Warwick Bowls Club

ON Wednesday 9th August, Jackpot Bowls was played. The Jackpot did not go off and will be $90 on Wednesday 13th September. Remember team names must be up on the notice board.

Results 1st Round: P. Seipelt, T. Seanigner def. Pritchard, P. Cutmore +11 -11; R. Hansen, H. Gibson def. G. Niven, J. Niven +9 -9; D. Miller, E. Welsh def. R. Forbes, C. Johnson +10 -10; B. Black, D. Warr def. M. Holder, S. Tyter +5 -5; D. Neal, B. Maunder def. P. Kerr, A. Naylor +8 -8; I. Gambrill. J. Ruhle def. R. Valentine, J. Cutmore +6 -6; B. Buckel, G. Rapp def. S. Valentine, L. Meiklejohn +3 -3.

Results, 2nd Round - Skip's Name Only: T. Seanigner def. L. Meiklejohn +10 -10; P. Cutmore def. H. Gibson +1 -1; E. Welsh def. J. Niven +5 -5; D. Warr def. C. Johnson +10 -10; B. Maunder def. S. Tyter +6 -6; J. Ruhle def. A. Naylor +23 -23; J. Cutmore tied with R. Rapp 10/10.

Congratulations to T. Pritchard and P. Cutmore who won the Domino Pizza Vouchers. Our sincere thanks to Domino Pizzas for their sponsorship each month. Last Saturday, Club Selected Pairs continued. Results with some very close games being played. G. Murphy, B. Black def. T. Seanigner, O McPaul 25-24. S. Valentine, S. Tyter def. P. Seipelt, M. Holder 20-19. K. Bloomfield, J. Ruhle def. B. Buckel, J. Cutmore 26-12. Results of one social game: B. Maunder, L. Colley, E. Welsh def. A. Naylor, H. Gibson, D. Warr 24-19.

Coming Events for August: Today - Wed 26th: KFC Sponsored Bowls. Our sincere thanks to KFC for their sponsorship. Sat, 19th: Social Bowls. Wed, 23rd: Valentines' and Christensens' sponsored Cash Bowls afternoon. Sat, 26th: Social Bowls. Sun, 27th: Pennants will be played here.

Ladies N.B. Thurs September 14th: The ladies will be holding their next Morning Tea/Get Together at 10:00am at Just Because Café. Last Thursday the ladies enjoyed Morning Tea at The Cherry Tree. Thank you to the staff at The Cherry Tree who were very efficient, and so polite, attending our needs.

Southern Cross Bowls Club

THIS coming Sunday Aug 20 will be the all-important annual general meetings. Starting at 9.30am with the men's and the ladies meetings followed by the combined meeting at 11am. There will be a sausage sizzle for lunch followed by bowls at 1pm which will be sponsored by the Management Committee. Looking forward to seeing all our members in attendance. Our boys from Gladfield sponsored the afternoon last Saturday which was as usual a most successful day. Many thanks to Francis Lyons and Brian and John Bourke for their generous sponsorship.

Results - R Lawson, D Dipplesman, J Woodrow def J McKelvie, D Busch, C Sawyer 21-10; D McMahon, B Hartley, Y Reid def P Brownlie, P Bunch, V Gray 18-10; D McMahon, J Bourke, N Fletcher def B Ryan, Grub, Slave 20-12; Rusty, L Butler, J Johnson def Spider, G Hughes, C Hope 16-12; L Dent, G Davis, C Davidson def N Cleary, C Weier, D Scotney 20-18; B Ryan, C Wickham, F Lyons def J Ryan, G Penn, G Cross 19-14; D Watters, B O'Brien, B Cross def Marg, D Cross, G Dent 22-8. Winners on secret ends were G Dent's team, runners-up were J Woodrow's team while the third-place getters were J Johnson's team.

Winners of the raffles were Bevan x2, Natarlee, Geoff, Cheryl and Val. The $50 draw was won by Grub. Winners of last week's turkey triples was the Warwick East team of B Gibson, G Shelley, R Philps on 27 points and the runners up were C Weier, C Hope and N Fletcher on 26 points.

