WELCOME toMORGAN MOONEY DAY MkV and the return of the PORT MACQUARIE contingent.  The EMINEMS Michael and Chris are Donors for the day - with Michael as Caterer and Chris as Victualler.  Michael and Chris are good exampls of home grown Lizards golfers.  Both appeared as visitors in 92 sporting 36 handicaps; joined in 92/3; shared 38 trips to the members pay window to collect 18 wins and 18 second placings; and reduced their handicaps by more than 56%.  Chris, in what should have been his spare time, is full time curator of the Lizards WEB SITE.  Hats off to this durable double.

CASTLE HILL PLATE DAY, with 15 members and 3 visitors, produced the following results:

LIZARDS 1st Matthew Castle 41 points off 20 handicap
LIZARDS 2nd Garry Bird LM 40 points off 25 handicap

VISITORS 1st Ian Massey 36 points off 19 handicap
VISITORS 2nd Ross Raine 27 points off 22 handicap

BEST SCRATCH  Michael Harrison 30 points

BRADMAN Lizards Michael Moran 22 points off 21 handicap 

                    Visitors Brian Ellis 22 points off 38 handicap

BEST FRONT NINE Col Lacey 21 points off 20 handicap
BEST BACK NINE Michael Morgan 21 points off 16 handicap

NEAREST the PINS 1st Hart Schwarz
                                  3rd Michael Morgan
                                  4th Michael Morgan
                                  5th Chris Mooney
                                  9th Matthew Castle
                                  10th John O'Meara
                                  12th Michael Moran
                                  13th Garry Bird LM
                                  14th Michael Harrison
                                  18th Michael Morgan

LONGEST DRIVES 19+  6th Col Lacey
                                  18- 6th Michael Harrison

SPECIAL EVENT - BEST SCORE on the 7th: Hart Schwarz  4 points off 28 handicap

RAFFLE: Bill Sheehan

MATTHEW, one of the four Castles on the scene, kept the family standard flying and bagged a nearest the pin for good measure.

GARRY BIRD LM blasted his way out of the pack with a 23 pointer on the second nine - to come within a shot of winning.

IAN MASSEY returned a copybook 36 pointer to take out the visitors trophy - and was fined for losing the ladle in the cauldron of soup.

ROSS RAINE, visitors runner up, was fined for admitting he plays at Avalon every Saturday.

THE HOLE-IN-ONE JACKPOT is worth somewhere between $150 and $200.  Hart Schwarz, playing off 28, went close to scooping the pool last month.  Put $2 in the bin and hit and hope with the rest of us.

HART was entered in the well attended Digger's Day at Warringah Golf Club.  He won the day and a young Japanese golfer came second.  In the clubhouse, when the results went up, they were in 2 groups.  Them and Us.  There was another game played over the last 6 holes - the rum run.  Hart won that as well.  When asked how he managed such a feat he said there was beer at every hole and rum over the last 6 - and the rest of the field got a bit drunk.

MICHAEL MORAN, with a record 3 wins and 4 seconds over the past 15 months as a visitor, opened his shoulders as a Lizards, for the first time, and shot a Bradman at point blank with a 22.  The urine test proved he wasn't fox hunting but just had a bad day.

Today's Play:

HANDICAP ADJUSTMENTS:
Garry Bird LM,  Matthew Castle -2
Michael Harrison -1
John O'Meara, Ross Raine +1
Brian Ellis, Michael Moran +2

SPECIAL EVENT: Pairs Stableford Multiplier

NEAREST THE PINS
Handicap of 19 or more:  1st and 9th
Handicap of 18 or less:    1st and 9th

LONGEST DRIVES
Handicap of 19 or more:  7th
Handicap of 18 or less:    7th

NEXT MONTH is CHRISTMAS CARROLL DAY - remind your visitors of the bring a prize caper.

Good Golfing……….Bill Epps,  Editor

Results of Lizards 

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Results of Lizards
Sheehan Mug  - Port Macquarie Trip
9th November 2003

Attendance  11 Lizards,  2 Visitors

LIZARDS 1st Neil Winterton 40 points off 15 handicap
LIZARDS 2nd Michael Harrison 38 points off 6 handicap

VISITORS 1st Ian Massey 43 points off 36 handicap

BRADMAN Lizards Garry Bird LM (C/B) 25 points off 25 handicap
                    Visitors Ian Massey 35 points off 19 handicap

NEAREST THE PINS
19+  2nd - Bob Counsell
         4th - Manfred Wagner
18-   2nd - N.G.E.
         9th - Jim Small