BOWLS
Narooma Men
Social Bowls Winners' Circle: On Wednesday we had 7 rinks of triples with winners decided by Highest Winning Score. First place went to Graham Cummins, Dennis Maggs and Tony Palmer (skip) who shot out to a 22 to 4 lead after 11 ends before things evened up in the second half as they went on to a 35 to 20 win against Bill Gibson, Neville Butt and Col Armstrong (skip). Second place went to Jeff McCusker, Garry Evans and Paul Read (skip) who were on song all day for a 30 to 10 win against Rex Dunn, Scott Kennedy and Tony Cobcroft (skip). The first resting toucher went to Craig Campbell at 12.38, well played Craig.
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On Saturday the weather closed in causing bowls to be washed out.
On Sunday we had 3 games of triples and 2 games of pairs with the winners decided by Lucky Rinks. First place went to Jan Rapkins and Jeremy Seaton (skip) who showed their continued top form to lead all the way for a 20 to 7 win over Gail Palmer and Baxter Smith (skip). Second place went to Sue Waldock, Sue Bender and Barry Lymbery (skip) who jumped out to a 15 to 8 lead after 11 ends and they continued to attack the jack as they ran out 21 to 10 winners against Kaye Whiffen, Pam Grant and Ken Burrows (skip).
President's Pairs: One first round match in the President's Pairs was played on Friday between Peter Dillon and Peter Jones (skip) and Darrell Goodridge and Les Waldock (skip). What a great game this was with scores level on 5 occasions during the game and getting down to the wire the lead changed on each of the last 3 ends and on the last end Peter Dillon and Peter Jones (skip) put in one of their best ends of the day as they came from behind to take the contest 22 to 19. This result shows what a great tournament this concept provides. To ponder: The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Narooma women's bowls was washed out.
Croquet
Golf Croquet: With improving weather conditions and the sun breaking through the clouds on Thursday, eight players rolled up for the golf croquet competition. Eight matches were held - six doubles and two singles. Three players figured in three wins each, these being Di Sims, Fay O'Connor and Christine Stent.
Player of the day was Di Sims in scoring a total of 27 points from a possible 28 points as well as scoring two hoops with jump shots, both at hoop 6, in games 4 and 6. Also the performance of Sally McGourty was notable in that she scored two spectacular hoops - a one-shot hoop in game 6 and a jump shot hoop with the blue ball in game 8 at hoop 3. In games 3 and 4 the matches were decided at hoop 13 (red hoop) after the scores were tied 6 all at hoop 12.
Detailed scores were as follows: Game 1 (court 2, doubles) - Janet Jones and Fay O'Connor 7 def Christine Stent and Sally McGourty 2; Game 2 (court 1, singles) - Di Sims 7 def Len Favier 4; Game 3 (court 2, doubles) - Christine Stent and Fay O'Connor 7 def Sally McGourty and Janet Jones 6; Game 4 (court 1, singles) - Pearl Hanson 7 def Di Sims 6; Game 5 (court 2, doubles) - Janet Jones and Pearl Hanson 7 def Len Favier and Louise Starkie 3; Game 6 (court 1, doubles) - Di Sims and Christine Stent 7 def Fay O'Connor and Sally McGourty 5; Game 7 (court 2, doubles) - Len Favier and Fay O'Connor 7 def Pearl Hanson and Louise Starkie 4; Game 8 (court 1, doubles) - Di Sims and Christine Stent 7 def Sally McGourty and Janet Jones 4. Bye - Helen Stannard.
Wednesday twilight: The greenkeeper advised that the courts were too wet and soft for play.
Next week golf croquet competition is scheduled for the Dalmeny Club greens on Wednesday twilight November 4 at 4pm and Thursday morning November 5 at 9am. Bookings 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 10am. Bookings with Christine Stent, telephone 4476 3506, keeping to COVID-19 protocols.
Celebration - Fun in the Sun Day / 20th Birthday Celebration / Memorial Day
Reminder to all members for the big Celebration day this Saturday at Dalmeny Club and croquet courts. Starting at 10am with Fun in the Sun croquet and continuing with lunch in the barbecue area to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Narooma Croquet Club as well as the Memorial Day to remember past players. The day will end at 4pm. Last bookings now with Fay O'Connor. Don't forget to bring your partners, spouses, family and friends. Still some tickets available with the limit of 30 on numbers for COVID-19 reasons.
