Cheers President Ziggy

Narooma ladies played on Wednesday with a field of 35 in a hotly contested Stableford event. Division 1 handicap range was 0-26 with some great scores. Winner was Meriede Banson with 38 points and runner up was Kay Lawrence with 37 points. Division 2 handicap range was 27-45 and was the talk of the day. Sisters Margaret Brown and Libby Shortridge both had good scores, however, Libby came out on top with a 42 and Margaret a 38. Margaret had NTP on the 14th until Libby came along and took the honour. Talk about sibling rivalry. Division 1 NTP on the 3rd was Jan Shevlin and division 2 on the 9th went to Tina Wilson. Balls went to 33.

An excellent field of 157 players enjoyed fine weather and very amenable greens after the recent coring, thus making scoring a little easier on Thursday. In A Grade Brendan Warby registered on outstanding one-over-par round off his handicap of 8 to record 43 points to win by three points from Clive Williamson and Laurie Holmes on a creditable 40 points. In B Grade Gary Leahy overcame recent average scores to post 42 points off his handicap of 17 to win by three points from Steven Tate and John Lenehan from Nowra on 39 points. C Grade was taken out by Don Helmore with 39 points off his handicap of 32 on countback from Rod Holman while Alby Donnelly was favoured by the countback to finish third with 37 points ahead of Colin Boxsell. The NTP winners were Glenn Mood on 3, Gary Leahy on 9, Laurie Holmes on 14 and Ben Smith on 17. Ball competition to all on 34 points.

Again scoring was easy for the field of 165 players on Saturday, where A Grade was taken out by Brett McCulloch from Mollymook with 41 points off his handicap of 6, albeit on countback from Brett Thompson. Rick Porter filled third place with 40 points. In B Grade Michael Commins prevailed with 42 points off his handicap of 16, followed by Graham Small on 41 points with Peter James edging out Roger Cheel and Tony Cobcroft on countback to take third place on 40 points. In C Grade Trevor Breust came out on top with 39 points off his handicap of 21, one better than Brian Brown on 38 points. Robert Brown finished third in a five-way countback on 37 points, ahead of Trevor Owens, Alby Donnelly, Norm Baxendale and Colin Boxsell ( again!). The NTP winners were Ben Ritchie on 3, Laurie Holmes on 9, Peter James on 14 and Tom Heffernan of Moruya on 17, while the ball competition went down to 35 points with 19 on the way home. RGI

Narooma Croquet Golf Doubles Championships

Last Thursday, in overcast and cool weather conditions, six pairs of doubles teams battled out Narooma's Golf Croquet Doubles Championships at the Dalmeny Club croquet courts. Nine matches were conducted in the morning session after which four teams had two wins and one loss, with the pairing of Di Sims and Pearl Hanson having a slender overall lead by one point.

After lunch there was a session of six further matches, whereby the pairing of Fay O'Connor and Pauline Wilcock, although winning a further two games, were unable to catch the leading pair of Di Sims and Pearl Hanson.

Di Sims and Pearl Hanson are the Narooma Croquet Club golf croquet doubles champions of 2020. In their win, Di and Pearl only dropped one point in their one loss over their five matches. Also, while Di and Pearl put in a 'pearler' of a performance, another highlight on the day was in game four when Fay O'Connor scored a metre-long jump shot hoop when Len Favier's ball looked to be in the 'sweet spot' to score - so 'flukey' Fay did it again. Full score details were as follows:-

