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Thanks once again to our sponsors for making our monthly medal a special occasion. With heaps of water on the course, and a high likelihood of more torrential rain, we decided to play lift clean and place through the green, which made things a bit easier. Although there were no two's today, the scores were pretty low with 7 players playing lower than handicap. 

Steve Mann played superb golf, and finished the day in 1st place with a fabulous net 65, 2 shots better than the nearest other player. Well done Steve! Brad Jordison had an excellent round shooting the low gross of the day of 77 and he finished in 2nd place along with John Stafford on 67 net.

We had 12 groups playing on this day (40 in the medal comp) and for a while I thought it was going to be “one of those days” as dark clouds was present and rain threatening. Luckily the rain missed Green Valley for a change and with the course in good condition everyone had a good time out. 

A special thanks again to our sponsors making this tournament possible, with free finger food, a special shirt for the winner for the September final, and a first prize in the final for a trip to Hua Hin in March 2019 on our Legends tour.

Congratulations to Nev Jolley securing the win in this months medal! 

Congratulations to Fidge button for winning the December medal!

Medal day at the Outback attracted a field of 39 players, one tier so 9 places were paid.

9th Bruce Mcadam.

8th Vic Hester

7th Wayne Cotterill

6th Pasi Puranen

5th David Collier

4th Bob St Aubin

3rd Jon Kittelsen

2nd Stephen Mann

This months winner and going forward to Septembers Grand Final Reijo Heiskanen net 67. Because Reijo had already won the medal in September, the rules state that the person 2nd gains a slot in the final, - in this case Steve Mann!

The two's were shared by Vic Hester, Peter Nixon, Lester Featherstonehugh, Eng Cotterill and Steve Watkins.

33 players pegged up at Green Valley in excellent conditions the scoring reflecting this.

The field was split into 2 divisions, B divisions results as follows.

5th Sunanta Cotterill 39 points

4th Chris Thompson 39 points

3rd Barney Clarkson 39 points

2nd Eddy Bielby 41 points

Beating Eddy on Count back Stefan Hoge.

A division

Was a lot more complex with 2nd and 3rd having exactly the same scores, eventually it was split because Wayne Cotterill had recorded a wipe on the back nine!

5th place. Steve Mann 35 points

4th  Steve Mahoney 36 points

3rd Wayne Cotterill 38 points

2nd John Stafford 38 points

Winning with an amazing score Jon Goddard 45 points

4, 2/s were recorded, Jon Goddard, Stefan Hoge,  John Stafford, Eng Cotterill

A day of big scoring and plenty of Two's! Jamie Donaldson, Sugar Ray Handford, Peter Nixon (2 two's!), Dennis Pelley, Raivo Velsberg and John Stafford all scored 2's.

The Outback monthly medal attracted a field of over 40 players.

There were 3x2,s Peter Nixon, Kevin Macdonald and Barry Copestake.

9 places were paid

Starting with 74,  Kevin Mackintosh and Jim Black.

There were 3 players on 72 Bill Macdonald, Steve Mann and Chris Kerr.

4 players came joint second with 71 Peter Nixon, Peter Lenoury, Vic Hester and Howard Marson

Top podium and going forward to next Septembers medal winners comp

Stefan Hoge 68, great stuff Stef

We finally got our all important Grand Finale medal (scheduled for September) in! The previous two attempts at playing this medal got rained out, so a big sigh of relief for everyone since rain clouds were looming once again.

The day got off to a pretty good start with 11 monthly finalists and a further 32 players doing battle. The course is in pretty good condition and it is back to being many players favorite course again. I suspect the course was setup pretty easy since we had 9 two's in the day: David Atkinson, Eddy Beilby, Eng Cotterell, Reijo Heiskanen, Gerry Hughes, Peter Nixon, Paul Smith (2), and Pierre Zbinden.

