NATAL NOMADS Golf Club Monthly issue Newsletter Windsor Golf Club Volume 2 Issue 3 | Page 2

P AGE 2 FEBRUARY 2019 Special Presentation: Captains Report Greeting Nomads. Greg Graham, Captain 2018 Tel: [phone] Cell: 083 647 5715 [email protected] raham, Captain – Natal Nomads 2018 Our inaugural game (yes, our first game in 55 Years) at Athlone Golf Club situated on Windsor Park Golf Course was Tel: [phone] st hosted on the 21 of February 2019. Those of you who played will agree that it was a most enjoyable experience. Cell: 083 647 Considering the financial issues that Athlone/Windsor have been 5715 plagued with over the last 10 months, I thought the course played reasonably well. The layout of the course fantastic and would love to see what the course would look like email: when all their machinery is up and running. I had the pleasure of being joined on the day by the Vice-Captain of Athlone, [email protected] o.za The local knowledge definitely helped as Mike won the Mike Fetter, Garth Hanger and Sean Lenz (Prospective Member). B Division on 34 Points, his good score helped the two of us into the runners up in the playing pair too. I would really like to thank the staff at Athlone Golf Club for the efforts they made in hosting us, in particular the Club Manager, Samantha Purdy, and her team of Lady members who assisted her behind the bar after the game. Thanks must also go to our starters on the day, Shaun Barker and Phil Hodgson. Our guests for the day were Brian Giddy and Alex Crockart. Chris Brooks from Southern Natal was the only visiting Nomads. Waiting List Members who joined us were Brandon Barnes, Brand Van Niekerk, Sean Phillips and Sean Lenz. I am sure you all had a good game with us and we look forward to hosting you again soon. With only 4 showers and a field of 84 odd players, there were a few concerns around the start time of prizegiving. I am however pleased that the Natal Nomads have embraced this new-found discipline of getting off the course and hitting the showers straight away. Much to the delight of our scorers on the day, Ian Brewer, Alan Lukan and Mykel Addison, it appears that with this urge to clean themselves, our members are also more focussed on handing in correctly scored cards. The combination of all of this resulted in prize-giving commencing at 5.30. The Divisional winners were A Division, Tom ‘Purple Patch’ Barff on 34 Points, B Division Werner Pieterse on 34 Points and C Division on 35 Points, Phil Hodgson. Well done to them and all the other winners on the day. It was also my privilege to hand out a number of ties namely: 45 year tie 40 year tie 35 year tie 25 year tie 10 year tie 5 year tie - - - - - - Peter MacNaughton Pat Smythe Mike Jordan & Geoff Henebrey Blake Shepherd Ray James Craig Redfern 35 Year – Graham Blackburn 15 Year – Chris Meyiwa 10 Year – Rob Thornhill 10 Year – Shaun Barker 400 Game Badge – Garth Enslin 400 Game Badge – Fred Stopforth 550 Game Badge to be handed to JOHN WINTON @ ZIMBALI next month INDUCTIONS: Theo van Rensburg Brand van Niekerk Sean Lenz Brandon Barnes Sean Phillips Resignations received: Bruce Mungle Dean Hodgson John Mclure Johan Roux Medical Credit granted: Deryck Willans New Applications: Brian Giddy Mykel Addison is also the latest member to join our ranks. Mykel is an HR/IR Consultant for CTL Holdings and I am pleased to say will considerably reduce the average membership age. Welcome to Natal Nomads Mykel. We have a contingent of 26 Players heading off to the Firethorn Nationals at Randpark from the 9 th to the 15 th of March. It is a smaller group than we hoped for but I have no doubt that we will have just as much fun as we normally do and fly Brendan du Randt 6 th the Natal Nomads flag high. th Alan Tennant 13 th Amanzimtoti Country Club will host our next game on the 19 of March and I look forward to seeing you all there. Yours in Nomads Greg Graham, Captain – Natal Nomads 2018 Gavin Brown 18 th Bruce Baird 26 th th Helen Parker 27 Phil Hodgson 28 th Mike Graham 30 th Derek Browne 25 th