President's Report & Results Cairns 11 Sep

Hi All,

It was a great day at Cairns, with the weather pleasant and the course in great condition. The pins were set in some “interesting” positions on some of the holes and quite accessible on others. The greens were fast and true.

We had a field of 95 today including 15 ladies. We also had a visitor, Trevor Angus from Camberwell, play with us and in fact, joined our Association bringing our total Membership to 244.

Today’s event was a Stroke round and the final scoring round in the Stanton Bailey Trophy, the previous two rounds being held in conjunction with the Championships. The sponsor for today’s game was STRATFORD PAINTING CONTRACTORS, with the principal of the firm, Gordon Perry playing with us. This is Gordon’s first year of sponsoring us and with any luck the sponsorship will continue next. It would be remiss of me not to mention the role that Vice President Robin played in securing this sponsorship. It is greatly appreciated.

Players will notice that the N.T.P. for the Men on the 5^th hole was not awarded today. The reason being that the marker was placed out by the Committee as a “one shot” N.T.P. At some point it appears that a player has changed it to a “two shot” N.T.P. Whilst this format was trialled at our last Cairns game, (apparently this fromat is used by Cairns in some competitions for C Graders) the Committee decided not to pursue it in future games. It should be understood by all players that the Committee is the sole arbiter of any and all competitions held under the auspices of the F,N,Q.V.G.A., including N.T.P.’s.

Vice President’s assertion in last week’s blog that, in filling in for me due to a trip to NSW, he had completed the Presidents’ report at presentation in about 2 minutes was almost like waving a red flag to me. Today, in a frenzy of speech making, I completed a welcome of members to Cairns G.C., welcome to visitors, thanks to our sponsor and handed over the microphone to Captain Russ for announcement of winners in 21 seconds. It wasn’t me though and I grabbed the microphone back off him and continued on with my with scintillating report.

Our next game is at Babinda and don’t forget it will be a later Registration 7.30am to 8.30am.

Yours in golf,

Greg.

“El Presidente”.

TODAY’S RESULTS

MEN

DIVISION I

Winner: Neil Arnott, 69 net, C/B.

Runner Up: Roger Glover, 69 net.

DIVISION II

Winner: John Pilbin, 66 net.

Runner Up: Rick Gooderham.

BALL RUNDOWN

70 net: John Lombardi. Robin Tonks.

72 net: Les Doolan, Peter Doherty, Neil Hamilton, Denis Vohland, John Hall.

73 net: Frank Thelan, George Studham.

74 net: Graham Roberts, Brian Rowan, Graham Chappel.

75 net: Allan Dwyer, Brian Guest, Peter Edmonds, Don Thomson, Ross White,

Barry Vining, Darryl DeClifford, Brian Norris.

76 net: Albert Smith, Dave Jackson, Gordon Perry, Tae Zheng, Claud Clark.

Dave Lawler, Peter Klein, Trevor Angus. John Everall, George Kyriazis.

N.T.P.’s: 8^th Graham Roberts, 11^th Graeme Chappel, 17th Roger Smith.

LADIES

Winner: Suda Woodward, 77 net C/B.

Runner Up: Gail O’Shea, 77 net.

BALL RUNDOWN.

78 net: Andrina Wilson, Jan Wundersitz.

79 net: Kay Cleland.

83 net. Rosemary Barker.

84 net: Annette Tesch.

87 net: Lois Tait.

N.T,P.’s: 5^th Kay Cleland, 11^th Maria Ling, 17^th Lois Tait.