Jarrod Lyle Charity Day on 09 February 2019
The event was sold out to the delight of the organisers and the management of the Ivanhoe Public Golf Course. The course had been prepared by the ground-staff during the week and the penalty area markers were installed by Simon and Gordo to ensure an enjoyable game.
At 06:45 the 1st of the players descended on the club house for registration, a coffee and an egg & bacon roll. By 07:45 the club house was full and the players were addressed by Brendon with a few details of the day’s proceedings. Then everyone made their way to their tee off holes for the 08:00 shot gun start. Sienna & Andrew K were on the 4th Tee and Chris Boland was on the 12th Tee accepting money to take a player’s shot. The Sweet Spot lads were on the 7th Hole giving away merchandise.
Then, 30 minutes later, the heavens opened and it rained solid for the next 1.5hours. The 17th green was a lake. The players pushed through to finish and the Pros put up with the conditions and finished the tournament.
Gareth, the new manager of the Ivanhoe Public Golf Course was very helpful as he and Chris Moore tried to unbolt an umbrella from the cafe to take to Chris Boland who was getting very wet. Unfortunately the umbrella would not come loose and Chris had to suffer with a regular umbrella for the morning.
When the round finished, everyone returned to the club house for the results and presentation. Wilbur Wilde had arrived and was making his way around the room and talking to the players.
Once the cards had been collated by Sienna, Brendon thanked our sponsors and introduced Wilbur Wilde who took no time to have the players laughing and forgetting the rain.
The Presentation of prizes by Wilbur was hilarious with the ladies from the Wednesday and Thursday golf clubs cleaning up the prizes.
At the end of the event, we have raised just over $4,000. A special thanks to the Thursday Ladies who passed around the hat and raised $255 as a donation, to the Bendigo Bank which donated $500 cash and to our own club which also donated $500.
Drummond Golf donated 5 x $50 vouchers and David Knight donated five of his books “Revelation of a Tour Caddie” towards the prize pool. “The Sweet Spot” donated vouchers to the prize pool and issued umbrellas to players on the 7th hole.
A special thanks to Srixon who donated a Ladies Golf bag, boxes of balls and gloves towards the prize pool and to Titliest for a Mens bag, tote bags and boxes of balls. Many thanks, also, to all the members that supported Brendon and Simon in organising the event.
February Monthly Medal – February 2nd 2019 – Stroke Competition
There were thoughts of donning the golf vest this morning as a crisp air greeted the 15 members for the Feb monthly medal. But within an hour the day had warmed up and it back to Melbourne summertime heat.
‘Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn’ – one of our senior club members had a day out. Bob McDonald with handicap of someone who had just fallen off a roof, triumphed in the Feb monthly medal with nett 62. Mehmet reckons less golf makes him play better so he duly takes second place with a 64. Third place with a 67 was Daniel O’Rourke who played his last round for a while as he is off to England for a stint at cheffing. Good luck Daniel – see you on British Masterchef some time? Peps came in 4th with a very credible 68 (a score that included 2 x double bogeys and a tee shot on the 18th that only just got past the ladies. Final points were taken by Stef with a 69 ( including another tee shot on 11 that landed on the green)
Nearest the pin on the 12th for a ball was held by Simon, nearest the pin on the 15th for money was taken by none other than the financier himself SOS. The 18th must have been in a compromised position as it went begging yet again for a jacktpot!
Playing in the last group does not ease the pain of a ‘draughtie’ – Gordo managed not to reach the ladies’ tee on hole # 1. The only bonus was the find of 6 other lost balls in the thick hedge – maybe they can be sold to help pay for the beers.
Other highlights included Bene with a birdie on 10th – a self proclaimed first first for himself. Mehmet chipped in on the 2nd for a par, Peter D par’d the first 5 holes on the back 9 to score 38 on the back 9, although he wasn’t in the points so he must have had a shocker on the front!. Simon kept up his form with a coupe of nice birdies.
A low light for Dennis, who ‘lost’ his ball on the fairway where it was clear that someone else had taken/played said ball. He took the penalty and the situation was discussed after the game with our Rules Official Damo. It was confirmed that as annoying as this situation is, you have to wear that penalty of basically a lost ball. Not every group has SOS to ensure the rules are abided by!
Damo reminded all of the new rules we are playing under and will send a link to an app for all for reference. Apologies for the late website update, there are some technical difficulties that are being worked through so there will be a delay in the handicapping and championship updates.
Shout out to Chrispy who is on the mend following an unfortunate incident the other day. Hopefully we will see you on the course soon. Hopefully the new ankle will fix the slice!
