RED CAPS GOLF MARCH

MONTHLY REPORT

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“Activities”

President’s Piece for March 2020 Never in my worst nightmare would I believe that I could be sending out an email saying that our golf course has closed, for TWO WEEKS! And no-one knows what’s going to happen after that. No doubt there’ll tidying up in the garden, garage, throwing out stuff we haven’t used for 5, 10 years or more; painting, pulling out weeds, maybe even polishing the car. Whatever, finding stuff to do will be critical in this time to while away the hours. Pattie and I are keeping up a routine which includes walking the brown dog (for exercise), working around the house, painting the outside trims and I have a project to restore a canoe which one of my neigh-bors put out on the nature strip a couple of weeks ago. It’ll be ideal for our 10, 7, 5 and eventually 2 year old grand-kids, supervised by all the adults around, of course. I love the idea of kids who are able to swim, mucking around in small boats; it gives them great confidence and teaches new skills and respect for water, while having a huge amount of FUN. More and more people are sending around videos of how to deal with the coronavirus, ranging from cute, funny, hi-larious and downright rude. We all deal with this stuff in different ways. Maroondah Council have tabled a report aris-ing from the public survey conducted from November 10 2019 to February 26, 2020. The report is couched in typical officious gobbledygook language which leaves one wondering what is going to happen next. Coronavirus has thrown in a whole new curve ball to any sensible discussion. Your club is represented on a group of Friends of Ringwood Golf Course comprised of the larger user groups, to keep the fight up to Council, ensuring that our beautiful, heavily uti-lized council facility, is left as it is. Our Rich River trip is of course cancelled for this year so the traditional poetic contribution has been released now, available on the Achievements page of our website under “Ode to Bruce”. Our Welfare Officer Jim will be available for a chat, as will any of your mates as we keep the spirit of Red Caps alive and well, in anticipation of our return to the course when this is all over. Live long and prosper

Good golfing and best wishes to all,

Roger Henderson—President

Monday March 2nd 2020 - Stableford Trophy Score Played 28

First Denis O’Callaghan 21

Second Glenn Haslam 21

Third Rod Roach 21

Best Gross

NTP’s Hole 3 Denis O’Callaghan 12 Ron Eades

5 Glenn Haslam 16

8 Peter Denier

Wednesday March 11th 2020 - CAPTAIN’s TROPHY Score Played 42

First Peter Denier 33

Second John Hofmann 33

Third John Francis 34

Best Gross Peter Denier 38

NTP’s Hole 3 Rod Shaw 12 Peter Denier

5 John Barry 16 Norm Reeves

8 Neil Harrington

Friday March 20th2020—PRESIDENT’s TROPHY Score Played 41

First Ian Spencer 29

Second Lenny Cosmas 32

Third Lance Fennell 33

Best Gross Ian Spencer 36

NTP’s Hole 3 Ian Spencer 12 Ian Dunbar

5 Glenn Haslam 16 Rod Shaw

8 Roger Henderson

Monthly Club Competition results

Game Milestoneames for March 2020 Cyril Heron 298 ------> 300 Gerry Howell 95 ------> 100 John Francis 494 ------> 500 Bob Smith 294 ----> 300 Peter Gawne 393 ----> 400 Peter Denier 1293 ----> 1300

Club Championship

Position Name Gross Score

1 Lenny Cosmas 322

2 John Hofmann 340

3 Rod Shaw 351

4 Glenn Haslam 357

5 James Dean 376

6 Neil Harrington 379

Note: 13 Players have played 8 rounds

Eclectic - Front 9

Name Score Avg Handicap Net Score

1 Fred Fuster 38 18.05 19.95

2 Bernie Di Conza 34 13.90 20.10

3 Jim Cavanagh 32 11.75 20.25

4 Lance Fennell 36 14.40 21.60

4 John Woodruff 35 13.40 21.60

6 Glenn Haslam 29 7.33 21.67

Eclectic - Back 9

Name Score Avg Handicap Net Score

1 John McPhee 36 16.48 19.52

2 John Francis 36 13.50 22.50

3 Rod Roach 38 14.15 23.85

4 James Dean 34 10.13 23.87

5 Rod Shaw 31 7.08 23.92

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CLUB Competition YTD 2020 (now suspended) Monday Stableford Captain’s Trophy President’s Trophy

1st Arthur Course 71 Points 1st Lenny Cosmas 139 Points 1st Peter Denier 135Points