The battle for first place was tough, with 4 players sharing 6th place with a net 69. In joint 2nd place with 68 net, 4 players shared as well namely Kim Danboise, Tony Oakes, Dave Stockman and Eng Cotterell. Overall winner and our first qualified entrant for next year's final 12 is Reijo Heiskanen, who played just too well with his net 67 and beat the field by a shot. Paul Smith won lowest Gross with a brilliant net 73.

For the big prize worth a trip of Thb 20,000 to Hua Hin in March next year, Tony Oakes continued his excellent form of late to narrowly beat Eng Cotterell on countback to win the Grand Final. Well done Tony!

PS: Tony donated his Prize to be auctioned at the Outback's Year end party on 22 Dec at the Outback.

Tony Oaks (Blue Shirt) together with Gordon Hall (EuroPVC Sponsor), Greg Hirst (Broadgate Securities), and Andre Coetzee (Outback)

The Twelve Monthly Finalists Group Picture: Well done to making it to here!

A great Party atmosphere at the Outback with Good Food afterwards:

37 players listed for Green Valley resulting in 3 divisions. 

There were 3 2,s two of which went to Lance Robinson the other being Steve Watkins.  

33 outbackers played Green Valley on a hot humid day, by the time the last 4 ball hit off the clouds were building and it looked very ominous. 
The last 4 ball played there tee shots on the 3rd when the heavens opened. Dashing for the nearest stop we were held up for over an hour, lightning was still striking long after the rain abated. Eventually finishing after being on the course for over 5 hours. 
2 divisions were sorted resulting in the following places. 
B Div 
5th David Davies  36 points 
4th Pierre Zbinden 36
3rd Sugar Ray.        37
2nd William Mackey 39
1st Roy Steinbach.    40
A Div
5th Paul Smith.   39
4th Sel Wagner.  39
3rd. Dave Stockman 40
2nd Paul Hack       41
1st Steve Mann.     41
Exceptional scoring on what ended up as a wet and sloshy course.

Only a single two today by the Voucher King, Peter Nixon. For those of you confused by the "Gold" tee next to Bob Lindborg's name, it is because he simply cannot get over hole 1 and 3 at Green Valley and for that reason he tee's off from the Silver tee on those two holes. Bob does not want to move to play all holes on Silver tee's as he finds that unsociable. Interestingly, and probably very very few people know this, but this situation is catered for in the USGA Handicap manual with a specific table to make adjustments. In this case, the table indicated a two shot reduction on handicap so Bob played on a 30 handicap instead of a 32 handicap as he would have done from the regular white tee's. More info on this rule can be found in the USGA Handicap manual Section 5.2(g).

Smallish turn out today with so many people away but that doesn't take away from the fact that Bob St. Aubin played an excellent round to win the monthly medal and join the select few in September's big event for the Grand Final Prize.

Greg Hirst from Broadgate Securties Congratulating Bob St. Aubin

Green Valley had a competition starting midday and apparently is closed for the next two Fridays, after heavy negotiations it was agreed that the Outback could have a shotgun start at 8am, this in itself limited the field to 20 players.

All but 1 straggler arrived in a timely fashion to make their way  to their allocated tees, all got around in a timely fashion and did not interfere with the Green Valley comp.

There were three 2,s - Messrs:  John Stafford, Peter Nixon and Bob Mattes.

There were only 2 Places because of the small field.

In second place was the Sugarman, Sugar Ray Handford with a very commendable net 67,his first game back after a short jaunt with his boys to his beloved homeland.

The top Prize with a magnificent net 64 went to Sunanta Cotterill (Eng), Eng also had the lowest gross score of 85, so she scopps both top prizes in our monthly event! With Sunanta's win, this is now also the first lady that qualifies for the September final and the chance to win our Season top prize of a golf tour to Hua Hin in March next year.

Thank you to Green Valley for accommodating the Outback on the day advertised. 

