Tuross Head Veterans Golf Results31 May 2023

A warmer morning saw 50 players register for the Tuross Head Veterans Golf 2 Person Ambrose event on Wednesday 31 May. Winning combination on the day were husband and wife pairing Paul and Robin Green with a nett score of 33.5, beating home on count back Bruce Martin and Steve Johnston with the same score. Other winners were Teri & Steve Swanbury with 33.75 and Cathy and Terry Milliken on 34.75.

Minor prizes were awarded to Ian Miller partnering Ray Downey on 35.5, husband and wife Ian and Annette Manton with 35.75, Greg Bush and Don Russell on 36.25, Ron and Sandra Hanlon 36.75 and finally Barry Hoban and Tony Crook on the same score.

Henry Anderson and Greg Thornton took out the infamous Bradman award whilst nearest the pins went to Annette Manton on the 4th, Steve Collins on the 6th, and to Jane Eglitis and Steve Collins on the 7th. Steve Collins capped off a fine day with a further win in the Accurate drive competition.

On Wednesday we had a good turnout of 36 bowlers with winners decided by Lowest Winning Score and this week the winners were Graham Cummins, Mark Bartrup and Mitch Mitchell (skip) who led 10 to four a er 11 ends and 16 to 14 a er 20 ends before they picked up a shot on the last end for a 17 to 14 win against Rex Dunn, Don Caldwell and Peter McKay (skip). Second place went to Rhys Budwick, Tony Gors and Rob Coulson (skip) who led nine to five a er 11 ends before they doubled their score for an 18 to 12 win against Peter Murton, Shorty Smart and John Spees (skip). I saw a big yellow bowl lazily res ng on the jack at about 12.45 and it was the first res ng toucher and it was bowled by Tony Palmer proving he is not just a pre y face!! Thank you to Rapley and Sons for their con nued support.

On Saturday the winners, decided by Lucky Rinks, were Shorty Smart and Carl Lee (skip) who led 14 to nine a er 11 ends before moving into overdrive to rush home to score a 34 to 14 win against Craig Campbell and Billy Wilton (skip).

On Sunday we had two triples games with the winners decided by Lucky Rink and this Sunday it was Peter Hawker/Warren Bender, Jan Rapkins and Bruce Rapkins (skip) who had an all the way win against Rob McIntyre/Al Randall, Pieter Vos and Jean Vos (skip). Congratula ons to Jean and Pieter who are celebra ng their 58th wedding anniversary.

President Pairs

One game was played this week, with Peter Ha am and John Downie (skip) playing Mick Cavic and Dave Herman (skip). Peter and John started well and led for the first 10 ends and with the score 11 to 10 at that stage Mick and Dave made their move and led for the next six ends. With the score 18 to 16 to Mick and Dave a er 16 ends Peter and John started a acking the jack and they took the remaining ends to run out 24 to 18 winners.

Unseasonal warm weather allowed the 48 runners to push themselves and as a result there were 11 Personal Best mes.

In the 2-kilometres James Gunn improved by 10 seconds; Regina Knobel by 4 seconds; Elani Van Der Meulen by 13 seconds; James Tangney by 5 seconds and Anna Marley by 54 seconds.

In the 3-kilometres Ewan and Cove McAsh improved by 26 seconds. In the 4-kilometres Dave Connaughton improved by 4 seconds; Brad Turner by 7 seconds and Gary Ashton by 37 seconds.

The star of the night was Louisa McAsh, who improved her 4-kilometre me by an outstanding amount of 3 minutes and 35 seconds.

Some runners are approaching major record appearances. For example, James Gunn has 29 runs and Sunni West has 98 runs. We look forward to celebra ng with them soon.