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 2025 PRESIDENTS CUP CHAMPION – JOHN VARRICA [11] 40 POINTS
Today’s event was the President’s Cup and it was played at Camden GC. The event is a single round competition in the stableford format. 26 players showed up for a very early start and were greeted with some very unseasonal cold weather.
The course itself was in very good condition with the fairways being the best in recent memory and the greens were very true and deceivingly quick.
Johnny V took over captain’s duties as Joy was awol this morning, and with the help of Santo collecting money on his little K Mart foldaway table. The groups were sorted, and play was from the white tees with preferred lies on fairways only.
It is a bit ironic that the President’s Cup winner today was the President himself. John Varrica had been trying for 20 years to win this one and he finally did. John shot 40pts today of a handicap of 11.
A-grade was won by Mark Donovan on a countback from Manny Petris with a fine score of 37 pts off 8 handicap.
B grade was won by Seb Ares with a top score of 39 pts playing off 16 hcp.
C grade was taken out by a rising young star by the name of Brayden Harys. Brayden shot 40 pts off 27 hcp and was unlucky to lose on a countback. Well done and many more good scores to come.
With the weekend away being on next week, the Guzzlers Cup was much sort after as it ensures that the winner won’t have to buy any drinks for himself and can ask the members for 1 drink each during the trip. That lucky person today was Peter Davis with a fine score of 38 pts off 21 hcp.
The Bradman’s today were won by…….
A grade – Jim Gardner 30pts
B grade – Troy Young 30pts
C grade – Brian Craven 25pts
We also had 2 visitors today and they were Carmelo Sammarco and Luke Laconia. Thanks for coming and we hope you had a good time.
That wraps it up for today, and a reminder to all the members that want to come on next years trip to Nelson Bay that, deposits are required as per previous communication to ensure your spot and to help pay for the accommodation deposit that is due very soon.
Now let’s flog Canberra next week.
 LAWSON & MERV PELL CUP WINNERS: BLACKTOWN WORKERS
On this date, selected members from our golf club played against Blacktown Workers Club for the Lawson Cup and the Merv Pell Cup in an inter-club competition. The Lawson Cup has a history spanning nearly 60 years, while the Merv Pell Cup has been contested for around 40 years.
The competition was previously between up to six teams, but it now consists of Revesby Workers and Blacktown Workers Clubs, who continue to uphold the tradition.
Each club’s president selected 16 players for their team. Eight players participated in the Merv Pell Cup, which is a scratch stableford event, and all 16 competed in the Lawson Cup, a straight stableford event.
The weather was overcast and mild. The course was in good condition, although dew on the greens persisted throughout the match and affected putting speed. Revesby players had not played at this venue before.
The match started from both the first and tenth tees at 7am and concluded by 12pm, followed by food, drinks, and a presentation.
Blacktown Workers Club won both trophies.
For the Merv Pell Cup, Blacktown scored 196 points against Revesby’s 184 points. In the Lawson Cup, Blacktown averaged 37.1 points compared to Revesby’s 33.4 points.
Notable performances included Santo Sammarco, runner-up in the MP Cup with a scratch score of 31 points and 39 points in the LC, and other members who won NTPs, long drive, and drive and pitch honours.
Overall, the event proceeded as scheduled. Acknowledgement is given to Blacktown Workers Club for organizing a great event, the ongoing relationship between the two clubs, and the competitive spirit.
Appreciation is extended to members who represented the club and to the committee for their support.
 WINNERS: SANTO SAMMARCO & MATT CAMPBELL 60.75 Today’s event was held at a course that we have had a love hate relationship with the past few years. There was a time where we swore that we would never play here again. The condition of the course in the past was diabolical with high rough, bare fairways and greens with craters on them.
We were told by management that things had gotten better and, we were not disappointed today. The course was 1000% in better condition with lush fairways and beautiful greens. The rough had also been cut which made for a more aggressive approach from tee to green.
The event was a 2 man ambrose event with each team made up of a low handicapper and a higher handicapper. Each player had to use 6 of his tee shots or the team score would not count.
The winners today were the 2 gorillas named Santo Sammarco and Matt Campbell. With their power hitting it was no wonder that birdies and eagles were the order of the day for this pair and resulting in a score of 60.75 points.
The runners up with a score of 61 on a countback were Mark McDonald and Mark Kraus with a fine score of 61. The 2 Marks were on fire with a spell of 3 birdies in a row and some very close nearest the pins for Mark Mac. Unfortunately, the guys putting out the ntp markers forgot to put them out on those holes.
