ESG&EC Match Play Championship

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Match Play Champion Ford Funk (back row 2nd from left) and runner-up Sergio Grasscia (one row from back white shirt) with spectators at the 2001 tournament

2001 Match Play Championship

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ESGEC

36 TALES FOR 36 YEARS

Catholics vs. Convicts

Those few words printed in jest on a t-shirt by an savvy and opportunistic member took an already bitter rivalry and lit a blazing fire under it. In October 1994, Per-Ulrik Fatcatsson (Christian Brothers) battled Seve Hemosteros (Canterbury High) to the death in arguably one of the greatest games in Match Play history. It was sheer determination vs. swagger, Irish Catholic vs. Protestant, humble public servant vs. corporate heavyweight. The outcome shocked the sporting world and it's taken nearly 30 years for the players to sit down and tell their stories.

PREMIERES SATURDAY, MAY 18
8PM EARLWOOD SPORTS 1

ESGEC

36 TALES FOR 36 YEARS

Silly Little Game

Few of the thousands of players who make up today's multi-million dollar Earlwood Euchre industry know anything about the game's origins, nor do they pay any respect and, more importantly, dividends to it's founders. That's about to change. The ESG&EC, a joint custodian of the game, has engaged one of the country's greatest strategic and legal minds, Tack Nicklaus QC, to protect it's commercial interests.

PREMIERES SUNDAY, MAY 19
8PM EARLWOOD SPORTS 1

ESGEC

36 TALES FOR 36 YEARS

I Hate Tubby Waldorf

He had money, butchery smarts, a reverse golf grip and became the first player to achieve the club's coveted home and away double, winning the 1990 Match Play Championship and the 2002 World Series. So why has Tubby Waldorf been disliked so intensely, by so many, for so long? Maybe it's the much maligned Saturday morning horse tips or a wardrobe of striped shirts. But sometimes, perception isn't reality.

PREMIERES MONDAY, MAY 20
8PM EARLWOOD SPORTS 1

ESGEC

36 TALES FOR 36 YEARS

Dick Faldo - All By Himself

He was The Beatles of golf - a handsome, charismatic and slender figure from Engadine who worked wonders with the ball and thrilled galleries wherever he went. But Dick Faldo was also the lead in a Shakespearean tragedy fuelled by alcohol and the fading memories of old sexual conquests. We'll talk with the neigbours who nailed a bottle opener to their wooden fence to facilitate his afternoon drinking sessions and meet the only woman from the 'Lender of Last Resort' who spurned his advances - his sister - and ask her the big question: Does she now regret that rash decision?

PREMIERES TUESDAY, MAY 21
8PM EARLWOOD SPORTS 1

ESGEC

36 TALES FOR 36 YEARS

Four 'Dog' Days In November

The streak began when he defeated hot shot 6th seed Kenny Crenshaw 3 & 1 in the Round of 16. A week later, Heckle Sunday, he beat the favoured Tubby Waldorf 2 & 1. The following Friday he saw off the well-fancied Hunter Meehan 5 & 3. In the final match he defied the odds to beat Peard Fulke 3 & 1. Was it skill, good fortune or an old-fashioned and carefuly orchestrated betting coup that turned the perennial underdog, Bourkie Baird, into the 2013 Match Play Champion?

PREMIERES FRIDAY, MAY 17
8PM EARLWOOD SPORTS 1

ESGEC

36 TALES FOR 36 YEARS

There's No Place Like Home

On December 10, 2013, Sotheby's London office auctioned off what could be considered the most important historical document in sports history - Seve Hemosteros' original hand-drafted World Series of Golf blueprint. The document was drawn up by the founding fathers over quite a few drinks on Boxing Day, 1988 at the late Robo Mediate's then Macleay Place residence. 25 years after he personally witnessed the blueprint's creation, Mediate inspired a group of wealthy benefactors to bankroll his dream to win back this seminal artifact at auction and bring the document home to Earlwood where Hemosteros was born and raised. As part of this man's fanatical quest, the benefactors also unwittingly ended up with controlling interests in some very slow greyhounds.

PREMIERES MONDAY, MAY 13
8PM EARLWOOD SPORTS 1

ESGEC

36 TALES FOR 36 YEARS

The Prince Of Profanity

Reader discretion is recommended - this story may contain frequent coarse language.
The young visco*#t rescued f*#m a post-apocalyptic Warsaw became infamous in his adopted country when, at the age of 5, the first English words he uttered both contained four-letters, one beginning with F and the other beginning with C. Sitting for the Higher School Certificate in 1973, he could not have been any prouder when he was awarded 2 F's and 4 C's by the Board of Studies. And nearly half a century later, it's hard to discern even the slightest expansion to the now Flemington Fruit Markets f*#klift driver's simple vocabulary. WTF*#k!!

