Mercurial Bob Taylor took out Thursday’s Mulligan competition for the 2nd week in a row. Despite a late fade Bob held off Michael “Tickers” Tickner by 1 point 20 points to 19. Andy Phillips & David “Jack” Webster both scored 18 followed by Dick Cleland on 17. Peter Mengerson scored 15 after blowing the final hole while Andrew Hall took the Mars Bar.
Only 6 players ventured out into the low temperatures & high winds on Saturday, the rest are a bunch of wimps.
Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel & Neil Webster played their Bogisch Cup quarter final with Neil proving too strong 3&2. This supports my theory that a bye in the first round is a disadvantage as your competitor comes with recent successful match play experience.
The remaining 4 players played a par round with Andy Phillips proving too strong yet again with a score of plus 1. Mark “Mouldy” Millward put up a creditable display to finish second all square despite his game being unsuitable for windy weather. Dick Cleland finished with -3 while Michael “Tickers” Tickner took the Mars Bar with -5. All players started strongly and were all a chance at the turn but the conditions gradually wore down Dick & Tickers.
Players faced wild & windy conditions for today’s mulligans. The mercurial Bob Taylor seemed to ignore the wind scoring an effortless 22 stableford points. Runner up was Michael “Tickers” Tickner enjoying retirement & playing mulligans for the first time. Michael scored 20 points. Dick Cleland & Andy Phillips both scored 17 points. The rest of the field struggled in the wind with David “Jack” Webster 13, Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel 12, Peter Mengerson 11 & Sam Cleland took the Mars Bar once again with 7.
Andy Phillips has proved his critics wrong. Despite strong winds that made scoring difficult Andy was able to post a handicap equalling 38 stableford points, something his opponents could not do. Next best were Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel & Dick Cleland on 34 points with the count back favouring Gus. The mercurial Bob Taylor & David “Jack” Webster scored 33 while David “Robbie” Robinson scored 29. Chris “Critta” Waters completed the round without losing a ball, the first time anyone can remember this happening. This did not, however, prevent Critta from receiving the Mars Bar with 27 points.
Players not involved in Bogisch Cup duties on Saturday played a stableford competition. The only player to show any form was Andy Spackman who won easily with a score of 37. The runner up, 4 points back on 33 was colourful local sporting identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson. Thomo’s round was encouraging, however, as he is coming back from injury and should soon be in top form. He scored 19 points on the homeward 9 which will be extremely encouraging to all of his fans. Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel was next with 31 followed by Michael “Tickers” Tickner on 29. Andy Phillips’ run of good form seems to have come to an end managing just 27 points following a disappointing performance in Thursday’s mulligans. The Mars Bar went to the mercurial Bob Taylor with just 23 points.
Three of the four required matches of the round of 16 were played on Saturday. David “Jack” Webster was in superb form seeing off Dick Cleland 6 & 4. Jack was only 3 over the card when the match finished.
Brother Neil was also successful despatching Mark “Mouldy” Millward 4 & 2.
The third match was between the club’s oldest & youngest players with the adage “the old dog for the hard road” being [proved correct. Gordon “The Chook Man” Kakoschke finally victorious over Kobi Wenzel in a tough & exciting match 2 & 1.
A count back was required to separate David “Jack” Webster & Peter Mengerson after both finished with exemplary scores of 23 stableford points, the count back favouring Jack. Trevor Maxted scored 20 points, followed by Bob Taylor 19, Andy Phillips & Andrew Hall both with 14. Andrew got the Mars Bar on a count back.
The first match play round of this year’s Bogisch Cup will be played on Saturday. The quarter finals will be played on Saturday July 14 and players unable to play on Saturday should make arrangements directly with their opponent to play the match before July 14.
Qualifying for the Bogisch Cup was held in conjunction with the Club Championships.
The final qualifying round of the Club Championships was played on Saturday in perfect weather. Andy Phillips was in sizzling form once again scoring 82 off the stick to cement his place in the B grade playoff. Andy’s net score was 65 giving him a comfortable win. Runner up was Michael “Tickers” Tickner with a net 69. Andy Spackman scored net 71 followed by Gordon “The Chook Man” Kakoschke net 72, Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel net 73, Matt Opperman net 74, Neil Webster net 76, Trevor Maxted net 77, Mark “Mouldy” Millward net 79, Kobi Wenzel net 80, while colourful local sporting identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson took the Mars Bar with a net 81.
The semi finals will be played on July 21 and the matches are:
| Semi Finals | 21/07/18 | |||
| A Grade | B Grade | C Grade | ||
| M Opperman | A Phillips | N Webster | ||
| v | v | v | ||
| R Cleland | A Spackman | R Taylor | ||
| M Tickner | M Millward | K Wenzel | ||
| v | v | v | ||
| G Wenzel | D Webster | G Kakoschke |
The first round of the Bogisch Match Play Cup will be played next Saturday and the draw will be posted shortly.
Dick Cleland managed to score 3 points on the 9th hole for a total of 20 points to edge out Bob Taylor in a count back in today’s 9 hole mulligan competition. Jack Webster was just 1 behind with 19, followed by Dick Secomb on 16 and Peter Mengerson on 13. Sam Cleland took the Mars Bar.