The Guzzlers Cup was taken out by John Varrica and Brad Kennedy with 61 points. This pair were cruising along nicely until the last hole where they had a double bogey 7 that knocked them out of contention.
 THE BRADMANS We also had a new member join up today and his name is Juan Rojas. We hope that you enjoyed your round with us and welcome to the club.
The next event will be the Lawson Cup against Blacktown Workers on the 2nd November. This is an invitational event only and limited to 16 players selected by the president. We will resume normal scheduling on the 9th of November at Camden (Studley Park) keep an eye out for the booking sheet in a couple of weeks.
The Prez.
 OUTRIGHT WINNER: SANTO SAMMARCO [10] 70 NETT
Today was a new experience for a lot of players as the course was one that many have never played or they played it a long time ago. The course was Woodville Golf Club and I must say that the feedback from a lot of members was that it was a pleasant surprise. Obviously, those that didn’t play too well had a different opinion.
With most of the members not expecting much, the course presented itself very well. The fairways were lush, and the greens were smooth and quick. It was no walk in the park either with its very tight tree lined fairways, hidden water hazards and small elevated greens putting a premium on accuracy.
The round itself was quite slow due to the club allowing a group of 6 players from another social club slowing proceedings dramatically.
The leading groups today were paired in the order of their standings on the club championship table. That is so that the leading players in all 3 grades could gauge how they were travelling against there closest competitor.
At the end of the round the players congregated in the Woodville pub next door for the presentation.
The outright winner today was Santo Sammarco [10] with a fine score of 70 nett.
A grade winner was John Varrica [11] with 74 nett
B Grade winner was Seb Ares [16] with 72 nett
C Grade winner was Wayne Jol [26] with 72 nett
The guzzlers Cup went to Mark McSwiney [16] 73 nett c/b
The Bradmans today were……………………………
A Grade – Jim Gardner 84 nett c/b
B Grade – Jay Krishna 77 nett
C Crade – Mick McCarney 81 nett
Next game is at Macarthur Grange on 19/10/25 at 6:15am bookings are now open.
We are still looking for players to come to Highlands GC for the Hogan McKeough Sheil against Canberra Labour Club. Please contact Michael Kabalan if you can come. Your club and committee need your support.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2025 CLUB CHAMPIONS
The 2025 club championships concluded this weekend at Woodville Golf Club. The event was run over 4 rounds at Campbelltown GC, Macquarie Links GC, Brighton Lakes GC and Woodville GC.
The championship is for both the Club Scratch Champions and Club Handicap Champions and members had the luxury of dropping one of the four rounds.
I am happy to announce that this year’s champions are………………..
A Grade Club Champion – Mark Donovan +33
B Grade Champion – Joy Mesuria +41
C Grade Champion – Mark McDonald +69
The 2025 handicap Champions
A Grade HCP Champion – John Varrica +2
B Grade HCP Champion – Cliff Bourquin +4
C Grade HCP Champion – Pat Collins +3
Congratulations to all our 2025 club champions and well played to all the members that contested the championship. Also, a big thanks to our captain Joy Mesuria for organising the groups on the days and for recording and maintaining all of the scores on the championship files.
 OUTRIGHT WINNER: JOY MESURIA [13] 70NETT A good roll up of players showed up for this 3rd round of the club championship at Brighton Lakes this morning. The weather was perfect for golf, with clear skies and a gentle breeze providing ideal conditions for the players. The course know for its challenging layout with undulating greens tested the players abilities to the fullest.
With 8 members of RWCMGC also being members of Brighton Lakes, it was expected that the best performances would come from that group as it is a thinking man’s course where finesse and course management trump brute force.
As it turned out, the Brighton boys came through to take out all but one trophy today.
The outright winner was Joy Mesuria [13] with a score of 70 nett. Joy was only one of 2 players to play to his handicap and is continuing with his fine form of late.
A Grade winner was another Brighton boy, John Varrica [11] 74 nett.
B Grade was taken out by Brighton boy Cliff Bourquin [18] 71 nett.
C Grade was won by the only non Brighton member, and that was Rossco Hamer [24] 70 nett.
The Guzzlers Cup was won by you guessed it, another Brighton boy, Mark McSwiney [16] 73 nett
The Bradmans today were………………..
A – Mitch Floyd 84 nett
B – Dean Heffernan 82 nett
C – Jayden Mallia 95 nett
Funny story for the day involved Mark (mumbles) McSwiney on his not so favourite hole, the par 5 13th. For those that play with mark a lot, you would know that Mark can invent many ways to butcher this hole. Only problem is that he could have nearly butchered his playing partner if not for some forward thinking from Steve Floyd. Mark hit a decent shot to the left of the fairway but needing a slight right to left shot with his next. He hit a 3 wood flush, which hit a tree in front of him and ricochet back at speed through the cart that Steve had been sitting in. Luckily, Steve had an inkling of impending danger and had just exited the cart before the ball came flying through. Could have been a lot worse.
