Mug of the Month - Wiffo

Winners - Doug and Gu

Runners up - Rick and Max

NTP HOLE 11th Rick Sheather

NTP Hole 15th Paul Kelly

Lucky Badge - Draw M McCann

BEER TICKETS - Mark Thomas

Big meat tray - Coolie

There's normal golf next week.

The most interesting match day of croquet for the week turned out to be on Thursday 15 October when a competition of four doubles matches of golf croquet was played on court 1 concurrently with four matches of ricochet croquet, one doubles match and three singles matches, being played on court 2. 'Ricochet croquet' is a hybrid of association and golf croquet with free shots after hitting another ball, but without roquet or croquet shots. Nine players in all enjoyed this innovative competition day. Overall four players featured in two wins each, those being Janet Jones, Louise Starkie, Di Sims and Fay O'Connor, whilst Len Favier was the highest scorer on the day with 21 points in game 3 of ricochet croquet.

Golf Croquet Games

Game 1 - Helen Stannard and Fay O'Connor 7 def Louise Starkie and Sally McGourty 3

Game 2 - Fay O'Connor and Louise Starkie 7 def Helen Stannard and Sally McGourty 5

Game 3 - Di Sims and Sally McGourty 7 def Helen Stannard and Louise Starkie 5

Game 4 - Di Sims and Louise Starkie 7 def Helen Stannard and Sally McGourty 3

Ricochet Croquet Games

Game 1 - Janet Jones and Christine Stent 9 def Di Sims and Len Favier 7

Game 2 - Janet Jones 19 def Pearl Hanson 12

Game 3 - Len Favier 21 def Fay O'Connor 14

Game 4 - Pearl Hanson 9 def Christine Stent 5

Wednesday 14 October, twilight schedule: Matches were delayed and eventually called off because of persistent showery weather.

Next week golf croquet competition is scheduled for the Dalmeny Club greens on Wednesday twilight 21 October at 4:00 pm and Thursday morning 22 October at 9:00 am. Golf croquet competition will also be scheduled on Friday twilight 23 October at 4:00 pm if there are a sufficient number of competitors. Bookings for this competition can be made with Fay O'Connor, telephone 0421 352 527, keeping to COVID-19 protocols.

Trial Days, with coaching provided by Club Captain Christine Stent, are available every Wednesday morning at 10.00 am. Bookings to be made with Christine Stent, telephone 4476 3506, keeping to COVID-19 protocols.

Association Croquet

Tuesday 13 October; morning schedule: A quiet day of association croquet with Di Sims receiving coaching in shot-making skills from Janet Jones.

Friday 16 October; twilight schedule: Matches were cancelled.

Saturday 17 October; morning schedule: In conditions of clearing skies a match of six ball association croquet was contested with Len Favier, after his maiden association croquet win the previous week, repeated the winning performance by the smallest of margins of one point (in the absence of Janet Jones) from Pauline Wilcock, with the game halted at the time limit.

Scores were - Len Favier 13, Pauline Wilcock 12, Pearl Hanson 5.

Bye: Janet Jones.

Next week three days of association croquet competition are scheduled for the Dalmeny Club greens, that being on Tuesday morning 20 October at 9:00 am, Friday twilight 23 October at 4pm and Saturday morning 24 October at 9:00 am. Bookings for this competition can be made with Christine Stent, telephone 4476 3506, keeping to covid-19 protocols.

Thursday, October 15:

A field of 155 players enjoyed the weather conditions and the state of the course. A Grade was taken out by Tim Sykes with 41 points off his handicap of 10, a score which was the best of the day. Terry O'Callaghan finished second with 40 points and Simon Carr faded towards the end to finish with 39 points in third place. Worthy of mention is Mark Anderson's par round. In B Grade Perry Pericleous prevailed with 39 points off his handicap of 19, while Robert Coulson took the runner-up position with 38 points on countback from Warick Minett. In C Grade Noel Fisher finished on top with 39 points off his handicap of 25 with Ken Radburn in second place with 38 points. Lyle Healey took the other minor placing with 37 points on countback from Allan Chisholm.

The nearest-the-pin winners were Phil Haynes on 3, Glenn Mood on 9, Gary Schmidt on 14 and John Breust on 17, while the ball competition went down to all on 34 points.

Saturday, October 17:

Very windy conditions did not have any negative effect on the leading scores for the field of 174 players. In A Grade Chris Ritchie went round in a four-under-par round of 68 to post 39 points off his handicap of +1, while there was a four-way countback for the minor placings. These were taken by Stewart Fowler and George Kibbey from Gold Creek, while Aaron Smith from Cabramatta and Will Monteith missed out. In B Grade Peter Elliott posted the equal best score of the day with 41 points off his handicap of 19, followed by Ben Jordan from Richmond and Bill Baker with 39 and 38 points respectively. In C Grade Mark Bartrop came out on top with 41 points off his handicap of 26 but only after a favorable countback ahead of Derek Smith. Rod Smith took the third position with 39 points.

The nearest-the-pin winners were Andrew Thompson on 3, Ron Bezzina on 9, Dwayne Wood from the SGA on 14 and Chris Ritchie on 17, while the ball competition went down to all on 32 points. RGI.

On October 12, the event was a three person drop out Ambrose where 30 players participated in this fun event.

The winners with a great score of 66 were Bec Smart, Jane Hotchkis and Jenny Wuttke-Hayes.

Runners up with another great score of 66 2/3 were Sylvia Donohoe, Di Wilkes and Chris Hendra.

Balls went to 73 1/6.

On the 14th October 21 players participated in a stableford event.

Division 1 handicap range was 0-25

The winner was Kay Lawrence who posted a score of 35.

Division 2 handicap range was 26-45.

The winner was Margaret Brown who posted a score of 34.