In the picture: Andre (Outback), Sunanta Cotterell (winner), Sugar Ray (2nd)

Round 7 in our annual Monthly Medal was played again as usual at Green Valley, with free food provided by our sponsors, Gecko Properties, Broadgate Securities and EuroPVC. Not only does the winner of each monthly award receive the regular cash prize and a fabulous framed picture with his name and fellow players or other prize winners in it, but that person also qualifies for an entry into our final September event where the monthly winners receive a special commemorative shirt and the winner from that tournament wins a fabulous trip to Hua Hin for our golf tour there in March 2018, total value approx. Thb 20,000. 

Since we have several ladies joining our monthly medal event, we split the field into a ladies and mens division for regular prizes if ladies represent more than 20% of the field. The low gross and overall winner is however across both divisions, but using the correct USGA handicap rules for multi-tee competitions, the ladies lose between 1 and 4 shots compared to the same handicap mens player from the white tee's at Green Valley. That makes it fair for everyone AND is according to the USGA competition rules.

In the ladies division, Suphin Stewart made her 3rd appearance at the Outback and playing from only a 14 handicap, scored the 2nd lowest gross score and a fabulous net 68 to be the joint leader in the ladies division. Poopei (Tewin Lamthong), is a fabulous player playing from only a 10 handicap and not only did she win the low gross of the day with 78, she also had the lowest net score of 68 in the ladies division, beating Suphin on countback. Well done ladies!

In the men's division, joint 3rd place went to Fynn Csizmadia (12 hcp) who has been in very good form over the last few rounds, scoring 70 net. In joint 3rd, Keith Allen (13 hcp) is returning to form again with his net 70 round. In 2nd place with a fabulous performance from his 17 Hcp, John Stafford scored a great 69 net to finish alone in 2nd place. In top spot today, and also starting to come back to form with a few good rounds lately is Bob Mattes, scoring an incredible 64 net from his 22 handicap. Bob is also the overall winner for our April medal and secures himself a spot in the grand final in September.

There were 4 two's today:

Poopei had two 2's today, with John Stafford and Sunanta Cotterrel each scoring a two.

L-R: Fynn Csizmadia and Keith Allen (Mens 3rd), Poopei (Low Gross and Ladies 1st), Suphin (joint Ladies 1st), Bob Mattes (Men's 1st and Overall Winner), John Stafford (Men's 2nd)

Three two's today: Eng and Wayne Cotterell, Sumalee Wild

5 Two's today: On, Anton, Brad, Bob Mattis and Chris.

An excellent Eagle by Roy Steinbach hitting a 6 iron onto the green at the uphill par 4 14th hole got him an eagle! There were 7 two's today by Roy (Eagle), Cotty, Keith Allen, Poopey, Peter Nixon, Muzza and Steve Mann. Well done to Poopey winning Div A and B2 winning Div B. Results Below:

Raising money to buy an embosser for the Pattaya Redemptionist School for the Blind, our event was held at Green Valley with a two ball scramble format, where part of the entry fee funded a raffle ticket for each contestant, buffet and evening entertainment.

After golf and yet another superb Outback buffet, the Band of Smiles kept everyone well entertained late into the evening. We managed to sell out all raffle tickets which is a great testament and thanks to those that attended. With over 400 tickets sold and thanks to the generous donations by all our sponsors, our Charity fund is currently sitting at Thb 166,000. Special thanks to company donations received from Juicy Lucy, Pattaya Car Hire and Munkfors Swedev, Private donations by James Greer,  Shaun Pullen, Geoff Braithwaite, Charlie Heneghan, Bob St. Auburn and Nev Jolley. Also, a special thanks to our Raffle sponsors, Green Valley, Nev Jolley, Craig DoneThat Blacklock, and Jeff and John from the Golf Center restaurant at Green Valley. 

Popularity of our monthly medal is ever increasing due to the lucrative first price of the Hua Hin Golf tour for the Finals winner in Sept 2017, the great food and snacks, the winning picture presentation and other extra's made possible thanks to the generous support of our sponsors from Broadgate, Gecko properties and EuroPVC. This month, our contestants went all out and where 14th place this month would be good enough for a win last month, you needed a fantastic round to be in the top 5!

