Successful New Year"s Eve Scramble

The open draw mixed scramble on Wednesday week, New Year"s Eve again proved to be an unqualified success with the open draw proving the biggest attraction, which made, as always for a very sociable event.Members are looking forward to the next one of these.The scoring was very good and the following were the prizewinners: First - Marian Mortell, Stephen O"Hara, Bernie Mulroy and Frank McKeon; second - Helen Collier, Mary McCauley, Bernard McDonnell and Pat Keenaghan ; third - Regina Healy, Tom Rickard, Louis Vambeck and Eamon Shaw.While the committees are busy working on programmes for the coming season, the competitive season is currently relatively quiet. The men are busy; taking advantage of the fine spell of weather, trying to get in their qualifying rounds in the Morgan Golf and Sports winter league.Four person team event still up and runningMembers are reminded that the four person team event is up and running as before Christmas. The final will take place towards the end of February; see notices and web site for further informationTriviaListed are a handful of famous golfers with the trades or professions they plied before they gave up their "day jobs" for the golf profession: James Braid (Plasterer), Lee Trevino (Soldier), Tony Jacklin (Steamfitter"s apprentice), Cary Middlecpff (Dentist), Tom Watson (Psychology Graduate), Peter Thomson (Industrial Chemist).Here is some etymology of key golfing words. Birdie, the term for a score of one under par on a hole, came into use in 1903.Legend has it that AH Smith of Atlantic City remarked "that"s a bird of a shot" after holing out at his local course.Bogey. Allegedly the term does derive from the bogey man. Major Charles Wellman of the Great Yarmouth club referred to his failure to make par as "getting cough by the bogey man". From then on, fellow club members blamed all bad play in the Colonel.Bunker is derived from the Scottish word "bonker", which was a box or chest for storing coal that was typically dug into the side of a hill.Caddie is thought to derive from the French cadet meaning young man. It became a golfing term because Mary Queen of Scots employed several young men of the court to carry her clubs and minister to her on the golf course.Divot is a Scottish word for a piece of turf.Dormie meaning if you are ahead by the same number of holes remaining in a match, comes from the French foe "to sleep" (dormir), suggesting that you would have to fall asleep to lose the game, "though I don"t know about that.\Links comes from the old English for "rising ground"; linksland is a word applied to dunes found along the seashore. Originally the term links was applied only to seaside courses.Tee is thought to come from the Scottish word "teay", which is the name for a small pile of sand. Early golfers used piles of sand or earth to tee off from.