At its deferred AGM, Bermagui Bowls Club bestowed Life Membership upon Gerry Hammerton. Like most other sporting clubs, Bermagui Bowls has suffered a disrupted season, firstly due to bushfires then followed by coronavirus.

The highlight of the AGM on July 29 was the formal recognition of the outstanding contribution by Gerry to the club and the game of bowls in general. On the green, Gerry has figured prominently in pennant fixtures, special events, tournaments and numerous club championships, usually in the role of skip. He has enjoyed regular success across all formats of the game.

Of equal satisfaction to him has been administration and promotion of bowls for over 27 years, firstly with Bega Bowling Club, and for the last 11 years with Bermagui, including nine as secretary and frequently as team manager.

He has been a delegate and office bearer at district level of Bowls NSW for a total of 18 years.

Many players had their introduction to bowls through Gerry's enthusiastic recruitment and cheerful coaching. Also, Gerry and his wife Lori are well respected throughout the region for their wider community service, particularly with CanAssist (cancer assistance network).

Bermagui Bowls offers a range of playing opportunities, covering social to competition. New players are welcomed and encouraged. Phone 64935909 for further information.

A 12.30pm start for social bowls on Tuesday, August 4 on a sunny day with a persistent chilly breeze. A Joe's special was used to allocate teams for three games of triples. Di Fry was the day's winning lead, Sue Bender second and Leila Gosper skip. Di teamed up with Cindy Newell and Leila Gosper to win against Coral Read, Clare Cork and Barb McNamara (skip). Betty Greenshields, Sue Bender and Marg Naylor (skip) managed to hold on to their lead in the final stages against Jenny Coulson, Sue Wales and Jean Vos (skip).

Raffle winners Pam Grant - meat tray; Jenny Coulson - vegetable tray. 50Club won by Sandra Breust, well done! It was great to welcome Pat Wood back again and best wishes for her birthday last Saturday. Attendance competition winners, each accumulating 23 points to share the 'pot' were Clare Cork, Di Fry, Marg Naylor, Jan Rapkins and Betty Greenshields.

Social Bowls Winners' Circle

It was another great day on Wednesday with 36 bowlers making up 6 rinks of triples.

Winners were decided by Lowest Winning Margin with first place going to Leo Winter, John Voytas and Peter McKay (skip) who led 11 to 9 after 11 ends and kept up their good bowls for a 19 to 16 win against Don Caldwell, Kevin Callaway and Greg Riley (skip).

Second place went to Warren Bender, Peter Townend and John Downie (skip) who were trailing 6 to 9 after 11 ends before taking the lead after 20 ends and coming through with 2 shots on the last end for a 21 to 14 win against John Redman, Bob Murphy and Les Waldock (skip).

The resting toucher went to Stacky at 3.30 after most of us were packing up for the day, well done mate.

Thank you to Rapley's Midtown Meat for their continued support.

The wet weather washed out play on Saturday and Sunday.

Club Singles Championship

This week there was one semi final match played between John Breust and Clem Hochkins.

This was a great game with the lead changing on 7 occasions with John leading 22 to 18 after 20 ends.

Clem started to hit his straps and he overtook John after 24 ends and then drew away for a 31 to 24 win. Clem now plays Greg Ryan in the final this week.

To ponder: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Jestyer Weight

Monday, August 3: The ladies played a stroke, qualifying for singles match play. Division 1 handicap range 0-27 was won by Jan Shevlin posting a score of 71. Runner up was Tina Wilson posting a score of 74 OCB.

Division 2 handicap range 28-45 was won by Pam Shepherd posting a score of 72. Runner up was Di Williamson posting a score of 76. Balls to 81

Wednesday, August 5: We had a very busy day with the final round of the 2020 Club Championship. The results are as follows:

Division 1 Red Course-handicap range 0-23 winner was Sylvia Donohoe posting a great scratch score of 337

Runner up scratch was Meridie Banson posting a scratch score of 371. Handicap winner was Di Wilkes posting a score of 318 OCB and Jan Shevlin was the Silver Salver winner posting a score of 314

Division 2 Red Course-handicap range of 24-45 winner was Di Williamson posting a scratch score of 414. Runner up scratch winner was Julie Whyte posting a score of 420.

