The Working Bee Team at Mercury Bay have been working at fever pitch to get the new bridges ready for the 8th and 9th holes. Thank you to all who generously donate their time and effort to the golf club cause!
We have a big week to get through as the girls had a lovely mini xmas on Wednesday, the Duxfield trophy is wrapped up and Jack Skinner had a record breaking performance last Saturday!
And for goodness sake don’t miss the Ham and Turkey Tournament this Sunday. I’ve ordered plenty and I have big fat turkeys and beautiful hams to be won. The question is… are you good enough?
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Twilight Golf
Friday Nights 10 Holes
Tee Off 3pm to 5.30pm
Free Powerade or Cold Beer with every $10 entry
Golf Club Bar Happy Hour
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Handles $4 / Stubbies $2.50
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SUNDAY 27TH NOVEMBER – 10.30am SHOTGUN START
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The Final Dunes Challenge for 2011 will be held at Matarangi is on Friday 25th November. Thanks for the reduced green fees this year!
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MENS RESULTS
MENS SCRAMBLE RESULTS
Saturday Scramble 12th November
Jack Skinner produced the round of the Year to take out the top honour in last weeks Saturday Scramble. His net score of 54 was the top for the season and will be very hard to beat with only a few weeks to go. Bob Pawson was a distant second with 45 points (ha ha, yes distant on 45!!) and if you didn’t score 43 points you were out of luck…
Mens Results
Jack Skinner 53
Bob Pawson 45
Ron Anderson 44
Garry Morton 43
Gary Wheeler 43
Geoff Lowe 43
Paul Lupton 43
Ash Strachan, Tom Coysh, Grant Wedge, Wayne Kearney 42
Bill McLean, Shane Hardy, Craig Hill 41
Two’s Steven Tull
Long Drive Senior Dean Lash
Junior Wayne Kearney
Nearest To Pin Senior Noel Richardson
Junior Jack Skinner
Wednesday Scramble 16th November
The ex-president must be enjoying his role at the club as… well nothing except for a loyal member, and his score on Wednesday was a testament to how nice it is to play without the presidential pressure. His 44 was just in front of Duncan Hammond who visited the club just long enough to win a couple of beers and even Norm Ball got in on the winning action. But wait who’s this also in 3rd??! Ron Watson finally broke a run of sub 30 stableford rounds to explode back on the scene with 41 points! Nice to have you back… Keep it up!
Well done also to Geoff Lowe who had 2 twos! Nice!
Mens Results
Shane Hardy 44
Duncan Hammond 43
Norm Ball 41
Ron Watson 41
Gary Wheeler 41
Keven Clark 40
Craig Hill 40
Lindsey Muller 40
Murray James 40
Two’s Geoff Lowe (x 2) Mark White
DUXFIELD TROPHY 2011
SEMI FINAL RESULTS
Gary Wheeler & Steve Tull beat Grant Wedge & Tom Coysh on 19th
Craig Ohlson and Kelly Barson beat Ron Anderson & (Rod Stewart) 1up
(Rod was not available to play)
DUXFIELD TROPHY FINAL
SATURDAY 19TH NOVEMBER
10.15am
GARY WHEELER & STEVE TULL
vs
KELLY BARSON & CRAIG OHLSON
The final of the Duxfield trophy has been played and the victorious pair of Gary Wheeler and Steve Tull were seen celebrating in the wee hours of… well Saturday afternoon… But celebrate they did and no doubt they would have had to buy a couple of beers for poor old Kelly and Craig.
I say “Poor old” about those guys but I don’t really mean it. Kelly and Craig had the easiest run to the finals in golfing history with only 1 of their Duxfield victories being played against 2 players!
I was at the champion of champions in the first round (Hayden Payne took them on) and Ron Anderson took them on in the Semi’s and only lost 1 down!
Anyway, they made the finals and went up against Steve and Wheels. Steve is pretty green when it comes to big finals but Wheels… Oh boy this is painful to do again, but I have to give credit where credit is due…
We only have 3 official club Matchplay events. The Club Champs, the handicap Matchplay and the Duxfield trophy. Wheels is the defending champion of the Duxfield trophy, a feat he achieved last year with the support of Kelvin O’Leary. He now has defended this trophy along with the Club Champs junior Trophy. He currently holds this years Handicap match play title and if he defends it in May he would have successfully won and defended every match play game he has had in 2 full years.
