West Coast Golf Club Inc

Course             Old Course       Competition   Stableford
Conditions      Sunny               Players             12 members & a guest

Committee’s recommendation on slow play
Try to maintain a good pace when walking down the fairway.

Results:      Name                                      Gross    Net   Points

1^st                Graham Guy                                91        74        34
2^nd              Alan Smith                                   91        75        33           
3^rd C/B       Tony Fisk                                     79        76        32
4^th               Chris Wynne                               98        76        32

Best Gross
Tony Fisk                                                                      79
Best Nine
Front – Chris Wynne                                                   19
Back –   Tony Fisk                                                         19       
Nearest to Pin:
2^nd        John Allen
6^th        Chris Wynne
13^th      Steve Huckle
16^th      Tony Fisk         

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Next fixture: Tuesday 19 April Tuart Course, stableford , tee-off 9.00 am cards in 8.40 am

Course             Old Course      Charity Day Competition vs Westside GC – stableford
Conditions       Sunny               Players            18 members & 2 guests

Committee’s recommendation on slow play
Normally, we expect players to complete a shot within 30 seconds of their ball becoming available to play – minimise time by thinking about club selection and distance to hole as you approach your ball and leave buggy adjacent to it and not behind it.  Thirty seconds is generally ample time for lining up the shot, judging or measuring the distance, and having a single practice swing, and irrespective of whether it is a putt, a tee shot, or a shot from the fairway or rough. 

Charity Match Results
West Coast average score 29.889 pts per member, Westside 29.389 – West Coast retains the shield by 0.5 of a stableford point. (PS Where is the Shield???!!!)
Overall winner was David Holley (Westside) with 36 points, second on count-back – David Cox (Westside) from Richard Russell (WCGC) 35 points.

WCGC stableford results:     
                   Name                                      Gross    Net   Points
1^st                Richard Russell                           87        73      35
2^nd              Graham Guy                                91        74      34           
3^rd C/B       Steven Huckle                             96        75      33
4^th               David Lynn                                   91        75      33
5^th               Tony Fisk                                      78        75      33
6^th               John Allen                                    92        75      33
7^th               Garth Irvine                                 86        75      33

Best Gross
Tony Fisk                                                                      78
Best Nine
Steve Huckle                                                                19

Novelties:
Hole    Nature                           Handicap Group         Winner
2          Par 3 – NTP – 1st shot         0-19                        Hassan Al-Kaise (Westside)
4          Par 5 – NTP – 4th shot        0-19                        Tony Fisk (with birdie)
6          Par 3 – NTP – 2nd shot       20-36                     Nanda Menon (Westside)
10        Longest Drive                      0-19                        Tony Fisk
10        Longest Drive                      20-36                     Tom Guthrie
13        Par 3 – NTP – 2nd shot       20-36                     Ian Johnsen (guest)
15        Longest Putt                         all                           David Lynn
16        Par 3 – NTP – 1st shot         0-19                        Tim Laver (Westside)
17        Par 5 – NTP – 4th shot        20-36                     Jay Johnson (guest)

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Next fixture: Thursday 14 April Old Course, stableford , tee-off 9.24 am cards in 9.00 am

Course              Tuart Course                           Competition    Stroke
Conditions       Sunny intervals                       Players            14 members & a guest

Committee’s recommendation on slow play
Always watch your partners’ shots to see the flight of their ball.

Stroke Results:     
                   Name                                      Gross    Net  

1^st                Andy McLean                              89        67     
2^nd              Mike Spencer                              84        70     
3^rd               Garth Irvine                                81         71     
Best Gross
Garth Irvine                                                    81
Best Nine
Andy McLean                                                 21       

Closest to Pin:
3^rd               John Campbell
6^th               Mike Kimbar
12^th             Andy McLean
18^th             Richard Russell

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Next fixture: 11 April Old Course, Charity Match vs Westside GC, first tee-off 6.52 am, cards in 20 mins before tee-off

Course            Tuart Course                             Competition   International stableford
Conditions      Sunny intervals                        Players            21 members & 2 guests

Committee’s recommendation on slow play
Play ready-golf on the tee – do not wait for player with the honours, and short hitters should hit off first to enable them to move promptly off the tee for their second shots.

International Teams Result:
We had 11 players asserting Australian birth vs 12 players assumed to have foreign birth.  The 11 Aussies scored an average of 32.5 points and the foreigners scored an average of 29.4 points giving the Aussies a home victory by the narrowest of margins. If one player scoring 37 points had been correctly classified as a foreigner, the scores would have been 32.1 to 30.0!

