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At last we had a nice warm day , light winds, no threat of rain and a fun game of golf , something to loosen us up ready for the more serious business of Foursomes next week.

We have a pretty busy calendar coming up :

17 th August: Foursomes Championships

24 th August : 4ball Aggregate- Golf Journeys Sponsored Day

31st August : 4ball stableford – Tombola Day

7th September :Single Stableford – Jarrod Lyle Day – wear Yellow.

14 th September : Gold Medal Playoff , rest of field – single stableford

21st September : Four ball best ball

28 th September : Canadian 2 stroke : Invitation/Open Day

This week we played a 2 person Ambrose , the winners were Alison Blair and her guest from Coolangatta/ Tweed Trudy Cox with a score of 69, Runners/up were Colleen Kelly and Chris Mills with 71.25. There were 6 teams in the rundown which went to 74.75.

NTPs were all open second shot, with a ball for both players. Winners were : 2nd Colleen Kelly and Chris Mills, 7 th Denise M Culpitt and Katrina Springfield. 16th Colleen Kelly and Chris Mills. Pro Pin was won by Alison Blair – $31.

We have amended the wording of the Conditions of play to clarify the hitting off order of play.

1. Order of play: Players are required to hit from alternate tees. Each team to choose who will hit off first , that person will continue to hit off all the odd tees for 18 holes, for the third nine play will start from the 10 th hole, which becomes the 19 th hole so you will continue to alternate odds and evens as before!
   The conditions of play have not changed. There is only one division as there has been for the last two previous Foursomes Championships.
   Good Luck and Good Golfing.
   Captain Liz ⛳️
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38 Teams hit the course today to see how they’d fare in the 2 person format. Unfortunately, 3 teams were disqualified from the comp. 2 for not recording the number of drives per player and another for not writing a numeric score on the card for the back 9. Front 9 was perfect but the refreshing ales must have kicked in on the back🍻🤦‍♂️

Winners today Nimai Strickland and Christopher Brown (2.5) 62.5 runners-up Phil Coles and Dan Banks (7.25) 64.75.

Ball rundown went to 68.

Pro Pin was our favorite Victorian, Mick Walsh $75.

NTP’s

2nd Kim Hall.

7th Mick Walsh.

12th Shane Vanderlight.

16th Steve Wilkinson.

Raffle Winners Rick Downs $25, Mike McKay $25, John McLoughlin $25, Mark Kenny $25 and Bryan Penny $25.

Next weeks comp is a Individual Stableford.

Hit it hard and hope you filled out your score card correctly. Could always ask if unsure🙄

Captain Tink

Open day, a total success,no rain ,plenty of visitors .Excellent food put on by Barry. Every one enjoyed the day.Some good scores in. Also two women vets competed,a first for Banora.

Cheers Capt. Dave.Time for a well earned Red oclock,its good to be alive.

The morning showers only lasted a few minutes and left us all with a near perfect day on the course. Winners were

Division 1 Nimai Strickland (11) 68 runner-up Paul Pablo Pochodyla (12) 70. Best Gross Gary Dowding 79.

Division 2 Des Scott (18) 67 on a countback from Macca McGuiness (18) 67. Best Gross Brendon Willoughby 81.

Division 3 Greg Morrison (20) 65 runner-up Terry Trevitt (27) 67. Best Gross Sir Simon Gates 88.

Ball Rundown went to 73 all in.

Pro Pin Pat Hayes $76

NTP’s

2nd Michael Kemp and Brendon Willoughby.

7th Pat Hayes, Trevor Neil and Geoff SClarke.

12th Nimai Strickland, Liam Henzell and Paul Quinlin.

16th Pat Hayes, Brendon Willoughby and Tony Brown.

Bazza Birdie Blitz Jared Brown.

Banora Point Real Estate Lucy Draw Macca McGuiness.

Raffle Winners Tony Blair $25, Mr Walter Fisk $25, Greg Morrison $25, Bryan Penny $25 and Jimmy Wood $75.

Next weeks comp is a Single Stableford.

Tee time have now open up for our Men’s Foursome Championship on the 19th of this month. 8am shotgun start. Conditions of play are on a previous blog post, on the notice board outside the Island House and on the corkboard about the computers in the Island House.

Hit it hard and hope you find it.

Captain Tink.

It didn’t look too good early this morning but those who came out to play made the right choice , not a drop of rain all day, in fact the rain probably made the greens a little easier 🤣🤣🤣 .
We have a busy few weeks coming up :

Thursday 10 th August: 2 person Ambrose- Keno Day – $2.50 each to be eligible to advance to the next playoff event at Yamba if you want to be able to go to the next playoff make sure your partner wants to also!

Thursday 17 th August : Ladies Foursomes Championships 27 holes , 1 Division , book in as you like . Conditions of play are on the notice board.

Thursday 24 th August : 4 ball Aggregrate , All trophies donated by Mark Hawley from Golf Journeys and Privanda Hawley. Lots of prizes and a special lucky draw.

Thursday 31st August: 4 ball – Tombola Day

Thursday 7th September: Jarrod Lyle Day / Single Stableford

Thursday 14th September : Gold Medal Playoff with a Single Stableford for the rest of the field.

Thursday 21st : 4ball best ball.

Thursday 28th September: Canadian 2stroke, invitation/open day Shotgun start.

Now to the results of todays game.
We played our last Monthly Medal for the year today .
First Division Winners were: Medal Winner Liz Edwards 72 nett, Runner Up Denise F Culpitt 73 nett. Best Gross Denise F Culpitt 93.
Second Division Winners were: Medal Winner: Coral Rasmussen 72 nett, Runner/ up Pauline Benny 76, Best Gross Myra Biggar 106.
Rundown: Desley Harrington 76, Denise Melling 77June McFadden 77, Myra Biggar 77, Maren Cooper 78, Marilyn Burns 79, Glenda Ballard 79 and Denise M Culpitt 79.
NTPs Kaye Mills, Marilyn Brown, Pauline Ryan, Myra Biggar.
Best Putting Denise F Culpitt and Marilyn Berryman.
Pro Pin Glenda Ballard $26.

