Presidents Report March...........

Good evening Gents,

Lovely morning at Waimairi Beach - arrived to find Waimairi Presidents & Metropolitan teams had double booked the tee at 10am. Fortunately or unfortunately ( depends how you look at it). Grant ( Waimairii Presidents advisor) was more forceful than his Metropolitan counterpart(I am sure it was a case of age before beauty - Simon) & we duly teed off.

Some of us lost a couple of fairways - not helped by one of our team members hitting my opponents golf ball & losing it - & some wild drives from our 4 ( apart from Tony McKeogh of course - who was generally down the middle). We were slow ( apart from our number 7 & 8's who were anxious to get to the clubhouse & out of the sun - no names of course - and our 5 & 6's who played at a smart pace. - But the Metro boys - who were playing Avondale & teed off directly behind us - were never seen again - even after our lunch & refreshment stop at the end of the game - still no sign of them as we exited the car park.

I think the heat & the luck was against us. If they hit the trees - it dropped kindly onto the fairway or into the vast areas of GUR - enabling them to take a favourable drop. If we hit the very narrow fairways - Tony ended up under a twig - or something odd would happen - or they would chip in from impossible positions, I suppose we were just outplayed - but hard to admit it. The Course was in good nick - but looked very bare without the trees. Greens were a bit slower than we expected - but true.

As you may have guessed we lost 6-2.
Highlights - a very good win to Chris Brocket who shared 81's with his opponent. A good 1 up win to Jin Ho. Well done you two.
David Young who was 1 up at the turn - played an opponent who decided to have a 38 on the back 9. Tony played well on the front 9 - but struck some bad luck - which was enough to rekindle his opponent. Brian Tyro - who was not at his best - met an opponent who was all over the place - but chipped like a demon - so didn't need to putt a lot.
Me - had my chances - but was stunned to be 5 down after 7 holes - although playing close to my handicap. It was good to see Simon Fraser witnessing our adventures - "Gee Dennis that was awful" - so it was - but I did play below my handicap - I did have some good drives - but that's not what wins games - did get back to being 1 down - playing 12 - but mucked that one up & my opponent who flirted with the trees & out of bounds & bunkers - somehow managed to win the hole - in the end Tony & I succumbed at the 17th.

We have 3 games left to try & salvage some pride.

This Sunday 15 March - we have a home game - We tee off at 8:15am & we play Templeton. Please report to Shirley at 7:45am. Our Team advisor will be Brian Tyro.

The team is

1. David Youn
2. Chris Briocket
3. Brian Tyro
4. Geoff Brodie
5. David Young
6. Jin Ho Neoh
7. Paul Needs
8. David Isaac

Reserves
Richard Pearse
John MacVicar
Marcus Annan

Good luck in the 2nd round of club championships

Best regards

Dennis (President's Manager & Guest Reporter/Commentator)