Stableford Results:     
                   Name                                         Gross   Net   Points
1^st                Tony Fisk                                     72        69      37           
2^nd C/B      Alex Smith                                   88        71      35
3^rd               Darren Lloyd                               75        71      35
4^th                        Richard Russell                                           85        71      35
Special mention
We had two guests today – Jay Johnson scored 89 gross – we awarded him an unofficial handicap of 24 giving him 41 points with a best nine of 22 points. The second guest, Ian Johnsen played off the same handicap and accumulated 34 points with a best 9 of 21 points and a closest to pin.
Best Gross
Tony Fisk                                                       72
Best Nine
Richard Russell C/B Ron Bensky                    21       

Closest to Pin:
3^rd               Darren Lloyd
6^th               Tony Fisk
12^th             Ian Johnsen
18^th             Darren Lloyd

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Podiums

Next fixture: 8 April Tuart Course, stroke, tee-off 9.00 am, cards in at 8.40 am
Reminder: Our annual charity match vs Westside Golf Club is on next Monday, 11 April with tee-offs from 6.56 am.  A list of starters and starting times will be emailed to those involved after play on Friday.  Any members not on the list maintained by Barry Boyd at this stage should email him before 5pm Thursday.  We have 8 available places at present and we would like to field a full team of 24 starters if we can.

Course            Tuart             Competition   Russian Stableford
Conditions    Sunny               Players    16 members

Results:             Name                                       Points
1^st                     David Lynn /  Steve Huckle               76
2^nd                    Tony Fisk / Bruce Morrison              74
3^rd                    Tom Guthrie / Graham McHarrie    53

Best Gross                      Tony Fisk                    69
Best  Front Nine           Tony Fisk                   22
Best Back Nine          Tom  Guthrie                22

Closest to Pin:
3^rd               Grant Saunders
6^th               Mike Spencer
12^th             Tom Guthrie
18^th             Ric Haddleton

Handicap changes:
(tba)

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Podiums

Next fixture:    Monday, 4 April, Tuart Course, Stableford, Int’l Teams
                               tee-off 09:00am, cards in by 08:40am

Course            Old Course                              Competition   Match-play/Stableford
Conditions     Sunny intervals                      Players            19 members

Match-play results
Semi-final 2: Mike Spencer defeated Tony Fisk 3/1.  Final to be played on 14 April, John Stone vs Mike Spencer.  Match-play draw record.

Committee’s recommendation on slow play
Be ready to tee off, if need be before marking your card with the score on the previous hole.

Stableford Results:     
                   Name                              Gross   Net   Points            
1^st                John Stone                           87        73        35
2^nd              Bruce Morrison                   92        74        34
3^rd C/B       Graham Guy                        93        76        32
4^th                        Ron Bensky                                          92        76        32
5^th                         Ric Haddleton                     94        76        32
Best Gross
John Stone                                              87

Best Nine
Bruce Morrison                                      21

Closest to Pin:
2^nd               Alex Smith
6^th               John Stone
13^th             Tom Guthrie
16^th             John Stone

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Podiums

Next fixture: 1 April Tuart Course, Russian stableford, tee-off 7.00 am cards in at  6.40 am, with BBQ afterwards (approx 11.30) at secretary’s home

Course              Old Course                                                Competition   Match-play/Stableford
Conditions      Sunny intervals                                        Players             22 members

Match-play result: Semi-final 1 – John Stone def Tom Guthrie 2 up.  Semi-final 2 deferred until Friday 1 April with final to be played the following week – Match-play draw
NOTICE TO MEMBERS ON SLOW PLAY
West Coast Golf Club rounds normally take 4 ¼ to 4 ½ hours to complete. Your committee believe this to be acceptable taking into account we play on a public golf course and we are “mature aged”. On occasion rounds have extended to close to 5 hours and that is not acceptable. It is annoying to following groups, inconvenient to members with following time commitments and has potential to give West Coast Golf Club an unwanted reputation for slow play. A series of recommendations to avoid slow play will be included in future results posts:

Committee recommendation: Keep up with the group in front.  If your group is not keeping up with the group in front, the first to putt out should move to the next tee and hit-off while partners putt out.

Stableford Results:  Name       Gross   Net   Points                     
1^st                Steve Parkinson                 101        70        38
2^nd              Graham McHarrie               95        72        36
3^rd              David Lynn                            89        73        35
Best Gross
Alan Smith                                              87

Best Nine
Steve Parkinson                                      23

Closest to Pin:
2^nd               Mike Kimbar
6^th               David Lynn
13^th             Tom Guthrie
16^th             Mike Spencer

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Podiums

Next fixture: Friday 25 March 2022 Tuart Course, stableford, tee-off 7.00 am cards in at 6.40 am

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Course            Old Course                              Competition   Match-play/Stableford
Conditions      Sunny                                       Players            17 members

Match-play result: Mike Spencer def Mike Kimbar 1 up, semi-finalists to play next week – Tom Guthrie vs John Stone (Mon), Tony Fisk vs Mike Spencer (Fri) – Match-play draw

Stableford Results:     Name   Gross    Net      Points                     
1^st                David Lynn                         87          71        37
2^nd              Tony Fisk                            77          73        35
3^rd              Tom Guthrie                     101          75        33
Best Gross
Tony Fisk                                              77

Best Nine
David Lynn                                          21

Closest to Pin:
2^nd               Richard Russell
6^th               Tony Fisk
13^th             Garth Irvine
16^th             Graham Guy 

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Podiums

Next fixture: Monday 21 March 2022 Old Course – one match-play and the remainder of us playing stableford, tee-off 7.56 am cards in at 7.36 am