PREMIERES TUESDAY, MAY 14
8PM EARLWOOD SPORTS 1

ESGEC

36 TALES FOR 36 YEARS

Small Potatoes: Who Killed The Presidents Cup?

A bold challenge, a fearless experiment and ultimately, a spectacular failure. In 1999 a new event challenged the establishment's cosy duopoly, the World Series and Match Play Championship, but after a promising start at North Ryde and a final round at Eastlakes less than a decade later, The Presidents Cup disappeared from the ESG&EC sporting calendar.

PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, MAY 15
8PM EARLWOOD SPORTS 1

ESGEC

36 TALES FOR 36 YEARS

Hit 'Em Hard - My Life With Big Balls, Babes and Booze

We remember the blonde mullet, a cigarette glued to the lips and those enormous fairway splitting drives that propelled him to victory at the 1995 World Series. We knew Big Jack Daly as much for those larrikin traits and his large dusters as for the constant drinking, womanising and swearing, mostly done off the course, that forced him into rehabilitation and a premature sporting retirement.

PREMIERES THURSDAY, MAY 16
8PM EARLWOOD SPORTS 1

ESGEC

36 TALES FOR 36 YEARS

You Don't Know Boo Boo

He's someone who played two sports professionally - golf and soccer. When speaking to others about him, I noticed something I'd never experienced before. At the mere mention of his name, people either immediately lit up in excitement or fell over laughing. Boo Boo's story isn't really a sports story, it's a superhero story. A superhero who broke his thumb shaking hands before an over 45's game in the Sutherland Shire minor leagues and, as a result, signed on as a marquee player with Sydney FC and became the face of Nike's landmark ad campaign, "You Don't Know Boo Boo".

PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, MAY 22
8PM EARLWOOD SPORTS 1

2023 Match Play finalists and Shire residents, Hunter Meehan and Dick Faldo. Faldo prevailed 2 & 1.

2023 Match Play finalists, Hunter Meehan and Dick Faldo

1989 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Davidson Love def.
Costantino Blocker

1990 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Tubby Waldorf def.
Big Jack Daley

1991 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Davidson Love def.
Garry Mize

1992 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Shigeki Moroneyama def.
Soldier Montgomerie

1993 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Tack Nicklaus def.
Hal Whitton

1994 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Davidson Love def.
Per-Ulrik Fatcatsson

1995 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Hal Whitton def.
Cavey Pavin

1996 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Cavey Pavin def.
Java Haas

1997 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Vijay Field def.
Dick Faldo 4 & 3

1998 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Costantino Blocker def.
Bluey Dunk 2 up

1999 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Soldier Montgomerie def.
Per-Ulrik Fatcatsson 8 & 7

2000 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Dick Faldo def.
Costantino Blocker 4 & 3

2001 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Ford Funk def.
Sergio Grasscia 2 up

2002 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Vijay Field def.
Java Haas 4 & 2

2003 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Shigeki Moroneyama def.
Garry Mize 5 & 3

2004 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Davidson Love def.
Ken Crenshaw 1 up

2005 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Bluey Dunk def.
Tack Nicklaus 3 & 1

2006 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Edwardo Romero def.
Vijay Field 6 & 4

2007 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Kipper Parnevik def.
Per-Ulrik Fatcatsson 2 & 1

2008 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Notah Kelly def.
Peard Fulke 2 & 1

2009 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Ken Crenshaw def.
Boo Boo Weekley 3 & 1

2010 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Peard Fulke def.
Karrie White 4 & 3

2011 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Henney Stenson def.
Tubby Waldorf 3 & 1

2012 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Kipper Parnevik def.
Grantief Goosen 6 & 5

2013 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Bourkie Baird def.
Peard Fulke 3 & 1

2014 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Boo Boo Weekley def.
Dick Faldo 4 & 3

2015 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Grantief Goosen def.
Ken Crenshaw 4 & 3

2016 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Muzzy Zoeller def.
Bourkie Baird 3 & 2

2017 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Java Haas def.
Ken Crenshaw 2 up

2018 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Ken Crenshaw def.
Notah Kelly 5 & 4

