President's Report & Results 29th May at Half Moon Bay

President's Report &

Results of the Single Stableford Competition

Played on 29th May 2012

at Half Moon Bay Golf Club

123 Players

President's Report

The recent continuing wet seems to have weighed on everyone, as the last couple of days clear weather saw us achieve our best field for the season so far – 102 men & 21 ladies.

The course was well prepared and the greens largely recovered from recent scarification. Well done to the greens staff. Thanks also to Greg Ferry & the caterers who looked after us well as usual.

We were pleased to have Sara Cook representing our sponsor for the day, Sportsworld, attend the presentations & talk about what they could offer our members. Unfortunately she did not play, but is available to discuss individual programs with members interested in increasing fitness or suppleness.

Welcome to five visitors, Les Cawthorne of Charlestown, NSW, Marty & Chris Harris of Yamba, NSW, Carol Reynolds of Windsor Park, Florida, USA & Warren Walters of Arkansaw, USA.

Welcome back to Gordon Thomas, fresh from a long cruise. He arrived back in the nick of time, as Claud Clark, who was standing in as Treasurer for Col, also has to take off on family business down south, so Gordon was promptly collared to fill in for the fill in! Still, he had a great cruise from all accounts.

On a more serious note ladies & gentlemen, we have enjoyed quite a lengthy period of games which are as well organised as any in other clubs I've been associated with. However, that can only continue if we have fresh faces coming forward to serve on the committee, as it is unfair to expect existing members to serve for an indefinate period. We also would like, one day, to be able just to roll up, pay our fees & tee off with whom we like when we feel like it, or just roll over & go back to sleep, as the case may be!

This year, the position of Vice President was not filled as no-one expressed any interest. Whilst not critical this year, it will become so if not filled at our AGM in December, as it will affect any succession plan.

Please give some thought to taking a position on our management committee. It is not onerous if there are sufficient on it to enable stand ins for those on holiday, sick or busy with family affairs.  If you would like to talk about what is involved before throwing your hat in the ring, please see me or any committee member anytime.

The winner of our latest raffle was John Everall & the runner up Max Crittenden.  Well done both.

Our next game is at Mareeba golf club on 5^th June.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Louis Siedle

Results

Men's Winner Div 1: Ross White 39 points

Men's Runner up Div 1: Ray Miller 38 points

Men's Winner Div 2: Graham Morrow 40 points

Men's Runner up Div 2: David Jackson 39 points

Ball Rundown

38 points: Graham Ross, Terry Stevens, Brian Miller

37 points: Don Coxhill, Max Crittenden

36 points: Greg Gibb, Cec Turner, Peter Mallie, Jim Logan, Kevin Ranger, Russ Gill, Roger Smith

35 points: Len Manoff, Les Doolan, Vaughan Edwards, Ian Tindall, Keith Schirmer, Bryan MacCallum

34 points: Keith Hillier, Tom Clifford, Keith Sanderson, Darryl King, Louis Siedle

33 points: John Clough, George Rapley, Graham Fisher, Jim Egan, Sam Power, Geoff Horsburgh

32 points: Max Smith, John Famularo, Harvey Blanch, Bruce Jenner, Laurie Bell, Eiji Watanabe, Darryl deClifford

NTPs men: 3^rd Graham Fisher; 9th David Jackson; 11th Don Coxhill; 16^th Graham Ross

Women's Winner: Lita Stevens 33 points

Women's Runner up: Chris Everall 32 points

Ball Rundown:

32 points: Judy Ellis

31 points: Annette Tesch

30 points: BettyLou Pitt, Chris Harris

28 points: Glynnis McGrath

NTPs women: 4^th Lois Tait ; 16^th Annette Tesch