Recent major event results

Junior Open

Some of the State’s best junior golfers travelled to Capel on the second weekend of January to compete

in the annual Capel Junior Open.

The 36-hole event attracted 34 boys and six girls, with Alexander Allcock, 17, winning the male gross with 145 and 13-year-old Maddison Hinson-

Tolchard winning the female gross with 149.

Yanni Keenan was the male nett winner with a score of 142, while Georgia Garner-Dart was the female net winner with 139. Georgia also won the team

event with Lara Donaldson.

Junior open gross winners Maddison Tolchard and Alex-ander Allcock. Photo courtesy South Western Times.

Ray & Lil’s Mixed 2 Ball Ambrose

Congratulations to new members Brodie Kenworthy and Eryn Gardiner who won Ray & Lil’s mixed open

day with a great score of 46.2.

Forty-six mixed pairs fronted up on Sunday the 28th Feb for a champagne breakfast and then 14 holes of Ambrose, followed by a fun afternoon in the clubhouse where Dave Chapman had everyone singing along to his popular tunes. Runners-up with 46.4 were Olys

Kowal & Colleen Cuomo. Thanks to Ray and Lil for their generous sponsorship and for organising this

great event.

Ray & Lil’s mixed 2 ball Ambrose winners, Brodie Kenworthy and Eryn Gardiner (centre) with sponsors Ray and Lil.

Coming Events

Mark your calendar and get organised for these great club events.

26th/27th March Easter Medley, 36 holes Stableford for Men & Ladies – Geographe Ford 7th May (Sat) Captains Cup, 18 holes Stableford for Men & Ladies – Carpet Hotline 21st/22nd May Capel Cup, 36 holes Par for Men 1st June (Wed) Pro-am, 18 holes combined stableford for Men & Ladies, by invitation. 5th June (Sun) Stoney Creek 3 Ball Classic, 18 holes for Men & Ladies 19th June (Sun) Holden Scramble, 18 holes 4 ball Ambrose for Men & Ladies 9th July (Sat) Presidents Cup, 18 holes Par for Men & Ladies – Exact Air

Charity Day

CGC have donated $3500 to Melanoma WA after the inaugural Charity day on the 5th March. Thanks to our wonderful sponsors and members for supporting this

great cause.

Twenty-eight teams played in the 4 Ball Ambrose event, with many getting into the spirit of the free dress day by teeing up in

some outrageous outfits.

A massive thank you Marion Lewis, Wyn Pole and Sorine Flynn for keeping everyone well fed

with the 4 hour sausage sizzle.

Thanks to Clint Heal, the CEO and Founder of Melanoma WA and his colleague Wayne Bol-ton for talking to us about melanoma and how to reduce the risks associated with too much sun exposure. The Slip, Slop, Slap message was loud and clear with the extra message of “re-apply sunscreen after 2 hours” emphasised specifically for golfers. Check out their website

for more info;

http://melanomawa.org.au/awareness/how-to-prevent-melanoma/

Congratulations to the winners, a double father and son combo of Allan & Denis Carr and Colin & Ryan Stewart with a score of 54. Runners-up with 54.25 were Murray Bassett, Rob

Bushnell, Chris Nicholson and Shaye Trezise.

Best dressed prizes were awarded to Helen Littlefair and Jim Evans, with the team prize

going to the Tiger Tamers of Eryn, Marg & Adele Gardiner with Nathan Ferraro.

Clint Heal gives the thumbs up for the Charity day cheque; with Wynn Pole, Di Templeman, Joan Scott, Duncan Scott, Sorine Flynn

More Charity day fun…. Big thanks to Gail Marino for taking most of these happy snaps.

Thanks to all of our generous sponsors for helping to make this day such a success.

