Presiden'ts Message & Results 21st February

President's Report & Results of Single Stableford

Played on 21^st February 2012

at Gordonvale Golf Club

130 Players

President's Report

Unfortunately, whilst the day started off well with a light breeze making play pleasant, a thunderstorm & rain led to play being abandoned with only some of the field completing 18 holes. If it had just been rain it might have been possible to continue, but with lightning around & more showing on the radar, it was just not worth the risk.

Accordingly, the committee decided to cut the 18 hole comp to one division for men & women & also have one division for men & women who completed 9 holes.

The course was in good condition, with the ball sitting well in the fairways & the greens without the virus that affected them last wet season. The rough had also been trimmed since Saturday, so was not as much of a problem as anticipated to those of us who were a bit off line. Congratulations to the greens staff.

For the first time I can recall, a drinks cart was made available from about 10am with soft drinks & sandwiches. This was well received & is to be a regular feature when we play at Gordonvale. Many thanks to club Captain Trevor, his volunteers & bar staff who looked after us.

We had a great rollup of 130 players. Welcome to visitors Joe Quang of McLeod in Brisbane, Tom Tse of Kokopo in PNG, Col Baldwin of Bundaberg & Clive Eaton of Palmeston & to new members Michael Banks, Annette Miller & Brian Miller of Half Moon Bay, Chris Hannam of Babinda, Dan Marshall of Cairns & Maidie Hickox of Atherton. This brings our membership to 193 for the 2012 year.

Our next game is at Atherton on 6^th March, so hope that it is dry & to see you there.

Louis Siedle

Results18 hole comp.

Men's Winner: Jim May 39 points c/b

Men's Runner up: Dale Wust 39 points

Ball Rundown

38 points: Frank Thelan, Barry Pike

37 points: Jim Liston

36 points: George Kyriazis, Les Doolan, George Atkinson, Ted Lander
35 points:  Ian McDonald, Darryl de Clifford

34 points: David Guide, Keith Hillier, George Studham

33 points: Dave Ingram, Greg Gibb, Merv Elms

32 points: Harvey Blanch, Gino Busoli, John famularo, Eric Pihlhjerta, Dave Iverach

NTPs men: 5th Eddy Spry; 8th Les Doolan; 14th Frank Thelan; 17th Graeme Ross

Women's Winner: Sue Taylor 37 points

Women's Runner up: Rosemary Barker 36 points

Ball Rundown:

33 points: Di Diversi, Edna Atkinson

29 points: Betty Lou Pitt

NTPs women: 8^th Sue Taylor; 14th Edna Atkinson

Results 9 hole comp.

Men's Winner: Don Kerr, 24 points

Men's Runner up: Mick Grumley, 18 points

Women's Winner: Carol Madden, 19 points

Women's Runner up: May Wilkinson, 17 points