March 2024 Newsletter
President's Report:
Good afternoon to all members. We played at Waterford Valley Monday 4th March on a beautiful autumn morning with the course presented in good condition and a field of 47 players. We enjoyed the company of two guests, Rob Bride and Anne Jackson. Hopefully they enjoyed their game and the company enough to join our wonderful club. Also it was good to see Bill Dooley back from baby sitting duties.
As a club we still have to address the slow play during our rounds of golf. Ready Golf is a simple fix. Hopefully this will start to improve at Churchill Park.
Good Luck to our players who are representing our club at Buninyong at the 4BBB competition on Monday 18th March and Tuesday 19th March.
If any member would like to attend a function at Waverley on Thursday 21st March please contact me on 0408 558 260 . Cost of meal will be $25 a head with music. Should be a good night commencing at 6pm.
In the meantime keep safe and looking forward to see you all at Churchill Park.
Your smiling President Harold Hayes.
Rules of Golf
The rules of golf are many and varied as are the playing intentions of most golfers. Golfing intentions range from a desperation to win, not just one major but many, through to "It's and nice day for walk in the fresh air and socialise. I'll do it on a golf course and swing at a ball from time to time."
One of the great strengths of golf is that this whole range of ways of enjoying golf are available.
Where do our golf club members sit in this spectrum of intent?
We play in a competition against each other with an ancillary addition of adjusting our Golflinks handicap to allow us to compete fairly in other competitions at our home clubs or elsewhere.
A commonality of playing in competition, whether at the highest or lowest level is that the play must be be according to the rules.
Being an expert in the rules in beyond the needs of most club golfers where the time required to study them far outweighs the potential need to know.
If you are interested in learning more of the details though, there are links on our web site to the best sources.
Principles of golf - my view.
The general idea is that with a set of specifically designed and regulated implements you hit a ball from one place to another with the intention of the ball ending up in a small hole - and repeat 17 more times, while counting and recording the number of hits on each hole.
The ball should always be hit from where it landed from the last hit, but for various reasons this may not always be possible and where this happens the rules allow you to take various relief actions which normally include counting and extra hit or two.
Courtesy
A tradition of golf through its history is to be courteous to the people around you.
This can be done in several conventional ways:
- by standing well clear and still while a player is hitting the ball;
- by remaining quiet while a player is hitting the ball;
- by avoiding foul language when you do not hit the ball where you intended;
- by playing quickly. Proceed to where your ball is expeditiously and do not spend inordinate time before playing. If you are near your ball and realise a playing partner is looking for their ball, hit your ball, then take your equipment with you when proceeding towards the search area;
- by placing your equipment nearest to the next tee when moving onto a putting green.
Captains Report:
Results from 'Waterford Valley'
Captain Jeff Stevens welcomed members to Waterford Valley Golf Club for the Thord Lorich Trophy Stableford event.
Overall winner
John Molloy (22) with 39 points won the Thord Lorich Trophy
John received a $40 House of Golf voucher for this effort.
Grade winners
A Grade: John Hiscock (18) 37 points
B Grade: Daryl Edwards (22) 38 points
C Grade: John Killmister (28) 33 points
Balls down the line:
37 points Jeff Stevens ()
38 points Bill Dooley ()
32 points Jeff Taylor ()
36 points Kevin Finnerty ()
35 points Laurie Comerford () Peter Jackson ()
34 points Peter Garbellini () Graham Lee ()
33 points Reg Davey ()
32 points Philip Horsburgh () John Marshall ()
NAGA Award:
Winner Beverly Jenkin won a House of Golf 30 minute lesson !
Nearest the pin
Hole 2 Laurie Comerford
Hole 5 John Marshall
Hole 13 Daryl Edwards
Hole 17 Laurie Comerford
Door prize Winners:
Brendan Cooney celebrated a good day at Waterford Valley by winning the door prize of a round for 4 at Waterford Valley.
Ray Desmond will be able to enjoy the wonderful flavours of a Jimmys Jam pack.
Don Thomson won the third of our door prizes, a nice bottle of red.
Birthdays for March 2024
Congratulations and best wishes to our members whose birthday falls in March.
Jeff Stevens
Derek MacCallum
Bruce Keenan
Brian Guinane
Alan Emery
Kevin Finnerty
Colin Wiseman
Ian Hoskins
David Vine
Donald Barber
Noel Jenkinson
Sam Pilcher
Harold Hayes
Daryl Edwards
Standing in line
When everybody on earth was dead and waiting to enter Heaven, God appeared and said, "I want the men to make two lines. One line for the men who were true heads of their household, and the other line for the men who were dominated by their women.
I want all the women to report to St. Peter.
Soon, the women were gone, and there were two lines of men. The line of the men who were dominated by their wives stretched three times around the earth, and in the line of men who truly were heads of their household, there was only one man.
God said to the long line, "You men should be ashamed of yourselves; I created you to be the head of your household!
You have been disobedient and have not fulfilled your purpose! Of all of you, only one obeyed. Learn from him”
God turned to the one man, "How did you manage to be the only one in this line?"
The man replied, "My wife told me to stand here”
And on a completely different theme:
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tins of ham then delete it. It's Spam.