ROSSDALE – Garry Buick Memorial
Sunday, 25th January, 2015
Format: Stableford
After the Christmas break the boys started the new calendar year at Rossdale to play in the Garry Buick Memorial for the 9th time.
This event was run and organised by Koala and Sutho, with a sterling job done by both. The day started with the customary toast to Garry, a few words from Koala topped off by the Grey Goose and single malt on hand, cheers.
With the long break between matches it’s the perfect opportunity for the members to tidy up their game. Billy Mac was the perfect example of this, who is normally quite mingin, however once again, chose to have no games or practice and turned in a performance of expectancy carding a pitiful 18 points of a 35 handicap. His poor performance didn’t stop there as he refused to return to headquarters for the presentations.
On the flip side, Bob was one who did manage to spruce up his game a bit and blitzed the field by 8 points to his nearest rival with a winning score of 43 points.
As always it was a pleasure to have Aileen was on hand to present Bob with the perpetual trophy.
Masses of prizes were to flow from the MGC coffers, along with some kind donations from the members. These included prizes to commemorate Burns day and Australia day along with a Titleist hat, box of prov 1s, glove, tees, gold marker, ball marker, score card holder, ball/club cleaner, 2 polo shirts and much, much more.
Nearest the pins went to Christophe and Clayton for 2 out of the 4 holes we managed to get on the green.
The handicappers were keen to announce a 7 shot amendment to Bob for his winning ways, cutting him from 32 to 25. With Billy Mac’s refusal to return to headquarters no slide was administered.
The next outing at Eagle Ridge will be run by Alan, Hughie and Christophe.
Group 1: Tim 35, Winker 24, Koala 35, Andy Mac 25
Group 2: Deeks 17, Baby Koala 30, Taffy 30, Joe 9
Group 3: Hughesy 28, Alan 26, Clayton 30, Bob 32
Group 4: Hughie 24, Ryan 24, Tich 28, Red 29
Group 5: Joe junior 22, Snappy Tom 18, Barra 16, Christophe 15
Group 6: Paul 20, Biggsy 28, Sutho 26, Billy Mac 35