Camden Super Senior's Report - 23/11/2020After last week results, we had a chance for a go forward this week to the next round of the Super Senior's Final's. We had made it to the last 8 in this Sydney / Newcastle / Wollongong event - a fantastic effort. Our opposition was Cumberland who played some good golf to reach the same stage as Camden. The game was played at Ryde Parramatta Golf Club on a course that was in great condition. However, things did not go to plan as we would have liked. Cumberland won 6 1/2 to 1 1/2. The following is a list of random issues that I believe impacted on the Camden team to some degree. This is not sour grapes from me, but a realistic summary of events as I saw them. 1) Coronvirus: - Time delays causing various events to be delayed or disrupted - of course this impacted all teams, but we had many disruptions to our team. 2) Bernie Allport who we lost at the start of the season with complications from Pneumonia. 3) Danny Senko is still unable to play due to a back issue. 4) Tony Vellacott who had replaced Danny played just one game and now has a back problem. 5) Our new SS player Robert Zelesco was playing in Tasmania and was hoping to be balloted out of the Seniors final day but it appears a change of events required Bob to play Sunday. No hope of Bob returning in time to play. 6) Wayne Shaw's son was married very recently and so Wayne and wife decided to go on holidays as well, albeit to a separate location but not home. 7) Joe Smuk is currently waiting for an operation, but still played some good golf. 8) Joe's partner on the day was Brian Thorn who was a reserve player and was slipped into the 3rd position to cover an empty slot without interrupting the team from last week. Brian had surgery last Friday three days before we played. Thanks Brian. 9) Neville Smith who due to an accident some time ago has had several years off from playing but over the last month has put in the practice and the Captain "Nev Hoskin" felt he was competitive enough to play in the team. 10) With all of the issues that have arisen over the past several months and in particular the past several days Neville no doubt has had several sleep interrupted nights. As the Manager of the team I could not ask for a better group of players to represent Camden and hope next year they can all try out for the team again but also, I hope to see a couple of new faces trying to make the team. (Must be 65yrs old on the date of play). Before signing off I would like to thank the Camden Golf Club, Gary Hunt Camden Captain, Donna Bernard GM, Stuart Meani (Camden Pro), Team Captain Neville Hoskin and last but not least Gary Campbell from CAMPBELLTOWN COOLROOMS. Gary and the Coolrooms have been the Super Senior Pennant's teams sponsors for eight years and we hope for a few more years to come. Thanks Gary. Peter Legge, Team Manager From a Camden Golf Club perspective, I'm sure we would like to congratulate the team on their achievements this year. With no disrespect to other Pennant teams from our club, I have no doubt that our most regularly successful team in Pennants over the past 5 years has been our Super Senior team, reaching the knockout stage every year. Just goes to show that as Camden players get older (65 years plus), they get better. | 
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