23/09/2025
Sunday 21st of September saw 19 avid men's and ladies golfers arrive for the 'Country Crash Repairs' trophy. Being a good 20 years since it was last played for. Many thanks to Leon and Naomi Edmonds for their generous donations, sponsorship and support to reignite this popular event.
Golfers were welcomed with a very unfamiliar sight, sun and blue skies ๐ฏ disbelief was the emotion of the day as the wind decided to have a day off.
Everything was set for a perfect day of golf, newly crowned A grade club champion Ryan Szczecinski walked in pigeon chested and with an air of confidence almost scaring off the competitors with his recent achievements.
The men and ladies hit off and off the field went.
Some reports suggested our captain Craig Poultney struggled early in the perfect conditions, putting on an absolute swinging master class to score just 4 points in the first 9 holes.
Following them was a foursome mixed bag, Andrew Szczecinski and Kevin McMiles weren't their for their looks but they bought a dash of experience and comedic one liners, to round out the foursome was the Madame President Maria Guinness and the never ageing Lorraine Szczecinski.
3rd hole of the day for this foursome was met with an extraordinary feat, our ladies President Maria Guiness teeing off number 12 par 3 118m hit the perfect ball, some say you could hear angels sing as she made the perfect connection, the ball sailed like a perfectly crated paper airplane through the air, landed and rolled up on the green and made a bee line for the hole, it was like the ball knew where to go as it didn't deviate off the line and avoided the mysterious tyre marks on the green and it dropped into the hole. The group of 4 could be heard screaming and celebrating for miles as Maria for the first time got a HOLE IN ONE!!! Well done Maria such an amazing achievement and one that you will never forget. As Greg Humphrey's said 58 times during the night 'Welcome to the Club'
Meanwhile as our newly crowned A grade club champion Ryan went to tee off at number 1 hole, a fairly simple hole, a 400m par 4, getting out his trusty 3 wood as the driver holds too many fears for him, he went for the green in one and subsequently got half way to the ladies tee box that was a mere 20m in front of him. Not one to be discouraged by such bad luck he addressed the ball again for his second shot. He subsequently hit a hole in the tree and no one knew where this mysterious ball went. Having the luck of the Irish fortunately for Ryan they found the ball at the base of the tree and to his relief he managed to get passed the ladies tee box by a mere metre.
Oh how far the mighty can fall
The winners for the day
For the men, the title went to one man, with the new nick name 'Capeweed' as he only blossoms when the suns out. Was Kevin Hart on 40 points, a clear stand out performer on the day.
Runner up for the men was Clint Pitman on 33 points.
For the ladies
The winner of the day to no suprise was the hole in one connoisseur and ladies president Maria Guiness (unsure of score)
Runner up on 29 points was Lorraine Szczecinski
Well done to all the winners and the 7 novelties were shared out to people who weren't me so I lost interest ๐
Big thankyou to Leon and Naomi for a great day and your very generous sponsorship and look forward to the return of the event next year.