Dierdre Landells was the handicap winner posting a score of 320.

The Yellow Course scratch winner was Lynne McDonald posting 413 OCB. Handicap winner was Chris Hendra posting a score of 293

The Professionals Trophy winner was Kay Lawrence with a score of 157. The Monthly Medal winner was Lynne McDonald. Tracy Mitchell won the putting comp with 27 putts.

The Stableford event was won by Laura Taylor posting a score of 34 OCB. Runner up was Val Spooner posting a score of 34. Balls to 27

Well done to all the participants.

Chris Hendra

Narooma golfers headed out on the fairways on Thursday with an excellent field of 152 players enjoying pleasant weather with some good scores.

In A Grade Greg Riley was favoured by the countback after posting 40 points off his handicap of 13 to edge out Tom Ainsworth of Penrith. Mark Elmasri filled third place with 37 points on countback from Rory Kleeman.

Frank Jakubowski took out B Grade with 38 points off his handicap of 18 ahead of Tony Cobcroft and Chris Eardley on 37points.

In C Grade Steven Tate had a day to remember in registering 46 points off his handicap of 22, a round which featured 29 points at the turn after he parred the front nine, thus making his 17 points on the back nine almost inconsequential.

Jim Hoar took second place and Robert Dunn third place on 39 points and 38 points respectively.

The nearest-the-pin winners were Hal Fraser on three after his eight-iron shot gave him his first ever hole-in-one, Colin Holmes on 9, Tom Ainsworth on 14 and Warwick Minett on 17, while the ball competition went down to all on 33 points. RGI

The Narooma Golf Club Men's 2020 Club Championships concluded on July 25. Congratulations to Scott Ker for taking out the Club Championship for this year, beating last years club champion Jordan Lang by 2 shots.

The B Grade winner on the day was Paul Davey and the C Grade Winner was Peter Bashford.

August 2: Welcome visitors John Arthur and Gus Richardson. Mug of the Month: Nifty. Winner A Grade: BJ. Runner up A grade: Peter Wilton. Winner B Grade: Les Attlee Runner up B grade: Ray Cullen. NTP 6th Ricoh. NTP 8th Dave Boyle. Lucky Badge Draw Lyle Blair. Beer Tickets Mick McCann. Big meat tray Ian Horsham. Little meat tray Doug Blair.

President Ziggy

Golf Croquet

The all day marathon tournament on Wednesday at Dalmeny croquet greens, for the annual Golf Croquet Championship Singles (level handicap) competition proved to be a bobby-dazzler of an event.

Eight players competed in 28 games overall, starting at 10am and finally ending at 4.30pm in cool conditions.

The result was a tie between Len Favier and Janet Jones, both winning five games and amassing 46 points from a possible maximum of 49 points.

After adjudicating for some minutes a 'golden point' decision was made by the tournament referee in awarding the title on a countback to an amazed and unbelieving Len Favier, with Janet Jones a very unlucky second place.

Di Sims (scoring several 'jump shot' hoops) and Pauline Wilcock, after putting in strong challenges against the two leaders, were placed third and fourth respectively; followed by Pearl Hanson, Christine Stent, Louise Starkie and Sally McGourty. It was big effort and experience for all.

Thursday was designated a rest day from the regular golf croquet competition. Next scheduled regular golf croquet competition is Thursday, August 13. Bookings to be made with Fay O'Connor, telephone 0421 352 527, or Jean Phillips, keeping to COVID-19 protocols.

The Annual Golf Croquet Championship Doubles (level handicap) competition is on Wednesday, September 9.

Association Croquet

The Annual Championship Singles Association Croquet (level handicap) matches continued with rounds 6 and 7 on Friday.

Pauline Wilcock finished in front of Christine Stent in a hard-contested game, with Pauline winning 20 to 13.

The Round 7 match between Pauline Wilcock and Len Favier on Saturday was cancelled due to rain.

Next scheduled association croquet matches:

Regular Association Croquet matches are on Saturday, August 15 and rounds 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the singles championship to be arranged on days agreed by the contestants. Bookings with Christine Stent, telephone 4476 3506, keeping to COVID-19 protocols.

Reminder the AGM is coming up at Club Dalmeny on Sunday, August 23.