In what was one of our busiest normal society rounds ever, we started the field with 66 players, quite a logistic nightmare when we were only at about 40 players 3 days ahead of the event. Pulling all the strings we could, we managed to get enough tee times squeezed in for our group, courtesy of the Valley Hackers golf society who agreed to play Silky Oaks, and good support from Management at Green Valley to make this possible. True in Outback style and pulling all the strings, we managed to accommodate everyone with some good logistics and organization on our part, something we have become renowned for.

With a field of 37 out backers, boosted by visitors from Norway, Germany,Australia, Scotland and Ireland these events are becoming truly international. As a result 2 flights were in order with 1st to 5th Placings in both.

Let's start with the two's - there were only 3, Jim Brackett, Tom Parker and Mr consistency Peter Nixon each collecting a healthy prize.

Division B 5th place went to a welcome visitor from Austaralia, Colin Flaherty with 37 points, there were 3 scores of 39 points, Ed Turner 4th 17 points back 9, 3rd his fellow countryman Andy Makara 18 back 9, pipping them for 2nd was Tom Parker with a back 9 of 19 points. The clear winner with a great score of 43 points Steve Watkins, seems the advice given to him by an ex teaching pro at the driving range is paying off! Let us know what he said Steve.

Division A. Another consistent player Steve Mann was 5th with 37 points (17 back nine) losing on count back to Tony McDonough who returned 19 on the back. 3rd with 38 points was Mr Vinnie Conolan aka:Vinnie Jones!!! Our friend from the Emerald Isle with 38 points, 2nd was Peter Ennis with a great of score of 40 points pipped by John Stafford with a majestical 41 points, great shooting John.

This week was a particular busy week for us, and whilst myself and 3 other Outback players were out trying to beat the other golf society's in the Pattaya matchplay event, all the organising was left up to Tawan, who once again did a marvelous job, even with a lot of stress on her shoulders (and misbehaving tree's driving into the back of our new minibus etc.) A lot of our society golfers encourages me to play more with other groups, something they call networking. However, the truth is rather that they prefer Tawan to organising the start than me, and they just want me out of the way I think! Not fair guys! Not Fair! 

Another great opportunity for a player to qualify for our amazing first prize of a Hua Win tour with this month's monthly medal, thanks to our generous sponsors (Greg from Broadgate, Gordon from EuroPVC and Steve from Gecko properties). 

Surprisingly, there were no massively impressive scores this month with only one player scoring better than handicap. No real explanation for this as the course were not unusually difficult and the only rationale being that some of the tee's were a bit further back than usual.

With a couple of Outbackers playing in the Matchplay tournament against other bars, it was up to Tawan to get everyone organized at the start. Always doing a fabulous job she is, and I have to constantly listen to golfers telling me that they much prefer her to be at the start since she is smart and beautiful and does a better job than me! I guess what I am hearing is that they are in their comfort zone with Tawan - giving money to a pretty girl that outsmarts them LOL! (Even if it is just the Thb 200 for the comp fee). Anyway, back to our results for today, before I get crucified on a public post for saying "too much".

The only bad luck with this Friday the 13th was if you got the draw in the 10th group with such a large field! Seems like the high season is in full swing and with us getting good support in preparation for our upcoming medal on the 20th, it was our 2nd sampling of the new layout. Now people are complaining about the new hole handicaps etc., something which I hope the management gets right over a period of time. Thanks to Reijo Heiskanen and all his friends from Scandinavia that joined us today.

Sponsored by two Outback favorites, friends and long standing supporters, today was a happy but also somewhat sad day as we celebrated Steve Mann's birthday but also said goodbye to Muzza (Murray Hart) who is relocating his family back to Australia. So the thing we do best, whether happy or sad (or both), is to have a great game of golf and a party to round things off. And with a two ball scramble, near pins sponsored by Steve Mann and Bob St Aubin, a bit of food and a generous bell ring by Muzza, the tone was set for another enjoyable day by close to 50 players today. 

