Saturday 5-Jul-2025 at Hillview:

• Tee off time is 7.32

• We will require at least 4 groups (for 16 players) and 4 carts

• In carts are: JoeB/Tony, Aussie/JK, Ged/Fint and Muzza/Smeg(not playing)

• We are playing Stroke for Muzza's trophies

• No Pairs matches have been planned as far as I know

• The mug holder for July is Fintan

Cheers, Brad

Saturday 28-Jun-2025 at Marri Park:

The last Par round of June was played at Marri Park on Saturday in perfect conditions, with a healthy 18 starters fronting up - healthy numbers that is, as against healthy people.

On course:

·         Floaty was all over the place with his driving. On the 2nd he only advanced 5m and coughed up a jug for a “ladies”. But was then observed  banging them long, over 200m on other holes off his 32 handicap, an enigma. But he may have to back off some of that aggression as he tore his right shoulder late in the round, get well soon Andrew.

·         On the 12th par 5 Joe B was putting from off the green 20m from the pin, and incredibly, called for a gimme. This was routinely dismissed/scoffed at by his playing partners, and so Joe stepped up and rolled the putt in. I hope those guys listen next time.

·         On the P3 4th Pig lands it off the green and is faced with a 25m chip. Which of course he chipped in for a 1 ball, no need for a putter. Great shot.

·         Hole 16 caught the first group out good and proper. Fintan snap hooked left into a tree, took a penalty, then went into the dry lake left. He was out of trouble for 8, YES 8, finally reaching the green in 10, and finishing with a 12. Clappers not much better, got past the ditch for 2, but his 3rd hit a tree and went back over his head into Flaps dry lake. He took 3 more to get out and picked up in disgust.

·         Erin on the 6th found the fairway with a nice drive, but unfortunately his second went into the bush. Coming out of the bush with his 3rd he struck the 100 marker. His ball shot backwards, and came to rest exactly where his initial drive had landed. Disappointing.

·         Muzza, as always, was red hot with the putter, having only 8 putts, YES 8, on the front 9. Mo’s DAGS putting record of 21 was under serious threat and they both knew it, Muzza was coming for you Mo. But alas Muzzas putter went cold on the back 9 for a pathetic 15 putts - YES 15, for a total of 23 - doh!

·         On the 18th tee there was a large amount of hooting, tooting, and hollering from the passing traffic - but we’ve all done that, haven’t we?

Pairs:

The pairs match was blown to pieces on the front 9, with The Joeys up 6-0 over the Punting Putters at one point, and making the turn 6-1 up. Incredibly Joe B stated that “it would have been even better if Joe K was playing well”. Geez. The PP’s had a bit of a revival on the back 9 , but the Joeys ran out easy winners 10-4. A flogging, but Erin and Rod were still saying nice things about each other afterwards, good to see.

Par Comp:

Runner up in the Par Comp on +1 was Rolf Rodwell bagging $20 Club Trophy for his troubles. Winning the day due to his metronomic driving, and calm misdemeanor, was Clive on +3 snagging $40. Well done gents

Mystery 9:

June’s M9 came down to a 3 way countback between Muzz, Mo and Fintan. Fintan was running the mystery 9, and disappeared into the bar to have one of the ladies choose a circuit breaker hole. They allegedly picked the 15th hole (which Fint did well on, lucky it wasn’t 16th) and so now we have to buy the prick beer for all of July. Talk about dodgy, but well done Mr Fintan.

Range Finders:

Ever been out on course when people are range finding, and found 2 disagree by a few metres? The good news is that the technology is so good these days, that reputable brands are dead accurate from the get go. So for a check I went to google earth to get accurate distances from 40 up to 330m on North Beach ovals, and mine checks out well, to within 1m. I later checked Steve’s and his is also bang on. So if you have any doubts about yours, or if yours has been dropped, grab Steve’s or mine on a Saturday for a quick cross check.

Till next week,

Pete