Saturday 22-Nov-2025 at Hillview

• We have 5 groups and 4 carts reserved with a 09:40 start time

• We currently require 3 groups (for 10 players) and 1 cart 

• The course combination this week is Classic followed by Lakeside

• There are 10 playing spots available (for now)

• All in one grade unless we get a few more starters

• The cart is for JoeB/Tony

• We are playing Stableford for Club trophies

• No Pairs matches are possible

• The Mug holder for November is Greg (going to the cricket)

Group and cart requirements will need to be finalised by Wednesday evening.

Tony will be paying for golf and any carts on Thursday morning.

The latest 12-week booking matrix is attached.

Cheers, Brad

15 Nov

15 men turned out at Hillview for a fine non windy start, and a windy windy finish. There were no windy’s reported on the day though, how does that work? We were battling for Smeg’s fine trophies on the Classic and Heritage 9’s, and the comp Stableford.

Oh and some late news here, in terms of someone turning up late. Says he was driving along happily in his ‘Stang (hint) when the thought crossed his mind to look at the fuel gauge. Good thought! The gauge said “E”. Now what? He googled to find out where a servo might be somewhere near him, and pitted for a top-up, and a bit more for insurance purposes (hint). These ‘Stang’s are hungry!

Steve, can you find this un-named person a more economical ride? Maybe a Vauxhall Viva, plenty of them where he comes from (hint).

End result – 2nd group became 3rd group as our man sauntered on course late, without a care in the world.

On Course:

·         There has been some conjecture that I may not report all self errors. This is fake news. Hole 1, first drive wedged 5m up a tree (see pic) – lost. Then bad shanking, 2 that crossed to next fairway on 11 and 13. And 8 points front 9, 8 points back 9. There, are you happy now?

·         Wilbur hole 2 – a ladies into the fence only 1m fwd of tees. Grrrr.

·         I thought I had a chance of something positive from the day, when I posted a reasonable ball down the left on the LD 6th. Alas OJ said he beat me by 3m. But he then added, that his ball was not “quite” on the fairway. Mmmmm, doesn’t matter how far you hit them in the bush OJ.

·         And a random pair that started the back 9 ahead of us, were so slow that they let group 1, and group 2, through after much delay. Group 3 growled at them and so they didn’t let us through, and carried on parking their cart in all the wrong places.

Winners:

·         OJ grabbed 2nd place with a fine 38 points, continuing his handicap charge of late. Well done OJ.

·         And winning by a street was Pig on 40 pts, 24 on the front 9, 3 x 4 pointers, heaps of 3 pointers, 3 wipes, and 2 lost balls. How good!

Thank you Smeg for the fine trophies.

Till next time,

Pete