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Today we were greeted with a splendid Autumn day! A little bit of a southerly and some very receptive greens thanks to all the work Rodger and his staff put in during the week. A few trees have been removed and have opened up the 15th especially off the tee if you tend to go left. I know one of my playing partners is extremely happy about this (TF).

We had a Single Stableford today as well as our Match Play Championship qualifier. I will post the results of the qualifier tomorrow.

Winners today were Patrick Hayes (10) 41pts D1 and Kevin Berry (27) 46pts D2.

Runnerups Joe Lehkyj (15) 39pts D1 and Owen McCallum (19) 39pts D2

Ball rundown went to 35pts.

NTP’s

Division 1 Brian Springfield 7th, David Von Itzstein 16th

Division 2 Jack Fedden, 2nd Jimmy Wood 7th, Geoff Clarke 12th, Nathan Simpson 16th.

Pro Pin David Von Itzstein $70

Banora Point Real Estate Lucky Draw Wayne Woodford $20

Raffles Dave Harrod $25 Stevie Caine $25 Nigel Luxton $25 Wayne Woodford $25 and Wayne Muir $25

I’m filling some big shoes stepping into this roll and I promise I will do my best at all times. There are many people that have stepped up and are willing to help me but I must point out the behind the scenes work that Wayne, Barry and Tim do. These three deserve much more credit than they are given so please thank them next time you see them.

I’ve been trying to find a catchy sign off like Kev had ( Hit em long and hit em straight) so I will sign off with the Saturday 7.42am motto.

Hit it hard and hope you find it!

Michael Tink-Hornett Captain

The Annual General Meeting and elections of our Banora Golf Club Management Committee was held at Club Banora on Saturday 18th March at 2pm.
We are happy to announce our committee for 2023 is as follows:

PRESIDENT: Brent McLennan

VICE PRESIDENT: Katrina Springfield

TREASURER: Will Salter

SECRETARY: Rosie Connolly

MENS CAPTAIN: Michael Tink – Hornett

LADIES CAPTAIN: Liz Edwards

VETS CAPTAIN: Dave Harrod

MENS REPRESENTATIVE: Wayne Muir

LADIES REPRESENTATIVE: Judy Mount

All proceedings were overseen by Returning Officer, Twin Towns Board Member Ken Culpitt

on behalf of President Brent

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CLUB BANORA MENS GOLF CLUB CONDITIONS OF PLAY

SINGLE MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP 2023

1. Open to Club Banora members only.
2. Normal fee of $16.00 to qualify.
3. Players who qualify for this event are ineligible to play in the daily event.
4. To qualify, players MUST have their score card stamped by the starter in the qualifying round.

Qualifying Round  Saturday 25^th March

Round 1                  Saturday 8^th April

Round 2                  Saturday 15^th April

Semi Final              Saturday 22^nd April

Final                        Saturday 29^th April

• Qualifiers will have pre-booked time slots.
• The best 16 Net Scoresin the qualifying round will qualify.    Ties for qualifiers will be decided on a countback.
• Match results are to be written on the Official Draw Sheetby the winner of each match. Each winner will receive a golf ball.
• Handicaps for the First Round will apply for all the rounds of the Championship.
• Strokes are to be taken in accordance with the MATCH PLAY INDEX on the scorecard.
• . All matches will commence on the FIRST TEE and will be                            played from the BLUE MARKERS.
• . Club Banora Men’s Golf Club Conditions of play will apply           during the Championship.
• . In the event of a Match being squared after 18 holes, the Match will continue from the FIRST HOLE with the Match Play Index starting again until a result is known.
• . The Match Committee has the right to change the format and times as it deems fit. Their decision is final at all times and no correspondence will be entered into.

Michael Tink-Hornett

Captain

Very hot conditions greeted us today for our Single Stableford shotgun start, followed by the A.G.M..

Some very good scores were recorded, 9 players played to par or better.

Today’s winners were Macca McGuiness (20) 41pts. Runnerup Barry McFadden (33) 38 c/b.

Ball rundown went to 33pts.

NTP’S 2nd John Edwards. 7th Garry Dowding. 12th Michael Tink-Hornett. 16th Barry McFadden.

Ladies 16th Louise Carpenter.

Raffles Perc Dempsey $25. Barry McFadden $25. Stephen Caine $25. David Harrod $25. Robert Duncan $25. Wayne Muir $25.

Joke of the day.

Three guys Wayne, Mick and Kevin, were on the first tee waiting for Alan, who they could see in the distance limping, as he pushed his golf Buggy to join them. “Why are you limping Alan?” Asked Wayne as he reached the first tee. “It’s an old football injury.” “I didn’t know you played football Alan, asked Mick.” “Oh, I don’t. I hurt my foot last year when I lost $1,000 on the Grand final, then I put my foot through the TV.

