Excellent win today for our April monthly medal winner  Craig Sharp with a net 63 and continuing his fine form. Runner up was the best sausage sizzler in town Oliver Gross with net 64 and Rodger and Noodles a credible third. At the other end of the scale were several people, many in fact, that had net 80s or worse I should know I was one of them. Still its not often I get an airy and a 5 putt in the same round so I was quite proud of myself.

Matchplay winners today were Rodger Clarke who got a walkover as Trevor had to retire after 9 holes when the match was square but his back wouldn’t copy..bad luck Trev. Mal Adey was too good for Neil and won the match 4&3.

Great to see our exclusive kiwi member Brendon Mitchell over from the UK, even if it was just for one round (he must be earning heaps!). He wasn’t here more than 5 minutes and he was getting an earful about the cricket but pointed out the NZ Rugby was in much better shape than Oz. It was fitting that Gordon Hill, 2005 President, was able to give Brendon the trophies he was unable to pick up for the last 5 years!!

Richard Hall is now back from his cricket season and is officially back on the payroll from the 3rd April..welcome back Richard.

Results for Saturday, 03 April 2010

Monthly Medal Winner. Craig Sharp
1st Craig Sharp(63) 2nd Oliver Gross(64) 3rd Malcolm Adey(68) 3rd S Butterfield(68) 3rd Rodger Clarke(68) 4th Targe Mifsud(69) 5th Mehmet Akdag(70) 5th Damien Lee(70)

I’ve pulled together all the club photos I have and sorted them by year. If you click on Club Photos on right side of screen you’ll be able to view photos from 1992, 2000-2010. It would be great if members can bring in any club related photos so we can scan them into our club history,
Cheers
Allan

Congratulations to our inaugural winner of the Stuart Clarke Memorial Trophy David Howard who put in a blistering 43 point second round to eclipse last weeks leader Ed Kloprogge into second place. Its good to see the competition results in a win that overaged over 40 stableford for both rounds. The trophy was awarded on the day which was a nice touch. All in all we could not have wished for better weather for the two rounds, conditions were perfect. Its interesting to note that the highest number of consecutive days over 20 degrees up to this year was 78 days. We are now sitting on 109 days!!

I’d like to get any photos from the day so I can post them here so please email to ivanhoegc@gmail.com.

Next week is the latest tee time for the year as we’re still (just) in daylight saving.

Final Results – Stableford Aggregate of Rounds 1 and 2
1st D.Howard(81) 2nd E. Kloprogge(78) 3rd K. Grist(72) 4th H.Boughen,S.Butterfield,L.Mannix,A.Petricola(71) 5th D.Rees(68)

It was excellent conditions for the inaugral round of the Stuart Clarke Memorial trophy which was played in Stableford format. The round was followed by the club meeting which was another inaugral occasion as it was the first ever meeting to be run by our new president Andrew. The meeting went off very well and efficiently and a few motions were agreed to (David can I get a copy of them to post) and apart from rolling in money we are now taking deposits (see Rodger next week) for Echuca and selling club shirts (see Gordon).

Stuart liked hawaiian (is that how you spell it?) shirts as you can see from his photo in the previous post so we are all going to wear a suitably colorful shirt next Saturday..he would have liked that!

Regrettably I have to report I lost my matchplay to Rod Grant 4&2  who outclassed me the whole round and remained a perfect gentleman throughout the round so resorting to bad sportsmanship would have had no effect :-(. My day was summed up as shown below.

Full results from the first round are
Ed Kloprogge(40), David Howard, Stephen Butterfield, Laurie Mannix(38),Kazim Akdag,Ken Grist, Andrew Petricola(37), Mal Whelan(35), Neil Argall(34), Rodger Clarke(33), Jan Siemon,David Rees(32), Rod Grant, Oliver Gross, Craig Sharp, Harry Boughen (31), Chris Priems, Allan Davies(28), Mehmet Akdag(27), Gordon Hill, Bob McDonald(26), Damien Lee(25).
Groups will roughly be in this order.