CAIRNS RESULTS TUESDAY 20TH AUGUST

 

As mentioned in the last Blog our media mogul Ron Blake is off swanning on a Rhine River cruise through the lands of Europe then onto Ireland. He left the Blog write to your President and his trusty offsider his wife Linda for the next few weeks. Thanks Linda.

Today at Cairns GC yours truly was misguided by the weather gurus, stating a slight early mizzle - clearing. Instead the mizzle turned to showers. Sorry about that!

Anyway although it was a damp morning the course stood up very well and was in great condition. Thanks to David and all the greens staff, thanks also to Chloe and the staff in the Clubhouse and the Pro Shop staff for getting us underway with carts etc. While handing out thank you's I would like to thank Colin Johannson and Pete Walters for helping out at the Captains Table while the Committee are a bit thin on the ground.

Today we played a Single Stableford sponsored by The Reef Hotel Casino with 62 players (50 men and 12 ladies). Given the conditions we would like to thank all those brave souls who turned up and must say that the scores returned were outstanding.

We had a visit from Jeff Cruickshank who is the President of the Queensland Golf Union and Vice Pres of the Australian Veterans Golf Union (AVGU). It was nice for the members to meet Jeff and to make him welcome, he is planning to move to Cairns from Toowoomba and soon will be a member of our FNQVGA.  We also had Jeff present the prizes to today's winners which was well received.

TODAY`S RESULTS:

MENS:

Division 1

Winner: Neal Arnott 39 pts

Runner Up: Ed Mackie 36 pts (C/B)

Division 2

Winner: Mick Gossip 41 pts

Runner up:  John Bawden 38 pts (C/B)

NTPs: 

No 2 Colin Johannsen No 8 Colin Johannsen No 14 Chris Ireland 

No 17 Brian Hughes 

Ball Rundown:

38 pts: Chris Ireland 

37 pts: Dave Jackson Colin Johannsen

36 pts: Peter Edmonds Keith Schirmer

35 pts: John Ward Trevor Barry Phil Smith Pommie English 

34 pts: Rich Michalski Peter McMeninan Tim Hollman

LADIES

Winner: Jane Taylor  34 pts (C/B)

Runner Up: Cathy Small 34 pts 

NTPs: 

No 2 Jane Taylor No 8 Della Cornforth No 14 Marg Finch  

No 17 Della Cornforth

Ball Rundown:

33 pts Marg Finch  

32 pts Liz Edmonds Edna Atkinson

Next Week: Mareeba Golf Club host the next round of the Consistency Series

Jeff presenting Chris as Div 2 Runner Up on behalf of John!!

Jeff presenting Jane as Ladies Winner

Jeff congratulates Della on snaring 2 NTPs