Paddy had been drinking at his local Dublin pub all day and most of the night, celebrating St. Patrick’s day. Mick, the bartender says, “You’ll not be drinking anymore tonight, Paddy. Paddy replies, “Ok Mick, I’m not as thunk as you drink I am, but I’ll be headed home now before the Mrs gets home.” Paddy spins around on his stool and steps off. He falls flat on his face. “Fock” he says, and pulls himself up the stool and dusts himself off. He takes a step towards the door and falls flat on his face, “Fock me, now that’s gonna leave a mark!” He looks to the doorway and thinks to himself that if he can just get to the door and some fresh air, he’ll be fine. He belly crawls to the door and shimmes up the door frame. He sticks his head outside and takes a deep breath of fresh air, feels much better and takes a step out onto the sidewalk and falls flat on his face. “By Jeebers …. I’m a little more crocked than I thunk, he says.” He can see his house just a few doors down the road, and he crawls to his front door, hauls himself up the door frame, opens the door and shimmes inside. He takes a look up the stairs and says, “No damm way.” So he crawls up the stairs to his bedroom door and says, “I can make it to bed.” He pulls himself up, takes a step into the room and falls flat on his face again. “Fock this!!! He moans as he crawls into bed. The next morning, his wife Jess, comes into the room carrying a cup of coffee, and says, “Get up Paddy. Had a bit too much to drink last night did ya?” Paddy says,”I did, Jess. I was really crocked, but how’d you know?” Mick phoned ….. you left your wheelchair at the pub again.

Thanks to everyone, I hoped you enjoyed the jokes I’ve been putting up. It’s been great fun being Captain for the last 3 years, if I could do it again, I wouldn’t change a thing.

See you on the course

Kevin Haddrick former Captain

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We played an Irish Stableford Team of Four today : it has been a while since we played this game but it seemed like everyone remembered how to play it. It was a very hot and steamy day , let’s hope this weather doesn’t go on for too much longer, it is Autumn already , it feels hotter than Summer!
The winners today were: Peggy Williams, Marilyn Berryman, Kaye Mills and Pauline Ryan with 87 points.
Runners up were: Denise M Culpitt, Denise Melling, Janet Haddrick and Pauline Benny with 82 points.

Three teams in the rundown— each player received a ball , NTP’s also each received a ball they were: Kaye Mills on the 2 nd, Fran Janes on the 7th and Peggy Williams on the 16th. Peggy also won the ProPin.

With trophy donors and giving out balls instead of vouchers we have managed a generous prize allocation for a team of four game.

The AGM is on this Saturday 18 th March sign in from 1:30 meeting start is 2 pm at the curtained off area at the Slice and Fork at Club Banora , hope to see you there!

It was nice to see our old members Fran and Privanda back for a game of golf.
No golf on Tuesday as the course will be closed for renovations and maintenance on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday.
See you all back on Thursday

Cheers from Captain Liz

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What a great day, blue sky’s, humid, and a nice breeze in the afternoon. When scoring your card, you must have 2 lots of scores. You have the team you are scoring, and you have your teams score. As card checkers, we need to have both scores, if we have a score which we can’t read properly, then we can look up the other teams card to correct the problem.

The PENNANT season is just about on us. I have put up the sheets in the scoring room. Players who are interested in playing Pennant golf, put your name and details on the sheets provided. The PENNANT season will be on, Sunday May 14, May 21, and May 28, with the final on Sunday June 4 Get your mates together and put your name’s down and let’s represent Club Banora.

Don’t forget this Saturday is our AGM. For those playing in the morning, make sure you are at the course by 7.30 and ready on your starting TEE for a 8am Hit off.

Today we had 2bbb ….. and the winners were …

Kevin Haddrick and Wayne Muir 44pts. Runners Up Brian Britton and Peter Wazlawek 42pts.

Ball rundown went to 39pts.

NTP’S

Division 1. 2nd Brad Wilkinson. 7th Craig Hill. 12th Pat Hayes. 16th Kyle Harrison.

Division 2. 2nd House. 7th Stephen Smith. 12th Gary Roach. 16th Darren Hubery.

Raffles Trevor Neil $50. Wayne Muir $25. Mark Kenny $25.

Joke of the day

Three mischievous old Grandmas were sitting on a bench outside a nursing home, when old Grandpa John, walked by. And one old granny yelled out saying, “We bet we can tell exactly how old you are.” John said, “There’s is no way you can guess it, you old fools.” The second old lady said, “Sure we can! Just drop your pants and under shorts and we can tell your exact age.” Embarrassed just a little, but anxious to prove they couldn’t do it, John dropped his drawers. One of the old Grannies asked him to first turn around a couple of times and jump up and down several times. Then the three of them all piped up and said, “You’re 87 years old! Standing with his pants down around his ankles, John asked, “How in the world did you guess?” Slapping their knees and grinning from ear to ear, all the old girls happily yelled in unison …. “We were at your Birthday party yesterday!”

