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Sunday 15 April 2012, 8:00am first tee time
Location: Newcastle
Tournament Organiser: Alan Waddington
Another great day. Three groups of four playing off club handicaps and a three way tie for first, each losing a stroke as did the front/back nine winners!!
Group score decided by taking best score on 1st hole, best two scores on 2nd hole, best 3 on 3rd hole, best four scores on 4th hole and then back to best score on 5th hole etc up to 16th hole, then best four scores on each of 17th and 18th holes - complex but it works!
Thanks Alan!
2012 Results:
Group
Player
Handicap
Front 9 Stableford
Back 9 Stableford
Total Stableford
A Peter Macdougall 11 17 16 33 94 points John Ferreira 22 16 13 29 Rob Lowndes 23 16 11 27 Steve Figgis 45 17 16 33 B Phil Stabback 16 18 14 32 95 points Alan Waddington 20 19 12 31 Rick Chadwick 25 17 16 33 Peter Burns 32 8 14 22 C Nick Hillyard 22 12 15 27 88 points Gary Skulander 20 13 12 25 Tim Becker 28 11 20 31 Peter Thornton 31 8 15 23
The Prizes:
| Winner | Peter Macdougall, Steve Figgis, Rick Chadiwck |
Front Nine |
Alan Waddington |
| The Hexham Grey Award |
Group B |
Back Nine |
Tim Becker |
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NTP 7th |
Rob Lowndes |
Longest Drive 17th? |
Peter Macdougall |
The Northern Beaches Goodwill Golf Pairs Championship (back
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Sunday 20 November 2011, 7:27am first tee time
Location: Long Reef GC
Tournament Organiser: Phil Stabback
| One half of last year's winner hands over the team jacket | Well done Peter and Rick |
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The event
Teams of two will play holes 9-14 as two ball Ambrose (minimum 2 tee shots of each player to be used), holes 15-2 as two-ball better ball and holes 3-8 as two-ball aggregate, all holes scored as stableford. The winning team will be the one with the highest total points and there will be an individual prize for the highest number of points scored over the Super Six holes 3-8. This is a no-gimme event.
Conditions
Handicaps In keeping with current SMERGS-on-tour practice, the event will be played off current CLUB handicaps with the following exceptions:
Phil Alexander 45 (3rd stroke to be taken based on 19-36 index)
Steve Figgis 39 (3rd stroke to be taken based on 19-36 index)
Peter Burns 36
Tees Play will be off the WHITE tees.
Teams Teams will be drawn by one of the A/ Hon TDs prior to the event with adjustments to accommodate SMERGS who wish to cart.
Balls-in Each player will contribute 3 individually boxed balls (A/TD 4).
The prizes
Winning Team 9 balls each + duo jacket + trophy + glory 18
Runner up Team 5 balls each 10
Individual winner of Super 6 (excluding members of winning and runner-up teams) 5
Nearest the pin 13th 2
Longest drive 14th 2
TOTAL 37
The down side
Winning group - each member to lose 2 shots.
Runner up group - each member to lose 1 shot
Winner of super 6 - winner to lose 1 shot
2011 Results:
Team
Players
Super 6
Team score (place)
1
Tee 7.27
Nick Hillyard (20)
14
53 (2)
Peter Burns (36)
14
2
Tee 7.27
Rob Lowndes (23)
10
40 (6)
Tim Becker (28)
3
3
Tee 7.34
Rick Butler (13)
14
49 (4)
Peter Thornton (30)
6
4
Tee 7.34
John Webb (23)
9
47 (5)
Steve Figgis (39)
8
5
Tee 7.41
Phil Stabback (16)
16
51 (3)
Phil Alexander (45)
5
6
Tee 7.41
Peter Macdougall (13)
16
56 (1)
Rick Chadwick (25)
11
The Prizes:
| Winning Pair | Peter Macdougall, Rick Chadwick | Runners Up |
Nick Hillyard, Peter Burns |
| Winner Super 6 |
Phil Stabback |
Longest Drive 14th |
Nick Hillyard |
| NTP 13th |
Phil Stabback |
6 November 2011
2011 titleholder: Rick Chadiwck
The
Event: The Obelisk (as it has now become called even though the original Obelisk was presented at the St Michaels event).
