Wednesday 1 December 2021

 

Mon

5:15pm – Sixes

Tue

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole
Ladies 18 Hole

Wed

18 Holes Stableford – All welcome

Thurs

9:30 am Ladies 9 Hole
5pm Ambrose

Fri

Mens’ and Womens’ 9 Hole 9:30am.
Stableford/Par/Medal, teeing off on 1^st or 10^th Holes

Sat

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole
18 Holes Competition – All Welcome

 

 

 

 

40 C Bishop (Maungati)

39 D Cornelius (Temuka), P Rodden

38 L Leonard, R Walton, S Crook, T underdown

37 F Hazlett, K Leary, N Jones

 

 

4th hole: Murray Kerse, Richard Lawson (Geraldine District), Paul Duffield (Pleasant Point)

6th Hole: Adrian Kerr (Maungati)

12th Hole: Rodger Slater (Geraldine District), Sid Keen

15th Hole: Fred Ng, Tim Underdown, Peter Grant

 17th Hole: David Cornelius (Temuka)

 

 

39 G Emond

38 M Corfield

37 L Jones, J Annett, J McGlashan, M Hervey, P Collins, T Underdown

36 K Leary, J Marett, J Norton

 

 

4th Hole: Pat Collins, Stuart Chapman, Ron Hobbs

12th Hole: Fred Ng

15th Hole: Tim Underdown, Tony Moir, Ray (Greenie) Grant 

 

 

Senior: Dave "Fashionista" Schrader

Junior: Don "American Pie" McLean

 

 

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This week, strict instructions from my dictatorial physiotherapist and the grind of work meant that I missed the usual competitions, and instead had the dubious pleasure of playing a few holes with my son. After quite possibly the worst pep talk ever from Merv, he opened with a regulation par on the first, thus winning the hole against my birdie with a net eagle.  Mood immediately soured, I dragged his sorry backside around 6 holes of the course and got a chilling foresight of what we are going to be dealing with in his scarily-soon-to-be-here teenage years as he moped and moaned every step of the way.

 

To be fair to the lad, he is tired as Covid has overloaded him (another unforeseen, and under-reported side-effect of this pain-in-the-backside disease) as he is rehearsing for a show that was supposed to have finished 2 weeks ago,. Add to that cricket and basketball and he is knackered.  Plus, I suspect he is getting the cold that his sister had this week, leading her to be forced to stay at home until Friday as you're not allowed to send your child to school anymore if they have the slightest hint of anything resembling a cold. Yours truly was, therefore, forced to work from home on Thursday with the chirpiest "sick" child on the planet.

 

Of course, this is understandable in today's hyper-aware virus laden environment, but I was raised in the days where Mothers used to send kids to virus parties, in the hopes that their child would catch an illness. They claimed this was to build up their offspring's immunity levels, however there was always an undercurrent of feeling that perhaps it was an attempt to "off" their off -spring.

 

Now, deliberately exposing your children to highly infectious diseases is not necessarily to be recommended (there is a teensy part of me that thinks it depends on the child), but expecting our kids to grow up in a bacteria free zone is not sensible, practical, or possible.  Getting ill is part of growing up, and certainly I remember my school days as effectively participation in some sort of germ exchange factory.

 

Of course we are now more aware of the mechanics of this sort of thing, albeit previous eras were not entirely devoid of good sense and were quick to work out that certain areas/environments were more conducive to deadly disease than others.  The survival of the human race depended on it.

 

These days we are dealing with the latest in global pathogens, and it has crossed the Cook Strait and arrived in the South Island. It was inevitable of course, and I am glad that the vaccination numbers were high enough to stave off an increase in Lockdown levels. If you are still on the fence about getting vaccinated, get those splinters out of your backside and do it - I can guarantee  that  you will have been vaccinated at some stage of your life, and this was not to the detriment of your choices or freedoms, but was for the greater benefit of your community, your family and your friends.

 

Sanctimonious lecture over, in other child related  news, it turns out that my 10 year old son is wearing shoes that would fit his mother and are only 2 sizes smaller than mine - honestly, the boy has barges for feet, and would be able to walk across wafer thin ice with ease and has no need for snow shoes.

 

Anyway, not sure how I got there, but next week, back-willing, I will return to the fold and will have stories from the club again.  The Spring Tournament is sneaking in ahead of the summer cut-off date and I can't wait to play.  I am teamed up with Mister Evergreen himself, Barrie "walks under the wind" Walsh, and hopefully he will have some idea of how the format works, as it sounds unnecessarily complicated to me, but whatever, it will be fun.

 

Stay safe, play well and I look forward to seeing you out there 

 

Steve