Plenty to talk about this week regarding men's golf.
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We have the usual weekend highlighted by the Can Assist charity day on Saturday, the visit by our representatives to Nelson Bay for the Blue Water Classic as well as an update from the Nissan Classic committee.
Numbers for the four-person ambrose in support of Can Assist were down a bit due to the threat of rain around mid-morning on Saturday but at the end of the day all who played were more than happy with conditions.
Organiser, and that of the past 15 years, Andrew Grierson did a great job and was well supported by Can Assist volunteers.
“It's a bit of a shame we had just over 20 pull at the last minute but we still had a good day with 64 starters,” he said.
Can Assist treasurer Murray Field said despite the conditions which took away some players profit from the day was around the $2000 mark.
“Which is an excellent result,” he said.
Andrew added he again thanks all the sponsors, staff in the Pro Shop and volunteers as well as those who travelled from Queensland, Wollongong, Blue Mountains, Sydney, Blayney, Orange, West Wyalong as well as neighbouring clubs.
“They all added to the success of the day in various forms from playing to buying tickets in competitions, and thanks especially to David Sly for showing his form as an auctioneer,” Andrew said.
Greg Hanns openly stated he doesn't pick 'duds' when playing ambrose events to captain the team of Brodie Hodges, Shayne Stains and David Sly as his playing partners to win the scratch event with eight under par 64.
In a 'mile' of trophies in handicap the best were Mitch and Jono Roylance, Harry Jones and Clayton Alley with 53.5 nett.
Runner-up Steve Uphill, Ross Williams, Andrew Norton-Knight and Trevor Tulloch (W/W) with 55 nett.
“It's on again next year and we hope for better weather. It's a great day for a better cause,” Andrew said.
Only a small field on Sunday with 13 players where the winner was Lee Grierson who played off a five handicap in scoring 41 points. Runner-up was Paul Pymont with 39 points.
Ball sweep to Craig Simmons while nearest the pins went to Bruce Squires 9th and Frank Donohue 18th.
Monday saw ten players in the medley with Bess Shields winning with 37 points from Stuart French, runner-up on a count-back with 36 points.
Nearest the pins, ninth Dave Rhodes, 18th Ethel Coombs.
News from a wet North Coast is a bit 'shabby' but this is what we have at this moment. First of all, everyone of the 18 tourist reports great weekend.
Due to the weather some played the 36 holes of the classic while others were satisfied with getting wet the once only with the event close to being called off.
It has been reported that only about half the registrations played Sunday.
Best results in stableford for all events including those well known to Forbes members. Peter Tilden, A grade winner on Saturday on a count-back from John Betland with 39 points.
'Didget' McAuliffe runner-up in A grade for 36 holes.
Mick Grant B grade winner on Saturday with 37 points on a count-back from Peter Barnes. Andrew Drane C grade winner on Saturday with 38 points.
Coming up
With the year virtually flying the Nissan Classic committee held their first meeting for the year last week and members will notice a few changes.
The major one is that of a new secretary/treasurer with Beryl Roberts taking a back seat after over 20 years as the one who has kept everyone their toes to see that all was in place for successful tournaments.
The Classic will be held on November 9,10 and 11 with a practice individual stableford round Friday, four-ball Saturday while the 'blue Ribbon' individual is set down for the Sunday.
Due to excellent sponsorship the committee is again allocating over $5500 to those who play best over all grades plus juniors, vets and ladies.
Classic chairperson Randal Grayson said he cannot thank Beryl enough for her efforts on the Classic committee and other major events played.
“Beryl and Linnie are always there, more so writing up the score board for all major tournaments whether it be ladies or men's competition.
But with the Classic, Beryl, and of course Lin, have gone that bit further from helping to get trophies in order to catering etc. The list goes on and on behalf of the committee and members I cannot thank them enough,” Randal said.
On the committee for this year with Randal are, Mike Sutcliffe secretary/treasurer while the committee welcomes new members Daniel Bayley and Allan Rees.
Re-elected members are John Betland, Troy Howe and Barry Shine and of course Beryl Roberts in a minor role as advisor and scorer.
While on the subject of running a sub-committee to the FGA do you realise that the profit for the last financial year was $4,674 from an operating cost of $459,651, or more direct $4,674 each week.
So next time you have a complaint about green fees, membership or when you are asked to support a raffle etc, remember the above.
We all should take our hats off to the excellent works and forward thinking, planning of a committee which some day will be very hard to replace.
Golf scheduled for this weekend – Saturday June 16, stroke and sponsored by Country Mile Motor Inn. Sunday, the usual stableford medley.
Saturday week (June 23) is the four-ball stroke championships sponsored by John Davis Mazda while the following day will be the usual stableford medley.
Due to the weekend format we have no percentages for birdies, miss hits, shanks, missed short putts etc this week so we go over to the Pro Shop where 'our man' Simon is introducing a trainee to members.
“I have a new guy starting, his name is Zac Kelly.
He is originally from Mudgee and will be my trainee professional,” Simon said this week.
“He can play a bit, he's really a nice guy so make him welcome when you see him in the shop,” Simon added.
Improving your game is always in the plans for players in Simon's schedule so he has extended his lesson special for the month on June, that is three lessons for $90.
There has been a lot of comments about how players have improved their scoring once lessons have been taken, we have even reported on some instant success reverting to the trophy table.
Simon has further reasons to feel he can improve your scoring by leaving the old set of clubs in the garage and take a look at new stock arriving each day.
To coincide with this Simon is offering a discount on Taylor-Made M3 and M4 over the full range of clubs.
And if you want to go further and look the best in the field, Simon tells us he is always adding to his entire range of clubs and clothing for ladies and men.
Plus, remember his does repairs, especially grips.
Now that your looking good and playing well don't forget to help 'Jack' and Darren out while on the course by repairing pitch marks and fairways divots.
Also take care when removing your ball after a successful putt.
There are incidents when the shoulder of the cup is being damaged when retrieving the ball.
Simon has 'items' which can be attached to putter grips to help all who have difficulty getting down to collect the ball.
This way there is no reason to use the putter to flip the ball out of the hole.
Three simple ways we all can help to see further improvements to an already well presented course.
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