It
was a beautiful morning at Mirage Country Club today and the day only
got better, although
one’s perception of the day might have been clouded by the way one
was playing golf. The course was in very good condition although Ron
Sylvester had “tree” trouble on the 7th.
Seventy
seven players from the nominated list of 84 turned up and comprised
60 men and 17 ladies. There were a couple of very good scores from
the men with a couple of the ladies playing to their respective
handicaps. The event, a Single Stableford was sponsored jointly, by
both Mirage Country Club and the F.N.Q. Vets.
My
impression was that everyone had a great day and it was great to see
the numbers of players who stayed for the presentation and who
appeared to be enjoying each other’s company. As well as playing
golf, my feelings are that this is what Vets golf is all about and it
epitomises our one word motto, “Friendship”.
My
thanks go to our Committee all of whom put a lot of effort into
making the day a success. I also expressed our thanks to Geoff
Peard, the manager of Mirage, for his help and suggestions which made
things a lot easier. His personal guidance of players to their
respective tees and similar attention from Ken, the Course Marshal,
was also appreciated. They also did a fine job humping all our bags
down to the carts from the Bag Drop area. Geoff was also asked to
let Mel in the Pro Shop be aware of our thanks for her assistance in
looking after us as far as the vouchers, balls and ball markers was
concerned.
It
was a little disappointing that a few of the seven who didn’t turn
up, didn’t let us know they weren’t coming, as we had several
players hoping to fill any vacancies should they arise. The
Committee was of the opinion that it wouldn't be fair to ask those
“reserves” to travel to Port Douglas on the off-chance of getting
a start. In the future we may have to look at a different way of
administering a similar Golf Day as we would like to repeat the
experience of having our members play at a resort course..
As
Captain Russ had to go to Townsville straight after the game and so he
could get away with any fuss, I suggested that I would do the
handicapping of the cards for him. It was about three years since I
last did them but unfortunately I found that one of the bugbears I
experienced then and which Russ has since encountered, still exists,
i.e., lack of Golflink Numbers on the cards. Yesterday I found that
about 25% of the cards were missing these numbers. Whilst we
have a list of member’s Golflink Numbers which we can access, the
interruption to the flow of entering cards slows the process
considerably. To ease the frustration, the more numbers one finds
missing, the more glasses of wine one consumes and, of course, this
leads to further deterioration of the entry procedure. Whilst there
is little chance I will be doing the handicapping again, I sincerely
ask everyone to pay more attention to entering your 10 number
Golflink Number of your card. There is no doubt that Captain Russ
will appreciate it.
See
you at Babinda on Tuesday where those beautiful tables made by Wal
Anthony will be up for grabs.
Yours
in golf,
Greg
“El
Presidente”.
FRIDAY’S
RESULTS
MEN
DIVISION
I
Winner: Tom
Finch, 40 points.
Runner
Up: Neil Hamilton, 39 points. C/B.
DIVISION
II
Winner: Mark
Buckle, 41 points.
Runner
Up: Brian Norris, 38 points.
N.T.P.’s 2nd
Mark Buckle, 6th Michael Taylor, 8th Roger
Smith, 13th Marcus Morse,
15th
and 18th Ian McDonald.
LADIES
Winner: Maria
Ling, 36 points.
Runner
Up: Doreen Law, 36 points.
N.T.P.’s: 2nd
Gail Wright, 6th Andrina Wilson, 8th Suda
Woodward, 13th Lois Tait,
15th
and 18th Belle Gillan.
There
was no Ball Rundown as all players received a Mirage logo ball. As
an extra, we decided to give those players who equalled or bettered
their handicap, excluding the winners and runners-up, a Mirage
Country Club ball marker. Those winners were: Kevin Walsh, Barry
Pike, Graham Ross, Peter McMenamin, Bruce Jenner, Neil Sharkey, Zbig
Bergiel, Steve Edwards, Roger Smith and Barry Vining.
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