Balls to 29 OCB.

Twentty-nine bowlers (would have been 30 but someone forgot and he should live up to his name having a very red face) under windy conditions organised by Snoopy where the highest winning margin decided the winners on 18 were Peter Rum-back 100, steal Colson and gospeller Bob from the runners-up on 4 in Tea Cartwright and Barry Leg-Inter.

Sailor Brian took out the first resting toucher but the $215 jackpot did not go off while the only wrong bias sinner was Nod-back Hilmore. The raffle run by Boot-print went off to the Rum-ack 100 bloke, John Oarley and John Jnr.

Thursday had 30 bowlers carded by Garry L-Rentacar had the lowest winning margin deciding the winners on 5 in Rabbit Ken, Punter Alan and Chef Keith from the runners-up on 6 in Lois Mac or Greg, Harrold or Jim and our Macedonian Illya. The Rabbit scored again with the first resting toucher but the $100 jackpot didn't go off.

Wrong bias sinners were Ken again and Scrap Metalman Doug and Olwyn ran the lady bowlers raffle well, when the machine worked, to Rabbits again, Garry L (twice sending it round again for) Chef Keith and the Mayoress of course.

On an overcast but rainless (until the last bowl) Friday twilight had 14 bowlers organised by Brett or Graham with Son Neil and the Sienna couple Marg and Don as our winners with our sponsors' prize draws going to Luke Surp-back, Buzz Saw and Peter Wormer. All over the age of 12 are welcome to join in on Friday nights for 2 hours of fun bowls and the signing on sheet will be on the cupboard under to notice board. Games are played in a pairs format and start at 5.30pm so names need to be on the sheet by 4.30pm in order to help organiser Brett with the cards.

In the semi-final round of the mixed pairs championships the Foot-Sen couple Chris and Finn were up against Kath Whiskey an Rye and Buzz Saw who got away early leading 12/2 after 7 ends before Chris and Finn came back to be down 15/8 at the 12 th end then scooting away to lead 17/15 at the 19 th when Kath and Buzz came back to 18-all at the at the 23 rd end and scoring 1 each on the next 2 ends to win 20/18 in a keenly fought game. In another close match early, the Sienna couple Marg and Don played against Gail Close-L and Chef Keith after leading 7/2 after 6 ends they were cut back to 8/7 at the 9th before going on to lead 17/8 at 15, 26/14 at 21 with a strong finish to win 31/16 at the 25 th end. Come along next week to cheer on Kath and Buzz and Marg and Don in what should be an exciting final between 2 evenly matched pairs.

Sadly our singles champ Buzz met another J-B-perch in the first round of the district club champions and was no match for his fired-up younger opponent.

Social Bowls, October 13: A lovely day for ladies bowls last Tuesday when a small group played triples and pairs, with the day's prize to be decided on 'secret ends'. On rink three Sue Sansom, Sue Bender and Pam Grant (skip) got away to a handy start and despite a late come back by Di Fry, Jenny Coulson and Gail Palmer (skip), they held on for a win. Their good luck continued, claiming the highest secret ends score and the prize. Raffles won by Di Fry (meat tray), Coral Read (fruit tray) thank you to Rapleys Meats for their support and to Sandra Breust. Clare Cork won the 50Club.

Social Men's Bowls Winners' Circle

On Wednesday, we had 7 rinks of triples with winners decided by Highest Winning Margin.

First place went to Mick Cavic, Wayne Harman and Dennis Maggs (skip) who played some top bowls to lead 16 to 5 after 11 ends and continued their good form to win their game 30 to 12 against Don Caldwell, Greg Riley and Jim Grant (skip). Second place went to Neville Butt, Col Armstrong and John Scott (skip) who were all square at 13 all after 14 ends before they got in the groove to take their match 27 to 15 against Scott Kennedy, John Voytas and Les Waldock (skip). Don Caldwell played some good bowls in a losing team and came up with the first resting toucher at 12.58, well done Don.

On Saturday there was a good turn out with winners decided by Highest Winning Margin. First place went to Peter Tinson and Gary Murane (skip) who bolted out of the blocks to lead 22 to 7 after 13 ends and maintained their form for a 34 to 15 win against Peter Murton and John McNamara (skip). Second place went to Craig Campbell, Bobby Robbins and John Scott (skip) who kept their opponents to an unlucky 4 while they picked up 20 shots after 11 ends but things were quite close in the second half as they ran out 27 to 12 winners against Shorty Smart, Billy Wilton and Wazza George (skip).

On Sunday we had 4 games of triples and a game of pairs with the winners decided by Lucky Rinks. First place went to Kerrin Nelson, Jan Rapkins and Terry Lewis (skip) who were down 9 to 12 after 12 ends before they finished strongly to take their match 17 to 16 against Sue Sampson, Sue Wales and Kevin Callaway (skip). Second place went to Graham Horden, Enid Brooker and Bruce Rapkins (skip) led 12 to 7 after 12 ends and continued on their good bowls for a 19 to 13 win against Leo Winter, Mick Cavic and Ken Burrows (skip). Sunday bowls is a great starting point for new bowlers and once again this was proved with both Kerrin Nelson and Graham Horden playing very good bowls on their first day of competition. Well done and we look forward to seeing you and our other new bowlers back on the green in coming weeks.

Triples Championship

Only one Triples Championship match was played this week, the semi-final between John Voytas, Darrell Goodridge and Les Waldock (skip) and Clem Hochkins, Keith Pickett and John Breust (skip) It was a very close game with Les's team getting away to a good start to lead 9 to 7 after 10 ends. John; team then found form to pick up 6 of the next 7 ends to lead 25 to 11 after 17 ends and they continued their good bowls for a 31 to 13 win. Clem, Keith and John are now in the final which should be played this week.