Results- L Collie, D McPaul, P Wagner def R Lawson, K Seaby, V Hemmings 15-10; G Assay, M O'Leary, Grumpy def P Gainey, B Cross, G Cross 11-9; D Scotney, R Tartan, K Mooney def C Wickham, D Cross, J Johnson 20-8; C Russell, K Hankinson, G Russell def T Hagley, G Dent, L Butler 14-12; C Weier, C Hope, N Fletcher def the Summit 13-9; Prickles, G Davis, C Davidson def B Walsh, M Thompson, M Wagner 14-9; B Gibson, G Shelley, R Philps def V Banditt, C Sawyer, T Banditt 15-3.

Round 2 (skips only) P Wagner def Grumpy 15-9; K Mooney v V Hemmings 8-8; J Johnson def G Cross 15-12; R Philps def G Russell 14-5; L Butler def T Banditt 10-7; N Fletcher def M Wagner 16-6; Summit def C Davidson 18-3. The next Turkey triples will be on September 13.

Results of last Thursday's games - D Busch, C Weier, Y Reid def R Lawson, B O'Brien, D Cross 29-3; V Gray, C Wickham, C Sawyer def L Hartley, G Davis, C Hope 21-11. Some of us didn't have a good day however there is always next week. Tomorrow Thursday Aug 17 will be social bowls starting at 1pm. If any of our members wish to order new uniforms or vests etc please contact Cheryl.

Clifton Bowls Club

OPEN carnival: On Sunday a full rink of 64 bowlers competed for $1000 in prize money. Bowlers from as far as Goondiwindi in the west and Crows Nest in the north took part in the event under blue skies and warm sunshine. The winning team from Oakey was Paddy Boyton, Bob Lucht, Lex Hudson and Peter Viney.

Coming events: Saturday 19th August - Club Trophy: names in by 12.30pm for a 1pm start. Wednesday 23rd August - Mid Week Fours at 12noon sponsored by Pacific Seeds. Sunday 27th August - Patron's Day - names in by 12.30 pm for a 1pm start. Friday 8th September - Karaoke and Meals from 6.30 pm. Monday 11th September - Committee Meeting at 7pm. Saturday 16th September - Competition Men's Fours 1st Round at 1.00 pm: R Debnam, K B Muller, A Imhoff and K Morris v R Kehl, J Cochrane, J Keleher and S Eady; N Brosnan, G Knights, I Weier and N Postle v M Lyall, R Glare, K Weier and L Smith. CARNIVALS: - Sunday 20th August - Inglewood Open Triples: J Keleher, A Imhoff and S Eady.

Warwick East Bowls Club

LAST Saturday two rounds of "scrounger” were played. The winner overall was N Hassum, with C Lawler and E Diery running a very close equal second. The attempt at winning the jackpot was again unsuccessful. This Saturday mixed social bowls will again be on offer. Play starts at 1pm. with names to be in 12.30, by phoning the club on 46619050 or just dropping in to the club after 12 noon.

There will be the usual prizes on offer, as well as another chance at the jackpot, which will stand at $102.50 + $1 per Saturday player. The following Saturday 26th August there will be no social bowls as we will be competing in the district pennants competition. The time and venue for this have yet to be announced. Then on Saturday 2nd September we will be joined by the ladies for a Father's Day afternoon of mixed bowls. Please show your appreciation to the ladies by making every effort to attend. Finally, don't forget to add your name to the list in the clubhouse if you would like to compete in our club singles competition.

Warwick Indoor Bowls Association

LAST Wednesday was Senior Citizens open afternoon, where the winners were D Hollington and L McKechnie. The runners-up were B Stewart, J Hobbs and E Diery, while L Stewart won the raffle. Tonight, is St Mark's open night, starting at 7.30pm in St Mark's Hall. Tomorrow is St Andrew's Shield Afternoon, starting at 1.30pm in Williams Hall. Playing fees are $12 per team.

