FNQ WATER POLO PLAYERS EYE STATE SELECTION
ATHERTON A dry week at last. Wednesday Sporters played Stableford won by Roy Murray-Prior 25 pts, R-up Pup Hilder 24 pts, 3rd Max Martin 23 pts. NTPs 3&18 S.Bakss, 13 R.Twine. Least putts B.Snow 14. Thursday Ladies played Stableford on the full course. Winner on 39 pts was Robin Beck, r-up Ann Moss 36 pts on countback. NTPs 11 C.Piccone,13 L.Doolan, 18 R.Beck. Friday’s Trinity Petrolium 6 Hole Chook run won by Pup Hilder 15 pts. Saturday’s play was the BV HOTEL sponsored H.Nasser Memorial Shield Stroke. Ladies’ winner Junior Jess Styan 67 nett, r-up Lisa Lowres 69 nett, 3rd Shelley Broadley 71 nett. Men’s winner, welcome back to the winners’ circle, was Jim Jenkins 64 nett on countback from Mark Styan. 3rd Paul Trimarchi 65 nett. NTPs 3 K.Mather , 11 W.Crowley , 13 G.Comino, 18 K.Thomas Sunday’s Yungaburra Butchery Stableford had a very good field of 26 players. The top spot went to Palmer Sea Reef visitor Anthony Van Saane 40 pts on countback from Mareeba’s Alex Hodi and local Peter Fraser. Ian Toward had an eagle on the par-5 second hole. Kylie’s 18th hole Birdie Jackpot of $70 was won by Mick Fleming. This week Wednesday Sporters play Stableford, Thursday Ladies Stableford, Friday Trinity Petrolium 6 Hole Chook run,followed by nibblies and Goose Club Draw at 6.30pm including Members Jackpot Joker $800. Saturday morning from 8am Juniors. Members and visitors play the ATHERTON BAKEHOUSE Monthly Medal Stroke ( delayed from February 2). Sunday Yungaburra Butchery Stableford. CAIRNS February 13. Wednesday Men’s CASCG Stableford Winner C Harnett 43pts R/Up B Lee 40pts February 14. Thursday Women’s single Stableford A Wilson 34pts R/Up G O’shea 33pts February 16. Saturday Men’s Individual Stroke Monthly Medal gross winners A Grade T Ward 68 B Grade M Kim 79 C Grade B sexton 85. Nett Winners A Grade G Musgrave 66 nett B Grade R Riesenweber 65 nett C Grade G Turner 63nett February 16. Saturday Ladies Individual Stroke winners C Stacey 73nett R/Up A Pizzichemi 75nett February 17. Sunday Individual Stableford Men’s winner C Pressley 39pts R/Up J Revay 37pts Women’s Winner G Buckle 38pts R/Up L Tait 35pts. FNQGA Upcoming events FNQ Golf Vets, today The FNQ Golf Vets are off to Gordonvale GC next Tuesday, it’s their first official game for 2019, register from 7am. Cairns GC, Friday, February 22 Cairns GC have a different game this Friday – it’s called the “4 x 4 x 4” Afternoon. You play 4 holes of golf, limited to using 4 golf clubs only and you can have 4 Mulligans or shot replays. It’s starting at 4.30pm and you can contact the Club on 4037 6777 for details. GORDONVALE Sunday, February 24: VW Scramble Gordonvale GC are having their Scramble on Sunday. You can register online through the Scramble website or contact the Club on 4056 3999. MOUNT GARNET Mount Garnet Open – this usually fills up pretty quick, it’s on from March 15-17. You can call Doug Nasser, their club captain, on 0417 780 580 to book your spot or groups in. INNISFAIL Great to see the sun come out in the region; make sure you keep hydrated on the course with the extra heat around. The weather looks good to help dry out the last wet spots on the course, so we look forward to some great scoring this week. As always, thanks to the members who continuously give their time to look after the course. Some members put in more than 25 hours for the week. Thanks very much. Wednesday Allsporters competition: The Allsporters finally got a start and you needed some great golf to get into the running for the prizes. Well done Vaughn Smith for an impressive two over off the stick and 23 points. 