FOL November 2004

FLAT OUT LIKE

November 2004

WELCOME to MORGAN - MOONEY DAY Mk VI,

the homecoming of the PORT MACQUARIE survivors

and the return of DAWSON CARROLL from Ireland.

DONORS Chris and Michael were our 49^th and 51^st presidents and prolific caterers in the 90’s. Rarely seen on the monthly winner’s dais, they are invariably in the first bunch past the post and are well placed in the Championship points score. We thank them for their donorship today.

CASTLE HILL PLATE DAY, with 21 members and 3 visitors, produced the following results:

1^st LIZARDS Hartmut Schwarz - 48 points off 30 handicap

2^nd LIZARDS John O'Meara - 42 points off 17 handicap

1^st VISITORS Roy Donald - 39 points off 16 handicap

2^nd VISITORS Mike Dodd - 31 points off 27 handicap

BEST SCRATCH Chris Mooney - 27 points

BEST FRONT NINE Brian Ellis - 23 points on count-back off 42 handicap

BEST BACK NINE Dave Dunworth - 23 points off 36 handicap

NEAREST the PINS 1^stRoy Donald 3^rd Glenn Castle

4^th Mike Dodd 5^th Hartmut Schwarz

9^th Andrew Warner LM 10^th Michael Harrison

12^th Matthew Castle 13^th Chris Mooney

14^th Michael Morgan 18^th Hartmut Schwarz

LONGEST DRIVES 19+ 6^th Andrew Warner LM

18- 6^th Michael Harrison

BRADMAN Lizards Gary Bird LM - 22 points off 23 handicap

Visitors Hal Benson - 25 points off 45 handicap

PUTTING COMPETITION John O'Meara - 29 putts

JOHN O’MEARA carded a 45 pointer in February and was swamped by outsider Gary Castle – Gary won on a countback. On this occasion he scored 42 and was blown out of the water and beached by Hart Schwarz.

HART won in June with a 36 pointer, and before that in June ’01. He was listed on the TAB at 66 to 1, and looked normal as he walked to the 1^st tee – then, from the time he teed up and whacked the ball down the centre, on its way to a 4 pointer, he resembled a Bernhard Langer clone. Four pointers, 3’s and a 5 pointer just rolled off his club. He arrived at the half-way-house for a quick snack and a beer, with a nearest the pin on the 5^th and a score of 28! The second nine was a breeze, a cool 20 points, including a slot and a nearest the pin within a couple of gum leaves of a hole-in-one on the 18^th.

CONGRATULATIONS HART – you had more fun in one round that Kostya Tszyu had in three.

Hart and John played as a pair in a private match vs the hard to beat Jim Small and Andy Warner – the prize being a No 1 slap up breakfast in Port Macquarie. Hart & John blitzed the favourites 90 to 67.

ROY DONALD racked up his 3^rd consecutive visitor’s win. He won’t be with us today; he is holidaying in New Zealand.

DAVE DUNWORTH was back at Lizards after a spell – last time we saw him was when he was runner up to Ken Bond in 1992. After a dismal 7 for the 1^st nine he won the best back nine with 23 points. He was given a fines tin to keep him out of mischief during the meeting.

BILL SHEEHAN LM will be upgraded to octogenarian status tomorrow and is currently in the Foster-Tuncurry area with his family, who have rented a couple of holiday cottages and are drumming up a corroboree to celebrate the event. We wish Bill a Happy Birthday.

A SPECIAL WELCOME to our most travelled member, Dawson Carroll, who has completed his seventeenth trip to Australia to play with us today and be donor next month on Christmas Carroll Day.

Results of Lizards:

Far Kew Shield - Port Macquarie Trip

5^th November 2004

ATTENDANCE 4 members only

1^st LIZARDS Gary Castle - 11 points on count-back off 25 handicap

Results of Lizards:

Nifty Plate - Port Macquarie Trip

6^th November 2004

ATTENDANCE 16 members and 4 visitors

1^st LIZARDS Michael Harrison - 41 points on count-back off 8 handicap

2^nd LIZARDS Andrew Warner LM - 41 points off 21 handicap

3^rd LIZARDS Ian Massey - 38 points off 18 handicap

1^st VISITORS Dan Whitehead - 35 points off 36 handicap

BEST FRONT NINE Neville Meredith - 26 points on count-back off 54 handicap

BEST BACK NINE John O'Meara - 19 points off 16 handicap

NEAREST the PINS 2^ndDennis Castle

9^thMichael Harrison

LONGEST DRIVES 19+ Michael Moran

18- Michael Harrison

BRADMAN Lizards Wal Hill - 15 points off 40 handicap

Visitors Graham Bryce - 21 points off 24 handicap

Results of Lizards:

Sheehan Mug - Port Macquarie Trip

7^th November 2004

ATTENDANCE 14 members and 1 visitor

1^st LIZARDS Neil Winterton - 34 points off 16 handicap

2^nd LIZARDS Jim Small - 33 points off 15 handicap

3^rd LIZARDS Michael Harrison - 30 points off 6 handicap

1^st VISITORS Gus Brazier - 22 points off 18 handicap

NEAREST the PINS 11^thIan Massey

LONGEST DRIVES 19+ Andrew Warner LM

18- Michael Harrison

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