Game 1 - Jean Phillips and Christine Stent 7 def Fay O'Connor and Pauline Wilcock 2; Game 2 - Margaret Allnutt /Janet Jones 7 def Sally McGourty and Helen Stannard 2; Game 3 - Di Sims and Pearl Hanson 7 def Louise Starkie and Len Favier 2; Game 4 - Fay O'Connor and Pauline Wilcock 7 def Louise Starkie and Len Favier 2; Game 5 - Di Sims and Pearl Hanson 7 def Sally McGourty and Helen Stannard 5; Game 6 - Ken Cole and Christine Stent 7 def Margaret Allnutt and Janet Jones 2; Game 7 - Sally McGourty / Helen Stannard 7 def Jean Phillips and Christine Stent 5; Game 8 - Margaret Allnutt and Janet Jones 7 def Louise Starkie and Len Favier 5; Game 9 - Fay O'Connor and Pauline Wilcock 7 def Di Sims and Pearl Hanson 6; Game 10 - Fay O'Connor 7 Pauline Wilcock 7 def Margaret Allnutt /Janet Jones 5; Game 11 - Di Sims and Pearl Hanson 7 def Ken Cole and Christine Stent 5; Game 12 - Louise Starkie and Len Favier 7 def Sally McGourty and Helen Stannard 0; Game 13 - Louise Starkie and Len Favier 7 def Jean Phillips and Christine Stent 5; Game 14 - Di Sims and Pearl Hanson 7 def Margaret Allnut and Janet Jones 4; Game 15 - Fay O'Connor and Pauline Wilcock 7 def Sally McGourty and Helen Stannard 5; The next regular golf croquet competition is at Dalmeny at 10am on Thursday. Bookings Fay O'Connor - 0421 352 527, keeping to COVID-19 protocols.

Trial Day, Thursday, September 10

Club Captain, Christine Stent, conducted another try-out and coaching session on the day after the championship competition. Elizabeth Oliver-Hawkey continued to show improvement. The next trial day is on Wednesday (today) at Dalmeny from 9.30am to 11.30am.

Association Croquet

The regular association croquet matches resumed on Saturday with a very close match of three-cornered competition of six ball association croquet. The result was:- Pauline Willcock 13, Janet Jones 13, Len Favier 6. The next association croquet competition is at Dalmeny at 10am on Saturday. Bookings Christine Stent, 4476 3506, keeping to COVID-19 protocols.

Results for w/e September 6 & 13

Wednesday, September 6 saw 20 bowlers organised by Doug and the points system decided the winners with 191/2 in Punter Alan, Chef Keith and Cobber Peter from the runners-up with 181/2 in John Oarley, Ex-Docker Ian or Dicko and Browny Brian. Gospeller Bob scored the first resting toucher. The $100 jackpot did not go off while Dicko scored twice with his wrong biases.

Friday saw 24 players, Doug organised the cards but apologies from Yours Truly who mislaid the total results. The winners on the points system were Kenny or Benny and the Footsen couple Chris and Finn from the runners-up in Barry Leg-Inter and the Dunk-back Sons Dusty and Towelling. Cobber Peter won the first resting toucher. The $191 jackpot was not won.

The committee meeting gave us the news that we've been waiting for with bowls reverting back to the original Monday and Thursday playing days from September 21, Browny Brian is our new secretary and Anne Luke volunteered again to be our treasurer.

Wednesday, September 9, 22 bowlers and the highest winning margin decided the winners on 16 - Dennis Stroke Caller, Bruce Rap-Cousins and Steal Hot Daughter from runners-up on 14 in Meadow Falkiner, Cobber Peter and Chef Keith. Ken scraped in front of Yours Truly with the first resting toucher but the $100 jackpot did not go off while wrong biases went to Tony Ring-a-han, organiser Doug and VP Peter. Raffle prizes went off to Another Backroom Ian, Garry L-Rentacar and that Caller Tony.

On Friday there were 32 players, Doug organised the cards where the lowest winning margin saw the winners on one in Snoopy Falkiner and Topcard Ace from runners up on six in Marg Joiner and couple Chris and Shark Footsen . The first resting toucher went to Barry Leginter but the jackpot didn't go to anyone. Wrong bias sinners included organiser Dig, Macedonian Illya, Lair-ise Total-woman and Bearded Bruce while the raffles went off to Ian Eastoff, Towelling Dunk-back Son, Lois Mac or Greg and Gary Less-rain.

The delayed triples championship final is on Wednesday with Sailor Brian's health back to normal. The first round on the Championship 4's saw Emberley Footprint's team of Doug, Brett or Graham and Keith triumph over Brian's team of Browny, Pommie Pete and Peter Mur-100 18 to 17 that saw Ash's boys run away to lead 6 nil after 6 ends, 15/8 after 17 ends before Brian's team scored 9/3 over the last four ends.