A not at all dreary, February

Hello to one and all.

 

Hopefully this finds you all well and rested from the holiday period, to those still on holiday…lucky buggers.

 

Just before we get onto what’s going on in February, congratulations to the winners (yes plural) of this year’s Summer Cup. It was shared between David Parsons and Ross Megson. For those who weren’t aware the Summer Cup was held over 6 rounds with the best 4 counting.

Something else that has been running alongside the Summer cup is the Summer Skins (your best 2 Stableford scores from the Summer cup are added together and then the best top 10 combined scores will compete in the Summer Skins)

The results are in and those of you who have qualified, will be (or already have been) contacted and will be teeing off in two groups of 5, for 9 holes. Each Skin is worth $40 and the last hole is worth $80, so as you can see, a competition well worth being in. Tee off for the first group will be 3:00pm this Saturday 7th Feb, from the first tee.

 

The following weekend, Saturday the 14th, will be the official opening day for the Men’s section of Omanu golf club. We will  not only be running the Hay Trophy, which has become the default opening day trophy, but will also be doing a teams event. The team competition will be in the form of a Yellow Ball comp. Each 4 will be given a Yellow ball by the Starters, starting from the lowest handicapper in the group, this ball will rotate round the 4 with each score from the Yellow Ball counting towards the team score and your individual Stableford score. Clear as mud?? There will be instructions handed out with each Yellow Ball. You don’t have to put together teams beforehand, your team will be the 4 you play in.

There will also be a complimentary sausage sizzle at the 10th hole, plus two lovely ladies will be doing the rounds with the beer cart.

We haven’t had an official opening day for the men’s section for quite some time now, so it would be great to see as many of you as possible out there.

 

The club champs start the weekend following opening day, good luck to all.

 

Good luck to those in the Skins, as for the rest, like me… we’ll have try harder next Summer, plus we have an initiative starting in March were we get another chance to compete for a bit more(quite a bit more) than the usual haggle, anyway more on that later…watch this space…

 

Alastair Reed, Men’s Captain

 

 

Quote of the month:-

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

 

Mark Twain