There will be a lucky door prize as well as 50-cent lucky numbers. Wesley will hold an open afternoon on Wednesday 30th August, starting at 1.30pm in Williams Hall. This will be followed by Central's next open afternoon on Saturday 1st September. The Association pairs championships will be held on Monday 5th September and the singles championships will be held on Monday 12th September.

Sporters Golf Club

LAST Wednesday, with many members enjoying warmer climates, a field of only 40 teed off in the Danny Lyons Sports trophy for August. Winner on the day (but not the money for the second week in a row!) was Luke Munro with 37 points from runner-up Con Seibel on 36 points.

Ball rundown: Trevor King, Terry Bennett Adrian Murphy all on 35 points and Phil McEvoy 34. NTP's: Kieron Delaney on 5th, Trevor King on 7th, Tegan's Dad on 9th, pro pin on 11th - Geordie Russell (who also won the longest drive!) 4, Adrian Murphy and Trevor King 2, Ron Simon and Brian Davidson 1 ball each.

Pro pin on 13th - Luke Munro 3, The Lion King, Ian Skillen and Jon Pearson 2, and Charlie Morrison 1. 16th was won by the very retiring Daffy Hynes. Today we play in the Hawker Road Function Centre trophy.

Members are encouraged to support this week's Warwick Open Carnival sponsored by the Warwick Credit Union. 18 hole events are scheduled for both Saturday and Sunday, with timed event sheets in the pro shop.

And our golf thought for the week, 'Adopting a positive attitude and convert a negative stress into a positive one '. Hans Selye (unless you are a slicer!!!) Enjoy your golf.

Langham Slashers Golf

Another frosty morning greeted a small field of golfers last Sunday to play for the RSL sponsored day, the ice on the ground didn't seem to bother Brett Donovan who posted a nett 19 to win the day from runner up Gordon Barker on nett 20, Pete Boney played good golf to have the best nett with a 41 off the bat and Pete also had the longest drive, Gordon Barker had the least putts, Dave Duroux picked up the only pin shot and Greg Owens was our Bradman ball winner for the day.

Next Sunday we will be on the front nine and I will have some firm dates for our weekend in Tenterfield. It's not too far away now so we need to be thinking about numbers so please let me know ASAP if you intend to go. Hope to see you all next week.

Warwick Men's Golf

LAST Saturday members played in the H&J Hotel Motel Char-Belas stableford event and the club again thanks these businesses for the continued support. As was the case last week the single figure golfers were at the forefront of things with young Rhys Farrell scoring the H&J trophy with a great score of 40 points.

Rhys continues his great form of recent months and is a perfect example of the old Gary Player adage that the more you practice the luckier you get. Rhys is now playing of a handicap of 6 and may reduce to 5 after this excellent round.

The runner up and winner of the Char Belas trophy was new member Ben Griffiths playing off a 9 handicap and Ben scored a great 38 points. The run-down winners were as follows: Messrs Roser, 38 McEvoy, 36 Morrison, 36 Murphy 36 and Porter 36. The pin shot winners were Geoff Hinze on the pro pin for 4 balls, Tim Sutton for 2 balls and Ross Bell for the remaining ball. The 7th pin went to Charlie Morrison, the 9th to Matty Tate and Geoff Hinze on the 16th. It was good to see Simon Pulley back home in Warwick and playing off a 5 handicap.

On Friday, the Red Rooster event was again played in perfect weather and thanks to Neil McCosker and the team at Red Rooster for their continued support of this popular event. The winner on Friday was regular player Brian Sullivan with 22 points to win comfortably from runner up Ross Kingston on 19. Run down winners were Messrs Whitsed, Morrisey, McEvoy, Hinze, Wilson and Gordon McKeen.

Good to see Sully and Ross take home the chicken as both play every Friday and are great supporters of the event. Next weekend we have the big two-day event sponsored by the generous people from Top Two Motorcycles and Yamaha and they deserve lots of support from the club.

