CAPTAIN’S NEWSLETTER
BORROWDALE BROOKE GAME-27TH NOVEMBER 2016
Dear Fellow Nomads,
We played our first game for year 2017 and the 2016 Gold Cup on 27TH November 2016 at Borrowdale Brooke Golf Club, the day’s field was 116 players, one guest and unfortunately we had two no shows. The weather forecast was that the Sunday was going to be pouring the whole day, and indeed it was raining but not that bad so we all had a fairly enjoyable day. Thank you all for playing in the rain to support this very important day on our Calendar.
Monthly and Gold Cup Sponsors
The monthly game was kindly sponsored by Tony Muller of Swiss Motors and the Gold Cup game generously sponsored by Eliot Shonhiwa of Tata Motors. The Sponsorship was fantastic, Mashonaland Nomads is very grateful for the support and appeal to our members to please support our Sponsors so that they are able to continue to be our partners in this regard.
Borrowdale Brooke course
History has it that the Brooke is very good hunting ground for many of our members judging from the number of silver trays awarded for monthly games played here. The course as usual was in briliant condition, the greens were excellent, nice and soft but our PRO Nyasha Chinhara had a point or two to prove. Despite the wet conditions the course layout was something else, we played from some tee-boxes we have never seen before and for sure no 40 pointer was recorded on the day.
I would like to sincerely thank The Brooke Management and staff for their efforts to make sure all our meetings are memorable ones despite the challenging circumstances in Zimbabwe at the moment. Well done Team Borrowdale Brooke.
Thank Yous.
Our Nomads ladies Alison, Lyn, Alana and Judy we can never say thank you enough for your contribution to our monthly meetings. You really make it happen for us, the registration, compilation of results, raffles etc , etc we very much appreciate your support and commitment to Nomads thank you very much.
Our starters, a thankless job you do, waking up early morning to see us tee-off on time. Greg Pozzo, Rod Bennet and Gordon Mackenzie you did it so well gentlemen and we are forever grateful for your contribution to our great Club.
The Resident Pro Stu Stovold, a special thank you to you for once again allowing us free use of the driving range and balls before playing. We very much appreciate this generous gesture.
V J Patel and Kutaura Enterprises- Kindly donated Starters Gazebos to be used at all our monthly games. They were used for the first time at Borrowdale Brooke on this rainy day and tell you what they became very handy our starters can testify. Thank you V J for your support to Nomads it is very much appreciated by all of us at Mashonaland.
FINES MASTER
Patrick Cornish, they say experience is the best teacher and for sure you demonstrated it . Your fines session was short, humorous and made quite a few people pay including myself just in time otherwise Julian Borcherds would be the one in trouble. Many thanks for your support
AWARDS
Congratulations to the following members who received their awards at the Brooke;
- Anwar Wazir 40 Points at Country Club
- Andy Revolta 41 Points at B/Brooke
- Mike Linforth 35 Year Tie
- Theo Kumalo 10 Year Tie
- 32 Members 12/12 Games Caps.
ORANGE BOWL JUNIOR GOLF TOURNAMENT
Keeping in line with one of Nomads’s major objectives the furtherance of golf a brief press conference was held before the game where Nomads offered to support the best Junior Golfer who qualifies to go and play in the prestigious annual Orange Bowl Tournament in the United States of America. National Chairman Obed Dube assured The Zimbabwe Junior Golf Union that Nomads will do their best to assist the top Junior golfer who qualifies for this tournament going forward. He expressed need for transparency and accountability for the donated funds.
Young David Amm was the recipient this year and sufficient money was raised from Nomads and individual members to enable him to travel and play a few practice rounds before the main tournament.
We have since received reports that he played very well in the Greg Norman Junior Invitational where he finished tie second, and finished T35 out of 56 players for the major tournament .We are hopeful that this was good experience for him and should do much better in future.
BORROWDALE BROOKE GAME AND GOLD CUP RESULTS
The results for these two games can now be viewed on Nomads Website under Mashonaland News. Well doneto all the winners and special mention Colin Mpofu who had a fantastic year, judging from the number of times I had to call him up to the podium to collect Gold cup prizes. Well played mate. Richard Morgan many thanks for keeping the Website up to date, it is appreciated by us all.
NEXT GAME
Our next game is a morning one at Ruwa Golf Club on the 15th January 2017. If you would like to play please put your name down as usual through our Match Secretary Alison Clark Cel 0772 318 879. We look forward to seeing you all at Ruwa for our second game for 2017.
Nomadically yours
Clever Dziva Chikwari
Captain
Nomads Mashonaland
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
263-772 877 753
Nomads Creed
No Man is an Island entire of itself
Every man if a piece of the continent; a part of the main.
Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind
And, therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee
Nomads Golf was first established in South Africa 1960. As its members were drawn from various clubs and played their regular competitions on a variety of different courses, the Nomads name seemed particularly appropriate.