Have a good week , looking forward to plenty of good golf ahead

We have some brand new golfers almost ready to start if anyone would like to play a social game with one or more of them in the next few weeks.
Cheers for now

Captain Liz

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The rain stayed away again however the wind picked up in the arvo and things a little interesting for the late players.

Winners of our Wednesday Stableford were

Division 1 Steve Wilkinson (16) 37pts runner-up Jimmy Caroo (16) 34pts on a countback.

Division 2 Ken Walker (20) 36pts on a countback from Dave Kammer (22) 36pts.

Ball rundown went to 33 all in.

Pro Pin Kerry Carter $72.

NTP’s

2nd Des Scott and VC Wayne Muir.

7th Steve Wilkinson and Ken Walker.

12th Robert Sheppard and Mark Jessop.

16th Kerry Carter and David Briggs.

Long Drive Alan Tooley and Owen McCallum.

Bazza Birdie Blitz Bill McClatchey.

Raffle Winners Mr Walter Fisk $25, VC Wayne Muir $25, Ross Telfer $25 and Mark Jessop $50.

Next weeks comp is a 2 person Ambrose.

Hit it hard and hope the wind doesn’t hold it up!

Captain Tink.

Perfect conditions for our first Championship round of the year. 32 members had a shotgun start at 8am and after 27 holes, we had our new Champions.

2023 Club Banora Golf Club Mixed Foursome Champions

Myra Biggar and Gary Dowding 131.

Runners-up Kaye Mills and Ross Telfer 134

Nett winners Liz and John Edwards 101.5

Nett Runners-up Dainne Hughes and Peter Edwards 105

Thanks to all that assisted in getting the day up and running, Katrina, Liz, Rosie, Baz and Rodger!👏

Captain Tink.

Well you could not have wished for a better day.Absolutely perfect with 41 players enjoying the conditions.Rundown 34pts all in.

Div 1 winner John Bryant(16)40pts r/u Kim Thackery(15)38pts.

Div 2 winner Terry Trevitt(26)40pts r/u Stephen O`Keeffe(25)38pts.

N.T.P.S.

2nd. John Bryant and Les Isbell.

7th. Kim Thackery and Grant Mc`Lean.

12th. Brian Penny and Allan Corke.

16th. Wayne Howlett and Stephen O`Keeffe.

Raffles.$25. Dave Harrod+Merv Evans+Alex Kwok.$50.Nick Davis.

Good golfing and mental health.Cheers Capt.Dave.(cuppa time)

What a magic winters day that greeted us all today. Couldn’t have asked for anything better! We took a break from the Ambrose comps and played an Individual Stableford today with only 5 members playing to H/C or better.

Winners were

Division 1 Joe Lehkyj (17) 39pts runner-up Gerry Martin (17) 36pts CB.

Division 2 John Olsen (21) 39pts runner-up Perc Dempsey (29) 35pts CB.

Ball rundown went to 33 all in including the VC 😂

Pro Pin Nathan Simmo Simpson $72.

NTP’s

2nd Trevor Neil and Mick Walsh.

7th Graham Hopkins and Mick Walsh.

12th Dan Banks and Nathan Simmo Simpson.

16th Mark Kenny and Nick Davis.

Long Drive Michael Tink-Hornett (And it amazed Mick Kemp that a 3 wood can go that far) and Nathan Simmo Simpson.

Bazza Birdie Blitz Phil Coles $20 Pro Shop Voucher.

Banora Point Real Estate Lucy Door Nathan Simmo Simpson $20.

Raffle Winners Steve Wilkinson $125 and some bloke named SCLARKE that we later deducted is Geoff Clarke $50.

Next weeks comp is our August Monthly Medal.

Men’s Foursomes are only a few weeks away on the19th August.

Hit it hard and see how long that 3 Wood is!

Captain Tink.

What a wonderful day , we played one of our favourite annual events Pink Lady Day, we celebrated Betty’s 97 th birthday. And we had a great shared lunch thanks to a lovely tradition “ bring a plate” !!

A lovely field of 40 players including 4 visitors from Coolangatta Tweed played aTeam of Four Best 3 scores in conjunction with a Pink Ball Competition.

The winners of the Pink Ball Competion were Dorothy Biggs, Alison Blair, Denise F Culpitt and Marlene Wyatt. They each received a decorated coat hanger hand made by Pauline Ryan maintaining the tradition started years ago by Captain Joyce Flanagan.

Dorothy, Alison, Denise and Marlene also won the main event of the day The Team of Four Best Three to Count with a score of 119!
Runners up were Denise Melling, Denise M Culpitt, Bev Culpitt and Daphne Andersen with 113 points. There were 3 teams in the rundown which went to 108 points.

NTPs winners were : Denise F Culpitt, Denise Melling, Liz Edwards and Denise M Culpitt. They each win $5 on their card while their 3 team members get a ball. The Pro Pin was won by Kaye Mills $39.

Betty’s Surprise Birthday celebration went off successfully we all wished her well she was given flowers, cards, a cake and a cute little figurine .
We also welcomed Rosie and Cheryl who benefitted from the welcoming camaraderie of our club.

Thanks to Barry for allowing us do our own catering.
Next week we have our last Monthly Medal for the year!
This Sunday is our Mixed Foursomes Championships – 27 holes with a shotgun start! We hope everyone has an enjoyable day!!!🤩🤩

Cheers to all

Captain Liz

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