President's Report & Results Half Moon Bay 26 Sep

PRESIDENT''S REPORT AND RESULTS – HALF MOON BAY – 26^th September

Hi All,

I am writing this on behalf of President Roger who was tied up on “Poppy” duties today and although he was at HMB at Registration, could not stay.

We had an average field for Half Moon Bay of 89 members and visitors, consisting of 72 men and 17 ladies. We had 4 new members join today, Maurie Smith and Bill Matthews from Cairns, Tony Neilson from HMB and Arthur Buckley from Paradise Palms. Dick Underwood from HMB played as a visitor. The new members bring our total membership to 237, consisting of 184 men and 53 ladies.

Today's event was sponsored by COMPLETE HEALTH AND FITNESS SOLUTIONS and we were lucky to have one of the principals of the company, Scott Payne, play with us. It is always a pleasure to have any of our sponsors join us for a game, so we can gain some rapport rather than them being just a faceless entity. Scott was called away prior to presentation and although he tried to return to present the trophies could not get back in time. When he did return, he added three additional trophies to his sponsorship. These consisted of vouchers for the winners in the three Divisions and entitle the recipient to an Initial Assessment and a One month Exercise Studio Membership. Scott was saying he has a new laser machine that treats muscles tears, etc., and Captain Russ, who has had the treatment used on his hamstring which he injured at Millaa Millaa, swears by it.

The course was in excellent condition and is a credit to the Grant, the Course Superintendent and his staff. Again our thanks go to Greg Ferry, the Manager for donating a case of beer for our free raffle. The staff in the Golf Shop were very efficient in looking after the influx of our members from 6.30am on. Thanks also go to Mike McManus and Gordon Noble for the preparation of those succulent hamburgers. It's hard to comprehend why we are not getting the numbers at HMB that we used to get a year or so go. Perhaps when the Members' Survey goes out later in the year we may get some answers.

The tickets in the Beer Raffle were handed out by one of our Committee, Andrina Wilson, who then tore the remaining butts out, placed them in the ice bucket for the draw and then drew out the winning ticket who was (Drum Roooollllll), ANDRINA WILSON !! Although there were a number of disbelieving catcalls I can vouch that everything was above board. Trust me, I'm a former Police Officer.

Next game will be at at Royal Babinda and will be the final Round of the Patron's Trophy which is for the best aggregate Stableford score returned over the four rounds held at the two 9 Hole courses, Babinda and Millaa Millaa.

See you there,

GRG

RESULTS

MEN

DIVISION I WINNER – Garry Castle, 43 points on a countback.

DIVISION I RUNNER UP – Maurie Smith, 43 points.

DIVISION II WINNER – Barry Pike, 42 points.

DIVISION II RUNNER UP – John Famularo, 39 points.

BALL RUN-DOWN:

38 points: Claud Clark, Bill Foster, Cec Turner.

37 points; Marcus Morse.

36 points; Jack Dempsey, Ross Ellen.

35 points: Peter Johnston, Ross White, Michael Taylor, John Gregan.

34 points: Neil Hamilton, Peter Wyatt, Evert Van Kleef.

33 points: Lou Siedle, Max Smith, Peter Klein, Darryl de Clifford, George Atkinson.

32 points: Tim Hollman, John Bawden, Graham Ross, Goerge Studham, John Pilbin, Max Crittenden, Tony Neilson, John Everall.

30 points: Neil Sharkey, Graeme Webb, Bruce Jenner, George Brew.

NEAREST THE PIN: 3^rd – Davd Ingram, 9^th – Neil Hamilton, 16^th – Maurie Smith, 18^th – Bryan Guest.

LADIES

WINNER - Rosemary Barker – 35 points on a countback.

RUNNER UP - Edna Atkinson – 35 points.

BALL RUN-DOWN:

34 points: Tracey Dickinson.

33 points: Andrina Wilson, Lesley Ross.

32 points: Heather Forster, Margo Desira.

31 points: Suda Woodward.

30 points: Cathie Coverdale.

NEAREST TO THE PIN: 4^th – Belle Gillan, 9^th – Lesley Ross, 11^th – Edna Atkinson, 16^th – Lil Benfield.