Member News – 11 March 2022

Weekly Update – from Club Captain Phil Barlow

A nor’easter wind greeted last Saturday’s players with the men playing a multi-tee Monthly Medal and the women LGU. As we enter into autumn golf, we have been lucky with the occasional showers through summer to help keep the whole course green this year though I am sure many would have rather had a bit more summer weather this year.

This weekend sees the start of the men’s 4BBB playoffs. Best of luck to all who have made it. The women’s 4BBB playoffs start the following week. If the case arises where we have Covid cases interfering with the prescribed rounds, please make an effort to play any matches in the off weekends between rounds. We all should be making an effort to get through the programme as best we can under the circumstances.

Just a note that the men’s AllPrint Shootout entries will close off on the last Saturday of March, so if you want to be in for a chance at the biggest prize pool we have in our golfing calendar, get in soon.

There were some great scores out there last week and results were as follows.

Div 1 men (+5 – 9.9) nett

1. Michael Aitken (67)
2. Tae Won Kim (67)
3. Sam Watkinson (68)

Best Gross: Don Yun Jung (78)

Div 2 men (10 – 15) nett

1. Barry Coleman (68)
2. Pedro Jung (68)
3. David Clarke (68)

Best Gross: Peter Chadwick (83)

Div 3 men (15.1 – 36) nett

1. Kim Dale (69)
2. Ryan Lee (69)
3. Jo Woods (69)

Best Gross: Kevin Pritchard (85)

Silver ladies (0.0 – 18.4) nett

1. Joy Lord (71)
2. Pam McTaggart (71)
3. Debbie Scott (74)

Bronze A ladies (18.5 – 24.7)

1. Hyeza Kim (72)
2. Victoria Webb-Smart (73)
3. Jill O’Neill (74)

Bronze B ladies (24.8 – 40.4)

1. Val Wood (71)
2. Jillian Palmer (74)
3. Deb Wekking (76)

Congratulations to you all.

Pro Tip by Craig Mitchell

With the fairways getting dryer out there, instead of putting from the fringe, use your hybrid. The hybrid will be easier to make good contact and will cause the ball to skid along and get through the fringe a lot easier.

Rule of the week (6.2 b (5))

Ball Is Not in Play Until Stroke Is Made. Whether the ball is teed or on the ground, when starting a hole or playing again from the teeing area:

• The ball is not in play until the player makes a stroke at it, and
• The ball may be lifted or moved without penalty before the stroke is made.

If a teed ball falls off the tee or is knocked off the tee by the player before the player has made a stroke at it, it may be re-teed anywhere in the teeing area without penalty.

But if the player makes a stroke at that ball while it is falling or after it has fallen off, there is no penalty, the stroke counts, and the ball is in play.

Upcoming Saturday golf (for full details refer to the 2022 programme)

12 Mar – Men: 1^st round 4BBB, others stableford. Women: Nancy McCormick 4somes Rnd 1, others stableford

19 Mar – Men: Par. Women: 1^st round 4BBB, others Par

26 Mar – Men: 2^nd Rnd 4BBB. Women: FMS stableford Rnd 2

2 Apr – Men: Monthly medal (blue tees). Women: LGU Rnd 3, Putting, Harewood Cup Rnd 1

Enjoy your golf!

9 Hole Ladies Results – from Lisa Neho-Smith

Last Wednesday’s Lucy Tan Trophy round 1 stroke and putting results were blamed on the rain.  Winner:             Robyn Ogle 38 nett

Runner-up:     Faye Sedgley 40

Min Kim is ahead of the putting  with 14 putts.

This Wednesday had great conditions for our Stroke competition.

Winner:          Lisa Neho-Smith 33 net on countback

Runner-up:     Ita O’Rourke 33 net

We would like to extend an invitation to any men who would like to come over and join in on our competition mornings. We arrive in the summer around 9am on Wednesday mornings, cards in by 9:15, on the course at 9:30. Please ring Lisa on 021 155 1866 if you would like to chat more.

Midweek Men Results – from Peter Larkin

Monday 7 Mar - Lamb & Hayward 6 Monthly Trophy (White Tees).

38 Starters for this important sponsored event with a very unfavourable weather forecast threatening a possible postponement.  However, the day turned out to be suitable for golf with only a few minutes of very light drizzle.

Some very good scores were recorded:

Division 1.     

Reeves Nesbitt                      41 CB

Ramiro Guerrero                   41

Jacky Zhang                            39 CB

Tomas Hruby                         39

Lincoln Blair                           38

Division 2.

            Chris Straker                          41

            Bruce Chalklen                       40 CB

            Cyril White                             40

            Ted Zhang                              39

            John Keepa                             38

Division 3.

            Bill Turner                               40

            Robert Gay                             39

            Darryl Dowthwaite                38

            Brian Wood                            37

            Max Wright                            34

Lamb & Hayward Trophy (6 Mths)             Reeves Nesbitt

Thursday 10 Mar - 1^st Rd Match Play/Others Stableford.

Whilst 24 Battled it out in the first round of Match Play, 16 others were involved in a Stableford competition in mild overcast conditions but in that ‘dreaded’ Nor ’Easterly, again.  In the Match Play, 12 advanced into the second round with the 12 ‘beaten’ playing in the Plate first round.

Results:

White Tees.               William Lin                 40

                                    Hunter Liu                  39 CB

                                    Tony Ralfe                  39

                                    Reeves Nesbitt          36

                                    John Yates                  35

Yellow Tees.

                                    Simon Hubble            39