President's Report & Results Gordonvale 18 Feb

President's Report & Results

of the Single Stableford Competition

Played on 18th February

at Gordonvale Golf Club

90 Players

President's Report

Welcome back to all our members after the festive season which I hope they all enjoyed, but is anyone sick of hot cross buns yet & Easter not till mid April?

Having missed our first game of the year at Mareeba because of the wet, 72 men & 18 ladies turned up eager to attack a course that was in surprisingly good condition despite an early morning 7mm of rain & greens which were coming along well although slow.

However, despite my warnings I saw a number of groups exploring the drains! Thick rough in places, no run on the fairways & hot humid conditions, particularly when the sun came out, saw scores generally below par even though preferred lies were in place on the fairways. Congratulations to the green keeper & volunteers who I was told had to cope with machinery breakdowns. 

Thanks to Tom Bryce for preparing the board & NTPs for us, to Manager Phil, to Erica for running the drinks drinks cart & to Cazalys for sponsoring the day.

Welcome to new members Ronald Sylvester of Cairns & Trevor Miller of Gordonvale. Quite a number of members have renewed & our membership stands at 125 to date.

Our next game is at Atherton in a fortnight, so fingers crossed for some decent weather a couple of days prior to it.

Louis Siedle

Results

Men's Winner Div 1: Rama Naidoo 38 points

Men's Runner up Div 1: Louis Siedle 36 points

Men's Winner Div 2: David Jackson 41 points

Men's Runner up Div 2: Claud Clark 35 points

Ball Rundown:

35 points: Col McDowall, Richard Staines

34 points: Merv Elms, Bob Billingham, John Everall, Brian Rowan

33 points: Keith Schirmer, Bob Turner, Trevor Barry, Dave Ingram, George Shores, Des Jones

32 points: Bill Foster, Garry Long, Brian Panigas, Ross White, Trevor Miller, Greg Gibb

31 points: Bill Eden, Niel Sharkey, Colin Johannsen, Peter McMenamin, John Shearer, Clive Perry

30 points: Don Thomson, Dave Bennett, Yasuo Kumagae, Jin Logan, Peter Yelland

NTPs men: 5^th John Bawden; 8^th Louis Siedle; 14^th Peter Yelland; 17^th Garry Castle

Women's Winner: Jothi Naidoo 34 points

Women's Runner up: Ruth Yelland 27 points

Ball Rundown:

26 points: Di Diversi

25 points: May Wilkinson, Lily Schirmer

24 points: Sue Brennan

23 points: Jane Johannsen, Lois Tait

28 points: Isa Turner

NTPs women: 3rd Jothi Naidoo & 12^th Ruth Yelland