Somebody please stop this Madness!!
Gary Wheeler is the best match player in the Club… probably even the world.
…or maybe his handicap needs to be chopped. Whatever it is May 2012 is a big month for all junior handicappers who are not Gary Wheeler!
Anyway it was all over on the 17th with Wheels once again dealing the killer blow. Steve came in on a few holes but from what I can gather Wheels was all over it around the back nine. The score was never far away from even around the front 9 but Craig and Kelly couldn’t keep up with the pace coming home.
Saturday Scramble 19th November
More great scores yesterday as a great field of 48 men turned up to play in the Saturday scramble. Hardip Singh a new member from Auckland played wonderfully to score 44 points and take out the senior grade while Grant McKendry put all of the practice together to shoot a magnificent 46 stablefords. The scores in the Junior division were far better than the Senior and finally the low handicappers had a reasonable chance to win a beer after a great call to split the grades.
Mens Results
(0 – 21) Hardip Singh 44
Gary Wheeler 39
Kelly Barson 38
Bryan Warwick 38
Peter May 37
(21-36) Grant McKendry 46
Kelvin O’Leary 44
Norm Ball 43
Wayne Kearney 42
Tom Coysh 41
Two’s Lee Hall, Hardip Singh
There also was one other two on Saturday and that came from Peter May. Why isn’t he on the normal list I hear you ask? Well because Pete made his on the 1st hole after holing a shot from 120 metres out and picked up the eagles nest worth a cool $30.50
You Legend!
Long Drive Senior Craig Hill
Junior Bill McLean
Nearest To Pin Senior Kelly Barson
Junior Lee Hall
This week!
Mens Shoot Out 26thNovember
WomensGOLFNEWS
RESULTS BY LINDSEY ROGERS
Mercury Bay women golfers played a team game this week before lunch and a swap of Christmas presents.
The best team was Sue Donovan, Pam Holland, Jenny Layton and Shirley Bowick with a score of 104.
Second: Judith Clague, Judith King, Shirley Wilson and Sheree Henderson with 100.
Third : Vanessa Ford, Chris Wight, Bev Morris and Bridget Mackereth with 99.
Fourth: Norma Loomes, Del Langdon, Joan Roseman and Maureen Blackburn with 97.
Ann Blair won the Nearest the Pin on 4.
Carol Wyborn won the Nearest the Pin in 2 on 10.
Sue Donovan, Katrina Hill and Ann Kerkhof had twos.
This Week is the Closing Day and Prizegiving!
TUTTI FRUITY RESULTS
15th November 2011
Some amazing scores from the Veterans this week with Bev Morris only 1 away from the magical 30 points. In fact the women ruled this one as 5 scores were all over 23 points and the men could only manage… well they were pretty good too with Both Leon C and Keith Foster with 27.
It looks like everyones firing up at the right time because on Tuesday the 29th November the Mercury Bay Vets will be playing for the Veterans Trophy. Originally this was scheduled for an earlier Sunday in the year but was rained out.
The trophy event will be played over 10 holes as per the usual Tuesday Veterans Fixture. Clear your schedule on the 29th and Good Luck to you all!
MEN
Leon Courtenay 27 c/b
Keith Foster 27
Bill McLean 25
Bob Pawson 25
Ron Temple 23
Tom Coysh 23
Keith Denney 21
WOMEN
Bev Morris 29
Ann Blair 26
Pat Lilley 25
Edith Thompson 24
Shirley Bowick 24
ALT Keith Goldsbro
Leon and Bev had twos
9 Hole Golf Results
10th Nov
STABLEFORD:
1st: Joan Wedge with 22 pts after a good round.
2nd: Alison Turney, Lorraine Donelly, Pat Skinner all on 19 pts.
Birdies: Raewyn Whitt
Pars: Lorraine Donelly, Shirley Muir, Joan Wedge, Alison Goodlet (2)
