Narromine golf and bowls

State veteran golf championships for Narromine

The annual Veteran Men's 4BBB State Sand Green Championships will be played in Narromine this coming weekend, September 17 and 18. A top field of veteran golfers representing clubs from as far afield as Hay, Cobar, Wollongong, Manilla, Uralla,Trangie, Nyngan, Orange, Wellington, Warren and Walcha will be competing with the local players for the NSW title. Last year’s winners, Richard McLean and Peter Hutchinson, representing the Cobar club, will be defending their title.

Play will be across two days, 18 holes on Saturday and 18 on Sunday. In addition to the Men's Championship event there will be an individual event each day for the wives and partners of the men players. All players will be provided with breakfast and lunch each day, provided by the Narromine lady golfers.

Nominations for the event closed on last Sunday and a draw has been completed which is displayed in the clubhouse. Breakfast will be available from 8am each day and players will hit off from 9am. Last Saturday, Narromine Veteran Golfers played the monthly nine hole competition, a stableford event on the front nine. Players in the event used the day to get practise in for the coming state titles. Winner on the day was Brian Masling with 18 points. He defeated Dudley Alcorn on a count back. Bob Fletcher took third place with 16 points. The Nearest the pin went to Vince Ferrari.  The next veteran local competition will be on Saturday October 22, a stableford on the back nine. See you at the 19th.

LADIES GOLF

Saturday September 3 once again a washout for 6th round of monthly medal, has now been transferred to Wednesday September 28. The McLachlan Medal Play Off will now be played Wednesday October 12. Finals day scheduled for Thursday September 15 in Warren is now to be played Thursday October 20 at Warren. Saturday October 1 will hold a Par event with Gail White’s Trophy, followed by October 5 with  A,B,C grades Scratch Score Trophy kindly donated by Nadia McCulloch this will be an all day event. All of the above is weather allowing.

Wednesday September 7: saw a large field of 26 players attend 1st round Bootle-Browning 4BBB event over two weeks. 1st round winners Carole King and Marie Houghton 40pts, Optional Balls went to 1st Terese Haley & Joan Collins 39pts, 2nd Betty Green & Robyn Jones 3rd Maida O’Mally & Marj Kelly 38pts winning on a count back from Leonie Crawford & Bev Woods, Gail White & Pat Mitchell all 38pts.

Nearest Pin: 9th Loyalty Roberts, 17th Joan Collins. 

Raffle was kindly donated by Heather Bootle won by Loyalty Roberts.

Saturday September 10: another very sad day for all lady golfers with the news that Elaine Ashdown had passed away that morning our heartfelt sympathies must go to each member of her family. We will all miss her so very much.

After very heavy rain on Friday September 9 there was little to no enthusiasm shown to play Saturday September 10 on a very damp course with water lying on most greens. However 4 people decided to play a 9 hole stableford event. Winner of this event was Marie Houghton 15 points, Marj Kelly won the drawn card and Bev Woods won nearest pin on the 17th.

The 4BBB Aggregate set out for this day will have to be placed to a date to be advised. Today will see 2nd round Bootle-Browning 4BBB an all day event.

17th & 18th NSWVGA Men’s Sand Green State Championships at Narromine Golf Club.

Help is required in the kitchen. There also will be a Ladies Individual Stableford event both Saturday and Sunday $25 dollars per day will include golf, breakfast and lunch we are sure that Norm Lewis would not turn down a late entry.

Vicki will be taking a vehicle to Albert Sunday September 18 for their open Tournament. (Hopefully weather and rivers allow).

Wednesday September 21: Veterans’ Championships A,B,C grades, winner’s trophy donated by Geriatrics + Super Vets Trophy 75+yrs trophy donated by Joan Collins.

Whilst the weekend wasn’t that hectic, due to Mother Nature putting a halt to our planned NAIDOC Day, there was plenty of action during the week and more to come.

Firstly on the social bowls side of things some 18 players enjoyed the pleasant conditions on Thursday, which went something like this. On Rink 3 Terry McDonald, Clifton Harris & Adam Morrissey had an afternoon out giving Kerry Martin, Noel Delboux & Peter Cross the short back & Sides along the way to an emphatic 39/11 win. On rink 04 Murray Woolfe, Peter Bob Davis & Don Sullivan also had a comfortable win 27/14 over Don Gibson, Peter Kelly & Des Lincoln, and just to round out the day Tom Newlands, Bob Hetherington & Jeff Schloeffel joined in to record a solid 21/10 win over Ron McCarney, David McNair & Terry Fahey. Presentation time saw Terry, Clifton & Adam get the lion’s share of the loot, whilst Murray, Bob & Don earned a nice refreshment for their good win also. The jackpot prize pool of $156 was not won and so this Thursday will edge just that closer to the double century range.

Sunday social bowls saw David McNair, Jimmy Daley & Danny Carnevale atop the Podium, whilst Legs Hartas & Budd Cape managed to garner the runners-up cheque. Again the Jackpot prize pool was expanded a few more notches, having failed to come up with the right number at presentation time.

Whilst there were no championship matches scheduled for the weekend Bruce Maher & Ben Clark, by mutual agreement managed to fit in their consistency singles game and this time around it was Ben who advanced to the next round of this event, which co-incidentally has some 5 Matches programmed for this coming Saturday afternoon at 1.30pm. In game 1 Don Sullivan will play Mick Wright, Game 2 features Peter Cross & “Rabz” Macqueen, Game 3 sees Danny Carnevale take on Robbie Stanford, Game 4 will see Alex Sambrook & Jeff Schloeffel clash & last but certainly not least Game 5 sees Arnold Gillespie & Geoff Bohm do Battle.

Also this coming Saturday, Narromine Bowling Club will play host to  the sectional play in the Zone Rookies pairs event. Some 6 teams from throughout the region will converge on Narromine bright and early Saturday morning, with Trent Jacobson & Ben Clark, along with Aaron Clark & Sam Crook carry the hopes of the locals. Should be a terrific days bowls, hope to see a big crowd of Narromine members up at the club to support our boys.

The time honoured “FINO” Day is only a couple of weeks away (Saturday 24th September) and with green space limited to 12 teams, your nomination had better be sooner rather than later to avoid missing out on what is one of our favourite days in the calendar.

The ladies had a big week last week and looking at their calendar it will be more of the same this week. Last Tuesday some 104 Lady bowlers from throughout the region received their Veterans badge, including 15 of our girls, well done. This week sees the final of the club Triples featuring Mavis Leak, Janet Coote & Jan Buswell up against Helen Woolfe, Betty Purvis & Heather McIntyre in what promises to be an interesting tussle. Also on the program this week is the “Taber” Shield in Dubbo at which we have a few Narromine Ladies playing and we wish them well in this prestigious event.

Just a reminder that our Annual General Meeting has been scheduled for Sunday September 25, and nominations for the board of management of the Narromine Bowling Club Limited are now being called for.

Well that’s it for me for another week, looking forward to the Bowls Forum at Dubbo City on Friday Morning with guest speakers & a bowls demonstration from Steve Glasson, Kelvin Kerkow & Karen Murphy. It certainly should be enlightening if nothing else.