Nearest the Pins 2007

Round 1

3rd - Gus
8th -
12th -
16th - Harty

Round 2

4th - Craig

8th -

13th - Craig

Round 3

3rd -

8th - Pop

12th - Nigel

16th - Craig

Championship Round

4th - Phantom

8th - Glenn

13th - Laney

Score Changes!

Well, it seems that some of our tour bretheren have difficulties in the mathemagical arts. After taking the scorecards and having them added up by someone who doesn't have to take his pants off to count to 21 (ie, not one of our bovine brothers), there have been some changes in the final scores. It should be noted that out of the 4 cards on the last day, 3 of them were wrong! Not bad for a bunch of ex and current statisticians, a guy from Treasury, a teacher, a bloke who runs his own business, a market researcher and a financial advisor.

So, the fallout is as follows:

Gus is still the champion with 136

Pop Palmer comes in at outright 2nd on 140

Craig, Nigel and Mick De Nittis (Phantom) end up at equal 3rd on 146

Garry Martin and Greg Lennox equal 6th on 149

Gary Lennox outright 8th on 151

Rob Hart, 9th on 153

Tony Lane, Glenn Simpson, Vaughn Moore and Greg Attrill equal 10th on 157

The Metronome 14th on 170

Col Simpson and Tony Pearce were both DNF

Pictures from the tour 2007

For some more pictures of the tour, try here

If any of the tourers (or friends) would like the full hi-res versions, just let one of the usual suspects know and we'll organise something. Be warned though, they aren't small (about 500Mb).

A New Champion!

After trying for many years and being the perennial runner up, Robert "Gus" Starke has taken the next step in his golfing career to become the 2007 Great Northern Tour champion. After a particularly poignant (and unexpectedly sober) speech by the 2006 champion, Greg Attrill, the Bee Moore Trophy was handed over to Gus and met with tumultuous applause (and a very short version of "For he's a jolly good fellow" loudly led by Robert Hart, another previous champion).

It is unlikely that there has ever been a more deserving nor a more popular winner and the blog would like to extend its personal congratulations.

For the record, Gus won with a score of 136 (2 rounds of 68), and was followed by Messers Palmer and Roulston on 140.

More scores and photographs to follow over the coming days.

New Look

The Northern Tour blog is now sporting a fancy new look! "Why?" you may ask. "I'm not sure" I may answer.

Basically, I was just bored with the old one. If you don't like the new one, please leave a comment that I'll go right ahead and ignore.

Only Two More Sleeps

Well my beloved blog readers, it's only two more sleeps until the convoy begin the trek to the river for this year's event. A fair bit has happened over the last week or so. The cup has been run and won, Mr Pearce has come out the winner on the punt - there is something quite disturbing about typing Pearce and winner in the same sentence.... there has been some murmuring from another old tourer threatening to make a comeback (Mr Vaughn Moore) and the election campaign has hit its peak with the only people showing any interest seeming to be the candidates themselves.

So, as per usual, we will try to keep you updated with scores and ladders and things, but the availability of electricity and tin cans with wet string may mean that these postings will be few and far between. You never know though, in the last 12 months Echuca may well have caught up with the rest of the world (although I doubt it).

So, for the tourers, Good Luck and we'll see you Sunday, for the rest of you (and I doubt there are many), we'll try to keep you posted.

Hypothetical Market

Hypothetically, if this was a professional sporting event, and if there was a professional gaming authority that was framing a market for that event, then there is conjecture that it would probably look something like this.

Divs	Name	06	05	04	03	02	01	00
$14.00	Bill McNaugtan	5/16	1/12	F	9/9	2/10	7/12	10/12
$10.00	Bob Starke	4/16	2/12	-	-	3/10	2/12	7/12
$13.00	Col Simpson	8/16	F	F	-	F	6/12	-
$10.00	Craig Tingate	7/16	7/12	1/14	5/9	1/10	5/12	6/12
$10.00	Garry Martin	-	-	-	-	-	8/12	5/12
$9.50	Gary Lennox	6/16	5/12	-	-	-	-	-
$10.50	Glenn Simpson	12/16	F	F	4/9	6/10	-	-
$12.00	Greg Attrill	1/16	3/12	2/14	8/9	4/10	3/12	2/12
$10.00	Greg Lennox	F	6/12	4/14	1/9	8/10	-	-
$9.00	John Palmer	F	F	F	-	-	-	-
$11.00	Michael De Nittis	11/16	-	-	-	-	-	-
$9.00	Nigel Roulston	2/16	4/12	F	-	-	-	9/12
$11.00	Peter King	10/16	8/12	8/14	-	-	-	-
$20.00	Rob Hart	3/16	-	7/14	1/9	7/10	-	1/12
$17.00	Tony Lane	F	-	-	-	-	4/12	-
$25.00	Tony Pearce	F	9/12	F	7/9	9/10	1/12	-
	Starters	16	12	14	9	10	12	12

I'm not sure who did the framing of this, but it looks a bit wobbly to me, I mean, John Palmer and Nigel Roulston sitting as the two favourites. Pop hasn't actually posted an official placing in the tour EVER, and Nigel, whilst fluking a second place last year is hardly what I would call true golfing material. All in all I think it's a bit dodgy.

The Honour Roll

This is the honour roll for the Northern and Mildura tours. Our illustrious and all knowing chief handicapper found it somewhere in the archives.

	Northern Tour
1977	B. MACFARLANE
1978	W. RICHARDSON
1979	B. MACFARLANE
1980	J. DRUMMOND
1981	W. RICHARDSON
1982	G. ATTRILL
1983	G. GOOK
1984	J. ROBERTS
1985	D. JONES
1986	G. ATTRILL
1987	B. MACFARLANE
1988	W. RICHARDSON
1989	J. DRUMMOND
1990	T. KENNEDY + D. MAGNUSSON
1991	J. DRUMMOND
1992	T. KENNEDY
1993	G. ATTRILL
1994	T. LANE
1995	S. GILD
1996	K. HARLING
1997	GUMBY
1998	C. TINGATE
1999	C. TINGATE
2000	R. HART
2001	A.J. PEARCE
2002	C. TINGATE
2003	GREG LENNOX + R. HART
2004	C. TINGATE
2005	W. MCNAUGHTAN
2006	G. ATTRILL
2007	R. STARKE
2008	P. KING
2009	GREG LENNOX
	Mildura Tour
1978	D. JONES + G. GOOK
1980	G. ATTRILL
1981	G. ATTRILL
1982	J. ROBERTS
1983	G. GOOK
1984	W. RICHARDSON
1985	B. MACFARLANE + M. HOLDSTOCK
1986	J. DRUMMOND
1987	G. ATTRILL
1988	J. DRUMMOND