2nd Tom Mellors 70 3rd Glenn Haslam 144 2nd Lenny Cosmas 140

3rd Ian Spencer 68 3rd John Hofmann 145 3rd Rod Shaw 141

4th Denis O’Callaghan 67 4th John Barry 148 4th Noel Abbley 145

17 Players have played 4 rounds 21 Players have played 4 rounds 16 Players have played 4 rounds

Social Event Results

Wednesday March 4th 2020 — Stroke Played 42 House of Golf

Score Best Gross

First Glenn Haslam 31

Second John Hofmann 31

Third John Barry 32

Friday March 6th 2020 — Stroke Played 35 McAllister Feast

Score Best Gross

First Kevin Rule 34 Peter Denier & Lenny Cosmas 41

Second Roger Henderson 34

Third Lance Fennell 35

Friday March 13th 2020— Ambrose Played 42

Score Best Gross

First Chris Hatherly, Tony Lancaster, Vic Hawking 28.02

Charlie Brownhill

Monday March 16th 2020—Stableford Played 40 Phil’s Free for All

Best Gross

First John Francis 23 Lenny Cosmas 40

Second Arthur De Burgh 20

Third John Woodruff 19

Wednesday March 18th 2020 - Stableford Played 41 Score Best Gross

First Fred Fuster 21 Lenny Cosmas 38

Second Lenny Cosmas 20

Third Gavin Harkin 20

Monday March 23rd 2020 — Stableford Played 31

Score Best Gross

First Glen Haslam 19 Lenny Cosmas & Glenn Haslam 40

Second Stan Mathieson 19

Third Ian Dunbar 19

Wednesday March 25th 2020— Count your puts Played 47

Score Best Gross

First Neil Harington 31 Neil Harington 40

Least Puts Gavin Harkin 11

Friday March 27th 2020 Upton’s Up & Comers

Score Best Gross

First Roger Henderson 33 Neil Henderson 37

Second Neil Henderson 34

Third Lance Fennell & Wayne Banks 35

Monday March 30th 2020 Best Gross

First NOT PLAYED

Second

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Social Event Results Cont.

Did you know: Why does a golf course have 18 holes? In the beginning, there was St. Andrews. And this old course that is most appropriately named THE Old Course had 18 holes. Well, near the beginning it had 18 holes, that is. And eventually, other courses were copycats. Those are the broad strokes of how a typical golf course came to have 18 holes. Sadly, the number has nothing to do with how many shots are in a bottle of Scotch—though that makes for a much more fun story. The Original Rules of Golf fit on one (big) page? Of course, the rules weren't always this maddening. In fact, they were actually so incredibly simple that they fit on one page. OK, so it was one really big page with that old-school script writing since they were created in 1744 (!!). That's right, 276 years ago this month the Original Rules of Golf were drafted by the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, who sought out to create a set of rules for the world's first "open" golf competition. According to scottishgolfhistory.com, they were drawn up at the behest of the City of Edinburgh Council, who agreed to present the Silver Golf Club prize to the winner of the competition as long as there was a written set of rules. That original set included just 13 rules, as opposed to the 24 there are today, each with their own subset of rules. The Original Rules of Golf as they were originally written are as follows: 1.) You must Tee your Ball within a Club's length of the Hole. 2.) Your Tee must be upon the Ground. 3.) You are not to change the Ball which you Strike off the Tee. 4.) You are not to remove Stones, Bones or any Break Club, for the sake of playing your Ball, except upon the fair Green within a Club's length of your Ball. 5.) If your Ball comes among watter, or any wattery filth, you are at liberty to take out your Ball & bringing it behind the hazard and Teeing it, you may play it with any Club and allow your Adversary a Stroke for so getting out your Ball. 6.) If your Balls be found any where touching one another, You are to lift the first Ball, till you play the last. 7.) At Holling, you are to play your Ball honestly for the Hole, and not to play upon your Adversary’s Ball, not lying in your way to the Hole. 8.) If you should lose your Ball, by its being taken up, or any other way, you are to go back to the Spot, where you struck last, & drop another Ball, And allow your adversary a Stroke for the misfortune. 9.) No man at Holling his Ball, is to be allowed, to mark his way to the Hole with his Club, or anything else. 10.) If a Ball be stopp’d by any Person, Horse, Dog or anything else, The Ball so stop’d must be play’d where it lyes. 11.) If you draw your Club in Order to Strike, & proceed so far in the Stroke as to be bringing down your Club; If then, your Club shall break, in any way, it is to be Accounted a Stroke. 12.) He whose Ball lyes farthest from the Hole is obliged to play first. 13.) Neither Trench, Ditch or Dyke, made for the preservation of the Links, nor the Scholar's Holes, or the Soldier's Lines, Shall be accounted a Hazard; But the Ball is to be taken out and play’d with any Iron Club.

CAPTAINS RULE OF THE MONTH How to Fairly Search for a Ball Purpose: Rule 7 allows the player to take reasonable actions to fairly search for his or her ball in play after each stroke. • But the player still must be careful, as a penalty will apply if the player acts excessively and causes im-provement to the conditions affecting his or her next stroke. The player gets no penalty if the ball is acci-dentally moved in trying to find or identify it, but must then replace the ball on its original spot. • Lifting Ball to Identify It If a ball might be a player’s ball but cannot be identified as it lies: • The player may lift the ball to identify it (including by rotating it), but: The spot of the ball must first be marked, and the ball must not be cleaned more than needed to identify it (except on the putting green) If the lifted ball is the player’s ball or another player’s ball, it must be replaced on its original spot. If the player lifts his ball when it is not reasonably necessary to identify it (except on the putting green where the player may lift), and fails to mark the spot of the ball before lifting it or cleans it when not al-lowed, the player gets one penalty stroke. Ball Accidentally Moved in Trying to Find or Identify It There is no penalty if the player’s ball is accidentally moved by the player, opponent or anyone else while trying to find or identify it. If this happens, the ball must be replaced on its original spot (which if not known must be estimated). In doing so: • If the ball was on, under or against any immovable obstruction, integral object, boundary object or growing or attached natural object, the ball must be replaced on its original spot on, under or against such object. If the ball was covered by sand, the original lie must be re-created and the ball must be replaced in that lie. But the player may leave a small part of the ball visible when doing so. The penalty for playing an incorrectly substituted ball or playing the ball from a wrong place is 2 strokes in stroke play, and loss of the hole in match play.

Congratulations

70 Years Married - Bruce and Dora Carver