Fellow Members,

Welcome to another week of golf at the Bowral Golf Club home of the “Southern Highlands Legends Classic”.  A week of good weather and some very good golf scores. Your golf course remains in immaculate condition in spite of the lack of rain. I ask you all to leave the course in a better condition than you find it by always carrying a sand bucket and replacing divots, not always your own and repairing pitch marks again not only your own.

Our greens are fragile and need your care and attention. One habit I would like to see stopped is that of when having to move the nearest the pin marker please mark the position with a ball marker NOT by scratching a “V” in the grass with the prong.

During this spell of dry weather it is most important that all golf carts be driven in the rough, park your cart in the rough and walk to your ball, if it is neccessary to cross the fairway this must be done at right angles to that fairway.

Allow me to correct an omission I made from the Legacy Day Trophy winners, one which I have been reminded once or twice, - Fred Sewell won the Peter Douglas Trophy for ex national servicemen with 38 point on a countback. Now Fred am I forgiven?

GOLF RESULTS 

Wednesday 09.12.09; - 2BBB Stableford - CCR 68 - Players 62.

Winners - Grahame White (23) and Tony Hobson (16) - 48 points.

R/U - Paul Hickle (19) and John Bryan (24) - 45 points.

Eagles Nest - Not Won.

NTP 11th - David Burgess

NTP 14th - John Gaudry

16 balls in the comp. went down to Warren Ryan 42 points c/b.

Saturday 12.12.09; - 2nd round of the Peter Tait Trophy in conjunction with the Ted Box Medal of Medals Trophy and a Single Stroke event. A big Day!

Peter Tait Trophy - Best nett score after 36 holes.

Winner - Bruce Windybank - agg. h’cap 36 nett 136.

R/U - Reg Gilbert

Ted Box Medal of Medals Trophy fought out between 28 medal winners.

Winner -  Harry Caust (15) - nett 65.

R/U - Doug Stalley - (21) 69.

Single Stroke Event. - CCR 70 - 75 players.

Winner - Don Barker (16) - nett 62 ( Don has since been visited by the Lord High Executioner and is now of 13. He played the second nine in 36, 2 over. Great round Don you are now in “A” grade medal territory. Congratulations.

R/U - Grant Blanchard (22) - nett 65. Grant has also been paid a visit by “that” gentleman and is now off 20.

Eagles Nest - Not Won.

NTP 11th - John Dash

NTP 14th - Ned Simms

There were 20 competition balls and went down to Brian Frith nett 72 c/b.

Sunday 13.12.09 - Christmas Cheer - Irish 4 ball Medely.

A very enjoyable day with 84 players and over 100 attending the dinner after play. My thanks to Lady Captain Pam Barker and her ladies for doing the bulk of the organisation for this event. Many novelty prizes were dispensed apart from the hams collected by the winners. And Neville you are certainly not “nasty” it just rhymes so well with Nev.

Winners - Bernadette Brown (23) Bill Pope (25) Toni Clarke (29) Brian Hanrahan (11) - 95 points.

Men’s NTP 11th - Jim Phillips

Ladies NTP 14th Alex Dowling.

COMING EVENTS

Saturday 19.12.09 - Parent and Offspring competing for the Secretary’s Plate. As this Saturday is the last before Christmas it will be combined with the Men’s Christmas Cheer. In addition to the Trophy there will be lots of novelty events so if you can please join in this festive day.

Wednesday  23.12 09 - The last competition event before Christmas will be a Stableford Multiplier Teams of 3. So the possibilties are, a team can have 4×4x4 = 64 poins or 3×1x2 = 6 points if however if one of your team has a wipe on a hole then the combined total for that hole is 0 no matter what the other members of the team have scored. This event will no doubt test the season of goodwill to all men. Imagine if you have 4×4x0 = 0. Enough said.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK.

May a player clean his/her ball by rubbing it on the putting green?

Answer to last weeks question;

Although such an announcement would be courteous, and could help avoid any possible confusion, a player is not required by the rules to inform anyone what type of ball he/she intends to play at a hole.

 

Until next week safe driving and good golfing,

David Stanley

Captain.

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