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Dick Secomb has proven the benefit of playing 9 hole mulligans to fine tune his game. On Saturday Dick won the 18 hole stableford event knocking out the fancied colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson in a count back. Both players scored 37 points. They finished just ahead of a phalanx of players on 36, being Andy Phillips, Michael “Tickers” Tickner & Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” Van Keulen. Dick Cleland & Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel both scored 35. Alas the remaining 2 players were not anywhere in contention. Despite some some prodigious  striking of the ball Chris “Critta” Waters could only manage 26 points while young Kobi Wenzel did not have a good day finishing with 23.

Dick Secomb has shown a distinct liking to the 9 hole mulligan format played on Thursday mornings, featuring amongst the leaders for some time now. Dick scored 21 points to win comfortably from Dick Cleland on 17, David “Jack” Webster 16 & Andrew Hall taking the Mars Bar with 14. Andrew also managed to take nearest the pin on hole 8.

The mercurial Bob Taylor was in top form on Tuesday racking up an incredible 44 stableford points. Runner up was Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel on 38, fully 6 points in arrears. David “Jack” Webster was next with 37 followed by Dick Cleland on 36. Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” Van Keulen scored 34 while colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson appeared to be off colour with a lack lustre 27 despite the summer conditions that suit him so well. Thomo was spared the ignominy of the Mars Bar by the presence of Derek Fletcher who scored 25.

Revelling in the summer conditions which suit his game so well, colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson played to his handicap scoring 38 stableford points on Saturday. Runner up was Andy Phillips with 37 followed by Jennison Cup winner David “Jack” Webster on 36. There was a gap of 3 strokes to Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel 33, & Michael “Tickers” Tickner 32. The remaining players failed to reach 30 with the mercurial Bob Taylor 28, Tarcowie visitor Klaus Heymann 24, Kobi Wenzel on 22 & Mark “Mouldy” Millward with an unbelievable 20. The result sheet shows that Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” scored zero points. This is currently under investigation as such a result is unheard of.

David “Jack” Webster & Bob Perry played off in the final of the Jennison Handicap Match Play Cup on Friday. After halving the first hole Bob won the next 4 holes to open up a commanding lead after 5. Jack then began to get his driver under control and won holes 5 & 6 to cut the deficit to 2 before Bob Perry won the 9th to turn 3 up.  Jack really got thing going on the back 9 winning holes 10 & 11 to close the gap to 1. Bob won the 15th to make the margin 2 up with 3 to play, but Jack was not ready to give up winning 16 & 17 to square the match. Hole 18 was halved and the match entered a “sudden death” playoff with Jack victorious on the 19th. Well played to both players

Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” returned refreshed by a recent break to take it right up to his opponents in today’s 9 hole mulligan feature. In the closest finish in years it took a hole by hole count-back extending over 5 holes to separate The Dutchman & Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel. Both players scored 22 points. It appears that some players were distracted by The Dutchman”s spectacularly bright orange golf balls. Mulligan specialists, the mercurial Bob Taylor & the laconic Dick Secomb, could each only manage 18 points despite the use of all 3 mulligans. Andrew Hall took the Mars Bar.

Andrew Lenartowicz from Peterborough scored an incredible 50 stableford points to win the 2017 Heritage Classic by 12 points. A 3 tie for second between Tony Davies (Coomealla) John Robinson (North  Adelaide) & Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel  all with 38 points saw Tony gain second place on a countback. Other scores were Phil Flood (Clare), Austin Hentstridge (Balaklava), & colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson 37; Gary Kennewell (Peterborough) 35; Mark “Mouldy” Millward & Chris “Critta” Waters 34; Dick Cleland, Eric Edwards (Clare) 33; Geoff Ashby (Peterborough), Eddie Harrison (Pt Hughes), Luke Spackman & David “Jack” Webster 32; Kobi Wenzel & Mark Williams (Clare) 31; David Norman (Peterborough) 30; Peter Henwood (Jamestown) & David “Robbie” Robinson 29; Andrew Spackman 28; Shawn “Sheep” Rayson 27;  Phillip Summers (Peterborough) 24; Peter Brearly (Peterborough) & Rolly Haggerty 33; Klaus Heymann (Tarcowie) 22. The Mars Bar went to Grant Mugge (Blyth) with 20.

Ladies scores were Reva Cullen 36, Julie Harrison (Blyth) & Kerryn Mugge (Blyth) 26.

 

Michael “Tickers” Tickner scored 40 stableford points to take out Saturday’s round of the Chemmart Challenge. Runner up was colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson with 39. There was a big gap to 3rd with Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel on 33. David “Robbie” Robinson & Mark “Mouldy” Millward both scored 31. Kobi Wenzel collected the Mars Bar with 22

Michael’s round promoted him to 2nd overall in the Chemmart Challenge with 188 points for his best 5 of 9 rounds. Andy Phillips finished 3rd with 183 followed by Gus The Good Guy on 182 & Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” on 179. Incidentally the Chemmart Challenge was won by Thomo.

Six members competed in today’s 9 hole mulligan event. The two Dicks, Dick Cleland & Dick Secomb fought it out with both returning excellent scores. Dick Cleland prevailed with 24 stableford points to Dick Secomb’s 23. It was, however, Dick Secomb’s 3rd podium finish in as many weeks as he seems to have taken a strong liking to this form of the game.

Peter Mengerson finished 3rd with 19, while there was a 3 way tie for the Mars Bar with Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel (what happened to Tuesday’s form?), David “Jack” Webster & the mercurial Bob Taylor finishing with 16. Bob took the confectionery on a count back.

Only 3 members & 2 visitors played golf on Tuesday. Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel was in top form scoring an impressive 40 points which included a strong 21 points on the homeward 9. Runner up was colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson with 34. Eddie “The Flying Dutchman” Van Keulen scored 33 while visitor Alan Thiele scored 29.