Some great scores today but none better than net 58 from Ross Trevean our monthly medal winner for November. A good turnout today and a bit of a shock for some of the players who were able to bump and run at Rich River and found that all the long chips pulled up real quick back on our home course. Rodger Clarke got the Nearest the Pin for the ball and the money hole is jackpotted to next week.

Well now is the run up to the end of the championship year and Ken Grist is sneaking up to Chris Priems the current leader. Chris was a brave man not turning up today 🙂

Results for today are.
Monthly Medal Winner Ross Trevean Net 58
1st-R.Trevean(58),2nd-N.Iuculano,K.Grist,A.Petricola(65)
3rd-D.Rees(66),4th-R.Grant(67),5th-J.Siemon,S.Clarke(68)

Once again the Melbourne Cup weekend trip was a huge success especially for our well-deserved winner, the dark horse – Kenny Grist!! Ken was well in form in the first round with 32 points 3 clear of the field and despite Chris Priems charge with a 35 on Sunday, it was not enough to catch Ken. Ken’s second round was very steady and he managed to get points on all 18 holes which few of us could duplicate.

Rodger, who did his usual excellent job organising the whole weekend, had his xxth birthday and although not rewarded with a win had a good time and a nice speech from his presidential son.

Bobby McDonald won the Cox Plate this year with his excellent drive of minus 1 inch.

Allan and Rodger shared the CAD award which was really fitting as the A was missing in action.

Rich River was in excellent condition and we played the West course on Saturday and the East course on Sunday. All the water hazards were dry as bones but the fairways and greens were nicely looked after a green.

All in all it was a great weekend which everyone enjoyed with friends, good food, great golf and the occasional drink 🙂

The overall results for the two round aggregate stableford were

Ken Grist – Winner – 62
Chris Priems – Runner up – 60
Malcolm Adey – 3rd – 58
Damien Lee – 4th – 57

Well today certainly was a high scoring round, Mehmet must have thought he had it in the bag with 44 stableford points but no…Mal Fleming knocked him off with an excellent 45 points! In fact all the top places were 38 or better so once again the club average handicaps are dropping down just like the financial markets but the opposite degree of happiness!!
To those staying in Melbourne have a good stroke round on Saturday…for the others going to Rich River travel safely!
Results for today are
1st-M.Fleming(45),2nd-M.Akdag(44),3rd-T.Mifsud(42),4th-R.Grant(39),T.Mifsud(39),K.Grist(39),5th-J.Geoghegan(38)