Jamberoo Pennant Teams’ Clean Sweep

Jamberoo’s three pennant teams all had good wins on the weekend (Sunday 12th February) with B Pennants having their second straight win and the C Pennant and White Horse Cup teams securing their first victories in their second outings for the year.

B PENNANTS V THE GRANGE at JAMBEROO

The B Pennant Team again performed well with a 5 / 2 win over The Grange at Jamberoo on Sunday 12 Feb. With a beautiful fine morning after all the rain of the past week the conditions were perfect except for some soft going.

Scott Hainsworth led off at No 7, leading at times through the match but finishing all square. Matt Bell, after losing 1.2 shots on Saturday with 46 stableford points, carried his good form into Sunday by being 8 up after 9 holes and winning shortly after 8 / 7. Ray Orr and Pete Munro continued on from last week winning 5 / 4 and 6 / 4 respectively. Our only loss was by Tom Persson who was defeated 1 up after a close fight throughout the whole game. Adrian Bell continued his success with a convincing 3 / 2 win. The final match with Jarryd Buckley ended all square after Jarryd had been 3 down early in the back nine and his opponent sinking a great putt to square the 18th hole.

Well done team, next week at Nowra we take on Russell Vale.

Lance Fredericks

C PENNANT ROUND 2 v KIAMA AT LINKS SHELL COVE

I am pleased to report that we are off and running with a good win over Kiama 5.5 to 1.5. What’s more, the “Town and Country Cup” is retained!

Congratulations to Tony McRae, Warren Joannou, Tom Zimmerman, Wayne Griffiths, and Col Booth for excellent wins. Chris Leckey managed to square his match, and commiserations to Steve Oppert.

Tony was in scintillating form at #1 accounting for his opponent 6/5. I believe ‘Lefty’ scored several birdies out there never allowing his opponent into the match. Tony is very hard to beat when he is this form. Well played.

Warren, playing his first game of the season, looked to be in trouble early losing the first three holes. This only made him more determined and he surged to close out his opponent 3/2, including a terrific birdie on the 18th at the difficult Links course (we played the back-nine first). Well played ‘Rabbit’. I am sure those golf shoes in Jamberoo colours contributed significantly to the win.

Steve was up against an in-form Kiama opponent and lost 4/3. ‘T1’played some impressive golf, including several sand saves, but his opponent played mistake free golf after establishing an early lead. Commiserations this time, but I am sure there are several winning matches for you soon.

It was reported that Tom had spent a week at a health spa in Port Macquarie last time. In fact it should have read a week in a pool at Port Kembla! Tom got his growl back this week playing a brilliant round, to win convincingly 6/5. As the saying goes, you can’t keep a good ‘cougar’ down for long. A great win Tom.

Chris Leckey trailed for much of his match and was 2 down with 5 to play. The ‘hat’ never gives up, and showing wonderful resilience, managing to win the last hole to square his match. With the challenge put out by Col Booth in the sensible head-wear department, Chris has upgraded to a nice straw hat with a colourful band, setting a new standard for usurpers to the moniker, the Hat.

Wayne Griffiths played an excellent game of golf, not letting his opponent into the match, and closed out a win 4/2. ‘Griffo’was determined not to let the win slide away this time and powered to his inaugural pennant win. I think this will be the first of many.

Col Booth, started slowly, and was 3 down early in his match. The ‘saint’ needed something special to change the momentum and I was pleased to be present when he got it ‘up-and-down’ from an impossible position on the 15th. His opponent was clearly rattled and 3-putted, giving the desired swing. Col then took charge of the match scoring a birdie on the difficult 18th and another on the equally difficult 8th to close out the win 3/1. Another great win.

C Pennant has a bye next week, and then it is a home game against Moss Vale the following week. Hit off is 9 am, so I am expecting another large crowd to be in attendance.

Until then, may all your drives be straight and all your putts go in.

Dave Ransom (aka, 7/11 or T2)

WHITE HORSE CUP V NOWRA AT SUSSEX INLET

Who would have thought one player could make so much difference!

After their first round drubbing the Cuppers bounced back to record a good win against Nowra at Sussex Inlet 4/3.

Captain Tony Rodriguez admitted to being surprised by the win but after much thought hit upon the secret.

“It’s because the hairy little gnome isn’t here,” Rodriguez opined.

Those present believed he was referring to valued but absent team member Darryl Clampett, who the captain elaborated “could be a precocious talent but was an unsettling influence on other team members.” Or words something like that.

Rodriguez always seems a little off-kilter at Sussex Inlet, sniffing the breeze and looking longingly over the fence into the alpaca farm paddocks next to the course.

No doubt inspired by memories of carefree teenage years roaming the Bolivian countryside looking for love, Rodriguez won his match 1UP.

The other much lauded winners were Neville Hutchins 4/3, Mick Carr 1UP and Boyd Sylvester 2/1.

The harangued, threatened and harassed non-winners were Peter Francis down 4/3, Brian O’Hare 2DOWN and Steve Jackson down 3/2.