With a few more returning faces joining us, it is clear that high season is now in full swing as the courses get busier and busier. Next week we will be away on our Kanchanaburi tour and the play will shift to Silky Oaks for that round. There is a couple of vouchers for Thb 700 at the bar for anyone wanting to play this Friday at Silky Oaks (first come first served), which does save you a bit of money on the usual green fee. Please pop into the bar this week and Bob or Sa will sell you the voucher which you can use on Friday. 

Word from the players are that the sogginess around the greens as a result of their persistent overwatering is getting better and that the greens was running much faster than usual. I will give it a go with Sugar Ray Handfordas my partner this Friday when we play in a two man scramble for Muzza's (Murray Hart) go away and Steve Mann's birthday party at the Outback after the event. With fast greens and less sogginess around the greens it should be a walk in the park for a quality team like myself and Sugar (you can see I'm learning from him in taking oneself up!). Find yourself a partner and join us for the fun event!

With XMAS just around the corner, beautiful weather, and a good bit of banter, a tournament sponsored by our generous sponsors (Greg from Broadgate, Gordon from EuroPVC and Steve from Gecko properties), with free food and a drinks special, how can one not enjoy golf in Pattaya? With all those things in place, all one has to do is play a good round of golf and win the beautiful picture trophy giving you an entry ticket to the Medal Championship and a chance to win the grand prize of a free golf and hotel trip to Hua Hin! 

With 11 groups slogging it out there today, it was a good thing that we had pretty good cool weather as the last groups only tee'd off at about 10:30am. A good thing to remember is that you can let us know whether you want to tee off early, in the middle or late on our busy days, and we usually comply with your request. Since we haven't had a lot of rain in the last week or two, our rule on the day was to play the ball as it lies. However, the greenskeeper seem to have extra budget for water wastage and in general, it was quite soggy and very wet around the greens. Greens was fantastic however and the greens are in good Green Valley medium speed territory.

With a large field playing Green Valley this week, prizes was split into two divisions with Division A up to 16 handicap, and Division B from 17 handicap onwards. It was a high scoring day with beautiful weather and the course set up reasonably easy, with most pins well accessible. Even 38 points was not enough to secure a prize in the B division, which just goes to show.

In 4th place in Division B, Bob Lindborg got into the prizes for the second time in a week with a good 39 points. Bruce McAdam beat Bob on countback to finish in 3rd place, with (Eddie) Edward Beilby playing yet another high scoring round with 40 points, only good enough to earn him 2nd place. (Bill) William Peach had a tremendous round from the SIlver tee's where his 23 points including a birdie on the back nine was finally enough to give him a good win. Well done guys!

Another good crowd turned up for our Monthly medal sponsored by Broadgate Securities, EuroPVC and Gecko Properties. We are gaining momentum with the series and some additional sponsors approaching us making it possible for me to announce the grand final prize to be won in September next year. And here we go: The winner of the series, played in September 2017 will win an all expense paid trip on the following year's Hua Hin trip in March, valued at Thb 20,000. How is that for returning value our loyal golf society members!

We had a great turn out with the first round of our new format monthly medal thanks to our sponsors, Steven Scholey from Gecko Properties, Gordon Hall from Euro PVC and Greg Hirst from Broadgate Securities. After the round, we provided a light finger lunch and snacks, and a free drink when buying your first one at the bar amongst a host of other benefits to the players participating in the monthly medal. The big novelty is that the winner is presented at the prize presentation with a beautiful framed picture of him/her with playing partners on the first tee to make it a bit more memorable than just another trophy sitting on the shelf. Since this Medal round was actually September's tournament, our October medal will be played again next Friday, 21st October, and we hope to see you there.

With Green Valley recovering fast it should be almost back to normal for our monthly medal this coming Friday. Feedback from the players are that the course is recovering well from the coring and already improved much from the previous week.

