AUGUST

G AU T E N G

N O M A D S

2012

I NSI D E RIG H T
CAPTAIN SHOUTS FORE!
The trip to Krugersdorp was well worthwhile to all of those who avoid this game, you dont know what you are missing! I always nd the course tough, with holes that require a draw off the tee (I cant even do that with a pencil!) and others that need a fade. The course always gets nailed by frost, which makes it a bit shorter at this time of year, but it is always a serious challenge. As usual it was in good condition and we were welcomed with open arms. They even gave us a discount on the xed fees we had agreed, because the eld was so small. Well negotiated Doug Watson! A big thank you to all those who took part in the Highveld Trophy and helped to retain the Trophy. In recent years it has been the host club that wins it most often, but we managed to sneak past Northerns and Easterns assisted by having 2 no-shows! Now for the Lowveld Quadrangular, although we could be challenged there as some of our stalwarts are not going, because of the rugby at FNB Stadium on the Saturday. Anyone who would like to go, please contact Dobri and get a place on the tour. Whilst on the subject of tours, I would like to thank Dobri for his efforts over the last 2 years, but he has been forced to resign as Away Tours Coordinator due to work pressure. (Its nice to see someone doing well in this present economic climate!) One of his last actions was to send out a questionnaire on the away tours, which is intended to nd out why less people are touring and to allow the new coordinator to make the tours more attractive. Please ll the questionnaire in (it will not even t a ke 5 m i n u t e s o f yo u r t i m e ) ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO NOT TOUR!!!!! It is aimed more at those who do not tour, than the handful who are always on the away games. I believe that you make more friends on the away games than you ever will at the monthly games and consequently you get a lot more fun out of Nomads, as a whole. (Ask the Combi Boys!!) I am looking forward to the Parkview game, where Alec Saunders gets his 500 game badge and when we shall have both the Gauteng 500 gamers (Ken Blake is the other one) playing at the back of the eld. The National Chairman is coming up for the event and will also present Brian Thorpe (who no longer plays) with his 50 year tie. We have arranged it so that Alec is in the last 4-ball, nishing in front of the clubhouse, so please give him a rousing welcome as he completes the game!

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Our Andrew Mentis Golf Day has come and gone. We had a fantastic day at Modderfontein, I would like to thank all those who supported us on the day, all the sponsors for your generous contributions in hole sponsorship aswell as the donations of prizes. A big thank you to Bev du Toit, Roz Lewis-Williams, Tony Shaw, Ken Blake, Bennie vd Sandt, Stewart Vernon and Johan Van Wyk who helped in making the day such a success. Thank you all. Please get your race day ticket stubs back to us as soon as possible, and dont hesitate to ask for more books the more we sell the more we raise. We are selling rafe tickets for rst prize of a midweek break at Mjejane Game Reserve- Leolapa game lodge, accommodation for 10 people on the Crocodile River at the foot of The Kruger National Park, and second prize is a RCI Gold Crown midweek (out of school holidays) at any Gold Northerns are having their Andrew Mentis day on Friday Crown resort for 4 people. Check out this website and prepare to buy tickets 19th October at Irene, if anyone would like to enter please get an entry form into http://www.leolapa.co.za/index.html them, lets try and give them our support. Our next fund raiser is Race Day and we are still looking for Thanks for your support sponsorship for races. Remember its a Night Race event at cheers Turfontein on Tuesday 23rd October. Tables are R2200.00 for 10 people. Race sponsorship is available at R10 000.00 (this Spero includes a table of 10 people). Please contact Bennie VD Sandt or Stewart Vernon if you would like to sponsor a race or book a table.

