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!

[AndyP]

I'd consider a cart for Saturday, so I can concentrate on lowering the World Record Vic Champs 5k time.

[LeftyHoges]

I'd consider a cart for Saturday, so I can concentrate on lowering the World Record Vic Champs 5k time.

Oh it's on this time Andy. I'll be there beside you.

[WBennett]

Oh it's on this time Andy. I'll be there beside you.

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[WBennett]

And in. Will try for the Thursday as well. And then fly home on the Monday night.

Payments to start in a few months time.

[rubin]

Lefty,

if we were looking at pre-payment - what sums would we be looking at? accom + green fees? accom alone etc.

[LeftyHoges]

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Kinda looks a little like AndyP. Was he trying to keep up with me both on the track and on the beers?

[LeftyHoges]

Lefty,

if we were looking at pre-payment - what sums would we be looking at? accom + green fees? accom alone etc.

Accomm for Saturday night and green fees buddy. Accomm for the other nights just get charged at checkout.

[rubin]

420 by my quick calcs?

i figure if i start paying for it soonish, when the time comes i can use the excuse "its already all paid for, and lefty doesnt do refunds....."

[BenM]

I'm in for all 5 days again - as much as I can possibly commit 10 months out, anyway.... But after this year's effort I'm thinking cart Saturday/Sunday too. With shoes that are properly broken in.

Will tell fishsticks to get on here and confirm (or not) his attendance sometime this year!

[LeftyHoges]

420 by my quick calcs?

i figure if i start paying for it soonish, when the time comes i can use the excuse "its already all paid for, and lefty doesnt do refunds....."

Fri golf 250 + sat / sun golf 105 + sat accomm 60 + 25 for prizes = $440 by my calcs Rubin. Exact costs will become apparent in the few months leading up to the date. As I've said, hopefully we may be able to get RM cheaper than that but that's what we'll run with for now. Then it would just be your Friday and Sunday accomm at $50 to $60 a night, depending on how cosy you want to get with the other fellas.

[LeftyHoges]

I'm in for all 5 days again - as much as I can possibly commit 10 months out, anyway.... But after this year's effort I'm thinking cart Saturday/Sunday too. With shoes that are properly broken in.

Will tell fishsticks to get on here and confirm (or not) his attendance sometime this year!

Good stuff, will be a pleasure to have you along again Ben, jingling coins and all.

[popper81]

Good stuff, will be a pleasure to have you along again Ben, jingling coins and all.

+ 1..... Welcome back, BunnyM

[Shadesy]

I'm thinking of a pre payment plan Lefty.

[LeftyHoges]

I'm thinking of a pre payment plan Lefty.

Not a problem at all Shadesy. I'll send you my bank details at some point soon and you can start paying in whenever and however much you like.

This goes for everyone.

[Flowergirl]

Carts sat and sun for the rs's

Very happy for you guys to stay with us and I will gladly babysit so you both can play. Xxx

[chappy1970]

I have a spare buggy and can offer up my own buggy for the days that I wont be playing (unsure what days they are at the moment) to any interstaters who want to walk the courses.

[kev]

Golf: Thur to Fri
Accom: Sat night
Cart: Sat, Sun

Thanks.

[LeftyHoges]

Golf: Thur to Fri
Accom: Sat night
Cart: Sat, Sun

Thanks.

Do you mean golf Thu - Mon? Or are you just driving down the peninsula to have pizza and play basketball with us?

[kev]

Note to self - don't post so early in the morning...

Yeah, make that Thur - Mon.

[LeftyHoges]

Note to self - don't post so early in the morning...

Yeah, make that Thur - Mon.

Done and done.

Numbers updated. Appreciate everyone getting back to me this early, helps with getting everything in order that's required.

Might need some more carts booked for Saturday and Sunday!

[Shadesy]

Done and done.

Numbers updated. Appreciate everyone getting back to me this early, helps with getting everything in order that's required.

Might need some more carts booked for Saturday and Sunday!

Not for me Lefty, I would prefer to walk and take in the scenery.

[LeftyHoges]

Not for me Lefty, I would prefer to walk and take in the scenery.

Atta boy Shadesy. A true traditionalist!

[rubin]

Not for me Lefty, I would prefer to walk and take in the scenery.

well said shades.

If your going to use a cart, may as well carry a belly putter IMO

[Shadesy]

well said shades.

If your going to use a cart, may as well carry a belly putter IMO

Lets not start anything we shouldn't here Rubes in Lefty's thread.

Its a personal choice for me. The walk is all part of playing golf IMO, They look like amazing courses and it would be a shame to whizz around them without taking them in. Afterall golf is one of the most less strenuous sports you are likely to play and walking is fairly easy mode of transport. I also like to switch off and chat to partners and competitors which adds to the social aspect of the Game. This allows me to have fun and switch off between shots, giving me enough time to know my club, shot and plan before arriving at the ball.

Plus its cheaper, you have extra money to enter the Comp as well

I have nothing against those wanting to cart it for there own reasons, but if given the choice I would not use one ever.

[Feelzy]

You can put me in Lefty for Thu - Sun Golf + Accom. Keep the carts, I love the walk.