First Group Leads the Field

Fifteen people including visitor George Young arrived at Nudgee South for the second time this year. In the absence of the scheduled sponsor, our President decided to conduct the President’s trophy event to kick off the year’s competitions.

The first group made really good time, and were in the clubhouse before 10am. In that group was the day’s eventual winner Tony Armbruster with a net 57. His handicap had blown out to 22, so that’s now been thoroughly fixed. He didn’t stay for the presentations, leaving only instructions that his card wasn’t to be handed in – oops!

Not leaving everything to the first group, Chris Young got runner-up with a 62. That’s a good round, for only his second game back with us after a long absence.

David Brain won a pin shot, with all the other prizes going to the first group.  That was two pin shots and the longest drive going to Ian van der Hoeven, with our winner also bagging the pin shot on the 10th hole. Filling out the first-group heroics was Scott Porter’s slap into the 18th green to take the last pin shot.

Next game is the Lew Llewellyn four-ball stableford. That’s being held at Windaroo Lakes, which is returning to our schedule after a long absence.

Happy New Year for Steve

The first game of 2017 attracted 13 people to Nudgee for the short-layout south course. Most of us drove through a shower of rain to get there, yet had no worse than an overcast keeping the heat off the whole way around. In the absence of the sponsor, Stroke was chosen as the competition format, since in a break from tradition, this was not the first round of the Rocklea Shield.

As usual here, most of the field beat their handicap, though none more so than Steve Gifkins, who won with a 61 net. That 79 was his first round under 80, so he celebrated this milestone after the game while also lamenting the end of his 18 handicap.

Just behind on 62 was Dennis Hogan taking the Runner-up prize and the pin shot on 18. Other pin shots went to Troy van der Haar and Blair George, with Eric Brunovs taking the other two. Longest Drive went to Will Willams.

The Draw for all of 2017 is now on its own page on this website. Wallet-sized copies were handed out at the game, but I’ve already found a correction, so check back to the website version occasionally to see if there’s been any updates. Also keep an eye out for errors on the website version, since those could creep in too!