A walk down memory lane to the Tee Set’s e-mail newsletter days of fond memory penned, rather inevitably, by the Immediate Past President of Almost Everything.
Dear All,
I think almost everyone went home last Sunday with a smile on their face. If not it must have been due to an underserved penalty as a result of the monster putter, skirt or most stokes on any hole incident.
Thanks to all for their support on this event especially the sponsors. Helping out on the day with the registrations and other duties were Lis, Ovie, Hina, Siska, and secretary Liza. Riding the drinks cart were Ita, Febi, Tatar (Star Deli) and Rosie (Maxi Bar) while Dave Edwards and Brian Wilson did a great job of driving the carts. The Bloody Marys mixed by Jamal were so good we went through 4 bottles of Vodka in about an hour. Thank god we had Jack Calcote’s smoothies to fall back on while we sent out the SOS for more Vodka.
Thanks also to Graham McGeady for donating some door prizes on behalf of Thiess, as did Edwin Palmer from Jagorawi Golf Club, Nick Grant PGA pro and Claudia from Medic One. Clyde Wickiser donated a beautiful wine rack which I believe was auctioned off and is now winging its way to the Zachary residence in the States.
The ultimate objective of the day was to award the Des Murray Perpetual Trophy to the lowest net score. A total of 73 golfers turned out to do battle for this title and in the process put away as many Bloody Mary’s, smoothies and beer as time allowed.
The weather was cool and the course in really fine nick so there were no excuses for not shooting low scores. At the end of it all two net scores were tied on 68 but on using a count back for the lowest 9 holes played, Bill Sayers was adjudicated the overall winner and JW Hall the runner-up. Mike Garwood blew the course away with the best gross score of 77 but just missed out on the top prize because of his impressive single digit h/c. Congratulations to Bill Sayers the 2010 Tee Set Champion. I hope Geoff has a decent picture of you to put on the web page because it will stay there for all to see for the next twelve months.
Last Sunday was focused on finding the new Tee Set Champion however by coincidence rather than planning the Tee Set Match Play Champion was also decided on the day and what a match it turned out to be. Anthony King up by two holes for most of the day was pushed aside on the last 4 holes to go down to a strong finishing Peter Reichlmeier 1 up. Fantastic effort from Peter considering the amount of organizing he was involved in for the days events but just highlights his multi tasking abilities. Can smoke, drink and hit golf balls almost in the same movement. Thanks to Dave Tarcy for organizing this competition and keeping it ticking over during the year.
A lot of back slapping and pocket pissing occurred during the presentations so rather than go over ground already covered on Sunday here is a quick summary of results.
Bill Sayers low nett with a 68
GW Hall runner up on the same score (second on a count back)
Andy Hartsteen shot a net 66 to win lowest net for a non regular Tee Setter
Mike Garwood took low gross A grade with 77
Peter Reichlmeier took low gross B grade with 90
Ed Bender Jnr took low grass C grade with 103
Longest drive men went to Narash Lala with a massive 278m (wind assisted?)
Longest drive women to Santi Miller with 182m
Closest to the pin was Mike Garwood with 15cm (nearly a hole-in-one)
1st Birdie went to Dave Tarcy on hole #1 (hard to beat)
1st sandy on hole #3 shared by Rasmus Kilde and Yan Stanberg
1st par h/c > 30 went to recently married Alan Fenwick (mind in honeymoon mode)
Lowest putts went to Mal Robbins with an incredibly low 26.
Wouldn’t be Tee Set if we didn’t complete the loop by mentioning the underachievers. Tim Supple with monster putter (41), Alex Holl with most stokes on a hole (13) and skirts to A graders Matt Harter, Bob Shearer, Bob McLeod, Keith Miller and Dave Mills.
On the skirt front in B grade we had Bob Davis and Jurgen Degert while in C grade where you would expect the most we actually had the least with just Ed Bender Jnr and Alex Holl qualifying for the cross dressing walk of shame.
Ric
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