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!

[WBennett]

We'll all happily donate a Hot Dot to the solarman fund!

[Courty]

Sound familiar to anyone?

http://www.insidegolf.com.au/golf-fun-odd-shots/the-golf-trip-yips/

[LeftyHoges]

Just do what I did this year: flick Lefty some coin to grab some pills down there for me. Use as many as I needed, and then donate whatever's left as prizes.

For the record, I'm MORE than happy to do this again for anyone that wants it.

Means once I put allow for golf balls required at RM i will only have a driver and putter in the bag.

A lazy 6 dozen for you, Bob?

[Courty]

For the record, I'm MORE than happy to do this again for anyone that wants it.

Thanks for the offer, I'll take you up on that again. Just remember to give them to me before the 3rd round this time.

A lazy 6 dozen for you, Bob?

Should be enough for the first round.

No point wasting money here, just pick up a bargain box of mixed used balls from the kids who fish them out of lakes. They'll only be going back where they came from. That reminds me I need to post a vid of Solarman on one of the water par 3s at National Old.

[LeftyHoges]

Thanks for the offer, I'll take you up on that again. Just remember to give them to me before the 3rd round this time.

If you lost 6 balls at Kingswood and Southern you deserved not to get the rest!

Should be enough for the first round.

No point wasting money here, just pick up a bargain box of mixed used balls from the kids who fish them out of lakes. They'll only be going back where they came from. That reminds me I need to post a vid of Solarman on one of the water par 3s at National Old.

Good plan. Very good plan.

[Courty]

If you lost 6 balls at Kingswood and Southern you deserved not to get the rest!

Come to think of it, I think I ended up square after the 5 rounds. I did lose 1 or 2, but found adequate replacements as well.

That reminds me I need to post a vid of Solarman on one of the water par 3s at National Old.

Oooh look, I already uploaded it.

[Lucasto23]

Naga naga naga!!!!

[LeftyHoges]

If you don't have a friend, Jetstar individual sales on now. $129 from Perth & Cairns, $59 Gold Coast, $65 Brisbane, $55 Sydney and $39 Hobart for you BenM!

[AndyP]

I wasn't organised enough to get onto the 2 for 1 deals. $65 is a good price for Brisbane, but don't overload your golf bag with prizes like Iain.

[Shadesy]

RM Paid, Flights booked.

Those who want to know pull out can...cos Shadesy's coming.

[LeftyHoges]

I wasn't organised enough to get onto the 2 for 1 deals. $65 is a good price for Brisbane, but don't overload your golf bag with prizes like Iain.

That's his fault for playing so god damn well. Imagine if he'd won!

RM Paid, Flights booked.

Those who want to know pull out can...cos Shadesy's coming.

Shit, everyone may as well pull out now.

[Shadesy]

How much does the trophy weigh?

[LeftyHoges]

How much does the trophy weigh?

There would have been at least 4 or 5 kilos in the two major trophies plus little daily trophies etc.

Making allowances in your baggage limits Shadesy?

[Shadesy]

Got to plan Ahead Lefty...

[LarryLong]

I'm sure Monsta will be happy to post the trophies after he finishes violating them.

[LeftyHoges]

I'm sure Monsta will be happy to post the trophies after he finishes violating them.

I didn't know they were THOSE sort of trophies. Might have to try a bit harder.

[Monsta]

How much does the trophy weigh?

I could always make it to be about 20kg just to make sure that if a Wanker wins it, he will have to pay for excess luggage....

[LeftyHoges]

Just as an aside, we are 4 people short of filling the booked time slots for Saturday and Sunday, and 2 people short of filling the accommodation booked for Saturday night.

If either of these apply to you and you haven't let me know can you please do so soon so we have the best possible chance of booking extra spots for both.

Thanks.

EDIT: Now 3 and 1.

Also, if you know you're playing Saturday / Sunday and haven't already, can you please advise likelihood of wanting a cart on those days. Cheers.

[Peppas]

OK, I am in process of figuring flights. Didn't organise myself well enough to jump on the 2 for 1 deal so anyways...

What's the best time to get there by on Friday morning, and to leave on Monday afternoon/evening?

Is there push/pull buggies available or is it just carts?

Will sort out my deposit in the next week or so as well Lefty.

[AndyP]

Into Melbourne by 11a. Out of Melbourne after 4 to be safe, I think.

[LeftyHoges]

Into Melbourne by 11a. Out of Melbourne after 4 to be safe, I think.

Pretty much spot on. Maybe even half hour earlier on Friday if possible.

Some guys are catching flights out at 3.20 on Monday, they'll be fine but you wouldn't want any earlier than that.

Push / pull buggies available at all courses.

[Peppas]

Cheers guys... is anyone doing a run through the airport on the Friday morning?

I'll check the flight times again. I think there was a flight that got in at 10:50am but I can try for the earlier flight too. Will try and book my flights tonight I think, maybe, hopefully

[Captain Nemo]

Peps, ill be flying with a mate, maybe we should get a car?

[Peppas]

Peps, ill be flying with a mate, maybe we should get a car?

Nice you blokes got onto the 2 for 1 sale? I tried to convince KJ but he was indecisive

When are you guys arriving/leaving roughly?

[Captain Nemo]

flying in fri am, out sun night.