The event includes RAFFLE TICKETS at $10 ticket, total PRIZE is a year long membership worth $1,285. TICKETS AT PRO SHOP or see SimonThe USPGA this week installed a plaque at Phoenix Open, Scottsdale Golf Course on the famous Hole #16A permanent marker will also be affixed on the tee to honour all those who aced the hole. There have only been nine golfers to do so — among them by Hal Sutton, Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods.Also, Ricky Fowler wore the Yellow Duck Leuk badge on his cap this weekend at the Phoenix Open, Scottsdale in honour of Jarrod.Members should get behind the event, its for a great person and Family.
It was the Country’s Day on Saturday 26th January 2019 – Stableford Competition
Australia day long weekend, sunshine, barely a breath of wind, no could ask for a better day on the golf course. There was also some high scoring and as it turns out, it was a battle of the Habibs with Benan and Stef handing in scintillating cards with 41 points each. Stef also managed to go around the course in PAR, scored a run of 4x 3’s from the 2nd to the 5th, blasted a 3 wood off the tee on the 11th to 4 foot to slot an eagle and basically took the course apart. Maybe he was trying to impress his mates who he was playing with, which included George and Kazim who have not been around for a while. Benny also had 5x 3 pointers and 2x 4 pointers and did all this by wearing an even tighter shirt than usual. Very impressive. He also topped his drive on the first which is a regular occurrence of late.
There were reports that Dale was going alright early on and he did in fact have a flyer with 23 points on the front 9. He battled hard to bring it home with 40 points at the end of the day and outright second place. Rob was seen sporting his new Collingwood themed golf bag and it didn’t do him any harm as he played some great golf all around for 38 points. He was also joined by none other than Keith who seems to enjoy the warmer course conditions.
Targe continued his good form and although he is coming off two wins in a row, it did look like it could be 3 from 3 at one stage. If it was another day it may have been the case, but the competitive field restricted him to 4th place and an equal share of the club championship lead. Not a bad effort Targy after your layoff last year, hopefully you can make use of your lower handicap from now on. He was also joined by Damo in 4th who has been looking for a horse to buy on behalf of the club, there goes the money for next year’s punters club trip. Speaking of horses, Noodles was having an up and down day but slotted his birdy putt from just off the 18th green for an even card and 36 points for 5th place. There were a heap of guys missing out on 35 points, unlucky.
There was a bit of confusion about the ball and pro pin holes again today. The 12th was relatively straight forward and Kazim hit a nice shot for a shiny ProV. The 15th was marked as pro-pin, but so was the 18th. Simon had the lead on the 15th with the ball marker a few metres from the hole, but no distance measurement were taken. Simon lucked out as Matt and Damian were close to beating him, but it was decided that the 15th would stand as the pro pin so he came away with the cash. He also slotted the birdie, of which there were quite a lot for the day (18 and 1x eagle). The 18th ended up being a jackpot for next week even though a few ended up on the green, it could not be determined who was closest. There were no reported drafty’s for the day, although the front tees seemed to be in play for most of the holes.
Ryan had a chance of an eagle putt on the 11th too, but ended up with a bogie! His group with Noodles, Targe and Steve ran into a hazard on the 13th green which was in the form of a swarm of bees. They were circulating for quite a while but it did not deter Targe as he swatted a few away as he was walking through to get to his ball. He was later heard complaining that he was stung, but he got a few of the buggers along the way (his words). Along with Stef’s eagle his group were playing for skins, and reports were that he took home over $100. Noodles split his pants and had to run off after the 9th to find a new pair. Somehow there were no tears in Benan’s clothes as he was spruiking “supplements” for the guns after the round.
Friendly reminder that the Jarrod Lyle Charity Challenge is only 2 weeks away, please get behind the event and register before hand for a great day to be had.
Results for Saturday, 26 January 2019
1st Ben Akdag(41) 1st Stefan Belevski(41) 2nd Dale Webb(40) 3rd Keith Delzoppo(38) 3rd Robert Priems(38) 4th Damien Lee(37) 4th Targe Mifsud(37) 5th Stephen Butterfield(36)
Seniors Results: 1st Keith Delzoppo (38) 2nd Targe Mifsud (37) 3rd Simon Powell (35)
Nearest the Pin Results: ProPin15th Simon Powell BallPin No 1 12th Kazim Akdag BallPin No 2 18th Jackpot
Eagle’s nest Results: Eagle 11th Stefan Belevski
Three minutes seemed forever playing Par on 19 January 2019
With a ProPin Jackpot on the 18th and a nice cool day in the forecast you would reckon you couldn’t go far wrong in tipping a really good turn up. Maybe everybody was saving themselves up for Rob’s birthday bash. Just because it was his birthday is no excuse for not showing. It didn’t worry SteveK who reckons he got some good coaching tips while he was away in Malaysia and planned to celebrate his special day by putting them into practice. Only problem is that he reckons he forgot one part of the three part technique until after the 16th hole. And it probably wouldn’t have worried Jason and Keith who will have to wait a little later in the week to celebrate their shared birthday. Maybe that should be birthdate as there is just a year or two difference in their ages.