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MONTHLY GAME
Its a long way to Tipperary and sometimes, it feels, just as long to get to thee Krugersdorp Golf Club. However, as always, the Club welcomed us and it was good to be out in the fresh air on a c r i s p W i n t e r s a f t e r n o o n . Understandably the course is very brown, with lots of run and the greens were good but as always very tricky to putt on. There is always going to be someone who strikes just that day and this time it was local Krugersdorp Nomad Merrick Douglas who scored 41 points off his 19 handicap on just his 1st anniversary as a Nomad. When I say local Nomad his house looks out onto the 8th green. Well done Merrick and BIRTHDAY & ANNIVY WISHES Another reminder, to those of you who dont listen at prizegiving, the Merrick Douglas 50 Quadrangular Tournament will be held (born on the Barlows wedding day) down in the Lowveld during the 1st th Joe & Bella Civin 70 weekend in October. Then the Free Colin & Heather Barlow Jonny & Cheryl Davis Mike & Merle Walter 50th 40th 40th State Nomads will be celebrating their 15th birthday during the 1st weekend in

welcome to the B Division. Thank you for your hospitality Krugersdorp. Welcome to inductee Craig Edwards, he promptly won the A Division and Saunders Sizzle and not yet 36 he has helped to bring down our average age by 0.12 of a year. We wish you many enjoyable and happy and participating years of Nomads camaraderie. Congratulations to Alec Saunders on playing his 499.5th game (more about that next month!), to Andrew Mostert on receiving his 200 game badge and to Ian Lamb on being awarded his 10-year tie. What a pity that a 35, a 20, a 15 and a 5-year tie recipient either didnt come out to get their ties or couldnt be bothered to stay for the prizegiving. Hopefully they will be at the next games prizegiving! Someone needs to remind our Starters that we (the Senior Golfers) now play of the Senior Tees; this was forgotten again at Krugersdorp. Many thanks to Nic du Toit for a quick and amusing fines session but what happened to the Group fine?

November. We need a team of 20 for the Lowveld trip and it is always a great weekend for wives and children to go GET WELL/CASUALTIES on an Away Trip. The whole party (i.e. golfers, wives and children) is going to Bill Bailey is progressing nicely, albeit be booked into the Karula Hotel in slowly, after his surgery and it was great White River. Dobri and Graham Bish seeing him at the prizegiving at are handling this jointly so please Krugersdorp. contact one of them if you wish to join in the fun. CONGRATULATIONS TO How nice to see Ali Xesha back playing George and Deseri Williams on the a game with us again, where have you occasion of their wedding on the 25th been? August 2012 I suppose that was his excuse for not playing in the AMEF Golf I wonder when last we had just 100 points scored on one of the short Day, the day before. holes, to win a prize. Sadly it shows you how our elds have shrunk with JUST ME only 108 names on our timesheet for Well done to the Gauteng Nomads Krugersdorp and there were a lot less team on retaining the Highveld Trophy who stayed for prizegiving and an which was played, for the rst time, at enjoyable snack thereafter. Blue Valley. Im not sure how many times Jamie A number of you, who are playing make Gowans has won the Division and a up games (and its so easy with watch but having done just that at Northerns and Easterns close by), are Glenvista he left the watch behind. He f o r g e t t i n g t o b r i n g b a c k yo u r subsequently drove all the way out to scorecard. Without your scorecard we Glenvista and asked to be shown their cannot credit you with a game, also video footage to try and see what make sure that it is marked for which happened to his watch?, can you Gauteng month you are making up as believe that! you may be playing before or up to two Its getting close to the time when Bev months after our monthly game. and I have to get things ready for the In future all cancellations must be sent 2013 Diary Inserts and its amazing how to the Match Secretary in writing, this is many of you dont check what is to avoid any unpleasantness, as nearly included against your name, in the happened recently. Please also ask for current Diary! Please let Bev and/or conrmation of the receipt of your me know about any changes to Home cancellation, in writing too. Remember and Business Nos., Cellphone Nos., that an SMS is NOT accepted as in email addresses and even marital status as soon as possible. writing. continues...

