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2008 SMERGS on Tour - Unofficial Event, "The Hero of the Hunter, day 1"
Thursday 10 April, 12 noon first tee time

Location: Horizons, Port Stephens

Results:

Group	Player	Handicap	Front 9 Stableford	Back 9 Stableford	Total Stableford
1	Rick Butler	13	14	18	32
	Nick Hillyard	18	16	12	28
	Rob Lowndes	25	16	14	30
2	Peter Macdougall	13	13	17	30
	Rick Chadwick	23	11	19	30
	Steve Figgis	32	11	11	22

The Hunter Tour - Day 2 (back to top)

2008 SMERGS on Tour - Unofficial Event, "The Hero of the Hunter, day 2"
Friday 11 April, 11:00am first tee time

Location: The Oaks Golf and Country Club, Cessnock (Cessnock public course)

Group	Player	Handicap	Front 9 Stableford	Back 9 Stableford	Total Stableford
1	Rick Butler	13	14	18	32
	Peter Macdougall	13	20	12	32
	Steve Figgis	36	14	15	29
2	Nick Hillyard	18	15	18	33
	Ken Miller	18	10	16	26
	Rick Chadwick	23	16	12	28
	Rob Lowndes	25	12	11	23

The Hunter Tour - Day 3 (back to top)

2008 SMERGS on Tour - Unofficial Event 3, The SUFFRAGE
Saturday 12 April, 11:10am first tee time

Location: The Vintage

Individual results will remain a closely guarded secret!

The Hero of the Hunter (back to top)

The Inaugural Hero of the Hunter took place this year contested by the 6 players who made the entire Tour.
In classic Smergs fashion, the event began with full club handicaps with brutal adjustments made to those who won
(minus 2 shots) and generous additions (plus 2) made to the Bradmanesque performer on the day.

The field of 6 comprised the aforementioned 'Cleaner' Butler, 'Sandbags' MacDougall, 'The Commentator' Lowndes,
'7-ball Stevie' Figgis, 'Long-Balls' Chadwick and 'The Bastard' Hillyard...................always will be.

The event ebbed and flowed with 'The Cleaner' taking an early lead at Horizons before 'The Bastard' reeled them in
at Cessnock. 'The Cleaner' swept all before him again at The Vintage and the only thread of consistency in the entire
series of games was that 'Sandbags' had put on the brakes to come second each day. In the Classic, the final event,
'The Bastard' again won the individual but along with 'The Cleaner' had been cruelly handicapped so the Inaugural Hero
of the Hunter who wins nothing but a poor reputation is Peter 'Sandbags' MacDougall.

It would be remiss of me not to mention that 'Long Balls' hit a drive on the final hole at The Vintage which almost felled a
substantial tree and still travelled 220 metres uphill while, early in the day, Stevie '7-Balls' distinguished himself by losing
7 balls with consecutive shots!!! Throughout the four days it was pointed out by 'The Commentator' that "all you have
to do is keep your head still and hit the f---ing thing"........ as can be seen from the scores, this advice was heeded
by all except one.

Nick

The Cypress Lakes Classic (back to top)

2008 SMERGS on Tour - Event 4 (Flagship event of Hunter Tour)
Sunday - 13 April, 8:32am first tee time

The Cypress Lakes Classic

....and Classic it was with the "Hillyard randomly adjusted handicap system" yielding 9 players from a field of 14 with a
Stableford score of 34 or more!! Full results below.

The team event was played in teams of 3 or 4 with the Threesomes being joined by "The Phantom", who also scored
very well, generating 36 points for each of the 2 teams!!! With 3 teams scoring either 86 or 87 points, casual observers
can deduce what a keenly fought contest the event was.

Overall honours for the day went to Peter "You bastard you've taken 3 shots off my handicap" Thornton with 39 points
off 24 and a new PB score of 91 off the stick. A great performance on a day when the greens were slightly the worse
for wear ( or, CRAP, as some of the more sensitive players chose to describe them ).

Minor Major honours went to Peter (7-iron Burns) and John (Patches) Webb who won the individual 9's.

Webb, Webb and "Gaucho" Ferreira won NTP's and Long Drives with Webby humiliating his playing partners, The Miller
Moaners, by caressing a huge drive down the 9th.

Highlight of the day was the very first Eagle in Majors history, scored by Peter Burns who chipped in from another
post-code to record a 3 on the long par 5 sixth hole.

Obviously the concentration required by Messrs Burns and Thornton was all too much for them as Ricky "The Cleaner" Butler
found 2 of their clubs strewn around the course. As a result, Rick B actually had too many clubs in his bag and perhaps the
handicap committee might want to consider his future (say, one shot penalty-----just a thought!).

Thanks to all participants for a great day.

2008 Results:

Group	Player	Handicap	Front 9 Stableford	Back 9 Stableford	Total Stableford	Team
1	Bruce Rowe	17	12	15	27
	Nick Hillyard	18	20	18	38
	Rob Lowndes	25	10	11	21	78
2	Rob Miller	14	15	13	28
	Ken Miller	18	18	18	36
	John Webb	24	18	19	37	87
4	Peter Macdougall	13	18	16	34
	Peter Thornton	24	20	19	39
	Tim Becker	25	16	13	29
	Peter Burns	30	20	18	38	87
3	Rick Butler	13	18	17	35
	Rick Chadwick	22	15	14	29
	Gary Skulander	24	18	17	35
	John Ferreira	30	19	18	37	86

The Prizes:

Overall Winner	Peter Thornton
Front Nine	Peter Burns	Back Nine	John Webb
NTP 11^th	John Ferreira	Longest Drive 9^th	John Webb
NTP 15^th	John Webb
Best Team	Team 2	The Croc and Bradman Award	Rob Lowndes