{"id":2676,"date":"2015-04-11T16:57:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T06:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivanhoegc.wordpress.com\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2015-04-11T16:57:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T06:57:41","slug":"april-monthly-medal-11-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivanhoegc.org\/?p=2676","title":{"rendered":"April Monthly Medal – 11 April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That new girdle worked a treat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perhaps it was all the chocolate that was consumed over the Easter break or maybe the school holidays kept a few away but we could only muster 18 players on what was a really magnificent day for playing the beautiful game.\u00a0 The sun was shining and the wasps were out in numbers and according to all reports there were some fine golf shots played.<\/p>\n

Trevor turned up with his waist pinched in almost as fine as Ryans thanks to his new back support system and it certainly seems to have kept him pretty well on the straight and narrow.\u00a0 Except for one occasion when he showed his support for the West Indies Cricket Team and that caused him to force himself to buy drinks for his group after the round.<\/p>\n

He didn’t have it all his own way though as there were three others champing on the bit in the Clubhouse and working through the machinations of first and second stage count-backs but to no avail as Trevor ended up doing it easily, carding a nett 32 on the back nine to beat out Michael and Chrispy, who could only manage 32.5, and Harry, who was a bit further back with 33.5.\u00a0 Playing exactly to handicap (68) eased the handicap pain for the four of them to just the leaders penalty.<\/p>\n

Mehmet squeezed into second place on his own and a couple of strokes further back was none other than Laurie who seems to be hitting a bit of a purple patch in recent weeks.\u00a0 Then followed a veritable horde including Steffie, Blighty, Whitey, Kloppie and DayLee.\u00a0 Just couldn’t resist trying to get all the ‘e’ endings.<\/p>\n

And last on the podium for his maiden Championship point was Taner who had a pretty fair old day of it by seeing off the Beast in the Matchplay 4 and 2.\u00a0 In a couple of other matchplay results today, Targe was able to come out victorious over Gordon 3 and 1 while Stefan was able to deal with CraigC 2 up.\u00a0 Ed advised that he would not be able to play his round against David and conceded the match and earlier in the week the Angel conceded his match to Michael.\u00a0 That puts the event on schedule and one match of the second round has been completed.\u00a0 Keep up the good work and let’s keep the Event on track.<\/p>\n

The Nearest the Pin for a ball was on the 12th and wouldn’t you know it, somebody from the first group put it so close that it was almost no contest from there-on in.\u00a0 And the person who put it so close and collected the ball was Chrispy who claimed to be suffering all day from a bad case of bridegroom’s groin.\u00a0 Gordon seems to have had his priorities all wrong when he was sledging Chrispy while at the same time being shown how to play Match by Targe.\u00a0 The lead did not change once during the match (or even get square).\u00a0 The ProPin was on the 18th and the three of the four members of the third group put in a good show of fighting it out for the honour only to be trumped by Noodles who put it within a whisker of a metre from the hole.\u00a0 He then took three putts to put it away so no birdies to add to the tally on that occasion.<\/p>\n

There were 11 birdies plodded for the day and, would you believe it, an eagle on the 8th by Whitey who tonked it in from about 145m out (according to some reports).\u00a0 Not much to show for the effort as only one ball in the nest but it did help his Eclectic score on a little.\u00a0 Speaking of the Eclectic, once again Noodles has his nose in front which he managed to do for a fair bit of last season as well.\u00a0 Seems he is pretty good at getting birdies but manages to protect his handicap by stuffing up on others.\u00a0 Stefan currently has a healthy lead in the Championship and after daylight in second place there is a fair herd of contenders but it is still early days and there are any number of majors still to come to give the points a boost.\u00a0 The Seniors is also a fair contest at the moment with a bit of a blanket to cover the first four places at least.\u00a0 But, anything can happen.<\/p>\n

Today was also the first round of the IGL Competition and the results were as follows (remember this is stroke so lowest score wins):\u00a0 Bulldogs 143 defeated Tigers 150, Saints 136 defeated Blues 140 and Hawks 148 defeated Magpies 150.\u00a0 The Teams, Draw, League Ladder and Rules are on the web under the Competitions Menu.<\/p>\n

The Birthday Birdie has checked his calendar again and our recently blooded Treasurer, Stephen (aka Constable SOS) will be fronting up to the candle fire during the week.\u00a0 Hopefully, the missus will give him something nice.<\/p>\n

There were a couple of up and downs worthy of note today.\u00a0 On the 14th, Harry played his third shot from between the tee markers for the 15th to finish about 1.5m from the hole and sank the putt for the par.\u00a0 On the 17th, Damo put his tee shot on the side of the 18th tee mound and from an awkward down-hill lie played it over the fence and finished about 5 metres past the hole – a pretty good result in anybody’s book.\u00a0 He then rattled in the putt for a calm as you like birdie.\u00a0 Damo did say that he played much better when he gave up hope and relaxed.<\/p>\n

Mehm and Noodles played in the same group and by the end of the round Mehm reckoned he was well sick of Noodles borrowing his lighter.\u00a0 You could give up smoking, Mehm.\u00a0 Chrispy is sticking by his resolution never to play with a white ball this season and today was no exception as he strode out with a fetching pink number that he agonised over last week while collecting for an inside win a week or two ago.\u00a0 He had to settle for the fluoro yellow from the Club bag for todays ball-run hand-out.\u00a0 Michael continues to report problems with his shoulder but claims that it is helping his game by making him concentrate and slow down his back-swing.\u00a0 It must be said that he was noticed with some fairly significant grimaces on his face particularly after tee shots.<\/p>\n

And what is it about our marriageable members and getting to the celebrations on time.\u00a0 It seems that the blushing bride that joined in holy wedlock with ChrisV yesterday also ended up running late with the grid-lock in the city due to the sit-in demonstrations at Flinders and Swanston.\u00a0 Hopefully the travel connections will work better and Chris doesn’t come back with bridegroom’s groin.\u00a0 The reception must have been pretty good as Ryan was heading off home after the game to get some shut-eye.<\/p>\n

Results for Saturday, 11 April 2015<\/b>
\n1st<\/b> Harry Boughen(68) 1st<\/b> Michael Gourlay(68) 1st<\/b> Trevor Jackson(68 MM cb) 1st<\/b> Chris Priems(68) 2nd<\/b> Mehmet Akdag(70) 3rd<\/b> Laurie Mannix(72) 4th<\/b> Stefan Belevski(73) 4th<\/b> Andrew Blight(73) 4th<\/b> Ed Kloprogge(73) 4th<\/b> Damien Lee(73) 4th<\/b> Rodney White(73) 5th<\/b> Taner Kemal(75)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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