CAPTAIN’S NEWSLETTER – 18/05/15

                   GAME 5: BORROWDALE BROOKE -26^th APRIL 2015      

Greetings fellow Nomads

We continue to have good numbers for our games .We had a field of 128 players, 1 prospective, 4 guests and 1 no show. Thank you all for your support and commitment. We were also privileged to be joined by Adrian Quinn who now lives in Cape Town. 

Our sincere thanks to the Captain of Borrowdale Brooke Barry Louw and his Vice Captain Elwyn Mudungwe, Club Manager Mark Brackley, Members and Staff for the use of your facilities; it is appreciated by all of us at Nomads. The course was in excellent condition as you can see by the scores, catering was excellent. Below is the average score per division for the day.                       

MONTHLY GAME SPONSORS

The following are sponsors that have sponsored a game .Please support them as they support us.

Our National Sponsors Hyundai, Delta and Westside Distribution have come on board on all our monthly games.

  Our Sponsors to date are:

• Garikai Bera and Pride Masamba
• Kutaura Enterprises and Walk Tall
• Desmond Matete and Agrippa Mugwagwa
• Health International
• Freight World.
• Delta
• Hyundai
• Westside Distribution
• Batirai Manhando and Caleb Tapfuma

The Brooke game was sponsored by Caleb Tapfuma and Batirai Manhando.

We were also privileged to be joined by the following ladies: - Alida Greenhalgh, Shirley Jonker, Pollet Jarvis, Patti Knox, Judy Amira, Colleen Morgan, Phil Mannion, Anne Jones. Thank you for gracing our day.

To our starters Greg Pozzo and Rod Bennet, thank you for your time and effort.

To Craig Sly, thank you for your excellent fines session.

Our Nomads ladies we cannot thank you enough, well done for all your hard work and effort, Alison Clark, Lyn Tapson, Nicky Rick and Madeline Sly.

SICK LIST

Currently on the sick list are the following:-

Roy Waterworth, Greg Pozzo, Vusani Bhasera, Lyall Wittstock, Max Karombo, Simon Rick and John Twiggs

Please come forward and advise me if you know of any Nomad that is sick so that l can include them on the sick list. Our thoughts and prayers are with all the Nomads that are on the sick list.

AWARDS

The following awards were presented at Borrowdale Brooke Golf Club:-

$1Ø  HOLE IN ONE WARREN HILLS - CEDRIC JONKER

$1Ø  100 Game Badge – Harshad Patel

$1Ø  300 Game Badge – Enock Moyo

Graham George Davies’ Highlights

$1Ø  Joined Nomads in April 1985, he was playing at Chapman off 14.

$1Ø  To date total number of games 237

$1Ø  He is a sponsor for Monthly National Games

Graham congratulations on achieving a 30 year tie.

Patrick Cornish’ Highlights

$1Ø  Joined Nomads in 1980, he was playing at Warren Hills.

$1Ø  Lowest handicap played -3 in 1987.

$1Ø  To date total number of games 351

$1Ø  He was Mashonaland Captain in 1993

$1Ø  He was National Chairman in 2007.

$1Ø  Great Ambassador for Nomads Zimbabwe at various National Games played outside Zimbabwe.

$1Ø  Raised a lot of money for Charities through Tobacco Bale raffles in the 1980s and 1990s.

$1Ø  Congratulations Patrick for achieving a 35 year tie.

EARLY LEAVERS

The following were early leavers at Borrowdale Brooke Golf Club.

Cliff Johnson, Wellington Makamure, Ben Funani, Vuli Sibanda, John Woodward, John Musekiwa, Ben Manyenyeni, Ray Chipanguea G, Simon Gambiza, Julian Borcherds and Barry Bakewell.

BIRTHDAYS

The following Nomads will be celebrating their birthdays in the month of May 2015. Congratulations gentlemen, we wish them many more years of good health and success.

HUMOR

IRISH JOKES

$1§  The Irish Boat Race was cancelled because the course was waterlogged.

$1§  Do you know what’s written on the bottom of the Irish swimming pool? – Answer: No Smoking!

 Our next game is at Wingate Golf Club, afternoon tee off on the 31^st May 2015.

Yours Nomadically

Dumi Mabhena

Captain - Mashonaland Nomads

Mobile : 0772 213 893.