The mercurial Bob Taylor has blitzed today’s mulligan field scoring 24 stableford points for the 9 holes, to win by 4 points. Runner up was David “Jack” Webster with 20. Dick Cleland & Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” Van Keulen both scored 16 after the Dutchman was penalised for taking a preferred lie in the rough on the 9th hole. Mulligan specialist, Dick Secomb was disappointing, failing to follow up on last week’s win, and collecting the Mars Bar with 12 points.
Bob Taylor won Tuesday’s stableford convincingly scoring 37 points. Runner up was Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” Van Keulen moving towards top form with 35. Dick Cleland was third with 34 followed by David “Jack” Webster 32, Andy Phillips & colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson 31 & “Mad” Max Wiech 30. Neil Webster, despite winning nearest the pin on hole 8, received the Mars Bar with a very disappointing 25.
Jack won nearest the pin on hole 4 & Dick on hole 11.
Fourteen players arrived at the club for their favourite event, the stroke round. Club captain Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel is noted throughout the state for his innovative novelty competitions. He did not disappoint on Saturday, adding a count putts competition on newly cored greens which provided plenty of interest.
Kobi Wenzel won the day with a net 73, his first win over 18 holes, 2 strokes clear of five players, David “Jack” Webster, David ‘Robbie” Robinson, Gus, colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson & Dick Cleland on 75. Jack got the golf ball on a count back. Any Phillips, Andrew Spackman & Michael “Tickers” Tickner scored net 76, Chris “Critta” Waters 77, & John Robinson 79.
Two Mars Bars were issued with Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” receiving the senior version & Bradtke Stockman the junior. Both were tailed off.
John Robinson won the putting competition with 29 putts.
Neil Webster broke his handicap with 39 stableford points to narrowly defeat the mercurial Bob Taylor who finished on 38. There was a big gap to the also-rans with Chris “Critta” Waters & Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel on 34, followed by Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” on 32. The final trio had a poor day with Andy Phillips & David “Jack” Webster scoring just 27. The Mars Bar went to colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson with only 24.
Dick Secomb showed his preference for the mulligan version of the game once again. Dick scored 19 points to win comfortably by two shots from dynamic duo Andy Philips & Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel both on 17. Andy took the golf ball on a count back. A further count back was required to separate Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” Van Keulen & Andrew Hall locked on 13 points. Andrew received the Mars Bar.
David “Jack” Webster showed no signs of fatigue from wrestling with the coring machine during the week, finishing strongly to run down Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel in a count back, both players finishing with 38 points. Michael “Tickers” Tickner was next with 36 followed by the trio of Kobi Wenzel, David “Robbie” Robinson & Dick Cleland on 35. There was a big gap to another trio, Dick Secomb, Andy “Spacky” Spackman & Chris “Critta” Waters on 31. Colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson scored 30 while visitor from Tarcowie, Klaus Heymann & Bradtke Stockman scored 21 points. Bradtke received the Mars Bar as Klaus slipped away early.
The mercurial Bob Taylor won today’s mulligan competition with a score of 20 stableford points. Close on Bob’s heals was trio Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel, Dick Cleland & David “Jack” Webster on 19. Gus The Good Guy took 2nd place on a countback, while Dick considers the cost of two 4 putt greens. Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” Van Keulen scored 18 while Any Phillips received the Mars Bar with an unusually high score of 17 points.
Returning from a forced break from golf, Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” Van Keulen wasted no time delivering a broadside to Tuesday’s field. Despite appearing to be listing to port by the last hole The Dutchman scored 37 stableford points, three points clear of his nearest rival. David “Robbie” Robinson & Neil Webster were next best on 34 points with Robbie taking the golf ball on a countback. David “Jack” Webster and colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson scored 32 followed by Bob Taylor 31 & Andy Phillips 30. The remaining 3 players had somewhat ordinary scores with Dick Cleland 27, Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel 26 &
Derek Fletcher taking the Mars Bar with 25.
The Dutchman also won the Melbourne Cup sweep.
The attendance at Sunday’s auction was down slightly on previous auctions. There were a great many bargains to be had however but we understand that the takings while down were still satisfactory.
The club would like to thank auctioneers Connor Lamond & Tim Taplin for giving their services to the club. Once again there was a strong team of club members to ensure the smooth running of the auction. This time Bob Taylor had to manage the barbecue without the assistance of Gordon “The Chook Man” Kakoschke. It appears the lure of big prize money saw The Chook Man deciding to play bowls instead.
David “Jack” Webster & Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel tied with scores of 3 up with Jack successful on the count back. Dick Cleland was hot on their heels with +2. There was then a gap to Mark “Mouldy” Millward & colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson on -2. Bradtke Stockman showed a remarkable recovery from a poor start, being 7 down after 7 and finishing with -3. Keep an eye on Bradtke. Michael “Tickers” Tickner & Chris “Critta” Waters also finished with -3. Andy Phillips & Kobi Wenzel finished with -4. Shawn “Sheep” Rayson’s game highlighted the risks associated with insufficient golfing. Sheep took the Mars Bar with -9!
