ABB Golf Day 2010

Lovely day for golf. Any day is a lovely day for golf. I received an invitation for the ABB Golf Day at Joondalup Country Club. It's the best golf course resort in the country. Magnificent course. Unforgiving rough. Teamed up with John, a 2 handicapper, Steve and Mike. Nice company and we managed some good golf. Came in with a score of 5 under for ambrose. I even got to use John's driver on a few occasions. I have to get one of those clubs!

The greens were lightning fast and it was only two days after winter had finished. There was a swing monitor with David Milne and he gave us all a great rundown of our swing. Little bit of work to do but I'd love to have one of these toys.


Frugal Bastard's 2nd drive with the on-course swing monitor.

Joondalup Country Club Entrance

The clubhouse and putting green

Driving range

Gentlemen, start your golf carts

Bit too much flex in the shaft which is a bad affliction for a golfer

Quarry course hole 9

PGA Teacher of the Year David Milne

Tee at Lake hole 2

Some beautiful houses surround the course

Plenty of traps for unsuspecting players

Not so interested onlooker

John, Mike, Steve and Frugal Bastard

Quarry hole 2 The Moon Crater

Fabulous landscaping and one of the 18 most beautiful holes in Australia

Reminds me of Stonehenge

Very large male roo - almost maximum zoom so as not to get too close

Few balls down in the old quarry

Must. Have. Club.

Course in magnificent condition

ABB Corporate Golf Day 2008

Recently I was invited by one of my companies vendors to partake in a golf day at The Vines. As it is one of the premier golf courses in the country and very expensive to play I jumped at the chance. As it turned out so did about 120 others.

Quite a warm, humid day it turned out to be. Without the golf carts I dare say it would have been quite a slog. We played ambrose which means everybody tees off and you choose the best shot. From there everybody plays a second shot and so on. Our biggest problem as a group was that no-one had good short irons into the green and we had great difficulty reaching the greens in regulation. Off the tee we were quite good and putting was impressive but just that damned second shot.

I was a little apprehensive taking on The Vines as it is such a prestigious course. But, really, it's not that long and there's not much trouble you can get into. The bunkers didn't offer particularly difficult shots and there wasn't much undergrowth around the trees. We were disappointed with our score of five over especially as the winners shot a round of 66 which I think was six under. Great day though and I'm really glad to have had the opportunity to play there.

Golf carts were transport for the day.


Lots of golf carts.


The hole in one prizes were worth trying for.


Hole No.7 on the Ellenbrook Course was picturesque.


Our team from L-R - Ron, Andrean, FB and Ben.