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The ‘Blessed are the Big Nose’ Cup 2013

Winner on Handicap: Date: Course: Competitors: On course coverage: Prize winners:

Don Johnson 29^th March 2013 Amstel Golf Club Player groups BBNC 2013 On course at the BBNC 2013 BBNC presentations 2013

Event Report:

‘The Don Does it Again, Again’

March 29^th 2013: Well this year there was a call to run the ‘Blessed are the Big Nose’ Cup at a different venue, somewhere new and exciting, somewhere inspiring, a quality course we hadn’t played at before. But as it turned out the only criteria that lived up to those expectations was the fact we hadn’t played there before. Unfortunately, Amstel Golf Club proved to be uninspiring and certainly not what you would call a ‘quality’ course. But did it matter?

Cream of the crop were contenders: Of course not, because the cream of the crop turned out for this year’s event including The Bloke, Slugger and The Cardinal in the first group and Stavros, Don Johnson and Rubber Man in the second group. Yes it was a select tour of six contenders in the 2103 competition and contenders they were, or at least they claimed to be on the first tee (see BBNC 2013 player groups).

A fearsome challenge: So Amstel is a tired old 6,070 meter 72.7 ACR course that charges $25 on a public holiday. “As soon as they said $25 I started to wonder. Our local mini golf course charges more than that and that’s pretty run down” observed Rubber Man as he stepped onto the first tee. But that proved to be all part of the challenge because the fairways lacked cover, the bunkers hadn’t been raked in years and your ball took air when putting on the greens because they were so lumpy. “Challenge is right. The bunkers were like cement and the fairways weren’t much better” observed Slugger looking for an excuse as he later accepted the Endeavour Award for having 14 strokes on a short par 4, but that another story. Mind you, it must be said the weather was very pleasant as was the company making oncourse activity much better than it sounded (see on course at the BBNC 2013).

The DON has a ‘big nose’: So while some competitors were complaining about the conditions The Don was plodding along putting in a very consistent effort. He was a couple of strokes in front of Stavros at the turn and then increased his lead as the rest of the field fell afoul of the course. At the end of the round The DON was one under the card (94,23,71) and seven strokes in front of Stavros in outright second (105,27,78) a sensational performance under the conditions. “Yeah but the handicaps hadn’t been done. After his last win he his handicap should have been slashed” suggested The Bloke at the presentations, which wasn’t the case because while The DON’s handicap would have come in, he still would have won by clear five or six strokes.

Presentations in a mullock heap: So this laid the basis for a truly wonderful celebration during the presentations which were held in the middle of a construction zone in the Amstel GC car park. It was a particularly wonderful celebration because the win meant The Don had won back to back titles (because Don also won the Triggered Major a few weeks ago). “I’ve frankly had a gutful. That will be enough of that” proclaimed The Cardinal after The Tanunda Kid presented Don with the most sought after perpetual ‘Blessed are the Big Nose’ Cup trophy. “What a wonderful course. What a wonderful course” started The Don in his acceptance speech which in fact wasn’t much longer than that (see 2103 BBNC Winner’s speech). And of course the presentations also celebrated the other prize winners on the day including Stavros in second place, The Bloke for a sensation NTP, and Slugger for an equally sensational NTP and for winning the Endeavour award (see 2013 BBNC presentations). Note: The Don also took out the longest drive further illustrating his championship winning performance.

The Club committee congratulates The DON for doing it again and again and of course all winners on the day. The committee also points out that Don has now taken the lead in the 2013 club championship displacing previous leader Slugger after these sensational pair of wins (see YTD club championship results). The committee expresses its disappointment that last year’s winner, The Maroon Breasted Warbler didn’t turn up to defend his championship but compliments The Tanunda Kid for at turning up for the presentations, albeit with very little conversation.

Detailed Results

The ‘Blessed are the Big Nose’ Cup 2013

Player	Gross	HCP	Net	Prizes
Don Johnson	94	23	71	Winner on handicap and longest drive
Stavros	105	27	78	2^nd on nnomads handicap
The Bloke	101	20	81	NTP
The Cardinal	109	26	83
Rubber Man	109	24	85
Slugger	111	22	89	NTP and Endeavour award

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Player groups BBNC 2013

On course at the BBNC 2013

BBNC presentations 2013

BBNC Champion 2013 Speech

This month’s competition: Who stupidly suggested
the BBNC should be played at Amstel GC?