President's Report & Results Atherton 8 Aug

Today we had 70 men and 11 ladies at Atherton for a stableford event on a beautiful sunny day. The course is in perfect condition and those of you who were too lazy to get out of bed this morning were the losers.

We had visitors in Helen and Glen Masterson from Virginia, Wally Alston from Tambo Valley as well as Jo and Warren Affleck who seem to have finally succumbed to the Victorian winter and returned to the good country. We also say welcome to new members Joy Lankester, Dave Hazlett and Peter Clarke all from Atherton.

The sponsor for today is GOLF WORLD of Cairns and I thank them for the store vouchers and I hope the winners will enjoy shopping with a discount already in their hand.

Next Tuesday we play at Babinda and it would be great to see a good crowd there to justify all the work the members do to present the course in good nick for us. The following week is the first round of our championships at Mareeba and I remind members that there are qualifying requirements to become a champ. You must have been a member for at least 2 months prior to the start of the event and have played in at least 3 of our events (this can easily be checked on your GA handicap page). You are however very welcome to play for the daily prizes on offer during the 2 weeks of the championships.

Your committee in its wisdom or lack of, decided to increase the nearest the pin prizes to 2 balls instead of 1. This particularly benefits the ladies as I see that 11 girls took home 14 balls as well as vouchers.

I am not going to suggest that anyone made a pig of themselves but our lovely whiteboard scribe needed a box to get her loot to the car!!

RESULTS.

MENS DIV1 WINNER; Wal Anthony 39 points.

RUNNER UP; Marcus Morse 37 points.

MENS DIV2 WINNER; Neil Stubbin 40 points.

RUNNER UP; Neil Sharkey 39 points.

MENS NTP; 3^rd Wally Alston, 11^th Bill Eden, 13^th Don Freeman, 18^th Trevor Grossman.

MENS BALL WINNERS;

39 points, Bill Eden, Dave Ingram, Peter Wyatt.

38 points, Jeff McGrath, Bill Foster, Dennis Lankester, Max Smith Warren Affleck.

37 points, Peter Doherty, Tony Lattimore.

36 points, John Lombardi, Graham Hughes, Ken Baker, Lou Siedle.

35 points, Alan Moloney, Brian Brown, Rod Ingram, Albert Smith,.

34 points, Greg Gibb, Craig Alman, Merv Elms.

33 points, Evert Van Kleef, Tom Stager, Lance Pedrana, Russ Gill, Peter Johnston, Darryl deClifford, Don Freeman.

32 points, Graham Morrow, Bill Leonard, Brian Norris, Peter Dalziel, George Cooley.

LADIES WINNER; Margaret Finch 39 points.

RUNNER UP; Lois Tait 36 points.

LADIES NTP; 3^rd Andrina Wilson, 11^th Marg Finch, 13^th Glynis McGrath, 18^th Andrina Wilson.

LADIES BALL WINNERS;

36 points, Andrina Wilson.

33 points, Chris Everall.

32 points, Jo Affleck.

31 points, Joy Lankester.

30 points, Glynis McGrath, Rhoda Pedrana.