Next Game Mareeba 29 Aug

The game next week is the second round of our Championships, so is another stroke event at Mareeba.

The game is sponsored by Drummond Golf Cairns.

 An up to date list of handicaps corrected for play at Mareeba will again be available at registration.

To be eligible to play in our Championships, you must have been a financial member of our Association for a period of 2 months & have played in at least 3 of our events prior to it.  However, if you don't meet these criteria, you are welcome to come along & play in the day's comp.  A list of eligible members will be available at registration, but if you are not on it & feel you should be, then play in the day comp & we will double check the records to confirm if you are eligible, in which case you will be advised accordingly & your score entered for the championship.

We will be providing a platter of sandwiches for each group of 4 after they finish their round this week.  (Some members last week took a platter each instead of one per group, which left the tail-enders short, so we will be ticking off each group to make sure it doesn't happen again!)

Results of the day comp will be available as usual that night or next day, but the Championship results will not be available until the 3 men's grades & one ladies grade have been determined & cards rechecked.  A full printout of the Championship results will be available at registration for the second round & also published on this blog.

See you there.

Louis

President's Report & Results Mareeba 22 Aug

Today was the first round of our Championships and as usual Mareeba put on perfect weather for the occasion, even though the locals would like to see a few good rainy days. As we have been doing for a few years we treated you to snacks and nibbles after the game and asked Gabi to put something together and she bettered even her own high standard, thank you Gabi and your 2I/C Jon.

94 men and 16 women tackled the course today and judging by the scores returned the dry conditions helped many of you.

The sponsor today was DRUMMOND GOLF and we thank them for the store vouchers awarded to the winners and runners up in each grade.

It is our policy to decide the grade cutoffs for our championships in a way that makes numbers in the grades about equal, so the halfway results will be available in a printout when we return for round 2 next week. In the interim the day event today was decided on nett stroke in our usual 2 men's grades & 1 ladies grade.

Next weekend is the 2 day Babinda Open so if you enjoyed the game there and the friendly atmosphere last Tuesday, you can download an entry form from the FNQ website. You can reach this from the LINKS list at the bottom of the left column on this page.

RESULTS.

MENS DIV 1 WINNER; Mike Van Cuylenberg 67 nett

RUNNER UP; Lou Siedle 69 nett.

DIV2 WINNER; Kevin Collins 69 nett c/b.

RUNNER UP; Bill Leonard 69 nett.

MENS NTP; 4^th David Ingram, 8^th Darryl deClifford, 11^th John Hall, 13^th Rama Naidoo.

MENS BALL WINNERS;

69 John Hall.

70 George Cooley, John Everall, Peter Johnston.

71 Wal Anthony, Nev Malouf, Barry Butt, George Atkinson.

72 Ron Crispin, Ross Ellen, Doug Christison, Tim Hollman, Albert Smith, Neil Sharkey.

73 Jim Logan, Harry Alykhan, Brian Rowan, Greg Gibb, Bruce Jenner, Peter Dalziel, Trevor Barry,

Ken Baker, Peter Wyatt.

74 Graham Morrow, Michael Taylor, Rod Cade, Darryl deClifford, John Pilbin, Rama Naidoo,

Peter Klein.

75 Barry Pike, Bob Billingham, Yasuo Kumagae, Keith Hillier, George Brew, Trevor Grossman,

Roger Smith.

LADIES WINNER; Chris Everall 71 c/b.

RUNNER UP; Cathie Coverdale 71.

LADIES NTP; 4^th Jane Taylor, 11^th Cathie Coverdale, 8^th & 13^th Adie Crispin.

LADIES BALL RUNDOWN;

71 Lois Tait, Kay Bergiel.

72 Annette Tesch.

73 Andrina Wilson, Judy Ellis, Jane Taylor.

74 Adie Crispin.

Next Game Mareeba 22 Aug

All,

The game next week is the first round of our Championships, so is a stroke event at Mareeba this year.

The game is sponsored by Drummond Golf Cairns.

Our Championships run for the next two weeks & both games are held at the same club because the slope system makes it too difficult for handicapping purposes to hold it at different clubs with different slope ratings.   An up to date list of handicaps corrected for play at Mareeba will be available at registration.

To be eligible to play in our Championships, you must have been a financial member of our Association for a period of 2 months & have played in at least 3 of our events prior to it.  However, if you don't meet these criteria, you are welcome to come along & play in the day's comp.  A list of eligible members will be available at registration, but if you are not on it & feel you should be, then play in the day comp & we will double check the records to confirm if you are eligible, in which case you will be advised accordingly & your score entered for the championship..

As in previous years, we will be providing a platter of nibblies for each group of 4 after they finish their round this week and a platter of sandwiches after the second round, to re-energise members after the effort of having to count each shot & to sustain them on their drive back home!

Please note that results of the day comp will be available as usual that night or next day, but the Championship results will not be available until the 3 men's grades & one ladies grade have been determined & cards rechecked.  A full printout of the Championship results will be available at registration for the second round & also published on this blog.

See you there.

Louis

President's Report & Results Babinda 15 Aug

Babinda failed miserably to live up to its reputation as one of the wettest towns in the country when it turned on a beautiful sunny day for us today. We had 82 players (66 men and 16 ladies) for the second round of the Patrons Trophy. 

82 players on a 9 hole course makes the round a little slow but I must say that I have come to regard vets as much as a social outing as a golf event and when we were waiting on a tee there was always fun and laughter with some of the great friends I have made through our club.

I must say that I was very remiss in my after the game speech for not properly thanking the members and helpers of the Babinda club for their efforts in making the day a success. Many will not realize that the club only have around 15 or so members and so on a day such as today it is ”all hands on deck”.  The result was a warm welcome,great food and a course that was a credit to the club.