The event on Saturday is a stroke event with gross and nett trophies and a presentation at 5pm and then on the Sunday the event is a stableford with a shotgun start at 12noon and again there will be a presentation of trophies at 5pm so let's have a great roll up and have plenty of members there for the presentation of trophies from the sponsors.

The following Sunday the 27th August is the Patrons Day Medley event with the event also the qualifying round for the mixed match play event, the Lane Cup so get your partners organised for that day as well.

Warwick Women's Golf

LAST Wednesday we played a stroke for a trophy generously donated by Duggan's Camera Centre and we thank them for their continued sponsorship of ladies' golf. The winner, continuing her good form, was Lyn Gibson with 73 nett on a countback from Helen Olsen. Balls in the rundown went to Dianne Evans - 73 and Marlene Vincent - 75. The all-in pin went to Helen and the graded to Jill Barnes, Trish Bell and Vicki Bennett. Other scores were C Brandon & T Bell - 76, J Bowles - 77, P Hemmings - 78, P Eastwell, T Ingall & J Barnes - 79, A Cox 80, Z Crook - 81, V Bennett - 82, J Lester & S O'Connell - 83, K Mackie 84 and M McLennan - 88.

Saturday, we played a stableford off the white markers for a trophy donated by our very popular sponsor, Mel McLennan of Style Shoes, and we thank her for her regular sponsorship.

Mel's days are always well attended as we had a field of 26 and her trophy was hotly contested as we had some really good scores. The winner was Thomasina Keogh, one of our new players, with a great score of 41. Anna Cox, with another excellent score of 38, took out runner-up. Balls in the rundown went to Jill Barnes & Joely Singleton on 35 & Karen Mackie & Carole Brandon on 34. The all-in pin went to Judy Lester and the graded to Ellie Casey & Dianne Evans with div 3 being a skinner.

Other scores were D Evans - 34, L Ellis, J Lester, P McIntosh & J Davis - 33, L Carey - 32, E Casey, T Ingall, J Maher & H Olsen 31, P Eastwell & M Vincent - 30, G Mills - 28, J Bowles - 26, J Burt & D Keogh - 24, M McLennan & M Seibel - 23 and P Kerr & Z Crook. Ladies are reminded that we are to play in groups of three on a Saturday.

Next Wednesday is a single stableford for a voucher from KFC and we thank them for their monthly sponsorship and our new sponsors, Top Two Motorcycles, will be donating trophies for both Saturday and Sunday for the men and women so please support our weekend of golf. A reminder that Patron's Day is coming up on Sunday 27th which is a medley 4BBB stroke sponsored by our Patron, Rob Macdonald, with the top eight mixed pairs to qualify for the Lane Cup sponsored by Garry & Marg Adcock.

Allora Golf

NO results for last Fridays Percy's Fruit Duck Run, these will be put in next week's notes. Last Sunday we played a single stableford event for club trophies. The winner playing some blistering golf in the great conditions with a score of 44 pts was John Sparksman. I would've loved to have been there to see the presentation well done John. Runner up with an equally impressive round of golf coming in with 43 pts was 'Rolling' Ray O'Leary.

Great to see and our lone rundown winner was our favourite Irishman 'Scully', well done mate. Pins for the 4th, Kel Strange, 13th Jim Anderson, 7th Aaron Simpson and 16th John Ellwood. Approach on the 6th went to Wayne McKewan, 15th Tom Bartholomai. Congratulations to the winners and all players, thank you to our sponsors for the continued support and to our workers thank you.

While Johnny Sparksman was tearing the course apart a few of our members travelled to attend the Pittsworth Open in a field of nearly 70 players in near perfect conditions Allora member Andrew (Tom) Brown won the C Grade gross with a score of 87. I know it could have been even more impressive if your putter was working but congratulations and well done Tom.

This Friday the Percy's Fruit Duck run will be teeing off from 2pm all welcome to attend then Sunday is the Allora Pharmacy Monthly Medal teeing from 11.30 so don't forget your sand buckets and great golfing to you all