President's Report & Results Atherton 7 Aug

Hi All,

The first round of the Association’s Championships were held at Atherton today in very good golfing conditions, sunny and cool. GOLF WORLD CAIRNS, one of our valuable weekly sponsors, has sponsored trophies for the Winners and Runners Up in the Gross and Net divisions for all four grades of the Championship, Our Association is very grateful for this level of sponsorship and we thank Leigh from Golf World for his effort in this regard.

The Atherton course is in excellent condition and is a credit to the Course Superintendent, Brendan. The course was prepared as a precursor to the Atherton Open to be held next weekend, with the fairways mowed so that there was good degree of run and the greens were slick with the pins in “interesting” positions. I would think next week the course will be in similar condition for our final round with the pins in some more “interesting” positions.

A field of 86 players participated in the event today, 72 men and 14 ladies. This was a little bit disappointing seeing the Championships are the pinnacle event for the year. Whilst there are obviously circumstances that prevent members from attending, taking all things into consideration, including the tournament, course, the weather and friendship, those who unfortunately didn’t attend today were the ones who lost out. We also again welcomed Ron and Adie Crispin from N.Z. as visitors and also a new member, Ron Blake from Mareeba.

There were some very good scores submitted today and list of grades and provisional placings will be published on the Blog in the next day or so and also disseminated at Atherton next week. There were also some very ordinary scores put up on the board, including that of “El Presidente”.

As well as the golf, it was an interesting day for other reasons. A team of lawyers from Maccas may be in touch after Liz Edmonds hit the McDonald”s sign on the 10^th hole. I don’t think we will be defending any action because apparently this is the fifth time Liz has hit the sign so she can’t claim that she didn’t know it was there. It must have been an interesting time with that group as Peter Edmonds did what is now known in modern parlance as a “Gillytonks”, chasing after his wife’s buggy after it headed off down hill. Fortunately no injuries ensued.

We also learnt at presentation of the reactions of an Immigration Officer in Japan who, when processing Wal Anthony for entry into the country asked Wal for his fingerprints. Those who know Wal would understand the Officer’s consternation and knowing Wal’s character he wouldn’t have made it easy on him. For those who don’t know Wal, ask him. He loves telling the story.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Atherton next week for the final round of our Championships. Remember that you have to play off the handicap you played off today. A list of those handicaps will be available at Registration for those of us who may have had a memory lapse.

Greg

“El Presidente”

TODAY’S RESULTS

MEN

DIVISION I

Winner: Don McHardie, 64 net.

Runner Up: Peter Steventon, 65 net.

DIVISION II

Winner: Bruce Jenner, 67 Net

Runner Up: Graham Morrow, 68 net.

BALL RUNDOWN

66: Dennis Lankester, Ross White.

68: Garry Castle, Peter Clarke, Dave Ingram, Roger Smith.

69: Peter Klein, Brian Rowan, Peter Edmonds, Ross Ellen, Russ Gill.

70: Neil Stubbin, Wal Anthony, George Brew, Dave Morrison, Peter Doherty, Doug Christisdon.

71: Bob Billingham, Neil Sharkey, Albert Smith, Russell Lawrence.

72: Marcus Morse, Ron Blake, Lou Siedle, Robin Tonks.

73: Bill Foster, Brian Norris, Mark Buckle, Gary Tudehope, John Tolhurst, Tom Finch, Evert Van Kleef.

N.T.P.’s: 3^rd Dave Lawler, 11^th George Cooley, 13^th Craig Alman, 18^th Peter Meyer.

LADIES

Winner: Kay Bergiel, 69 net.

Runner Up: Cathie Coverdale, 70 net.

BALL RUNDOWN

71: Maria Ling.

72: Andrina Wilson.

73: Celia Fox.

75: Marg Finch.

N.T.P.’s: 3^rd Lois Tait, 11^th Judy Guzzwell, 13^th Andrina Wilson, 18^th Andrina Wilson.