The sponsor today was WAL ANTHONY proprietor of HERETAGE CABINETS, and also our vice captain who made two beautiful occasional tables for the winners and supplied a box of balls each for the runners up. Because there was a large field today there were 2 grades of men but as Wal himself won Div 1 the 2 prizes were enough.

RESULTS.

MENS DIV1 WINNER; Wal Anthony 39 points.

RUNNER UP; Ross Ellen 37 points.

MENS DIV2 WINNER; Rod Ingram 36 points.

RUNNER UP; David Ingram 34 points.

MENS NTP; 2^nd Wal Anthony, 5^th & 14^th Peter Dalziel, 11^th Roger Smith.

MENS BALL WINNERS,

36 points, Peter Penny.

35 points, Barry Vining, Ross White.

34 points, Ian Tindall, Rama Naidoo, Tom Stager.

33 points, Peter Klein, Tony Lattimore, Chris Dunn, Bob Billingham.

32 points, Warren Afflick, Marcus Morse, Russ Gill, Roger Smith.

31 points, Yasuo Kumagae.

30 points, Geoff McGrath, Lance Pedrana.

29 points, Brian Rowan, George Studham, George Kyraizis.

28 points. Bob Turner, Rick Gooderham, Brian Norris, Ian Tracey, Bill Foster, Albert Smith.

LADIES WINNER; Rhoda Pedrana 33 points c/b.

RUNNER UP; Tracey Dickinson 33 points.

LADIES NTP, 2^nd Glynis McGrath, 5^th Tracey Dickinson, 11^th Chris Everall.

LADIES BALL WINNERS;

32 points, Chris Everall.

29 points, Andrina Wilson.

27 points, Glynis McGrath.

26 points, Jenny Albertson, Joy Evans.

24 points, Cathie Coverdale, Adie Crispin, Joanne Afflick.

Next Game Babinda 15 Aug

All,

Our next game is a single stableford Patron's Trophy round at Babinda.

Sponsor for the day is Wal Anthony who is supplying a couple of his handmade beautiful tables as prizes (see below).

He will also be running about early on the day to ensure the course is pristine for us & the forecast is good, so come along & have a go on this challenging little course.

See you there.

Louis

President's Report & Results Atherton 8 Aug

Today we had 70 men and 11 ladies at Atherton for a stableford event on a beautiful sunny day. The course is in perfect condition and those of you who were too lazy to get out of bed this morning were the losers.

We had visitors in Helen and Glen Masterson from Virginia, Wally Alston from Tambo Valley as well as Jo and Warren Affleck who seem to have finally succumbed to the Victorian winter and returned to the good country. We also say welcome to new members Joy Lankester, Dave Hazlett and Peter Clarke all from Atherton.

The sponsor for today is GOLF WORLD of Cairns and I thank them for the store vouchers and I hope the winners will enjoy shopping with a discount already in their hand.

Next Tuesday we play at Babinda and it would be great to see a good crowd there to justify all the work the members do to present the course in good nick for us. The following week is the first round of our championships at Mareeba and I remind members that there are qualifying requirements to become a champ. You must have been a member for at least 2 months prior to the start of the event and have played in at least 3 of our events (this can easily be checked on your GA handicap page). You are however very welcome to play for the daily prizes on offer during the 2 weeks of the championships.

Your committee in its wisdom or lack of, decided to increase the nearest the pin prizes to 2 balls instead of 1. This particularly benefits the ladies as I see that 11 girls took home 14 balls as well as vouchers.

I am not going to suggest that anyone made a pig of themselves but our lovely whiteboard scribe needed a box to get her loot to the car!!

RESULTS.

MENS DIV1 WINNER; Wal Anthony 39 points.

RUNNER UP; Marcus Morse 37 points.

MENS DIV2 WINNER; Neil Stubbin 40 points.

RUNNER UP; Neil Sharkey 39 points.

MENS NTP; 3^rd Wally Alston, 11^th Bill Eden, 13^th Don Freeman, 18^th Trevor Grossman.

MENS BALL WINNERS;

39 points, Bill Eden, Dave Ingram, Peter Wyatt.

38 points, Jeff McGrath, Bill Foster, Dennis Lankester, Max Smith Warren Affleck.

37 points, Peter Doherty, Tony Lattimore.

36 points, John Lombardi, Graham Hughes, Ken Baker, Lou Siedle.

35 points, Alan Moloney, Brian Brown, Rod Ingram, Albert Smith,.

34 points, Greg Gibb, Craig Alman, Merv Elms.

33 points, Evert Van Kleef, Tom Stager, Lance Pedrana, Russ Gill, Peter Johnston, Darryl deClifford, Don Freeman.

32 points, Graham Morrow, Bill Leonard, Brian Norris, Peter Dalziel, George Cooley.

LADIES WINNER; Margaret Finch 39 points.

RUNNER UP; Lois Tait 36 points.

LADIES NTP; 3^rd Andrina Wilson, 11^th Marg Finch, 13^th Glynis McGrath, 18^th Andrina Wilson.

LADIES BALL WINNERS;

36 points, Andrina Wilson.

33 points, Chris Everall.

32 points, Jo Affleck.

31 points, Joy Lankester.

30 points, Glynis McGrath, Rhoda Pedrana.

Next Game Atherton 8 Aug

All,

Our game next week is a single stableford Consistency event at Atherton.

I'm told the course is in good condition & no doubt Debbie will prepare some of her great sandwiches as usual.

The game is sponsored by Golf World, who are currently running their Winter Savings sale with up to 50% off clothing & other items, so go snag a bargain.

See you Tuesday.

Louis

PS  The game after this one is at Babinda & Wal is providing his beautiful handmade prizes for the winners - see below: