2014 VIC OZgolf Champs - Feb 7 - 10

[LeftyHoges]

Thur, Fri, Sun accomm: andigolds Park View Hotel on St Kilda Rd. A very generous rate (again!) of $62.50 pp twin share, can to room up as 4's for below $50 a head. No prepayment required, one person in each room to put up a credit card on check in & then pay on checkout. 10 days prior for final numbers. Please add a review here.

Sat accomm: Nepean Country Club. 6 Two Bedroom Split Level apartments, sleeping 6 each at $350 a night. $60 a head if we fill the rooms, $72 a head max if we don't.

Thurs 6th golf: Woodlands Golf Club. $80 (member-guest rate and a very good price for a very good course) 3:45 to 4:00PM hit-off. Probable self-cooked BBQ tea afterwards, just awaiting confirmation of this. Cost of dinner TBA. Course guide here.

Fri 7th golf: An exceptional course last year in Southern GC. This year we're not just going one better, we're going 92 better (according to Golf Digests 2006 top 100 list). ROYAL MELBOURNE GC - West Course! Cost of $245 a head and includes a light lunch, drinks on course (non-alcoholic, I assume will still cost), finger food afterwards. Unfortunately no golf-only option (Club Captains Decision) and CAPPED AT 32 PLAYERS! Sorry guys, we tried to fight for more spots but no can do. If we want to play at RM we play by RM's rules. As a matter of interest we are the only corporate / social group in 2+ years to have got on to play RM on a Friday so we are very, very lucky. 1:30PM tee-off. Course guide here.

Sat 8th golf: The Dunes Links. 10 groups @ $55 a head with 29+ players. $60 with less. $42 carts. 2 tee start > 12:16 onwards. 10 carts booked. $5 pull carts.

Sun 9th golf: Portsea Links. 10 groups @ $50 per head with 33+ players, $55 with less. $45 carts. 2 tee start, 8:19 off 10th, 8:33 off 1st. 10 carts booked. $5 pull carts. $15 electric buggies. Obviously with seedings this may make things difficult with carts but I will try to juggle people around as best I can.

Mon 10th golf: Kew GC. 8AM hitoff. $75 per player. Download Course Guide here.

So, $105 for golf on Sat & Sun, with an additional $25 going towards prizes. All four official days $465 (includes $25 for prizes). Pre payment instalments available as per last year. Final payment by 10th January please.

Meals / activities:

Thurs night: Grab a few quick frothies at Woodlands, then head to the TapHouse on Carlisle St for more brewskies. Dinner from somewhere on the street.

Fri night: Buffet style with curry and slow roasted meat of some variety. Andy provided a conference room for "activities". They were great fun and included all important BYO alcohol. I urge all to attend this.

Sat night: Pizza's delivered. BYO alcohol. Unfortunately no personal games room but we have free use of it, mini golf course is under lights. Indoor tennis courts, basketball.

Sun night: STEAK NIGHT!!!

RESULTS:

Thursday, Woodlands (due to not being an 'official' round we only had a few things):
Winner:
Simmsy - 38pts
Long Drive - Jmac

Friday, Royal Melbourne

NTP's
5th wbennett
7th gammon
13th Spanner039
16th BenM
LD Shazza_rs

Winner:
Titleist 37pts
Runner-up:
Shazza_rs 35pts

Better scores:
LeftyHoges 34pts
Marto65 34pts
FoxGolf 33pts
Nudgee 33pts
Shadesy 33pts

Confederates V Union, Uncivil War
Confederate victory 16-8 (the first ever official team Vic Champs double of any sort)

Saturday, The Dunes

Putting Comp winner
LeftyHoges in a playoff from Marto65 (the first ever official individual Vic Champs double of any sort)
NTP's
3rd FoxGolf
6th PeteyD
13th LeftyHoges
17th Titleist
LD FoxGolf

Winner:
NK 43pts (on countback)
Runner-up:
Titleist 43pts

Better Scores:
AndyP 40pts
Spanner039 40pts
Hux 40pts
Gammon 30pts
Marto65 39pts

Saturday night, Nepean Country Club

The mini-golf by iPhone light championships
AndyP in a playoff from Courty, with a hole-in-one on the first playoff hole

The great snore-off
Monsta65 easily covered the field and was getting quite a wind-up going, despite our best efforts to be noisy and dribble as much shit as possible. Or was that just Jmac?

Sunday, Portsea

NTP's
2nd PeteyD
7th Senior Sgt Piddles
13th AndyP
16th Simmsy
LD BillyBaub

Winner:
Chappy1970 40pts
Runner-up:
Peter_rs 37pts

Better scores:
AndyP 36pts
Andigold 36pts
LeftyHoges 36pts

Monday, Kew

NTP's
4th andigold
11th Peter_rs
14th Peter_rs
18th LarryLong
LD LeftyHoges

Winner:
LeftyHoges 38pts (on a countback)
Runner-up:
IDGolfGuy 38pts
Better Scores:
andigold 37pts
BenM 37pts

Overall VIC Champs placings for two round competitors:
1. AndyP 40 + 36 - 76
2. Hux 40 + 35 - 75
3. andigold 36 + 36 - 72
T4. LeftyHoges 35 + 36 - 71
T4. Shadesy 36 + 35 - 71
T6. Marto65 39 + 31 - 70
T6. IDGolfGuy 35 + 35 - 70
8. NK 43 + 26 - 69
T9. Courty 35 + 32 - 67
T9. PeteyD 32 + 35 - 67
T10. Titleist 43 + 23 - 66
T10. Spanner039 40 + 26 - 66
T10. Gammon 39 + 27 - 66
T10. Nudgee 36 + 30 - 66
T10. Jmac 32 + 34 - 66
T10. Grumpy 32 + 34 - 66
T10. Peter_rs 29 + 37 - 66
18. Simmsy 32 + 33 - 65
19. Waddzy 30 + 34 - 64
T20. Foxgolf 35 + 26 - 61
T20. Bruce 32 + 29 - 61
22. Monsta65 35 + 24 - 59
T23. Shazza_rs 36 + 22 - 58
T23. Peppas 28 + 30 - 58
T25. GK 32 + 25 - 57
T25. Kev 31 + 26 - 57
27. Billybaub 30 + 25 - 55
T28. LarryLong 30 + 24 - 54
T28. BenM 30 + 24 - 54
T28. wbennett 26 + 28 - 54
T31. Solarman 31 + 22 - 53
T31. Haysey 28 + 25 - 53
33. Oncewasagolfer 27 + 18 – 45

Gross Prize: LeftyHoges - 154
Gross Runner-Up: AndyP - 158
Shanks Award: FoxGolf - Lots
NAGA: Oncewasagolfer - Lots or not many, depending on which way you look at it

Ironman (because of the number of players spread over the varying days we decided it was from all ‘official’ rounds, with best 3 counting)
LeftyHoges and Andigold tied on 109 points

Calcutta winner
Paying the relatively measly price (in comparison to some) of $30, Solarman was the winner of the first OZgolf Calcutta, which raised over $220 for BeyondBlue.
4 of the eventual top 5 went for relatively cheap prices with Shadesy being the only "high priced" player there.

Best Dressed
I’m giving this gong to LarryLong. When all of his outfits looked superb for less than the price of a Family Pack at KFC, you can’t go past it.

Thanks

I can’t say enough for all the OZgolfers who helped me out with these champs. You’ve all contributed in one way or another to what is now rumoured (I’m hearing whispers everywhere) to be THE OZgolf Champs.
Special thanks of course must go to andigold for his accommodation again and for arranging games at Woodlands and Royal Melbourne, monsta65 for his fantastic works with the trophies (I’m sure you’ll get a very confusing text message on the night that I polish off that bottle of Ouzo, and I’m sorry that it was my thing that nearly made you lose your thumb!), Simmsy for organising everyones handicaps for the week as the new slope system made things interesting straight up, Shadesy for organising dinner on Saturday night especially under the ultimate irony of him HATING that every WA champs he gets asked “Whats for dinner?”, PeteyD for his assistance with scores over the weekend, Bruce for being the consummate professional with his MC role and providing water for the guys at the Dunes, Marto65 for his work with gamebook it does keep things interesting and the multi-round feature will be great once up and running properly, and I didn’t mention them previously but Spanner & Kev, thanks for your chauffeur work over the champs.

Sorry if I’ve missed anyone, but another thanks must go to you all for your generosity with the auction and Calcutta. Total monies raised for BeyondBlue stands at $1,143-30. Well done guys!

Thanks all, much love!

[Courty]

Update: I'm now 99% confirmed.

[LeftyHoges]

Update: I'm now 99% confirmed.

Good stuff El Courto! Get those other two to that stage as well, would you?

The more times I check this thread the closer I get to pulling the trigger... Im going to look at flight costs etc and will let you know in the next few weeks Lefty.

Awesome Waddzy.

Plenty of guys flew out from the Gold Coast and Brisbane area last time, if you need an idea of how people did things Popper came down on the Thursday from there and AndyP, Iain, Lucasto23 etc came down on the Friday morning. So depending on how you're planning to go it may pay to get in touch with one of those guys as well.

[Johnny Canuck]

Seed has been planted. It didn't go over too well, but it is planted...

[Courty]

Seed has been planted. It didn't go over too well, but it is planted...

You gotta trickle feed it and give it a dose of fertilizer occasionally to ensure it doesn't shrivel up & die.

[Courty]

Good stuff El Courto! Get those other two to that stage as well, would you?

I'll try, but it's like herding chooks.

[LeftyHoges]

I'll try, but it's like herding chooks.

That's being generous to them.

Seed has been planted. It didn't go over too well, but it is planted...

You gotta trickle feed it and give it a dose of fertilizer occasionally to ensure it doesn't shrivel up & die.

Good work JC! Tell her it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. She wouldn't miss out on a nice pair of Manolo Blahnik's for the right price, would she?

[popper81]

That's being generous to them.




Good work JC! Tell her it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. She wouldn't miss out on a nice pair of Manolo Blahnik's for the right price, would she?

Lefty, so GHEY!

[FoxGolf]

I'm hoping the wife's new diamond ring she's getting for her 40th and the girls trip to Bali she had for xmas might help me get this one approved.

[timah!]

I'm hoping the wife's new diamond ring she's getting for her 40th and the girls trip to Bali she had for xmas might help me get this one approved.

If it doesn't sell the ring and go anyway!

[LeftyHoges]

Lefty, so GHEY!

I be what I gotta be.

I'm hoping the wife's new diamond ring she's getting for her 40th and the girls trip to Bali she had for xmas might help me get this one approved.

Awesome stuff FG! Great to see some WA guys really making the effort!

[Monsta]

No announcement about Thursday's location yet Lefty??

[Johnny Canuck]

Can a Kew member get us a discounted rate? I might know one.

[LeftyHoges]

No announcement about Thursday's location yet Lefty??

Not as yet unfortunately. The negotiation did not go our way.

We are checking on our "backup option", still a very nice course.

Can a Kew member get us a discounted rate? I might know one.

It is a possibility I suppose. Depends on how well he gets on with the administration, and how far he'd be willing to stick his neck out for us. Peter Lamborne is the bloke that I've been dealing with @ Kew GC, if you want to mention that name to your mate to see his reaction and whether or not he'd be willing to try.

Thanks JC!

[popper81]

Lefty, just wondering whether it maybe useful to place another column in your table for bookings with Tina Churner.

[LeftyHoges]

Lefty, just wondering whether it maybe useful to place another column in your table for bookings with Tina Churner.

Would be quicker to make note of the blokes who don't want a booking. 2 or 3 max?

[rubin]

Flights are booked. Im excited!

Get in Thursday night so i'll be fresh for the Friday at Royal Melbourne.

[LeftyHoges]

Flights are booked. Im excited!

Get in Thursday night so i'll be fresh for the Friday at Royal Melbourne.

Good stuff Rubes! What time do you get in? Not joining us for the Thursday round? (I can understand that seeing as you instantly add 2 hours on to the 4 hours of flight time, big day)

[rubin]

Good stuff Rubes! What time do you get in? Not joining us for the Thursday round? (I can understand that seeing as you instantly add 2 hours on to the 4 hours of flight time, big day)

around Midnight. I'm staying at my sisters in St Kilda (or maybe South Yarra by that stage) and will then join you lads at the course on the Friday.

[LeftyHoges]

around Midnight. I'm staying at my sisters in St Kilda (or maybe South Yarra by that stage) and will then join you lads at the course on the Friday.

Cool. If last years Thursday's round pace of play is anything to go by we'll be just finishing on 18 by then, come join us for a post-game drink!

[rubin]

Cool. If last years Thursday's round pace of play is anything to go by we'll be just finishing on 18 by then, come join us for a post-game drink!

Tickets are pretty open, booked through work so the times can be changed relatively easily if need be. If the opportunity presents, I will be there with bells on.

[LeftyHoges]

Tickets are pretty open, booked through work so the times can be changed relatively easily if need be. If the opportunity presents, I will be there with bells on.

No worries mate, keep it in mind. We tee off at around 3:30 which means your plane needs to land by about 1:30 at the latest. Just FYI.

[rubin]

No worries mate, keep it in mind. We tee off at around 3:30 which means your plane needs to land by about 1:30 at the latest. Just FYI.

Yeah - thats not gonna happem

[LeftyHoges]

Yeah - thats not gonna happem

Thought as much. That would be a 7:30AM flight out.

[Yossarian]

I'm firming.

[Shadesy]

Thought as much. That would be a 7:30AM flight out.

Soft Simms and I are looking at that flight.