The winner with a great game was Bruce Buchannan. Bruce defeated the very consistent Wolf Moosmueller. Well done all.

Don't forget it's only a couple of weeks to the Veterans Sand Green Championships here in the Ridge. The Vets have been doing a great job in cleaning up the course and ensuring everything is ship-shape. You have all done a fantastic job.

Winner: Bruce Buchannan; runner up: Wolf Moosmueller

Ladies golf

Wednesday saw a fairly small but classy field hit their straps for the 18 hole stableford. The winner with 36 points was Heidi Smith. Well done Heidi, how long can you keep the run going. Chasing hard but unable to bridge the gap was Sally Williams with 34 points, successful in a countback from the ball winner Jenny Burke, who also finished with 34 points.

Results - Winner: Heidi Smith; runner up: Sally Williams. Ball to: Jenny Burke.

Friday chook run

We had 23 players for our weekly Chook Chase this week, with the scoring fairly close among the chook winners. The winner succeeded on 25 points with the last two chooks being fought out in a four way countback.

The winner, who was possibly cooking a couple of chooks over the weekend was Michelle Knee.

Runner-up Pat Smith was just two points behind.

In the four-way count back for the last two chooks the unlucky players were Martin Turner and Kath Johnston.

The Black Opal Advocate Encouragement Award went to the flashing sticks of Miss F Byrne with four points.

Results - winner: Michelle Knee; chooks to Pat Smith, Bruce Buchannan, Ron Canlin, Elyn Nexo, Kath Johnston, Brett Hyland, Don Welsh, Victor Borkovic and the lucky last Jan Davis.

Saturday 12 hole

There were 10 happy players who arrived for the 12 hole stableford event on Saturday afternoon on a very warm day. The winner, with a super stableford score of 31 points was Victor Borkovic. It must be the practice. Chipping out of points behind was Ron Canlin.