A big week this coming week so a rest today.
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Joe Jerinic and I had a good game against Lorraine and Ian Brighton (Paradise Point) on a slow Green # 4 for a good win 22-16. Lorraine handled the slow green well but Ian strugged a bit as not used to a slowish green. Joe and I could not get away from them and there were some big scores today so we just played our shots. Even Joe was short a number of times on the newly renovated green but it is very true. I led fairly well.
Broadbeach Customer Relations.. Broadbeach have gone ahead heaps and bounds since the arrival of Colleen and Barry Gilbert. Their management of the club is 1st class. It has attracted big name players and everyone is getting on very well. Today it was pretty warm and Colleen went round with complimentary Ice Creams to cool everyone off. Just one of the many things that will keep Broadbeach at the top. Well done Guys.. Phil Capon and I went to Helensvale and a heavy shower before we started caused it to be cancelled as protecting their greens for Premier League tonight.
Phil Capon, Myself, Noel Ridgewell and Dennis Molloy all went to Paradise Point on the Indoor for the morning and played Pairs between ourselves. We played 2 games. !st game, Phil and I played Dennis and Noel. We had a good game and Phil and I bowled well, as we are used to the Indoor and had a good win 14-2 over the 8 ends. We decided to switch partners and Dennis and I played Noel and Phil. Noel and I were leads in this one and Dennis played well with absolutely NO LUCK Hmmmm and we had a good 12-4 Win over the 10 ends. Great way to spend the morning and good practice for the guys too.. Grant Osborne and Myself played Alan Brough and Sam Granata today on the Indoor and had a thrilling, tight, hard game. We lost 15-19 but the game could have gone either way. Sam twice saved and drew shot when we were holding numbers. All played well, I was
Not playing at Southport Wednesdays until they have the bottom 2 greens back in. I left a message at Mudgeeraba to see if any vacancies for today mens pairs but never got a reply. Tonight we have Super Challenge Trials at Paradise Point so am not too fussed if I dont play this morning. Went for a bowls on the Indoor at 4pm with Bobby Lee.
We had our trials 6pm, 1st game of Fours Reg Germon, Merv Austin, Myself and Ray Hanson against John Mcvinish, Mal G, John Dean and Barry Alderdice side we won 9-8 over the 10 ends. Barry strugged with his drives and his XV-1's. Merv and Reg gave us a good start and Rays weight was very good as usual. 2nd game we had Sam Granata as skip and opposition had same side. We were leading 6-0 when the lights went out after the storm and the last end we played moonlight Bowls. Was great fun. Anyway a fairly good trial. Most people were there. Club Championship Fours at Cabarita Beach 2nd Round with Barry Venner, Ian Crabb, Myself and Abdul Latif. We played Ron Mills team and we all played very well especially Barry who set it all up for us from lead and had pressure on them the whole game. 24-0 after 7 ends and ended up winning 35-10 after 19 ends. Looking forward to the Semi Finals. The Greens are magnificent. At last I have found greens that equal or are even better than Paradise Points when they are running well. That is hard to find too.
Bob Barry and I started back at Cabarita Mondays after the Xmas Break... 1st game on a lovely quick greens that caught me out early. We played Graham Lake and Derek Hopps and had a wonderful close game which we won on the last end 8-7 over the 11 ends. Very good quality game and Bob played Brilliant Bowls and made it easy for me to come good at the end . 2nd game against Nick and Rob. We started well and at 5 down I drew shot with my last. 4-0 up after 2 ends but thats where we finished. We went down 5-15 when Bob and I tried to keep up with Rob who played some blinders. We never played our best and they did but a good work out and practice for tomorrows Club Championshiop Fours 2nd round. I cant believe these bowls are so quick where as the gold coast as so slow after the rains.
Not sure what my plans were today. Had tried to juggle Club Championship at Cabarita and Practice games around for today but nothing worked out so might just go to Broadbeach for a roll up early as Pete, Steve and the boys will be there.
DO YOU WANT TO BUY A BRAND NEW SET OF TAYLOR REDLINE SR'S? SEE GRANT OSBORNE, PARADISE POINT. ONLY USED TWICE ON THE INDOOR CARPET AND AS NEW CONDITION. I Spent the morning at Broadbeach and Charlie Laws and I also Joe Jerinic having good bowls practice with various Bowls, Evo, Premiers and XV1's. Driving, Drawing and decided that the XV1 bowl are very nice and might get a 2nd hand set one of these days to practice with at the right price. Certainly hold their line well and DO draw into the wind. Peter Thompson and I are having a game of singles 11 til 12.30am. Should be a good game as Peter is a good draw bowler and I will have to be on top of my game to stay with him.
We had a good hard game which we both bowled very well. After the 2 hours Peter was leading 24-19. I let a good lead slip 12-5 up and Peter came back at me to lead 13-15 and was tight from then on. Will have another game next time. Phil Capon and I played Ian Giggins and Laurie Pickering in the 1st game for a good 16-5 win over the 11 ends. Phil and I played very well and had to as these 2 always play well. 2nd game against Brian Crook and Bobby Brown. This game we had very little luck and Brian played very well and was close to the Jack nearly every end. Phil tried hard but made it difficult for me to convert but I tried hard without much luck We could not get the mat to go long early and when we did they struggled a bit. We lost 4-15 and they played well.
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