The rst penalty of two shots off your handicap has been implemented for those members who have still not put in their scores for the Glendower game, it is quite possible that an even greater penalty could be implemented in the future, if this is not rectied immediately. There are a further few of you who still have to put in scores for the Kyalami, the Glenvista and/or the Krugersdorp game. Remember that you have been warned and its in writing now. The Andrew Mentis Golf Day, played at Modderfontein, was a superb afternoon but how sad it was to see a total days eld of just 148 players. I can remember when we had elds of over 200 players and we had to switch on cars headlights behind the 18th green

thing of all was that only 13 of the 48 Gauteng Nomads, inducted from between 2008 and 2012, even bothered to enter and play. Come on you young guys, this is your obligatory 13th annual Nomads golf day! There has been a hiccough in the booking for our Roodepoort game so please diarise NOW that the game will be played on Wednesday the 17th October. WHAT IF... A GOLFERS QUANDRY

What if you were playing in the Club Matchplay Championship Tournament Finals and the match was tied at the end of 17 holes. You had the honour and hit your ball a modest 250m to the middle at Kensington Golf Club, to bring in the of the fairway, leaving a simple six iron last few fourballs. However the saddest to the pin. Your opponent then hits his

ball, lofting it deep into the woods to the right of the fairway. Being the golfing gentleman that you are, you help your opponent look for his ball. Just before the permitted five minute search period ends, your opponent says, Go ahead and hit your second shot and if I dont find it in time Ill concede the match. You hit your ball, landing it on the green, stopping about ten feet from the pin. About the time your ball comes to rest, you hear your opponent exclaim from deep in the wood, I found it! The second sound you hear is a click, the sound of a club striking a ball and the ball comes sailing out of the woods and lands on the green, stopping no more than 150mm from the hole. Now the real what if in this story What if you had your opponents ball in your pocket?

PRIZE SHEET - KRUGERSDORP

Divisional winners all sponsored by Lindsay Saker - Rivonia (Graeme Wood). Divisional runners-up all sponsored by Nomads. Divisional third place all sponsored by Kleinhoekkloof Wines.
A Division Les du Preez (P) Craig Edwards (Ind) Ryan White Best playing four ball Hennie Ehlers Colin Barlow Eugene Marx Best drawn four ball Bells David Gibb Ronnie Panaino H/C 3 3 0 Pts 33 33 32 H/C 48 Ian Bradley Les du Preez (P) H/C 67 Norman Murray Phil van Acker H/C 34 Mark Pledger Paul Isaac (G) Mercados Matchbox Vans 100 27 - Frank Booth 25 - Roy Bromilow 23 - Dean Moore Meat Rafe Alec Lewis-Williams Albert dos Santos Walter Kuner Ian Bradley Hole In One R 500 400 300 R 250 150 50 50 Hole Eagles Colin Nicholls Hole 15 Clean all Over Larry Bredenkamp Pick 3 : 33 - 38 - 41 Carry over: R1050 lil Jimmys Wood Jimmy Littlewood Mike Walters Sids Server Brian Cusins Colin Nicholls Wununders Hole 15 Hole 14 Not Won H/C 5 Pts 17 Pts 102 Pts 130 Pts 138 B Division Darren Holm Mike Rickhoff Eugene Marx H/C 10 12 11 Pts 38 37 36 H/C 75 Walter Kuner Malcolm Sheppard H/C 55 Pts 127 C Division Merrick Douglas Ronnie Panaino Colin Barlow Pts 129 Ryan White Bolties Suprise Brian Bolton Willie Wagner Ferrars Ferret Cyril Ferrar Pat Frampton Saunders Sizzle Alec Saunders Craig Edwards (Ind) Byrons Birdie Byron Price Mike Carr Hole 11 Hole 6 Hole 4 Pts 100 Cox Trophy H/C 19 25 23 Pts 41 36 35 Pts 32

R/U playing four ball SAB Merrick Douglas Alec Saunders R/U drawn four ball Bells John Brewin James Luyt Best playing pair Golfers Club Colin Barlow

Jimmy Littlewood Dobri Stanisavljevic H/C 34 Eugene Marx Pts 71

Worst playing four ball Breden / Larry B Gavin Ditcheld Robbie von Hagen