In 5th place this week with 33 points was John Langley with 33 points. In 4th place, Sugar Ray Handford scored well with 34 points. (Andy) Andrew Makara is on his way back to better golf after a bad low season with a great 37 points for 3rd place. Always in the prizes, (Eddie) Edward Beilby beat Andy on count back to finish 2nd, and in first place, maintaining his good form after our Hua Hin tour was John Stafford yet again with a great 38 points.

From next month, we will launch our new Monthly Medal series that will really be something special. But more about this in our September newsletter. 

In 5th place today, scoring a 74 and losing on count back was Wally Brown. Beating him, also with 74 net, was Sugar Ray Handford that completed a week where he came 1st twice and 4th once. Good news (for us), is that his naggingly persistant handicap is finally plummeting down, and many of his competing mates are all too thankful with a new, shiny 15.8 handicap from this week, Sugar's lowest in a number of years. Another gentleman that is starting to settle into retirement mode in Thailand, is Gary Lawson, who has been posting some good scores recently. In 2nd place, Jack Butler sneaked in again with an awesome 69 and our winner this week was Stefan Hoge, beating Jack on count back for an awesome 33 net on the back nine.

 Results:

Our usual Friday outing at Green Valley is greeted by changes on a weekly basis on the first tee. A shortened carry is evident and signs of grass being planted after the shorter carry will make our higher handicappers happy. For the time being, we treat the area as GUR and give anyone who lands in that area relief to the red tee or nearest point of relief, without penalty. 

Our Green Valley field was a bit depleted since we also had a parallel tour group playing St. Andrews. So with the B division being 18 handicap and up, we had 12 players contesting the B division. Scores were generally very good today and in 3rd place place on count back was Bruce McAdam. (Eng) Sunanta Eng Cottrell continued her good form and scored a great 39 points, even though her handicap has reduced from last week. Between Eng on count back was Bob Mattes who played great to finish in 1st place with his 39 points and 19 on the back 9.

 Results:

Another good turn out at Green Valley brings the total number of rounds played with the Outback last week to 143, not bad for the low season and keeping both Tawan and myself very busy on the transport side as well! Feedback from this week was that the course was playing average, so obviously not as good as the week before when we had our medal when i thought it was in great shape.

Some really good scores came in though: In division B, Aussie tourer Beau Mete scraped into the prizes with his 36 points on count back. Andy Makara who has been in the prizes far too often in the last two weeks got into 4th spot (losing on on count back) to William Peach, who continues his good and consistant form also on 37pts. In 2nd place, Edward Beilby (Eddie) was playing splendid golf with 40pts, but it was Sunanta Eng Cotterell who had her very best game in a long time with a splendid 45 points. 

 Results:

With an intimidating start due to the lake being filled up and a long carry, a medal competition can seem quite daunting when you stand on the first tee box at Green Valley at the moment. Surprisingly, just about everyone navigated the first hole quite well judging by the scores. Green Valley is in really good shape I thought, the fairways was lush in most places, and the greens were running at a good speed, - not championship fast but definitely not grainy and slow. 

In the picture, Stefan 1st, Sugar 3rd and Andre 2nd.

Results:

A very good low season turn out with 35 players (31 competitors) at Green valley today. No doubt everyone enjoyed playing Green valley after the tournament and word from the players are that the Greens was in good nick.

Playing in two divisions, with the handicap cutoff at 0-19 for A div and 20 up for B division, 4th place in B division went to Stefan Hoge, with Sugar Ray getting ready for Chiang Mai trip with 37 points in 3rd place. In 2nd place beating Sugar on count back, Bob Mattes played well, but it was Keith Allen who walked off with the honours on 40 points.

Scoring in the A division was really high proving again that our courses generally play progressively harder for the higher handicappers and therefore justifying once again using the USGA slope index rules to determine playing handicap. With 38 points, Peter Nixon is in the prizes for the second time this week. JP Maffray, who hasn't been playing to form lately, scored a great 39 points. Tony Oakes must have thought that he had won on 42 points, but John Stafford clinched first with a great 43 points.

Tony Oakes and Steve Compton were the only players scoring a two today.

