males and 45 ladies our membership now stands at 204. We had one visitor today, Peter Burns from Woodford Golf Club which is in the Beerburrum/Glass House Mountains area.

Our field of 88 players for our day at Mirage is getting close to being filled. We now have 81 confirmed starters and 12 on the “reserve” list. It has been decided that next Tuesday at Gordonvale will be the cut-off for nominations. As stated previously, those who nominated for the washed-out day in March will get first preference before we go to the “reserve” list.

It was good to see our Committee back to full strength today with the return of Chris Everall and Robin Tonks, with Russ Gill returning last week. Thanks go the other members of the Committee who did that little bit extra over the past few weeks to cover the shortfall.

Our thanks go to Gabby and Deb for looking after us in the Clubhouse before and after the day’s game. Gabby also wanted all of our members, visitors and those players who read this Blog reminded that the Travelling Vets Golf Day is to be held at Mareeba on 6^th July. All veteran golfers are welcome and inquiries should be directed to the Club.

See you all at Gordonvale next week.

Yours in golf,

Greg

“El Presidente”.

TODAY’S RESULTS

DIVISION I

MEN

Winner: Jon Tolhurst, 39 points.

Runner Up: Steve Edwards, 37 points.

DIVISION II

Winner: Wal Anthony, 44 points.

Runner Up: Peter McMenamin, 38 points.

BALL RUNDOWN:

38 Points: Bruce Jenner.

37 Points: Darryl Chandler, Russell Lawrence, Brian Brown, Roger Smith.

36 Points: John Gregan, Marl Buckle, John Pilbin, Les Doolan, Vaughan Edwards.

35 Points: Peter Edmonds, Michael Taylor, Rick Gooderham, Marcus Morse,

Ken Temple, Doug Christison, Neil Sharkey.

34 Points: Graham Ross, George Cooley, Bob Billingham.

33 Points: Barry Pike, Brian Norris, Dave Lawler, Bill Leonard, Mike MacManus, Greg Gibb.

32 Points: Robin Tonks, Kevin Walsh, Geoff McGrath, Frank Toth, Alan Dwyer, Vaughan Smith, Dave Morrison, Peter Burns.

N.T.P.’s: 4^th Mark Buckle, 8^th Bruce Jenner, 11^th Marcus Morse, 13^th Tae Zheng.

LADIES:

Winner: Liz Edmonds, 37 points.

Runner up: Jane Taylor, 35 points.

BALL RUNDOWN:

35 Points: Cathy Coverdale.

33 Points: Annette Tesch, Judy Ellis.

32 Points: Andrina Wilson.

30 Points: Lois Tait.

N.T.P.’s: 4th Andrina Wilson, 8th Jane Taylor, 11th Liz Edmonds, 13th Trish George

Next Game Mareeba 12 June

All,

Our next game is a single stableford Consistency event at Mareeba.

Their Championships are on this weekend, so the course will be in great condition for us on Tuesday.

The game is sponsored by Brothers Leagues Club.

See you there.

Louis

PS  If you want one of our shirts you may just be in time if you speak nicely to Lois at our next registration.

PPS For travellers, Maryborough Veteran Golfers Open Carnival is on 9/10July with closing date for nominations of 22 June.  For details contact roger.bowden@bigpond.com.

Nearer home, Atherton Veteran Open Tournament is on 12/13 July.  Nomination forms at our next registration or from athertongolf@bigpond.com.

President's Report & Results Cairns 5 June

Hi Everyone,

It was a beautiful day to be playing golf today in Cairns and particularly at Cairns Golf Club. Again the course was presented to us in an excellent condition with the fairways in good condition and the greens running fast and true. The Greens staff are to be commended on their preparation.

We have a field of 111 starters, 85 men and 26 ladies competing in the second round of the Ted Thomasson Trophy.

Thanks again go to one of major sponsors, STRATFORD PAINTING CONTRACTORS, whose generous support is greatly appreciated.  Remember that if you need any painting jobs done around the home, get in touch with them for a quote.  In other words, support our sponsors and they support us

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 It is good to see the “grey nomads” starting to appear and today we welcomed back Graham and Trish George of Charlestown and Alan Moloney of R.A.A.F. Williamstown. It has also been good to see Ian Tracy from Wauchope back playing with us again over the past couple of weeks.

