Yearly Archives: 2010

Matchplay Final

What a miserable day to play a Matchplay Final. It rained from the start to the finish and the match was eventually won by Damien Lee who defeated Rodger Clarke 3&2. Damo surged ahead in the first six holes and was 4 up at one stage then he ‘melted’ mid round and Rodger fought back to only 1 down, from that point Damo came home strongly to take the match, the final and the 2010 Matchplay Trophy. Damo has done a great job as Club Captain and it was fitting he took out his first Matchplay Championship in his last year as Captain.

Stableford Competition

As handicapper you get to see patterns in results,  for example , good scores across the board on fine days and crap scores on rain days. Today defied the odds and the scores that came in were unusually excellent. Todays winner, David Rees, fresh from his Echuca victory, blitzed the course with a 42 point stableford round, closely followed by the Echuca second place getter, David Howard who had 40 points. Well done to the “Echuca Two”.

NOTICE. Will players please email or let Rodger know if they will be attending the Xmas breakup on 18th December so catering can be finalised.

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Congratulations to Mo Sabih who now has his formal handicap of 20.3 and I’m sure is looking forward to taking you all to the cleaners!!

Results for Saturday, 13 November 2010
1st David Rees(42) 2nd David Howard(40) 3rd Kazim Akdag(38) 3rd Rod Grant(38) 3rd Ken Grist(38) 4th Oliver Gross(36) 4th Jan Siemon(36) 5th Mike Mann(35)
Matchplay Final. Damien Lee d Rodger Clarke 3&2

Today the youngest of the Akdags pipped out his older brother to win the November Monthly Medal on countback. Well done to Kazim Akdag who today edged out Mehmet – both players had an excellent net 64. Mal Fleming and Damo came in second with 66 and Oliver 3rd with 70.

It was certainly a beautiful day with much easier conditions than Echuca – no mossies and no rain.

Next week will be the meeting for committee nominations after the Stableford round.

Results for Saturday, 06 November 2010
1st Kazim Akdag(64) and November Monthly Medal winner on countback
Equal 1st and runner up Mehmet Akdag(64) 2nd Malcolm Fleming(66) 2nd Damien Lee(66) 3rd Oliver Gross(70) 4th Ken Grist(71) 5th Emilio Bassi(72) 5th Andrew Blight(72)

Another successful trip with interesting conditions including mosquito plagues and wintry wet conditions on Day 1 on the West course and a drizzly, but mostly fine day, for Day 2 on the East course. The conditions were no problem for David Rees, this years Annual Challenge winner with an aggregate score of 78 stableford points and for unlucky David Howard who also had 78 points but came second in the countback. Mehmet Akdag came in 3rd with an aggregate 71 points. Well done lads, especially from those like me floundering around pretending to play golf!!

The Moama Bowling Club was the social venue and as last year there was excellent food and facilities.

The Cox plate went to Bobbie McDonald for losing 4 balls in 6 holes – not to worry Bobs got wardrobes full of balls!!

Eddie got most of the nearest the pins as far as I recall.

THANKS TO RODGER FOR ORGANISING ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL TRIP.

Note. Next year will also be at Echuca and is already booked ahead. Let Rodger know if you are going so the numbers can be confirmed well ahead of time.

Results for Echuca Saturday, 30 October 2010 (Two Round Stableford)
1st David Rees(78) 2nd on countback David Howard(78) 3rd Mehmet Akdag(71)
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David Rees came back to form and won the competition today in wet conditions. Unusually the rain hang in there for the whole 18 holes so thems that like wet conditions prospered and thems that didn’t suffered. Being of pommie descent I’m a mudlark 🙂

The matchplay runner up game was played today with Andrew Blight defeating Chris Priems for third place in the matchplay championship (not sure what final score was can you guys let me know please). Andrew gets 3rd place double points which is 6 championship points and Chris gets 4th place double points which is 4 points.

Results for Saturday, 23 October 2010
1st David Rees(41) 2nd Tony Mifsud(38) 3rd Mehmet Akdag(37) 4th Trevor Jackson(36) 5th Malcolm Adey(35) 5th Musti Akdag(35) 5th Emilio Bassi(35)
Matchplay 3rd and 4th playoff. Andrew Blight d Chris Priems result was ??