Somebody commented on the first tee that Targe had really gotten onto that one. Perhaps this was a portent of things to come even though it did take a few holes for things to really get going and there were a few slashes (but not the splashy ones) along the way. There was a solid run of nine squares in a row and the round finished off with three wins to give the final tally of +2. Targe seemed more than happy that the handicapper was going to take back some of his largesse.
Kim Jong-Ben was out and about today in a very bright orange muscle shirt and could be seen from all over the course. His style didn’t do him much good on the 3rd tee when he failed to reach the red markers and he was spotted happily buying the drinks for his mates. Matt has been on holidays and was a bit hard to recognise with several days of stubble but an impending return to work means that the clean-shaven look is about to return. Maybe he should see Ben’s North Korean barber. Enough about hair, they both got +1 and came in to second place.
Noodles also managed a draughtie on the 3rd after hitting the ball well and truly on the scone. The second wasn’t a lot better but then he scrambled and managed to get away with a bogey. Later in the round there was a small case of equipment abuse when he put his second into the pond on the 16th. His drive suffered a similar fate on the 17th, but despite all that he scored a square card and 3rd place.
Keith claimed a pretty boring round though there were obviously a few moments that allowed him to make a final score of -1. Bob and his marker obviously couldn’t work out (or couldn’t remember) that he got an extra stroke on the 18th and the extra point moved him up beside Keith. Last, but by no means least, Harry and, that son-of-a-gun, Bren rounded out the point scorers with their score-line of -2.
Today was the first day of the new Nearest-the-Pin regime – one ProPin and two BallPins. Gordon shanked one off the tee on the 12th to put his closer than Steve’s who had to have a pace-off with Ryan to get his name on the marker after easily beating Brent. Bob sent his off to the left from the 15th tee and cunningly used the bank to turn the ball back onto the green to finish about a metre from the hole and pin-high. The Jackpot ProPin on the 18th brought on some discussion about sharing but it was all for nought as Allan pretty well had it done and dusted by getting one to 2.6 metres.
It wasn’t all beer and skittles for Allan though. On one hole, he hit the deck so far behind the ball that he near as damn it missed it and it is a moot point whether it actually was the club that moved the ball about 50mm in front of the tee. On the 13th, he trundled back on Thunderbird about 100m to check whether a ball on the fairway was his. The groups behind were wondering whether it was from the shot before.
And while on the ‘not quite’ shots, Trevor managed an air-shot on the 7th. Peter’s drive on the 9th finished in the middle of the 8th fairway courtesy of a branch some 30 metres in front flinging the ball back to finish 30 metres behind. Must have been one of those rubber trees that Chrispy was on about last week. After much chiacking about sharing Jackpots and getting holes-in-one on the 18th and what odds they would give for the latter or even getting onto the green, Steve, Noodles and Porks hit their tee shots short of the green and progressively shorter distances from the tee.
Don’t forget that the new Rules of Golf are in force. It is compulsory to drop the ball from ‘standing’ knee height. If you do drop it from higher than that, you have to remake the drop from the correct height. Also, the search time for your ball is now three minutes only. Yes, some of the grass off the fairway is a bit long but a few of the searches today probably went over the allocated time. A new set of Local Rules (labelled Draft) have been posted on the Notice Board and these include a provision for relief from a lost or out of bounds ball with a two stroke penalty to save the need to return to the tee. This relief is not available for the first ball if a provisional ball has been played. Discussions are ongoing with the management in relation to some of the details of these Draft Local Rules.
Not long now to the Jarrod Lyle Charity Day on 9 February. Don’t forget that this is OUR initiative and it is a cause that deserves great support. There are already some great prizes on offer and negotiations with potential supporters are continuing so it could get even better. Because of members involvement on the day, it was decided that it would not be appropriate to play for Championship Points. Registration through the on-line system is essential and you just have to click on the link on the Next Week Details section of the Home Page or via the Facebook page. Anybody who doesn’t have a GolfLink handicap will be allocated a handicap on the day based on their performance using the Callaway handicapping system. This will be applied to Club and non-Club players alike. All others will play using their Official handicaps.
Results for Saturday, 19 January 2019
1st Targe Mifsud(+2) 2nd Ben Akdag(+1) 2nd Matt Hunt(+1) 3rd Stephen Butterfield(□) 4th Keith Delzoppo(-1) 4th Bob McDonald(-1) 5th Harry Boughen(-2) 5th Brendon Mitchell(-2)
Seniors Results: 1st Targe Mifsud (+2) 2nd Bob McDonald (-1) 2nd Keith Delzoppo (-1) 3rd Harry Boughen (-2)
Nearest the Pin Results: BallPin No 1: 12th Gordon Hill BallPin No 2: 15th Bob McDonald ProPin: 18th Allan Davies