President's Report & Results Cairns 3 Dec

President's Report & Results

of the 2Ball Ambrose Competition

Played on 3^rd December

at Cairns Golf Club

100 Players

President's Report

A beautiful clear & relatively cool day greeted the 82 men & 18 ladies who turned up for our shotgun start in the final comp for 2013, a 2 Ball Ambrose. 94 stayed for our breakup lunch which was catered for by the club. The course was in good condition with greens not as fast as they have been, which may have been a relief to some. Congratulations to the greens staff.

Thanks to the caterers & bar staff who looked after us very well. The meal was on the tables promptly & the prawns plentiful. Thanks to Dave Pascoe who kindly volunteered to drive around with cold water during the game to keep us rehydrated. Thanks also to eagle eyed non playing committee members on the verandah who kindly & loudly pointed out my approach to the 18^th had gone O/B!

Welcome to visitors for the day who were also some of our sponsors, Melody Lucas & her guests Serge & Joan Battistin, Cate Dunbar & Shae Isselbacher of Savannah Lifestyle Resorts, Carly Hatswell of Easylift & Scott Payne of Complete Fitness Solutions & Katrin Nash of Drummond Golf. Thanks to Melody for presenting the Savannah Cup winners & to Carly for presenting the day's prizes.

Welcome to new member Bill Peterson of Cairns.

The winners of the progressive raffle cleaned up most of the items, but I'm holding a couple for Gary Long & one for Dave Lawler.

We had some programs for 2014 available at registration.  More will be available at our first game next year & a copy will be posted to this blog when we finalise sponsorships, probably early in January.  I will be posting irregularly to the blog over the next few weeks if we have anything we think may be of interest to members, so please check it every week or so (if you remember during the festive season).

With best wishes for a Happy Christmas & a healthy & prosperous New Year from all the committee.

Louis Siedle

Results

Winners: John Kilby & Merv Hains 64 net

Runners up: Keith Hillier & Jon Shearer 65 net

3^rd placed: Wayne Petrohilos & Brian Panigas 66.25 net

Ball Rundown:

67 net: Dave Lawler & Roger Glover

67.5 net: Ian Tindall & Richard Staines

68.5 net: Rob Blackman & Graham Johnson

68.75 net: Colin & Jane Johannsen

69.75 net: Greg Gibb & Jim Logan, Jothi & Rama Naidoo

70 net: Lou Siedle & Dave Bennett

70.25 net: Bob Turner & Bruce Jenner, Garry Castle & David Jackson

70.5 net: John Pilbin & George Studham

70.75 net: Norm Lockwood & Zbig Bergiel

71.25 net: Dave Parrish & Herb Golightly, Yasuo Kumagae & George Shores

72.25 net: John Mitchell & Tom Clifford, Laurie Bell & Frank Thelan

72.5 net: Doug Hodgson & Warren Wright, Col McDowall & Peter Marriot, Don Thomson & Peter Jostons

73 net: Alan Dwyer & George Brew

NTPs men: 5^th Dave Lawler; 8^th Greg Gibb; 11^th Graham Johnson; 17^th David Jackson

NTPs women: 5^th Ann Perrett & 17^th Lil Benfield