We had three new members join today, Nola Cowie and Ruth Kingston, both of Hervey Bay and Tae Yong Zheng a Cairns member. This brings our total membership to 200, comprised of 152 men and 48 ladies.

We had a delightful and special guest with us today and I refer to Harold Gibbins who, on introduction, was given a great welcome by those present by way of acclamation. Harold is a sprightly 98 year old who is very “with it” and it is both informative and entertaining to have a chat with him. Harold was a long time member of the F.N.Q.V.G.A. but stopped playing a couple of years ago when he thought that he was slowing down a bit and may have been holding up the field, a type of reputation he didn’t want to have. He has a great sense of humour and told me that on his 99^th birthday, which is on the 6^th November (the first Tuesday in the month), they are running some sort of horse race in Melbourne to mark this milestone of his life. The visit was arranged for Harold by his great friend, Claud Clark ably assisted by Kay Bergiel and Cathy Coverdale who transported Harold to and from his residence in Earlville to the Club. Our thanks go to all those concerned.

Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship, Vancouver is presently berthed in Cairns. Today a couple of the ship’s crew, who were having a social game at Cairns, presented the F.N.Q.V.G.A. with some memorabilia from the ship. This consisted of a couple of the ship’s caps, arm badges and ship’s memorial coins. We will do a card draw at Mareeba to distribute these items to members.

The game next week is scheduled for Mareeba and will count for the Consistency Trophy.

See you all there,

Greg

“El Presidente”.

TODAY’S RESULTS

MEN

DIVISION I

Winner: Graham Ross, 37 points C/B.

Runner Up: Dennis Lankester, 37 points.

DIVISION II

Winner: Bruce Jenner, 40 points.

Runner Up: Barry Pike, 36 points C/B.

BALL RUNDOWN:

36 Points: Keith Schirmer.

35 Points: Don McHardie, John Gregan, John Tolhurst.

34 Points: Neil Sharkey, Neil Hamilton.

33 Points: Michael Taylor, John Famularo, Frank Toth, Pete Edmonds, Kevin Walsh, Dave Lawler, Tae Yong Zheng, John Everall.

32 Points: Graeme Chappell, Roger Smith, Norm Lockwood, Alan Dwyer, Vern

Smith, George Studham, Rod Ingram.

31 Points: Stephen Edwards, Jack Dempsey, Les Doolan, Bill Foster, Lionel Law, Bill Leonard, Rick Gooderham, Greg Gibb.

30 Points: Albert Smith, Trevor Barry, Vaughan Edwards, Doug Christison, Brian

Brown, Russell Lawrence.

N.T.P.’s: 5^th Harvey Blanch, 8^th Brian Guest, 11^th Eric Pihlhjerta, 17^th Graham George.

LADIES:

Winner: Lil Benfield, 38 points.

Runner Up: Edna Atkinson, 36 points.

BALL RUNDOWN:

34 Points: Belle Gillan.

32 Points: Liz Edmonds.

31 Points: Doreen Law, Bev Hayhurst, Jane Taylor.

30 Points: Lois Tait.

28 Points: Gil Wright, Andrina Wilson, Jenny Albertson.

27 Points: Pris Freeman.

N.T.P.’s: 5^th and 8^th Tracy Dickinson, 11^th Andrina Wilson, 17^th Maria Ling.

Next Game Cairns 5 June

All,

Our next game is another single stableford Consistency event at Cairns.

The game is sponsored by Stratford Painting Contractors.

There hasn't been any significant change in course conditions since the last time we played there a couple of weeks ago, so hopefully we will have another good field.

See you there.

Louis

PS If anyone is going down to the AVGU National Championships at Port Stephens, you may be interested in making an early start to play in the NSW Vets Matchplay Championships 5-10 Nov.  Details & entry forms available on the WOG & NDGA website end July.

