nnomads Golf Club

The Shanksy Invitational Tournament 2012

‘A note from event sponsor Don Johnson’

Good day for a quorum: It was a good day for golf. The cloudy, humid weather gave way to a warm sun kissed afternoon. The participants had gathered at Kingston links for the chance to win a truly prestigious trophy; unfortunately there had been a number of cancellations and no shows, and only seven had fronted. But, as it had been pointed out, ‘seven’ just so happens to be the magic number needed to create a ‘quorum’, and the opportunity arose to pass some really silly rules or amendments to the Nnomads constitution without too much opposition.

Minor catering problems: Another unfortunate occurrence during the week, where a member of the catering staff was caught using used condoms instead of sausages in the sandwiches, led to the catering company being sacked. Consequently, the only sandwiches on offer were from Thursday, which I thought would go unnoticed, but some bastard wrote ‘Thursday’ on the packaging. Mr Teflon noted that it was the worst sandwich that he had ever eaten. Admittedly, he had obtained the last one on offer, the one that one that no one else had wanted for three days, and as it turned out, it so happened to be a sausage sandwich. Oh well!

Quality golf: Apart from the sandwich debacle (apparently the pies were good), the golf was of reasonable quality. Although there was some murmuring back at the car park of a conspiracy because the members of the second group had all finished last, second last, and third last, and it was a bit of a coincidence that the members of the first group were in charge of the score cards. But the members of the first group saw this, and after a while relegated one of their own to last place.

Winners are grinners: And the winner was…Me! I finally won my own tournament. I used to think it was impolite to win your own trophy and tournament, but not anymore, being polite doesn’t get you the trophy. Now that I have it…

Resolutions passed: Yet another piece of misfortune occurred when the quorum we created couldn’t pass any silly rules or regulations. We spent almost an hour debating on whether or not we should reduce the numbers needed to create a ‘triggered major’. Needless to say, nothing was passed. Oh…maybe we passed something that relates to ‘footprints in bunkers’ and ‘un-repaired divot holes’ coming under ‘GUR’ rules. I’m not sure.

And beer was had by all.

Gloating winner: Did I mention that I WON?...... I WON! …………..Who came second?.......Who cares. I WON!

Special thanks to absentees: Thanks to all of you who did not turn up. Thanks to: Slugger, Pup, Zotepec, The Bloke, The Nurse, Brendon, Timmo, that dude from Queensland, the other dude from Uralba, the dude and a half from WA, and not to mention ‘the rabble from South Australia’ (I was really trying hard not to mention them). Thanks for not turning up…not that it would have mattered…..all-y’all would have been beaten anyway. It is a little easier to win when the numbers are lower, especially when some of the people missing, have their names on the trophy. But since it was such an emphatic win, the numbers didn’t matter. But, thanks to y’all anyway. Did I mention that I WON?....

Regards

Don Johnson

Event sponsor

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