The 3 club event was played with 10 participants and only one winner. A beautiful warm morning with some obscene scores considering the low number of clubs allowed!
Tournament
Organiser: Nick Hillyard
2011 Results: Click here
(or The Golden Putter)
Sunday 16 November 2011
2011 titleholder: Rob Lowndes (13 putts)
The
Event: 11 SMERGS, 2 balls in. Winner with least putts (Nick), and overall (Gary) each share the balls and lose a stroke after giving winning team a ball each. Winning team has least average putts (team 2). Coffee paid for by team with highest average putts (team 1).
2011Results:
Player Putts Nick Hillyard, team 2 12 Rick Butler, team 2 14 Phil Stabback, team 3 15 Rick Chadwick, team 2 15 Rob Lowndes, team 3 15 Alan Waddington, team 2 15 Peter Thornton, team 3 15 Gary Skulander, team 1 16 Phil Alexander, team 3 18 Tim Becker, team 1 19 Steve Figgis, team 1 19
Tournament
Organiser: Nick Hillyard
Saint
Mary McKillop Miracle Open (back to top)
(Note name change since canonisation in October 2010_
Thursday 26 January 2012
Tournament Director: Peter Thornton
2012 Report from the TD:
The AD StMMMO was played on Australia Day 26th of January 2012 at Northbridge at the usual time of 0600 according to the rules published earlier in the week by the TD. Although apologies were received from Becker, Butler, Lowndes and Webb it was expected that, in their usual dedicated manner for a major, a strong field would turn up. 2 balls in per player were required.
The results:
Attendees: Peter Thornton and Nick Hillyard
Group 1: Peter Thornton and Nick Hillyard
Prize Ball Pool: 4
Scores: Nick Hillyard 43/17 and Peter Thornton 45/19
Nearest the Pin in Two on the 11th: Nick Hillyard - One ball;
Longest Drive on 14th: Nick Hillyard (close enough to cut fairway as ruled by the TD) One ball
No specific miracles were recorded the whole event being one;
Winner of the AD St MMMO Cup (the previous winner was not there to present it): Peter Thornton - Two balls and loss of one shot (which on appeal to the TD was immediately reinstated due to the lack of prize balls (until overridden by extraordinary general meeting of SMERGS upholding RULES!))
Coffee: Nick Hillyard (and many thanks for that!).
The round was played in record time in completely dry conditions albeit a little damp underfoot.
Declared the winner, Peter Thornton, it is entirely appropriate as the only Australian who played that I should have won this famous major SMERGS event this morning".
| Winner | Peter Thornton - 19 pts each |
| NTP 11th (2nd shot) | Nick Hillyard |
| Longest drive 14th | Nick Hillyard |
| Miracles | The whole bloody thing |
| Coffee | Nick Hillyard |
| Individual scores | See Results page |
ANZAC DAY TROPHY
Wednesday, 25th April 2012 (20th Year!!)
TD Alan Waddington
Played each year at Royal
Northbridge Golf Club
The longest running SMERGS major. Played over the back nine until 2007. In 2008 and 2009 played over 18 holes.
In 2010 rain prevented play on 25th April and the event was played over the back nine the following day, a public holiday.
In 2011 rain again prevented play on Anzac Day and just four intrepid SMERGS turned up on the following day (a public holiday due to Easter Monday) to play in intermittent rain.
In 2012, after the reading of the Ode by TD Alan, played over the first ten holes which proved popular as 12 intrepid SMERGS did battle with the unfamiliar holes. Rick Butler won for the second year in a row for which he will lose a shot from his new SMERGS handicap. Click here for detailed scores. Bets team was Butler, Chadwick, Figgis and Rowe with the other eight all paying for coffee.
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