Association Croquet: Tuesday morning competition cancelled due to rain. Friday, twilight schedule. In pleasant weather conditions five players presented for association croquet competition at 4pm on Friday afternoon. The main game was a challenge match with Pauline Wilcock and Christine Stent pairing against Len Favier who played solo. Len battled hard to score 10 points but was unable to match the score of 13 points by the opposing duo when the time limit was reached. In the other game Di Sims, in her first attempt at association croquet, scored 5 points while being patiently coached by veteran Pearl Hanson who scored 2 points in the allotted time. Bye - Janet Jones. Saturday morning competition cancelled due to rain.
Next week only two days of association croquet competition are scheduled for the Dalmeny Club greens, on Tuesday morning at 9am and Friday at twilight time, 4pm. Bookings for this competition can be made with Christine Stent, telephone 4476 3506, keeping to COVID-19 protocols.
Bowls
Club Dalmeny: The weather taunted us as usual, raining over the weekend and stopping an hour short of Monday's playing time with it clearing for the rest of the day, to put paid to any bowls. It's not that we don't appreciate the rain but not on bowling days.
On Thursday 24 bowlers turned up for the end of month open draw organised by Chef Keith and gospeller Bob and the lowest winning margin decided the winners on four in our lucky scraper Doug, Dine-back Streamer and Chef Keith from the runners-up on five in Hel Blackman, Mayoress Olwyn and Shark Finn. No one scored a resting toucher and the $107 jackpot didn't go off.
Wrong bias sinners were our Macedonian Illya and Lois Mac or Greg and with Marg Joiner running the lady bowlers raffle well for herself with first prize along with winners Snoopy Leigh, Ken Rabbits and Judge Blackman. It was great to see our oldest player Cobber Dudley Drake back on the green sharing half a game with gospeller Bob
With the start of the Friday night tradies only eight regular twilight bowlers organised by Brett or Graham were on the green which saw the winners in Steal Forest and the Goose with our sponsors' prize draws going to 100-y Calaghan, IOU Ian and Bob Less.
We would love to see all interested players over the age of 12 to join in on Friday nights for two hours of fun bowls and the signing on sheet will be on the cupboard under the notice board. Games are played in a pairs format (but single entries accepted) 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.
The forecast weekend rain put paid to the Fishos/Bowlers annual charity match which has postponed to next Sunday and also stopped play in the final of the mixed pairs championships between Kath Whiskey an Rye and the Sienna couple Marg and Don which should also now be decided next weekend.
Listen out for playing times and come along next week to cheer on Kath and Buzz and Marg and Don in what should be an exciting final between two evenly matched pairs. Look out also for the 100-Up draw which has also been delayed due to the rain.
GOLF
Bermagui Dads Army Golf
- Mug of the Month Wiffo
- New November Mark Thomas
- Winner Mark Thomas, Runner up Peter Wilton
- NTP HOLE 6th unclaimed ,NTP Hole 8th Mick McCann
- Encouragement Award Whiffo
- Hacker on the day Geoff Vercoe
- Lucky Badge Draw Macca, Beer tickets Peter Bradley, Big meat tray Ian Horsfield
Presentation of cheque to Can Assist from Dads Army and Country Club of $1,750 great to know this money stays in the local community. Normal Golf next week.
Narooma men
An excellent field of 164 players enjoyed everything that was on offer on Thursday's Narooma golf day.
A Grade was taken out by Terry O'Callaghan with 39 points off his handicap of 13 to win by one point from Andrew Thompson who edged out Graeme Sawyer on 38 points by countback to take second spot.
In B Grade Chris Meakins from Cronulla was a clear winner with 43 points off his handicap of 19, followed by Warick Minett and Peter Elliott on 39 and 38 points respectively.
C Grade saw the bestscores of the day where John Murray registered 45 points off his handicap of 21 ahead of the luckless Chris Fondum on 44 points. Almost as an afterthought Lyle Healey took third place on 37 points after a tight countback from Tony Reid.
The NTP winners were Mick Rooney from Eden on 3, Paul Stokeson 9, John Gregs on 14 and Phil Rolfe of Cronulla on 17, while the ball competition went down to all on 33 points. RGI
Narooma Women
On Wednesday the event was a String Cup. Each player received a piece of string to match their handicap to use as desired. One kick of the ball and one throw were also allowed without counting as a stroke. Such a fun day and the winner was Ann Durnan with 43 points. After golf we had the presentation lunch.
The winners are:
The 2020 Club Champion D1 scratch winner was Sylvia Donohoe with a score of 337. The professional trophy went to Lynne McDonald and Margaret Brown.
The George Family Memorial Trophy scratch winner was Sylvia Donohoe. The handicap winner was Meridie Banson. Congratulations to all participants and the winners.
