George February 2006

Monthly game played at the George Golf Club on Sunday 26th February. The conditions were good, but very hot and humid.

Our thanks to all our local and national sponsors for the day, with a special mention for Boardware and Timber City (Graeme Robb)and Pick 'n Pay Family Store (Pat & Theresa Maher)for the Andrew Mentis Hamper.

Presentations to Graham Williams (5 year tie) and Jeff Clause (100 games). Congrats to you guys. We also inducted 4 new nomads :-
Stefan Fourie, Frederick De Jager, Spero Kokinos & Paul McGahan.
Welcome to you guys.

Prize giving ended the day with results as follows :-

Runner Up C-Div : Brian Shepherd 37pts off 15
Runner Up B-Div : Steve Twycross 36 off 10
Runner Up A-Div : Constantyn Van Wyk 37 off 4

Winner C-Div : Bennie Raubenheimer 45 off 16
Winner B-Div : Mike De Goede Stander 38 off 13
Winner A-Div : Mark Ward-Able 37 off 3

Playing 4-Ball 130 pts
Mike De Goede, Mike Hargreaves, Hannes Ingram & Gavin Williams (139pts)

Drawn 4-Ball
Dennis Burns, Hannes Ingram, Mark Ward-Able & GP Le Roux (142pts)

Best Playing Pair 75 pts
Bennie Raubenheimer & Gavin Loynes
Runners up
Hannes Ingram & Gavin Williams

Worst Playing 4-Ball 106 pts
John Richards, Arthur Ambrose, Gavin Bayman & Mark Hartnick

Over 55's
Mike De Goede

Matchbox Winner 19 off 14
Kattie Meiring

Closest to Pins
Stefan Muller, Ricky Dos Santos, Andre Van Wyk, Brian Shepherd & Michael Self

Jackpot Winner - Bennie Raubenheimer

Short Hole Aggregate - Hansie Nel

Andrew Mentis Hamper (Pick 'n Pay Mini Market) - Rom Saffy

Bells Whiskey Draw - John Mundell, Tjoepie Pretorius, Nic Galic

Golf Bag Draw ( Gerald & Merle Anderson) - Spero Kokinos

Windbreaker Draw (Southern Sea Volkswagen) - Kobus Botha

Meat Hamper Draw (Bartlesfontein Butchery) - Johnny Giles

Capt Rep Jan 2006

CAPTAIN'S REPORT FOR JANUARY 2006

We enjoyed a stunning day at Mossel Bay Golf Club on 29 January 2006 with Mossel Bay, as always, bending backwards to accommodate Nomads in style. It was indeed a pleasure to play with Elias Engels, their Club Captain, and a huge thank you to Elias and his staff for affording us the privelege of their stunning facilities.

With our Past Captain, Tannah, and his lovely wife, Berti currently enjoying a well deserved holiday in Italy, Aldina, Paddy, Helen and June were left on their own to handle the draw and all the schlep that comes with the job. You ladies did us proud as things went smoothly and prize-giving was finished by 17H30. Thank you so much for all the dedication and work behind the scenes.

Golf was played in perfect conditions in a light wind that assisted more than anything else and we saw a magnificent 42 points from Mossel Bay President, Hennie Stander. Well done Hennie, you Siver Salver is on its way.

Welcome to the following new members that were inducted and we hope that you will embrace the spirit of the Club and become active members, participating with enthusiasm in all that the Club offers you:

Phil Beswick
Meyer Du Toit
Kosta Kokkinos
Kattie Meiring
Harvey Rothchild
De Walt Coetzee

It was a pleasure to award Darrel Nunns with his 5 year tie while Phil Halford reached the milestone of being awarded his 20 year tie, congratulations to both of you.

The side to represent the Southern Cape at Nationals has been finalized and we sincerely hope that they will produce better results than last year. Good luck to you all and do your Club proud:

Graham Williams
Mike Hargreaves
Flats Huisamen
Michael Self
Anton Izaakse
Mike De Goede
John Richards
Fanie Du Plessis
Joe Van Wyk
Ken Haldane (National Senior Vice)
Dennis Burns
Peter Gurney
Johnny Giles
Alistair Wallis
Dave Meyer
Rickey Dos Santos
Benny Raubenheimer
Vic Moll
Colin Buck
Jimmy Leggat
Les Marais
Richard Walton
Gerry Hamm
Mark Ward-Able
Terry Dimatellis

The SAA Open at The Links saw our Club involved with our members giving up their free and working time to do duty assisting with scoring, leaderboards and spotting. Thank you to all involved, but special mention should be made by the unselfish efforts made by Tannah Harris and Flats Huisamen who did all the arrangements taking the stress that accompanies this mammoth task.

Our next game is on 26 February 2006 at George Golf Club and we would like a huge field as we get criticized on entering “small” fields in George. Please gentleman, enter and keep up with your monthly games.

Our monthly games are the backbone of our organization and we should be looking forward to these. Having said that, we should be having fun in what we do, so please, make an effort in ensuring that your fourball is having a good time. What goes around, comes around.

Joe