Last Day On Tour
Wall To Wall Sunshine
Back to Noosa Springs today which is a lot like vegemite - you either love it or you don't.
Noosa Springs as you might imagine by the name has a bit of water around. In one of the water holes today we came across this image ...
It's a guy in a wet suit fishing around in the water hole looking for golf balls. Apparently he's sub-contracted by the club and what he finds he sells back to the club. So how many do you think he found ?
Your guess is as good as mine as to how many are in each sack but there's probably about 300. And as you can see he's got 4 full sacks of golf balls and he's still out there. Honestly, none of them belonged to us ....
We played 2 3 4 but such is the nature of Noosa Springs and the way it beats you up, the scores we see each Wednesday at Balmacewen bore no resemblance to the scores of today. 25 won the first set and that was The Nugget, Nick, Fairway Phil and David Peart. That same team won the middle set with 35 points. Our group with David B, Kallum Bruce and a wounded Duncan won the last set with 43 points - by about 6 shots !!
Hi score today was 34 points and two people had the low score with 18 points. Hmmmmm
The Roomies
The Roomies trophy goes to the simple aggregate of all the scores during the week sorted by those people sharing a room. Unlike the Archie, no scores are dropped. The scores were;
Alexander & Bloor Bluey and The Nugget 340
Attenborough & Keenan Young Guns 345
Bates & Grant Waldorf and Stadtler 354
Broughton & Stephens Boring Bean Counters 337
Croudis & Todd The West Highland Terriers 356
Griffiths & Nicolson The Hoons 363
Harvie & Peart Fresh off the Boaties 338
Newton & Yates The Grammaticals 347
Meaning the Roomies Trophy goes to Nick and Bob
The Archie
The Archie is awarded to the best individual golfer of the week. The " Broughton Modifier " rules allow that each individual can drop their worst score for the week. Given we all scored 36 points in the rained out day at Pacific Harbour on Monday, it was effectively a competition over 5 days with the best 4 scores counting. The scores were
Keith Newton 163
Derek Todd 161
Vaughn Keenan 160
Bruce Grant 159
Bob Griffiths 159
David Peart 156
Nick Nicolson 155
David Bloor 152
Robin Bates 149
Phil Broughton 148
Athol Stephens 147
Kallum Croudis 145
Tony Attenborough 143
Duncan Harvie 141
John Alexander 140
John Yates 137
It's been a fun week of golf and I can report that;
In 80 rounds of golf played by 16 golfers over 5 days, only one person played to their handicap and scored 36 points.
The low score for the week was 18 points.
The average score for the week for the holes played - ie discounting the 36 points we awarded to ourselves at Pacific Harbour was 27.55