Yearly Archives: 2009

Back in Town! After an extensive overseas tour of duty Andrew Petricola is returning to his old form and may soon get back down to his old 2005 handicap of 3.1!. Close behind him was today’s tee marshal David Rees whose duties did not distract him from second place.  The older Akdag’s pride was also dented today when the youngest colt came in 3rd … Kazim is now only one wins points away from Ben! so practice hard Kazim.

Matchplay
In the matchplay poor Gordie must have thought he had his match in the bag until Damo plugged a 3 wood shot from the 17th tee into the green and dropped the putt to level the match and then go on to win the playoff.

Kazim held on valiantly to the 17th hole to be taken out by Snags. I’m sure you’ll all agree that matchplay is never over till its OVER!

New Handicapping System
You will have noticed that the handicap sheet looks different. That’s because I finally got off my butt and redeveloped the handicapping system which I thought would take a couple of days but so far has taken 50 hours – but then I’ve got nothing else to do have I :-).  It now runs on web servers so I am hoping to get much better information accessible for members. Please be on the lookout for any mistakes as the new system settles down.

Results for Saturday, 21 March 2009
1st Andrew Petricola(39) 2nd David Rees(38) 3rd Kazim Akdag(37) 4th Jan Siemon(35) 5th Neil Argall(34) 5th Emilio Bassi(34) 5th Allan Davies(34) 5th Rod Grant(34) 5th Gordon Hill(34) 5th Chris Priems(34) 5th Craig Sharp(34)
Matchplay Results. D.Lee d G.Hill in playoff. C.Sharp d K.Akdag 1 up.

We might have been washed out on Saturday, but not before Jan put in this effort on the 4th.
 A thrill to be there.

– Gordon

NONE! Rain, Thunder and Lightning dominated the majority of play today. Play was abandoned as the final group played the 10th hole and therefore no competition was played.

The rain also affected match play games today which made our Club Captain very unhappy but our Assistant Treasurer smile…why you ask? Damo was 4up with 6 to play and cruising to the 2nd round, Hilly will have another chance. Sharpy and Zimmer were square at the 13th and Mal Fleming was 1up on El Presidente after nine.

As we move through the 1st round of Match play please do not play second round matches until after the 9th May.

If you are intending to play this week I would recommend you call the pro shop to confirm your spot.

Deposits for our club weekend in Echuca need to be paid by the end of March. Please advise Rodger of your intention to go and sort out the deposit.

We were supposed to have a club meeting on Saturday but due the absence of our Treasurer and Secretary this will occur Saturday. Please email stuart.clarke@infrastructure.gov.au any agenda items to be raised. As per last year’s meeting’s agenda items need to be provided prior to the meeting.

Well when the majority of the club was struggling with scored greens today our monthly medal winner Rod Grant ignored all that and carded a net 62 for clear 2 stroke win and the March monthly medal. Close on Rod’s heels was Ben Akdag with an excellent net 64 and steady Eddie Kloprogge with 66 fresh off his demolishment (is that a word?) of the Yarrambatt course earlier in the week.

Results for today are:
Monthly Medal Winner Rod Grant(62)
1st-R.Grant(62), 2nd-B.Akdag(64), 3rd-E.Kloprogge(66), 4th-J.Siemon(68), 5th-K.Akdag,D.Lee,O.Gross,E.Bassi(69)
NTP: D. Lee

News Flash: New tree species discovered at Ivanhoe

Australian botanists have discovered a new species of gum tree growing in the picturesque Ivanhoe course in Melbourne. During a routine survey for the rare lesser spotted sullivan a new kind of branch structure was discovered which uncannily re-sembled an iron commonly used by week-end golfers. So surprised were the botanists that they decided not to disturb the unusual branch and have left it there as a testament to calm and tranquil golfing.