Saturday 21-Jun-2025 at Marri Park:

Saturday 14-Jun-2025 at Marri Park:

At Marri Park yesterday we had 18 starters for the Par Comp. Quite nice weather after the rain of last week, and the course in fine condition.

DAGS in group 1, being the social beasts they are, gave a random a “how’ya goin’ mate” at the check in pre game. His response was “well I’m not shopping with the Mrs”. Guess he was very happy to be at MP, or maybe it was his Mrs serving behind the bar? Outside of that it was, in a lot of ways, a very forgettable day.

·         FORGOT – (Steve) to close the tailgate of the Landcruiser, and proceeded to depart Bruce’s. I know, I know, you have heard this one before and are expecting me to describe chaos, with clubs and bags being run over on the freeway by Toll trucks. Well lucky Mr Toyota chirped at us, alerting the impending doom. No damage. Thank god for AI.

·         FORGOT – (Bruce) to pick up his gap wedge after hole 1, and dutifully asked his playing group if any of them had grabbed it. No. After racking his considerable brains, Bruce decided he didn’t in fact have said GW at the course, and rang Dom (at home) to confirm it was at his place. No answer. Finally on hole 13 (after 3 hrs of worry) Dom rings in to confirm it was safe and sound with him, thank goodness.

·         FORGOT – (Pete) to check his ball properly on 12, after being queried by Bruce, then chipped it onto the green.

·         FORGOT – (Bruce) to check his ball properly on 12 after being shooed away, and hit Pete’s ball. Pete on the green then realized he had hit Bruce’s ball, and vice versa. Both pinged 2 shots, and a reset/replay back up the fairway. Schemozzle.

·         FORGOT (Steve) after an errant shot long into bush on 15th dogleg, forgot to turn his buggy off on entry, which resulted in a herculean rescue effort to prevent said buggy being lost downhill into the undergrowth. Try stopping one of those suckers on a downhill with drive engaged!

·         FORGOT – (Last group) to keep up. They were so far behind on the 9th, that a random group kicked off on 10, in between our 4th and 5th groups. Never before has this incompetence happened, must have been some pairs match.

·         FORGOT (Clappers) to watch his ball. On the P4 11th Clappers has his 4th shot from 40 (or 60, or 20) metres off the green. Not happy with his strike he racks the cue, and mumbles something in Vietnamese, when Charlie stops him and says “are you going to take that?”. Clappers had holed the shot from 40 (or 60, or 20) metres, for a par and hadn’t even looked – play of the day, but shouldn’t be allowed!

One pairs match was played with Irish Rovers locking horns with The Joeys. Fint & Tony gang tackled Joe & Joe early on, to be 2 up after 5 holes and doing it easy. But the Joeys ground it out on the front 9, to get back to square at the turn. Then the floodgates opened, with Joe B playing a number of “very good shots”, ratcheting the pressure beyond what the Irish could cope with, and running out comfortable winners 7-3. A stunning win, quite a turnaround.

In second place in the Par Comp was Andrew - the 34 handicapper who hits it over 200m - with a score of square. He beat out Lindsay for 2nd on a countback, commiserations Lindsay. Congrats Andrew on your first DAGS trophy, $20 from the club.

And winning the day, by a large margin, on +4 was Clappers, streets ahead, and bagging $40 for his trouble. Well done Clappers.

Till next time,

Pete