Yearly Archives: 2013

Par is obviously not one of our favourite formats, as only three players managed to play to handicap. With only nine shots seperating the field, with a huge swing all are in contention.

A reminder to all attending Swan Hill, remainder of monies is now due.

Heading into the second results, top six contenders are:

Square Oliver Gross, Ed Kloprogge, Jan Siemon  -1 Gordon Hill  -2 Malcom Adey, Treavor Jackson

miss you Harry

miss you Harry

Results for Saturday, 05 October 2013
1st Mo Sabih(63)
2nd Targe Mifsud(65) 3rd Mike Mann(66) 4th Oliver Gross(68)
5th Mostyn Gregg(69) 5th Craig Sharp(69)

Anybody would swear there was something else on in town today.  Although we weren’t expecting huge numbers, in the end nine brave souls turned up for the fray and everybody to a man seemed to be keen to hit off as early as possible and to get away as quickly as possible afterwards.  Fortunately, the general public seems to have stayed away in droves as well so a prompt start and virtually no hold ups resulted in a record low elapsed time for the round.  This seemed to please everybody all round.

Despite some more rain since Wednesday/Thursday, there was little free water on the course (other than the hazards)  and even the new dam was empty.  That’s probably because they have problems with the pumps and are busting pipes all over the place.  The wind got pretty fierce at times which might have helped to put people off their game to some degree however it probably made as many holes longer as it made shorter so it probably evened out on that front.

The winner, though, managed to noodle his way around the course without too many blemishes on his card though a miss on the 17th did protect his handicap a little with a result of only 37 points.  After Harry chipped in to birdie the 1st, Noodles was desperate to get a birdie so that Harry wasn’t the only birdie for the day and in the process went close to getting the chip in on two occasions.  In the event he needn’t have worried because there were four birdies plodded for the day.

Harry faltered a bit after his early success (PBSU?) but managed to finish the round with a couple of pars to haul himself into second place with 33 points.  This eased out the early club-house leader, Bobbie, who, until the last cards came in had hopes of pulling off a winning result.

The Maltese Falcon, Tarcisio, was next cab off the rank in the podium placings with 31 points.  Last, but not least, of the point scorers were the terrible twins, Oliver and Mo.  Sounds like a cross between Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges!  However, it does seem that both Mo and his marker, Targe, went to the same school and made the same addition error when totalling Mo’s points.  Do try to be a bit more careful chaps.

Because of the small numbers, there were no pin competitions and no ball run so everybody had to be happy with just their points if they made a place or with the let out of their handicap if they didn’t reach the exalted heights.  Seniors points went to Harry, Bob and Targe.

Gordo reckons the Club has a very unlucky President.  He wouldn’t go into details but presumably it had something to do with the way his game went today.  Other news is a bit thin on the ground because everybody was so hell bent on getting away to do something else.

Lots of guesses were made about who would be playing next week so it might pay to check with the Club House if you think you might or might not be attending though with a Monthly Medal up for grabs all sorts are likely to come out of the woodwork.  Although the list shows Eddie and Stefan not qualified, the fact that they played their Matchplay Final last week will allow them to qualify.  The software is not yet at a stage to pick up on that.  Maybe the webmaster will get around to changing the report.

The following two weeks will be another of the major events for the year, the Fred Kitson, which is a Par Event.  Lots of points (and a trophy of course) for the winner and, if the right person gets it, a chance for somebody to close in on Oliver, particularly if he can be nobbled and kept out of the points.  No offence, Oliver.

The handicapper will be away for most of next month and Jan will be looking after the handicapping.  Gordon will take cards for GolfLink handicapping – make sure you don’t put them in with the Club cards.

By the way, sorry about the typo/senior moment with the tee times last week.  I’m pretty sure that nobody turned up for 07:50.  At least I hope not.

Results for Saturday, 28 September 2013
1st Stephen Butterfield(37) 2nd Harry Boughen(33) 3rd Bob McDonald(32) 4th Targe Mifsud(31) 5th Oliver Gross(30) 5th Mo Sabih(30)

Spring is sprung, the grass is ris, I wonder where the birdies is.  They say the birds is on the wing, ain’t that absurd, blind Fred can see the wings is on the bird.  Yes it’s official, the equinox marks the start of the astronomical spring (in this hemisphere at least).  Theoretically, it can only get warmer from here on in.

Whether it was the planetary alignments or whether it was the weather, the scores returned today were something of a mixed bag.  Nobody busted out of their skin though Gordon could have broken par on the back nine with a hole-in-one on the 18th, repeating his performance of a couple of months back.  Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be and he had to share the winners laurels with Mehmet who also put in a pretty respectable back nine with 37 off the beater.

Pepsi held his own on the handicap front to finish square and take the second podium spot on his ownsome.  As an aside, the second is the only hole that Pepsi hasn’t plodded a birdie so far this year.  Noodles, Blighty and Jan also played steadily to come third on -1.  Of the six that filled the first three places, three of them played off a handicap of 13 – who said it was an unlucky number.

Targe dubbed the group he played with a lot of old farts but he was the only one to make the placings along with another couple of old farts (sorry) Mike and RodG with a reasonably respectable result of -2.  Targe was also heard to declare during the round that he was too short – who’d have thought it.  Despite having his car removed by unauthorised persons last week, Mostyn gathered himself another Championship point alongside Craig with -3.  Mostyn did have to call upon assistance to confirm that his Nissan (Cedric?) really was not in the carpark after the game last week.

The 4th was nominated as the nearest the Pin ball hole and whether it was too early in the round there weren’t a huge number of contenders with Stefan taking out the prize.  If placement in the round is any guide, the ProPin should have been covered in names but as it turned out there was only one and Mike Mann picked up the cash from just over 2 metres.  An average tally of birdies at eleven for the day and the feathers of the eagle were unruffled.

Eddie and Stefan fought it out for the top spots in the matchplay.  As they approached the 10th green, Eddie reported that Stefan was giving him a thrashing but the final result suggests that this might have been a slight exaggeration.  But then again, Eddie wouldn’t exaggerate, would he?  The final result of a 4 and 3 victory to Stefan brought some relief to committee members after an early report that the match had ended all square which would have required a sudden death play-off.  The injection of (double) points for the four finalists have made some moves on the table but Oliver is still comfortably in front.

Although the weather was calm, things got a bit draughtie out there particularly when Noodles was on the 2nd and 3rd tees.  There was a rumour that his playing partners forgave him one of his transgressions.  Hope he had to do some sort of penance – a Hail Mary at least!

The position of the pin on the 14th proved to be fairly tricky with quite a few putts from the top side finishing further from the hole than they started.  But the one that really hurt was AndrewB who putted up hill to have the ball stop and run back to finish further back that he started.  The saving grace was that he sank the longer putt.  Should have done that the first time Andrew.

Don’t forget that next week is Footy Grand Final Day.  There will be an early start at 0750 and they will be teeing off the 1st and the 10th.  However we have arranged that our groups will all tee off from the 1st.  It is a normal Club Event and Championship Points will be up for grabs so a chance to pick up a few on the die-hard footy fans who won’t be teeing up.

Results for Saturday, 21 September 2013
1st Mehmet Akdag(+1) 1st Gordon Hill(+1) 2nd Andrew Petricola(□) 3rd Andrew Blight(-1) 3rd Stephen Butterfield(-1) 3rd Jan Siemon(-1) 4th Rod Grant(-2) 4th Mike Mann(-2) 4th Targe Mifsud(-2) 5th Mostyn Gregg(-3) 5th Craig Sharp(-3)