President's Report & Results Atherton 29 May

For the “Coasties” the trip up to Atherton started off with fairly miserable weather coming up the Range but as they got to the vicinity of Mareeba, things changed very much for the better. However, by the time they hit Walkamin the weather had deteriorated again to heavy overcast and misty rain and it stayed that way for the course of the day. The Tableland people, being used to that type of weather, turned out in good numbers and the final count for the day was 76 players.

There were 66 men and 10 ladies who included a new member from Peninsula Club in Victoria, Adrian Fethers, and a visitor from Bowraville, Darrell Hughes. A hearty welcome is extended to both of these players.

The event today was a Single Stableford and was played as part of our Consistency Trophy. We give our sincere thanks to STRATFORD PAINTING CONTRACTORS who were our sponsors for the day and who provided Woolworths vouchers for the Winners and Runners Up.

Whilst the blustery and rainy conditions affected some of the scores, the stand-out for the day was John Everall who, playing off a 16 handicap, accumulated 46 points. This included birdies on the 8^th, 9^th, 11^th, and 17^th holes. The 17^th was a classic with his third shot into that very strong and gusty wind, finishing about 30 centimetres from the hole. Being 8 points ahead of second place, at one stage we were considering giving him the vouchers for both First and Runner Up for his effort.

Entries for the Mirage game on Friday, 6^th July are coming in at a steady rate with 61 confirmed nominations and 7 on the “reserve” list. Remember 88 is the magic cut-off number.

After each game, various items of lost property are handed in to Committee members. Some of it is collected on the day by owners whilst other items are given to the President who, in the past, has carried them around until they are collected or after a period of time are dispensed with. Whilst this can be an inconvenience to Committee members, actually there is no certainty that the item belongs to one of our Members and may have been lost by a local Club member. A decision has been made that in future, any items such as clubs, wood and iron covers, water bottles, gloves, et cetera, will be held until the conclusion of the day’s presentation and then placed in the Lost Property Box of the Club at which we are playing. Obviously, anything of an extremely valuable nature will be handled in a different, but appropriate manner, and initially retained by the Committee. Further inquiries and efforts will be made to ascertain the owner of such an item, including the find being advertised on the Blog.

At the present time we have on hand a “Retco 27 degree” head cover and a “Jack Nicklaus” hybrid head cover. Both were handed in at our last game at Cairns and as we are playing at Cairns again next week, unless they are claimed beforehand, both will go into the Cairns Lost Property.

Yours in golf,

Greg.

“El Presidente”

TODAY’S RESULTS

MEN

DIVISION I

Winner: John Everall, 46 points.

Runner Up: Russell Lawrence, 38 points.

DIVISION II

Winner: Trevor Lawrence, 41 points.

Runner Up: Bob Billingham, 36 points.

BALL RUNDOWN:

37 Points: Don McHardie.

36 Points: Marcus Morse, John Famularo, Graham Morrow, Dave Lawler.

35 Points: Roger Smith, Dave Morrison, Albert Smith, Neil Sharkey, Rod Ingram.

34 Points: Gary Castle, Kevin Walsh, Ross Ellen, Peter Doherty, Mike Van Cuylenburg, John Tolhurst.

33 Points: Neil Hamilton, Rick Gooderham.

32 Points: Lou Siedle, Bill Foster, Harvey Blanch.

31 Points: Allan Dredge, Roger Glover, Bruce Skinner.

30 Points: Dennis Lankester, Michael Taylor, George Cooley, Ross White, John Lombardi.

N.T.P.’s: 3^rd Evert Van Kleef, 11^th John Everall, 13^th Kevin Walsh, 18^th Graham Chappell.

LADIES:

Winner: Pris Freeman, 35 points.

Runner Up: Kay Bergiel, 33 points.

BALL RUNDOWN:

31 Points: Jane Taylor.

29 Points: Lois Tait.

28 Points: Cathy Coverdale.

27 Points: Andrina Wilson.

N.T.P’s: 3^rd and 11^th Lois Tait, 13^th Andrina Wilson, 18^th Liz Edmonds.