Golf Society Awards Evening Report

2009 Summer Season Awards Evening

To see the overall Summer Season Award results including some pertinent runners up click here

To view photos from the Awards Evening click here

The Summer season Awards evening was recently held at our host Hostelry, namely the Bar of the Grange Public House. The Manager of the Grange did us proud and (after some minor encouragement like "where's the food - I'm getting hungry") put on a superb spread of food and sole use of the Function Room, much to the "consternation" of the other regulars who were all squashed into the other bar area to watch our spectacular event with envy through the door.

The Awards themselves flowed as smoothly as a well rehearsed Oscars ceromony, and even more nail biting - all right we knew some of the winners in advance but what the heck, it was nice to applaud them yet again. The Awards were ably presented by the retiring Captain, our very own Ian Taylor, who was assisted by the incoming Captain Peter Smythe. The handling of the individual awards between the table top and Ian's awaiting hand was superbly carried out by our very own  'hostess with the mostest' Ralph Vaughan, and finally the David Bailey in the corner taking all the wonderful photos you can see by clicking the above link, was the much loved (well by those with high winter season handicaps at least) Tom Rogers.

A new event, and sure to become a regular one judging by the enjoyment enjoyed, was the "Name that Golfer" competition, organised by our very own Outgoing Captain and Ongoing Vice Captain. Following a flurry of activity with members and their partners / guests etc seen scurrying around looking at each from strange angles, the answers were in, the identities revealed and scores counted - then recounted - and then re re counted until we finally settled on joint highest scorers. In the event of a tie there is a Society rule that the winner is decided by seeing who can putt out the most in three attempts, and Rose (under a threat - or was it a promise- from Ralph) scooped the top prize by pout putting a more than capable representative from James party.

If you would like to have a go at seeing if you can identify our members from parts of their anatomy

click here (1 of 2) and then here (2 of 2) for the non-answers version

and

click here for the answered version

One item of newsflash worthiness was that it is rumoured that Neil Mc spent a good 10 minutes commenting and taking the p!!s on the state of the ear in the picture 15, only to be informed by someone who let the cat out of the bag that the ''rugby player's cauliflower ear' was in fact his own!!!!!

Strangely enough after that, Neil was a bit more backward in coming forward with his opinions on the pictures.

Winners of Spot-the-Ball cards - well basically James won lots of these, and also Dave "nice to see you back" O'Rorke

Winner of the main Raffle Prize, a Sat-Nav, was  James Arathoon who now doesn't need to spend all his winnings from the Spot-the-Ball cards on maps.

The old favourite of "what do we do now as the DJ has to stop making noise" putting competition took place towards the end of the evening, the results of which demonstrated that members wives quite often have a better natural putting ability than the members themselves. This time it was Sig's wife who showed him up, mind you he obviously learns well if his performance around or on the green the following day was anything to go by.

 To return to the Awards Evening Summary page click here