The next game will be at Woodville GC in a couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for the booking notification.
The leaderboard and championship standings will be published once all scores have been reviewed.
The Prez.
 OUTRIGHT WINNER-BOB MALLIA [21] 71 NETT MACQUARIE LINKS GC
Another cracking day greeted our club members at Macquarie links this morning. The course is one of the favourites on our roster and with it’s great layout and some tight holes, makes for quite a challenging round of golf.
The course had been cored this week, and the greens were dusted with sand. While the speed of the greens was ok, the unpredictable ball movement when it slowed down near the hole made it difficult to hole many putts. This was reflected in the scores at the end of the round.
The outright winner today was Bob Mallia [21] with 71 nett.
A Grade winner was Mitch Floyd [12] with 73 nett
B Grade was taken out by Steve Floyd [14] with 79 nett
C Grade was won by Brad Kennedy [33] with 74 nett
The Guzzlers Cup was won by Mark Donovan [7] with a tidy 75 nett.
The Bradmans today were………………..
A – Michael Kabalan 89 nett
B – Mark McSwiney 90 nett
C – Peter Macaulay 88 nett
We also had a visitor and now new member play, and he is Ben Marciante. Ben shot 86 gross and we welcome you to the club.
The leaderboard and championship standings will be published once all scores have been reviewed.
The booking sheet for the next game has been published, so get your names in early please.
Thank you to Joy and all his helpers that get things rolling in the mornings.
The Prez.
 2025 4BBB MATCHPLAY CHAMPIONS-S & M FLOYD
A beautiful morning greeted the players for the 1st round of the club championship at Campbelltown GC.
The sun was shining, and the weather was very conducive to producing some good scores today. The course itself had come back well from the deluge during the week but, bunkers were out of play and the greens were wet and super slow. Picking the speed at which to hit the putts would prove to be the biggest challenge for most of the field today.
Players assembled at 6:45am and the captain announced the rules of the day which were, preferred lies fairways only, silver tees and the event was strokeplay meaning that you had to always finish the hole.
The outright winner was Craig Flint [22] with the score of 64 nett.
A Grade was won by John Varrica [11] with the score of 66 nett
B Grade winner was Joy Mesuria [14] with the score of 65 nett
C Grade was won by Pat Collins [20] with the score of 66 nett
The ever-important Guzzlers Cup winner was Steve Floyd [15 ] with
The Bradmans today were …………………
A Grade – Mitch Floyd 77 nett
B Grade – Jay Krishna 77 nett
C Grade – Brad Kennedy 80 nett
The small eagles nest went off today and the winner was Peter Macaulay with a great shot on the 14th to 80cm for the $300 prize.
After being postponed a few times due to the recent bad weather, the final of the 4BBB was finally contested today by the teams of Mitch & Steve Floyd up against Peter Davis & Rossco Hamer. The result was a win on the final hole by team Floyd. Congratulations to mitch and Steve.
The Leaderboard and standings will be published once all cards have been scrutinised.
The next round will be at Macquarie links next week so look out for the booking notice coming soon.
THE PREZ
 WINNERS: JOY MESURIA & PETE DAVIS 61PTS
Today’s event was played at Camden GC and the format was a 2 Ball BAM.
In this format, the 1st 3 holes are scored as best ball, the 2nd 3 holes are scored as aggregate and the next 3 holes are scored as a multiplier. The same then applies to the 2nd 9 holes.
The fingers and toes were feeling it this morning with the temperature at a fresh 3 degrees at tee time which was 6:25 am.
The course was in god condition with lush fairways and quick greens. The only blemish was the rough with the uneven and bare lies which made playing out of it very difficult.
The winners today with a great score of 61points were the team of Joy Mesuria & Pete Davis.
Runners up were Mark McSwiney and Cliff Bourquin with 57points.
The Guzzlers Cup was won by Steve Floyd & Craig Franklin with 55 points.
The Bradmans were Santo Sammarco & Peter Macaulay on 43 points.
In other news, John Varrica scored an eagle on the 12th hole to snatch the Drive and pitch prize from an unlucky Mark McDonald who had only seconds before, put the ball inches from the hole only to see the prize slip away after Johnny V chipped in.
The Leaderboard and daily stats will be uploaded as soon as they have been updated.
It was also a great day as we had 4 new members join the club. They are Brayden Harys, Steven Tait, Jorge Veronique and Mark Krause. Welcome to the club guys.