Troy Murphy Golf Professional Brunswick Country Bakery Bunbury Mobile Catering

Fore!!! from the Match Room

New Fixtures The 2016-17 fixtures have been finalised and uploaded into the OneGolf booking software. The new fixture books are at the printers and should be available to mem-bers in the next few days. Big thanks to the committees for their input and to Bob Stewart for all his hard work putting it all together, and to the members and supporters who have pro-vided sponsorship for our competitions which help keep fees down.

Club News

Veteran golfers invade Capel!

Capel hosted the first two games of the year for the Country Veteran Golfers Association during February with 133 and 130 golfers from all around the southwest enjoying the beautifully pre-sented course.

Richard Walker (Bridgetown) won the

first day with 41 on a countback from

Alan Perkins (Donnybrook), and Bob

Garman (Sanctuary) won the second

day with 44 points, from Kevin Burton (Harvey) with 43. Congratulations to Phil Harper, Brian

Best and Graeme Walker for organising these successful events.

Capel GC Vets organisers Graeme Walker, Brian Best and Phil Harper after another successful veterans event at Capel.

Can Club

Can Club members had a great night at the club on Wednesday the 10th February.

Les Mayne & Jim Mercer organise this evening and get busy in the kitchen whipping up tasty treats - Jim’s fish bites are delicious. Murray & Troy were busy behind the bar keeping every-one’s thirsts quenched. The Can Club has been running for many years and allows members to redeem their donated can winnings from Tuesday and Thursday competitions. Members who want to join this fun social evening just need to accumulate a minimum of four cans to be eligible to at-tend.

Can Club Organisers Les Mayne & Jim Mercer with barmen Murray Bassett & Troy Murphy.

Twilight Golf

The popular summer Twilight 9 hole Sta-

bleford competition is in need of new or-

ganisers for next summer as the current

team of John Cahill & Sorine Flynn are

calling it a day at the end of this season.

The last official day of Summer Twilight is

on this Friday the 18th March when the sea-

son trophies will be presented. All mem-

bers are encouraged to get down to show

your appreciation for John & Sarine’s hard work, and why not play 9 holes (from 3 o’clock)

and then enjoy a meal from the 19th Hole afterwards.

Twilight continues after Easter until the end of June so it’s a perfect way to finish the week

with a quick 9 holes, footy on the TV and the 19th Hole serving Dinner.

If you are interested in taking on the role of running twilight next summer, please talk to

John or Sorine, or Captain Duncan Scott.

Huge thank you to Sorine and John for their dedicated work in running twilight over the last

few years.

Twilight Organisers John Cahill & Sorine Flynn are calling it a day.

IN DA HOUSE

After a quiet relaxing New Year period we have been busy since late February, The Hosea Cup

was held Wednesday 24th Feb after school by the Catholic School Teachers followed by a BBQ

tea. Its always interesting looking at the attire of some teams. We’re still trying to work out how the

bride in full regalia swung her clubs. Her chariot was a buggy so she didn’t have to “walk down the

aisle” (fairways)

The Melanoma WA Charity day was a wonderful success with Wyn, Sorine and myself kept busy

cooking sausages and refilling the drinks bin. Coming up is the Easter Medley where we will require

helpers over the 3 days.

Thanks to everybody who has helped out with all the events and sandwich rosters recently. Special

thanks also to Helen for steam cleaning the kitchen tiles for us before the ladies Summer Cup.

Summer Cup 2016

The ladies again hosted their Annual

Summer Cup over the weekend of 12, 13 ,14

February and had 156 ladies participate.

Another successful event won by our Past

President and now Wanneroo member, Marie

Oakes.

She was delighted to receive the Cup from

Brian Fraser, representing our fantastic spon-

sor of 10 years, Retravision.

A very big thank you is extended to everyone who helped in any way to make this event such a

success. All the men volunteers who came and spotted and raked bunkers - fantastic.

I would especially like to thank Wyn Pole and Val Sawyer for their managing of the kitchen,

along with their many helpers.

