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The Week at Wenty
You don’t show up for one Saturday in about a year and you miss everything. That Pesky Adam Pabian gives himself a Christmas present of $576 winning the Jackpot on the 9th, the world’s greatest B grader gets a Hole in 1 on the 12th and the man with the most evolved swing in golf gets 41 points. Well done to Adam, Graeme (the flag) Bush and Tom Daniels. I even missed out on a Xmas Ham.
I’ve put a call out to all our past Pennants players and we are starting to get a few “count me ins” for next year, which is not far away. It will be great if we can continue our tradition of strong representation.
So………., have a think about signing up for the district pennants in 2019.
· Seniors Single Matchplay (off scratch).
· Masters Over 50s singles Matchplay (3/4 handicap difference)
· The new Teams Kortum Shield (any age, 2BBB Matchplay (3/4 handicap difference).
The sheet is up at the club awaiting your name and number.
As 2019 approaches, so do the new rules of golf.
When all is said and done, in my view, there are only a couple of new rules that are sent to confuse us and these are the ones that allow options to be defined by local rules.
The most important is the new local rule alternative to stroke and distance. At Wenty, there are lots of places to go out of bounds (1,2,3,8,9,11,13,14,15,18) or lose your ball( in one of those hungry pine trees for example)
The new local rule option allows you to estimate the point where your ball went OOB (or lost), draw a line across to a point 2 club lengths onto the closest fairway (no closer the hole) and drop your ball there and play on. This will cost you 2 strokes but it means you don’t risk putting another one out of bounds or not be able to find your ball and have to do the walk of shame back to where you hit it from and start again.
It’s up to each course to decide whether to implement this rule and we will decide this before Xmas.
Next is the capping of strokes in a stroke round to a double nett bogey. Again, it’s up to each course to decide whether to implement this option as a local rule and we will decide this by Xmas.
Once we do decide on both of these, we will communicate it through emails and posters in the Pro-shop.
To the golf,
As I said, we had a great day on Saturday without me. In the Single Stableford, Tom Daniels has been making constant changes to his swing in order to be able to get through 18 holes. With a bit of help from firstly Rob, and now Dave, he has found the winning formula, posting 41 points and will soon descend into that dark place occupied by single figure golfers. Also on Saturday, it appears that the Pabian Brothers are tuning up their games for another stint at Senior Pennant in 2019 with a couple of great returns, not to mention Adam having an extra $576 to spend at Xmas after his win on our Jackpot hole 9th.
A couple of golfers that have snuck under the radar recently is Mark Griffin and Peter Wong. This local “Bonnie and Clyde” have formed quite a team over the last few months and had another impressive win the Alternate Hole, teams’ event on Saturday. We are liking this Alternate Hole Team event, as it’s a bit like foursomes, with less angst and you get to play a full round of golf.
Our Friday 10-hole comp is ticking along with solid growth in numbers and last week it was Ronald White and his 23 points who scored the $30 in pro-shop vouchers for a $10 outlay. 23 points in 10 holes only makes you wonder what could have been over 18. For me in that situation, it could have been 25 or 45. Like I say to everyone, “I have all the shots, I just don’t know which one is going to come out when!”
Thursday saw the completion of our Women’s Gold Medal playoff. The very wonderful Tilly Elderfield survived the tough Savage Thursday conditions the best and won the medal.
In the Men’s event, it was Dave Burke who had little issue with the course playing it’s full length with testy pins scoring a field beating 39 points and teaming up with John Goodrick to win the teams as well.
On Tuesday, “honorary“ Wenty member Steve York was just too good for the other 37 players who competed. Great to see you having a win Steve and you are always welcome at Wenty.
Just on our Matchplay events for the year. Thanks to everyone for all their patience as we are running a bit late completing them. The COW is down to the final but the DR R.B Holiday is well behind. Let’s do everything we can to catch up and we will make some changes in next year’s program to lessen the load at what is a very busy time of the year for everyone.
Coming right up:
Tuesday 11th December: Medley and Jackpot Hole starts again
Thursday 13th December: 3-person Ambrose and Single Stableford
Thursday 13th December: Women’s 10 holes and Xmas Party
Friday 14th December: Friday 10-hole comp
Friday 14th December: 2nd week of Xmas Ham Raffles
Saturday 15th December: Single Stableford and 2BBB
Sunday 16th December: Portland Open
Wentworth Falls Country Club Juniors
Plenty of juniors are playing in the open Saturday competitions. They are always up to play with someone new, so if you haven’t played with a junior yet why not put your name down with one of them. They are great company because they just love to play.
This week, junior prize for best score went to Lachlan Cullen with 38 points.
Don’t forget our junior clinics. The Beginners clinic is on Wednesday and the Advanced clinic is on Tuesday. Both clinics start at 4pm and both are FREE. Call the pro shop on 4757 1202 for further details.
Weekly Results:,
Saturday 8th December 2018. Single Stableford and 2B Alternate (80 starters)
Men’s Winner: Tom Daniels (12)-41, Adam Pabian (11)-39 OCB, Third Mike Zikan (19)-39, Forth Chester Romanowski (12)-38, Scratch Bronco Djura(1)-71
Women’s Winner: Fay Zajakovski (29)-37
Teams Winner: Peter Wong & Mark Griffin-40, Runner Up Fay & Robert Zajakovski -39
NTPs:Neal Hook (148cm), 9th Adam Pabian(61cm), 11th in 2: Michael Bradstreet (60cm), 12th Graham Bush (Hole in One), 15th Bronco Djura (357cm)
Mystery Hole: Michael Bradstreet ($62)
Jackpot Hole: Adam Pabian ($576)
Putting:Steve Pole (27)
Balls: Men 34
Friday 7th December 2018. Single Stableford 10 hole comp (14 Starters)
Winner:Ronald White (24)-23 points
Thursday 6th December 2018. (56 starters)
Men: Single Stableford & 2BBB
Women: Stroke and Gold Medal Playoff
Men’s Winner: David Burke(27)-39, Runner Up Colin Porter(28)-35 OCB
Teams’ Winner: David Burke & John Goodrick -49
Women’s Gold Medal Winner: Tilly Elderfield (27)-82
NTPs: 9th Steve Giles (225cm), 9th Ladies No Takers 11th in 2 No Takers 12th John Armstrong(445cm)
Balls: Men-31OCB, Women-87 OCB
Tuesday 4th December 2018. Medley Single Stableford (38 starters)
Winner: Stephen York(17)-39, R/Up Allen Helmrich( 27)-38,
NTPs:5th John McInnes (400cm), 12th in 2-Colin Foster (146cm)
Balls:33 OCB