Monthly Archives: November 2019

The forecast was for heavy rain all day for the November monthly medal. However things looked promising when at the start of play the sun was almost cracking through the gaps in the clouds and it looked as though it could hold off. And it did. For about 2 or 3 holes, then it rained non stop for the remainder of the round and weekend. It was not enough to deter most of the 17 members who put on the wet weather gear and hacked around the course.

Of the 17, Priemsy decided to hang up the spikes after 9 on the account that the slippery conditions were not too good for his ankle. Mehmet also decided to call it quits after 9, but he was only down for a catch up and coffee in the morning and the 9 holes was just a bonus. At around the 13th hole a couple of the groups joined together to make up groups of 6 and 5 due to the somewhat slower play due to the conditions and the smaller groupings.

Scoring was tough with the exception of 1, and it was Peps who played a blistering round considering the conditions and easily won the medal with a nett 65 and 1 over the stick!. He also scored 3 birdies out of 4 for the day in total which is a great effort considering the soaked clothes and gloves and shoes.

A bit further back was Gordon who played to a very respectable 69 nett. A further stoke back was Noods who was looking very good early on but faltered on the last few holes to end up in third. He was also joined by Beast with a nett 70.

The scoring ended up being quite close for the place getters with Matt and Bob rounding out the points finishers with 72 and 73. You might be thinking that due to the continuous rain the scoring was not that bad. Well for some of the field, yes but there ended up being none less than 7 players who cracked the ton for the round. This included a few 10’s and a lot of ‘s and 9’s.

Michael was back after another lengthy stint on the sidelines and although he did not score points he was close on all the nearest the pins in typical Michael style. He took home the prize on the 12th, but Blighty was probably likely to be closer but he forgot to mark it until after the hole was finished. He was not too disheartened as he putted his birdie attempt down the hill and proclaimed “oh that’s way too hard” as it hurtled down the hill. It was dead centre of the flag however and manged to pop up into the hole for Birdie.

For the 18th ball hole, Michael was beaten by Peps, and again on the 15th, pespi hit his tee shot to 3.5m to take the cash away from him. Noodles claimed that his group were going 5 ways in the prize after peps hit is close, but Peps was having none of that.

There were a few drafties with Ken shanking his tee on the 1st, and possibly another later on, Blighty was awfully close on the 15th and porks blasted quite a few tee shots out of bounds throughout the day.

Reminder that the annual trip away for 2020 has been announced to be in Cobram in October, please refer to Matt Hunts email for details. He is asking that members reply to advise their expended attendance and a deposit will be required book a place.

Happy birthday to Damian who is celebrating the big five oh, and also Craig and Mal who also have birthdays this week.

Results for Saturday, 02 November 2019
1st Andrew Petricola(65) 2nd Gordon Hill(69) 3rd Stephen Butterfield(70) 3rd Bill Eastoe(70) 4th Matt Hunt(72) 5th Bob McDonald(73)

Seniors Results: 1st Gordon Hill (69) 2nd Bill Eastoe (70) 3rd Bob McDonald (73)

Nearest the Pin Results: ProPin15th Andrew Petricola BallPin No 1 12th Michael Gourlay BallPin No 2 18th Andrew Petricola