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The Balnarring Invitational Tournament 2010

 

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Winner on handicap:

Date:

Course:

Competitors:

On course coverage:

Tour members:

Prize winners:

 

Steph (Bloke)

9th October 2010

St Andrews Beach

Player groups BIT 2010

On course at the BIT 2010

Faces of the BIT Tour 2010

BIT presentations 2010

 

 

Event Report:

‘Bloke Gets BIT’

Saturday 9th October 2010: Players arrived early at St Andrews Beach golf course (rated 10th best public course in Australia) for the running of the Balnarring Invitational Tournament (BIT) for 2010. This had nothing to do with Tombei the Mist lying about the tee time the night before bringing it forward by thirty minutes or so during a rambling conversation about the impending event. Not at all. Rather, it reflected the driving desire of the eighteen competitors from five states to win the much sort after BIT perpetual trophy and associated bragging rights that only a select few competitors have ever achieved (see BIT player groups 2010).

As readers would know, the BIT is one of the nnomads Golf Club premier handicap events. Hence, nnomads handicaps were the order of the day (although Mild Colonial Boy complained that his new Royal Freemantle Golf Club handicap of 23 strokes should apply rather than the nnomads handicap of 19 strokes.) “You might be a member of an exclusive golf club in WA MILD but not on your Nellie. Its nnomads handicaps over here and particularly after your 82 stroke performance at Flinders yesterday” reinforced Min as he strongly explained the views of the handicapping committee.

St Andrews was in excellent condition as usual, the sun was out, and the wind stayed away creating a picture perfect environment for competitive golf. And some very competitive golf was played on a very tough course with long pristine fairways, cxxt grass everywhere, vicious bunkers, some very tricky pin placements, demon role off the green hazards and some really tough tees (see on course at the BIT in 2010). You could see the pressure of the competition written all over the faces of the tour party (see faces of the 2010 tour). And as expected a select few thrived while the rest of the field progressively fell of the perch as the round went on.

Actually, it appeared to be quite tight at the end of it all because there were seven players within three strokes of each other. BC, Nicko, Harry and Rodney all ended up on net 76 strokes, Emile ended up on net 75 strokes, and equal on net 74 strokes were Shanksy and The Cardinal. But it wasn’t really close at all. Nope. Because the Bloke had a blinder of a round shooting an 89 off the stick giving him a net 69 after his bandit handicap of 20 strokes. For anyone who can add up, this was five strokes clear of the next best in the field (Shanksy and The Cardinal on net 74), illustrating Steph’s outstanding and superior performance on the day (see detailed results below).

Hence, appropriate recognition and admiration was on display at the presentations as event sponsor Min and last year’s champion Tony, presented the perpetual BIT plate to Steph. “Miraculous, a beautiful day for golf, we all enjoyed ourselves, lets do it again soon......” rambled Bloke very casually to the media in the post presentation interview (see doorstop interview with BIT 2010 Champion – Steph). As would be expected the presentations recognised other exceptional performances including Shanksy and The Cardinal in equal 2nd place, Emile in outright 3rd place (Yes we know, we know.. it should be 4th but we don’t always do that in this club. Only sometimes), Nicko for his sensational longest drive and nearest the pin, Shags for his brilliant longest drive and Jack, Fang and Tony for their outstanding nearest the pins. That’s not to mention the recognition awards presented by event sponsors Tombei and Nurse Min but you just have to see those for yourself (see 2010 BIT presentations).

The committee congratulates Steph on his outstanding performance giving him his second win in this most prestigious event (he also won it in 2006). The committee also congratulates all other prize winners on the day and wants to thank event sponsor Minnow in particular because without his outstanding accommodation and facilities the event couldn’t be what it is, another truly sensational must be at event.

 

Detailed Results

The Balnarring Invitational Tournament 2010

 

Player

Gross

HCP

Net

Prizes

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Steph

89

20

69

Winner on handicap 2010

Shanksy

92

18

74

Equal 2nd, Longest drive

Fang

97

23

74

Equal 2nd, Nearest the pin

Emile

108

33

75

Outright 3rd

Harry

101

25

76

Rodney

98

22

76

Bryan C

102

26

76

Nick

99

23

76

Longest drive, Nearest the pin

Tom

101

22

79

Tony

99

19

80

Nearest the pin

Rhett

96

15

81

Pete S

100

18

82

Jack

103

20

83

Nearest the pin

Fritz

116

30

86

Ricko

119

32

87

Min

120

32

88

Mark V

114

21

93

Mark F

125

31

94

Wooden duck

 

 

Player groups BIT 2010

On course at the BIT 2010

Faces of the 2010 BIT tour

BIT presentations 2010

Interview with winner

 

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