Tony Oaks (2nd) and John Stafford (1st)

 Results:

With it being a public holiday and with numerous regular players being abroad our numbers were down for our monthly medal. That didn't stop numerous players from scoring better than net par rounds, but in the end, it was John Stafford's day. Not only did John win the lowest gross (from a 17 handicap!), but he also recorded the only 2 and he won the lowest net with 65. Talk about scooping up!

In 2nd place, Wayne Cotterell came in with a great 68, with his wife, Sunanta, sharing 3rd place with Kim Danboise.

John Stafford - cleaning up the Monthly Medal!

Results:

Welcome back to Chris Wilmott who returns to Pattaya for a few weeks. Playing in two divisions today, the scoring was pretty balanced between the two divisions. Starting with the 2nd division, Bob Mattes scored a pretty good 35 points to finish in 3rd spot. Keith Allen, having shed a few kilo's with his active cycling regime and playing much better golf, finished 2nd with 38 points and the B division winner was Sugar Ray, having been on the podium for a 2nd time this week.

In the A division, Peter Lenoury ended up in 3rd place with 37 points, JP Maffray ended up with 39 points in 2nd place and Cotty continuing his good form with 41 points to finish 1st.

Several two's today with Wayne Cotterell scoring 2 x 2's, Steve Mann, Takita Takashi, Eddy Beilby and John leonard each scoring a single two.

 Sugar Ray Handford (Div B Winner) and Wayne Cotterell (Div A Winner)

Results:

With a fun 2Ball scramble format and a day of great food and lots of prizes sponsored by our birthday boys, Bob Lindborg and Bob Mattes, what better way is there to start a day off at Green Valley. A special welcome back to Barney Clarkson who didnt play but did join us in the afternoon, and that contributed to the merry atmosphere as many of Barney's old friends were at the bar. Green Valley is in good shape shortly before the Singha tournament and the Greens are in really good shape at the moment.

Always competitive, Sugar took great joy in taking a few bob from playing partners Eddie and Pat due to Andy Makara sinking putts from everywhere it seems. Playing perfect dovetail golf on the back 9, Sugar and Andy won in the end on countback from Irng and Cottee with a fantastic score of 62 net and only 27 net on the back nine. What a fabulous performance and nice when everything works like it should in a game!!

 Sugar Ray Handford and Andy Makara (1st) with Irng and Wayne Cotterell (2nd)

Results:

1st Place: Andy Makara and Sugar Ray Handford

2nd Place: Wayne and Erng Cotterell

3rd Place: Bob Lindborg and Barry Fisher

Novelty Prizes:

Near Pins: Bruce McAdam (Hole 5), Cottee (Hole 6), Andy Makara (Holes 12 and 16)

Nearest for 2 team: Eddie/Pat (Hole 11), KB/George (Hole 18)

Results:

With a good low season turnout and welcoming back Geoff Braithwaite, John Leonard, and Kazuo Sagaya from Japan, Green Valley was the usual venue for our monthly medal. Green Valley seems to be holding up reasonably well apart from the dry and barren patches, but doing better than most of the other B grade courses that we play. 

Scoring was particularly good on this medal day, with 9 players beating par but the big surprise of the day was that out of a sizable field, not a single two was to be had all day, so that prompted a "bell ring" and a drink for everyone that was kind enough to be present at the prize presentation. 

Prize awards extended all the way down to 6th position, with John Stafford and Steve Plant joint 5th with a net 69. Joint 2nd was Steve Mann, Eddy Beilby and Peter Lenoury all on 68, but the man that no one could catch was Kazuo Sagaya from Japan, scoring an outrageous 63 net. Kazuo played a few times with us before and with a verified Japanese handicap of 24 (Outback Index 22), he will in future be slashed to 17 hcp in future competitions with the Outback! Well done on a remarkable achievement!

Kazuo Sagaya - our monthly medal winner with an outrageous 63 net. Well Done!

Results:

Results:

Thanks to Steve Mann for organizing the day at Green Valley, where the course played rather hard with only 2 scores bettering handicap, with the A division guys clearly finding the course easier, despite receiving a shot or two less on playing handicap than the B division.