The wonderful ladies of the Capel Golf Club do-

nated alcohol, money and vouchers which enabled

us to put together 21 rafflesfor the weekend - not

counting the 5 we held on the Friday, altogether

raising over $1800. Fantastic effort.

Opening Day for the Winter Season is on

Wednesday, 16th March. We look forward to

catching up with all those members who have not

ventured out during the Summer.

WEDNESDAY WONDERS

SHORT SHOTS from Piquet

Recently attended a family funeral in Perth and afterwards got talking golf to a member of

the Mosman Park Golf Club. Bill was saying Mosman had arrested the loss of older members to

the club with the introduction of a membership to the PGA - the Pensioners Golf Association, not

the other one.

The PGA provides a vehicle for members unable or unwilling to participate in the main events

to still enjoy their membership and their friendships rather than move on (an outstanding objec-

tive for all clubs).

Intending players gather each Monday and Friday at 1.30pm for 12 holes from the Ladies

tees. The PGA use a modified handicap system designed to heavily penalise the winner. If you

win one do not hold your breath on winning another.

Capel may not be there yet however it was interesting to hear how one club is addressing a

common issue, how to retain long standing members as the game becomes more and more diffi-

cult.

On the other hand initiatives such as these are becoming more common place to attract new

players, players who are unable to fit in with the traditional memberships.

FROM THE DESK

In November last year I was lucky enough to receive a scholarship from Golf Management Austral-

ia WA Division, Golf WA and Schweppes to attend the Club Managers Association of America

(CMAA) Conference in San Diego in February. The experience was one that I will remember for

the rest of my life and as a learning experience for Club Managers, there is no comparison. As a

requirement of the scholarship I will be making a presentation to all the other Club Managers at

the GMA state AGM as well as Golf WA and will submit a report the Board in the near future. I

was lucky enough to spend a day at the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club and have

back of house tour of the facility during the tournament as well as play Torrey Pines in San Diego,

Primm Valley GC (middle of the California Desert), TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas (Host of a PGA

Tour event) and the Las Vegas Country Club. All magnificent courses. A couple of snippets that I

learnt along the way;

1. Las Vegas Golf Courses use recycled water

and have to pay for the use. TPC Summerlin

pays $2.7 million a year for their recycled

water.

2. Torrey Pines, host of the 2008 and 2021 US

Open, is a 36 hole public access course in San

Diego (picture right). Last year the course rec-

orded 155,000 rounds of golf which equates

to over 400 rounds per day.

Last Friday Night was the Annual WA Golf industry Awards and Dinner. The Capel Golf Club was

nominated for 3 awards;

1. REGIONAL GOLF COURSE OF THE YEAR - 2 finalists, us and Kalgoorlie. Kalgoorlie took out

the award this year after carrying out works to improve the course.

2. VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR - The Club nominated Tony Shearer for the award this year. Each

nominee was asked to go up on stage and receive a certificate for the efforts and the win-

ner was announced on stage with all the nominees present. Phil Ryan from Cottesloe was the

winner of the big award but Tony was very well deserving of his nomination.

3. HILARY LAWLER PGA PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR - ‘The Hilary Lawler PGA Professional of the

Year Award is designed to recognise the effort, dedication and contribution of PGA Professionals to

promoting the game of golf. It also recognises the development of programs and events for profession-

al and amateurs alike. The late Hilary Lawler was a Life Member of the PGA and the epitome of a true

PGA Professional. Hilary was a humble gentleman, who always put the interests of the game and his

customers above his own interests, whilst maintaining the respect of the Association and everyone whom

he met’ Sound like anyone we know?? The Club nominated Troy for the award this year after

his efforts the last 12 months. Troy was announced as the winner which is a tremendous ef-

fort and thoroughly deserved. Well done Troy, your presence at the Capel Golf Club has

certainly lifted the Club and we could not think of a more worthy winner.

The night was enjoyed by those who attended and Troy's speech was a highlight of the night. We

look forward to putting nominations up next year.

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