1st V Smith 23 points, 2nd C Allman 20 points. NTP J Lombardi. Innisfail Glass & Aluminium 4BBB: Everyone was a weatherman on Friday to predict the best time to play on Saturday. As it turned out, there was a sprinkle of rain in the morning and the sun came out in the arvo. Thirty-three players turned up to play golf with a few players coming from other clubs in the region, which is always great to see. Scoring seemed to be easy with many teams coming in with more than 40 points. Troy Kopp and Lance Masina had the best of the afternoon rounds with 44 points. But the flyers who came out of the morning blocks on a mission were John Tissizis, John Abbott and Brett Gould. They lit up the scoring with 46 and 47 points! Well done, boys. 1st J Tissizis and B Gould 47 points, 2nd J Tissizis and J Abbott 46 points. NTPs 1st and 10th T Kopp; 2nd and 11th D Smith; 3rd and 12th L Peters; 4th and 13th D Smith; 5th and 14th A Ghetti; 6th and 15th B Gould; 7th and 16th T Kopp; 8th and 17th Eagle’s nest; 9th and 18th T Kopp. Junior golf: It was a pleasure coaching the juniors on Sunday. Fifteen juniors turned up for the first clinic of 2019. We honed our skills and went over the fundamentals we learnt last year. It will be a great year for the juniors as we will be electing captains to help the coaches with set up and scoring of junior competitions along with a dedicated day for junior competitions and a dedicated weekday after school to hold a practice session. Upcoming events: Today’s competition: Vandeleur & Todd Solicitors Stableford, tee-off times 7.30am and noon. Wednesday Allsporters: Tee-off times noon and 3pm. Friday competition: Tee-off times noon and 3pm. MAREEBA After a three-week layoff due to very wet weather, Mareeba golfers were finally back on the links again for our postponed opening weekend. The course is in wonderful condition and a credit to the volunteers who have worked long and hard to have it ready for the weekend. The next thing is for the members to arise from their slumbers and get out and play. A special thanks to BABA Curry Restaurant and Gordon Redding for their sponsorship. Results: Thursday February 14 Sporters: 9-hole single Stableford sponsored by Mareeba Golf Club Winner: Mike van Cuylenburg (21) Runner up: Wes Firth (20). The raffle was won by Paul Smithwick Pin Shot No 8 Andrew Collins N0 13 Wez Firth Saturday February 16: 18 4 BBB Stroke Sponsored by Ba Ba Curry and Gordon Redding Winners: Ray Srhoj and Lui Dezen (63 net on a countback) Runners Up: Gavin Smith and Andrew Collins (63) Pin Shots: NTP 4: Ben Sowden No 8: Lui Dezen No11: Gavin Smith No 13: MR Walker Sunday February 17 Single Stableford sponsored by Steggles Winner: Danny Bradley (36) Runner up: Norm Dallison (33) Pin Shot No 4 Michael Deguara Coming Events: Thursday February 18 Sporters 9 Hole Stableford. Saturday February 23 18 Hole Stroke Monthly Medal sponsored by Mareeba Leagues Club Sunday February 24 18 Hole Medley Stableford sponsored by Steggles. MILLAA MILLAA What’s better than the cold drinks, great food, friendly atmosphere and friendly hosts at the Millaa Millaa Hotel? Not much except for their wonderful 2 Ball Ambrose Trophy Day. A further week of fine weather and some heroic hours by the greens staff had the course in tip top condition. Light breezes and shy storms to the north and south made golfing ideal. So to make things interesting, the draw for partners saw some strange bedfellows. Some very odd couples indeed. Graham Murray and Richard “Ruthless” Sullivan though proved teamwork made the dream work carding a 1 over off the bat 70 for a net 61 and a half and the win. Sols did lament that Graham must have come from the same stock as Doug Cameron because he formed a union and made Sols all the heavy lifting. Second place went to the gun team of Warrick Howarth and Justin Cifuentes whose 5 handicap couldn’t get them home for first. Easily a best gross though with one under 68. Good golf boys. Greg Taylor and Alan Hapgood came in third with net 64 and a quarter. Not bad given Greg was playing a lot of golf being in two teams. NTPs 1/10 Warrick and Justin, 5/10 Sol and Graham, 8/17 Bruce and Matt Buchow. Longest putt, Sols and Graham again. There is a strong rumour that Warrick and Happy would have played like tour pros had they known there was a bottle of Small Batch Bundy in the first prize hamper. Better luck next year boys. Next week we play for the Malanda Rural Supplies Stableford Trophy. Thanks again to Millaa Millaa Hotel for putting on such a great day, and it was great to see a lot of visitors joining in the fun. One question, how did Warrick manage to swap his Canadian Club for the Small Batch? Royal Millaa Millaa, a great little golf club.