There was heavy rain on the morning of our monthly game at Templer Park and after a slightly delayed and confused start 4 full flights got off on two tee boxes on a rather wet and heavy course. Confusion reigned at the start with mixed messages from El Pres, Moneybags combined with the usual officious starter’s instructions on which tee boxes the flights had to start on.

As transpired later there was also some confusion and mixed messages on whether we were were playing preferred lies on the day – our group played the ball as it lay whereas other groups were happily using the preferred lies rule.

The course, apart from being rather wet on the fairways and many bunkers being waterlogged, was in pretty good condition but these wet conditions made this tough course an even more arduous experience as reflected in the scores of the day.

Weather was hot and extremely humid with hardly a breath of wind. Luckily we had no more rain and we all finished by 5:30 to 6:00pm.

Post game dinner and prize giving was held in a private room at the club with self-ordered meals and numerous jugs of cold beer along with the usual wine from Richard Rodwell.

Results

As it was Ramadan and it was going to be difficult to get additional course marshals to assist in measurement of longest drive and NTP’s we just had 4 novelty prizes being the NTP’s on all of the Par 3’s using self measurement – tapes supplied for each group. Some tapes came back totally unused as some groups didn’t even make any of the greens!  It must also be said that a 25’ tape measure was somewhat optimistic in most cases and on a few greens it took multiple measurements with the tape at full stretch!

The monthly medal winner for June was none other than El Pres, Allan Wright, with a score of 105 for 31 points (cut 4). Runner up (on count back) was Richard Rodwell with a gross of 90 for 30 points (cut 2) with 3rd place Rick Brown with 106 for 30 points (cut 1). Best gross of the day went to Paul Geddes with 92 (Richard Rodwell got 2nd prize so couldn’t win the best gross).

The NTP winners were as follows:

Hole 2 : Hans Bohi (4ft)

Hole 8 : Stan Constantinides (50ft)

Hole 11 : Stuart Taylor (37ft)

Hole 16 : Dan Brod (13ft)

Full results of the day are tabulated below:

COTD

We had a number of COTD nominations this month as follows:

• Mike Smith for throwing his caddy off the buggy
• Richard Rodwell for pulling out his driver on Hole 4 and stating he was “going to smoke the green” only to put it in the pond in front of the tee box
• Frank Lucas (guest) for complaining about the group behind hitting the ball too close to him on 2 occasions when these shots were 30-40m away and nowhere near to him.
• El Pres & Moneybags for the cock-up at the start
• Iain Wise, Moneybags, for forgetting the monthly winners trophy

The vote was fairly obvious and Iain Wise was duly voted COTD.

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