Hit em long and hit em straight

Kevin Haddrick Captain

Rain gods looked after the 37 players that ventured out to do combat on our challenging course. Unfortunately Winner and Runner Up had to be disqualified for submitting incorrect score cards.(both seasoned players,its not rocket science.)

Winner David VonItzstein(7)35pts.R/U. Grant McLean(24)34pts.

Rundown 31pts all in.(capt.had 31)

N.t.p.s.2nd house 7thOwen McCallum+Derryk Russell 12th Wayne Muir+Bazza McFadden 16th Pat Hayes+house.

Raffles $75 Pat Hayes $25 Peter Malone+Wayne Martlew.B.B.B.Ken Wood $20.Well done to all winners.Good golfing and mental health.

Remember no golf next mon,tues, wed.If you want to play elsewhere on those days and your clubs are stored here,the island will not be attended on those days.

Cheers Captain Dave.(red oclock)

How lucky were we. The weather forecast for today was for 20 – 40mm of rain, but instead we had great weather, but the humidity was about 95%, and it took a lot out of you, but in saying that, we still had 6 players evened or bettered their handicap.

Only 75 players today, looks like some took notice of the forecast, and we had no visitors, looks like they have all gone home, but that won’t be for long, as we will get the Victorian’s soon.

At the time of printing, there was still 5 spots available for next Saturday. Don’t forget that next Saturday is our AGM and our golf starts at 8am Shotgun Start. So be here no later than 7.30am.

Single Stableford 2 Divisions today, and the winners were …

Division 1. Kim Hall (15) 39pts. Runnerup Michael Tink-Hornett (7) 37pts.

Division 2. Graeme Johnson (22) 41pts. Runnerup John Baddeley (21) 39pts.

Ball Rundown went to 34pts.

NTP’S

Division 1. 2nd Michael Tink-Hornett. 7th Garry Dowding. 12th Kim Hall. 16th Liam Henzell.

Division 2. 2nd John Baddeley. 7th Barry McFadden. 12th Jim Wood. 16th Luke Chester.

PRO PIN Kim Hall $71.00

Banora Point Real Estate Lucky Draw Ray Wixey $20.00

Raffles Brent McLennan $75, Perc Dempsey $25, Bryan Penny $25, John McLoughlin $25.

Joke of the Day

I’m not saying my game needs a complete overhaul, but, I had to re-grip my ball retriever twice last year.

Hit em long and hit em straight

Kevin Haddrick Captain

Not a bad day,a little windy which kept the temp.,at bay.) 39 starters, with 6 away at Ballina.Only 1 Div. with ball rundown 31pts all in.(cap.had 31)

Winner Peter Wazlawek(31)39pts.R/U.Stephen Williams(23)36pts on c/b.

N.t.p.s.2nd house7thTrevor Neil+Bob McElveney12thJohn Bryant+Wazza

16thNick Davis+Grant McLean. B.B.B. Tim Pooley $20.

Raffles $50 Wayne Howlett. $25 Stephen Caine+Kim Thackery .

Thats all folks good golfing and mental health.

Cheers Capt. Dave.(red oclock)

Our first Monthly Medal of the year went of without a hitch, thanks to our great team behind the scenes!

The winners today were Div 1: Kaye Mills with 70nett, she also won the best gross with 81. Runner up in Div 1: Alison Blair with 75 nett. Div 2: Penny Martlew with 76 nett, and she also won the best gross with 106. Runner up in Div 2: Pauline Benny with 77nett.
Rundown was: Colleen Kelly 76, Nancy Douglas 77, Helen Evans 77, Marlene Whyatt 77, Denise M Culpitt 78, Daphne Andersen 78 and Diane Hughes 79.

NTP’s 2nd Div 1: Kaye Mills, Div2: Marilyn Berryman. 7 th Div 1 Denise M Culpitt, Div 2 Marlene Wyatt.
Best Putting 1st Div : Peggy Williams with 28 putts , 2nd Div : Diane Hughes with 31 putts. Pat Hodda won the Pro Pin – $27.

Coming Events: This week we have a single stableford and the next week on the 16 th March we have our Irish 4 Ball – we will be using the old cards and not using the computer to enter our scores on that day so please take care with your cards! After that we have: 23rd March Single Stableford. 30th March 4BBB. And then on the 6th April our second Monthly Medal, also being Easter Thursday we will be drawing our Easter Raffle.

So now is the time to start bringing in some Easter Goodies if you can, not too much chocolate just yet as it is still pretty warm.

Don’t forget we have our Golf Club AGM on the 18th March. At 2 pm behind the curtain at Slice and Fork . Come and have your say about our club ! Say Thank you to Myra who is standing down from the management committee after several years in various roles!

Hope you are enjoying your golf , you don’t realize what a big part of your life it is until it is taken away from you. Make the most of the good weather while we have it and I hope to be out with you on the course very soon.

Cheers to all and good golfing

Captain Liz

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