In Div B, Dave Atkinson finally found a caddy that could read his way of putting (LOL), and he came in with a score of 34 points to finish 3rd in Div B. In 2nd place, Eddy Beilby had another good round to finish 2nd with 36 points, and in 1st place, after a long drought from any prices, was very pleased with his 36 points to beat Eddy on countback for 1st place. In the A division, Peter LeNoury finished 3rd with 35 points, Peter Nixon again beat his handicap to finish 2nd with a great 37 points, but the great score of the day went to Tony Oaks with his fabulous 40 points.

There were only 1 two on the day as well, which belonged to Tony Oaks who cleaned up on the two's pot. Great day and well done Tony and the rest!

Tony Oaks (Div A 1st), Eddy Beilby (Div B 2nd) and Bob Mattes (Div B 1st)

Results:

With us returing from our Hua Hin tour on Friday, a big thank you again to Sugar Ray for organizing the golf. With a small group left at Green Valley, the scoring did not dissapoint, and congratulations to Eddie Beilby who had another blast of a round (even with a 2 shot HC cut this week), to finish with 42 points. In 2nd place was Bob Finley who continues with his good form with 40 points, and in 3rd place was Gerry Roche with 37 points.

Results:

With many of our visiting friends returning back home or elsewhere in Thailand, our numbers have dwindled somewhat this week, and we had a more mundane 22 people returning scorecards. Green Valley was a breeze judging by the scores, and for the 2nd time in a week, we had a "high pointer" in our midst. This time from the always potent Mr. Eddie Beilby.

Scoring a brilliant 23 points on each 9, Eddie recorded 46 points from his Playing handicap of 22. For those that followed my statistical analysis earlier in the week with Sugar Ray's score, Eddie's probability of shooting 8 under on his handicap index of 20 is 1,138:1, so this should be a once in about 5 year score for Eddie! Good going there young man!

Other noteworthy performances of the day was Andy Makara coming 3rd in Div B with 37 points. The lovely young Rona Carunga scored 41 points to finish in 2nd place behind Eddie as we see her handicap coming down by a few shots this week. In Div A, the ever present Peter Nixon played another steady round to finish 3rd with 37 points, and our friend from Japan, Yurie Murakami, recorded a great 40points to round off their trip to Thailand in style with a 2nd place. Sel Wegner recorded the lowest gross score on the day and is also the points winner of Div A with a fantastic 42 points.

The only 2's to be had all day belonged to none other than Mr. Eddie Beilby and Andy Makara! Well done guys.

Div A winner Sel Wegner, Div A 2nd Yurie Murakami, Div B and overall Winner Eddy Beilby, and Div B 3rd Andy Makara

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Another busy day for us with a good turnout of regulars and tourists. We're seeing a couple of complaints starting to trickle in due to the maintenance work being carried out on the course, and we advised all players to use the GUR rule for the barren patches on the fairways where the invading grasses have been removed. (In line with the sign posted at the clubhouse). So I guess we will just have to play around these areas for the next couple of weeks until it's been fixed with new grass.

Scoring was good and in line with what one would expect, and in Division B, Bruce Mcadam was in the prizes for the 2nd time this week with 34 pts, Gordon Clegg returned a good 35 points to come in 3rd spot, followed by Rona Carungay on 36 points and our B division winner, Paul Watts scoring a brilliant 38 points from his newley revised 21 handicap index.

In the A division, Wayne Cotterell scored a 36 pointer to beat JP Maffray, who's golf is continuing to improve to finish 3rd on countback, Mike Missler again in the prizes with 38 points n 2nd place, and Bob Finley being our big winner with a fantastic and long overdue win on 41 points.

There were 4 two's recorded: KB Lee, Cotty, Kim Danboise and Bob Lindborg. Well done everyone.

Div B winner Paul Watts, Bruce Mcadam (4th) and Wayne Cotterell (3rd A Div)

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