Next week sees the commencement of the 2025 Club Championship with the first round to be played at the Ridge. A reminder that only full members that have played at least 2 from the last 6 events are qualified to enter. The rest will still be able to play in the days event.
Keep an eye out for the booking sheet which will be posted very soon.
 OUTRIGHT WINNER: PETER DAVIS [22] 41 POINTS
Today’s event took place at the prestigious Stonecutters Ridge Golf Club, a course crafted by Greg Norman.
The venue was presented in excellent condition and proved to be a comprehensive assessment of golfing skill, featuring an impressive resort-style layout with expansive fairways and sizeable, yet challenging, greens. Notably, the deep bunkers filled with coarse sand and the soft, fluffy rough posed significant obstacles for players.
Despite favourable weather conditions suggesting the potential for strong performances, only one participant managed to break par.
That player was Peter Davis who achieved an outstanding score of 41 points, securing outright victory on the day. In addition, he won his semi-final round of the 4BBB matchplay against Pat Collins and Jay Krishna—remarkably, he competed alone due to his partner’s absence and emerged victorious with a 3 & 2 result.
In A grade, Santo Sammarco delivered a commendable performance, finishing with 33 points off a handicap of 8. After a challenging front nine, he regained composure with a series of pars on the back nine.
Steve Floyd claimed the B grade title with 31 points (handicap 15). The course appeared ideally suited to his game, and alongside his son Mitch, they secured a win in their 4BBB semi-final against Joy Mesuria and Ken Tyne on the final hole.
The C grade winner was Wayne Jol (handicap 25) with 35 points,
Brian Craven (handicap 22) captured the Guzzlers Cup with 34 points.
The Bradman award recipients were as follows:
A – Mitch Floyd, 25 points
B – Jay Krishna, 24 points
C – Brad Kennedy, 20 points
It is necessary for me to address an ongoing issue that requires your attention. There have been repeated reports from members concerning scoring irregularities by certain individuals, often involving recurring names. I urge all participants to accurately count and report both strokes and penalties before providing scores to their markers. If a marker believes a score may be incorrect, they should request verification from the player. Should anyone feel uncomfortable addressing the matter directly, please notify a committee member post-game.
Continued reports involving the same individuals may result in those members being asked to appear before the committee to provide an explanation. Please note that past incidents of this nature have led to expulsions from the club, an outcome we wish to avoid in the future.
 WINNER: ROSSCO HAMER [24] 38PTS
The original booking for this event was stuffed up and it was decided that we take the same date but with a much later start than we are accustomed to.
The new time was 11.10am and this worked out well as we had a great breakfast BBQ put on by the social committee before the game. A very big thank you to Peter Macaulay for supplying the meat and eggs and to Rossco and his team for the cooking.
The late start seemed to agree with most players as the showing today was very good. Something to look into for next year during the winter months.
Play got off at 11.10am with the first groups made up of those in the 4BBB QTR-finals. Play was of the yellow markers and preferred lies on fairways only, the order of the day.
The last group managed to finish their round just as the light was starting to diminish.
The outright winner today was a bit of a shock as it was the head cook who took the honours. Rossco Hamer played out of his proverbial pig’s ar#e to shoot 38 points off a handicap of 24 to win on a countback. Well done Rossco.
The A grade winner was Michael Kabalan with 37 pts of a handicap of 13. Michael had been suffering from the flu the last few days but managed to perform well on his home course.
The B grade winner was Joy Mesuria playing off 14 hcp and shooting 38pts. I think it was the chicken sausages that gave him the energy for this performance.
C grade was won by Mr Dry, Mick McCarney [20] with a respectable score of 35pts.
The Guzzlers Cup was won by the Pat Collins playing off 20 for 35pts.
The Bradmans today were………………..
Congratulations also to Steve Floyd who scored a hole in one on the 5th hole. The hole played 113 metres up the hill and into the wind. Steve hit a 7 iron for his amazing shot.
4BBB Championship Results………………..
Jay Krisna & Pat Collins defeated Seb Ares & Mark McSwiney 2&1.
Rossco Hamer & Pete Davis defeated Bob Mallia & Phil Heaton 3&2
Steve Floyd & Mitch Floyd defeated Claude Poletti & Steve Vaughn 3&2
Joy Mesuria & Ken Tyne defeated Mick McCarney & Cliff Bourquin 4&3
That’s a wrap for today and just remember to enjoy your rounds and keep the aggro out of your game. Handicaps are just another way of telling you how many mistakes you can expect to make. Sometimes you make less, sometimes you make more, so just practice harder or live with it.
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