2019 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Davidson Love def.
Danny White Shark 4 & 3

2020 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Edwardo Romero def.
Tubby Waldorf 3 & 1

2021 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Boo Boo Weekley def.
Seve Hemosteros 4 & 3

2022 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Davidson Love def.
Java Haas 1 up

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Dick Faldo def.
Hunter Meehan 2 & 1

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

Boo Boo Weekley def.
Soldier Montgomerie at the 19th

EVENT FORMAT

After consultation with R&A officials and the ESG&EC astrologer, the Tournament Competition Committee's (TCC) confirms the tournament dates mid-July. It is accepted that, where possible, the tournament will have a set schedule of three consecutive Sundays in October or November. The semi-final matches are set down for the Friday afternoon prior to the final unless both players and President Love III (Ret.) agree to a change. With that one exception, competitors are not permitted to vary the tournament's nominated times or dates.

The qualifiers meet this way for the Round of 8: Match 1 - Players ranked 1 and 8, Match 2 - Players 4 and 5, Match 3 - Players 3 and 6 and Match 4 - Players 2 and 7.

If a qualified player withdraws from the tournament before the match play rounds commence, the highest ranked non-qualifier will be invited into the field and seeded at no.8. All players ranked below the scratched player will move up one position. Once the match play rounds have commenced, no replacements are allowed and a match will be forfeited if a player is unavailable.

HISTORY

Dating back to 1989, The Championship is the ESG&EC's second major tournament. Once famously described in Federal Parliament as ".. combining the pomp, ceremony and tradition of a British royal coronation with the appalling drunken behaviour of Munich's Ocktoberfest patrons ..", the tournament continues to draw record fields and boisterous crowds to the challenging Cooks Peninsula links course, the R&A Marrickville.

Under the TCC's watchful eye the popular event has been revamped in recent years. 2003 saw the start of some much needed change with the tournament successfully pushed back a month to avoid the encroaching October sporting crush of finals football and the Melbourne spring racing carnival.

The introduction of the highly transparent Dickworth-Lewis Handicapping System (DLHS) the same year created stand alone and criteria-based handicaps for each of our two majors (this event and the World Series of Golf). In 2004, a stableford qualifying round (QR), now known as the Don Lane Invitational, was added to the tournament and the top scorers are seeded through to the match play rounds. Starting in 2015, the Don Lane Invitational format will alternate between stroke (odd years) and stableford events (even years). The all-in QR has streamlined opening day and readily accommodates all playing numbers.

THE RULES OF GOLF

All ESG&EC events are subject to the rules of golf. If something unusual occurs during your round, the best advice the TCC can give is to consult with your playing partners, both as a matter of courtesy and to check on the legality of your proposed course of action, before moving, dropping or playing your ball.

On qualifying day, the low marker in each group will be the nominated rules official for his playing partners. If the low marker himself is to be the subject of a contentious decision, the group may check with his counterpart in another group for a ruling.

SCORE CARDS

Players are not permitted to score their own cards on qualifying day - the card, with the players name and handicap clearly shown, must be marked by someone else in the group. The marker 1. "... after each hole during the round, should confirm the number of strokes the player took on that hole and enter that gross score on the scorecard ...".

On completion of the round the marker must sign the card and return it to the player. The player must check that the gross number of strokes recorded for each hole is correct, sign the card and return it to the tournament starter. It will be the starter's responsibility to ensure that the allocated stableford points or total strokes are correct.

1. Rules of Golf 3.3 d

HANDICAPS

The ESG&EC uses the world renowned Dickworth-Lewis Handicapping System for all tournaments.

DLHS imposes the following restrictions on The Championship:

first-time players are provided with a floating handicap which can be adjusted if, and as, they progress through the tournament,
the maximum individual handicap is 34, and
since the R&A is a Par 60 course, albeit the toughest and most scenic in this wide brown land, no match shall have a handicap difference of greater than 27 (first-time players are not afforded this protection).

View Match Play handicaps

STROKE INDEX AND COUNTBACKS

The stroke index is traditionally drawn up by numbering the holes in the order of difficulty to achieve par. However clubs usually like to spread the strokes fairly evenly over the two nines so if stroke index 1 is in the first nine holes, stroke index 2 should be in the second nine holes, and so on. Strokes beyond 18 may be allocated in the same or different order to the first 18.

Any ties in the qualifying round will be decided by the following count back - last 9 holes (gross score minus 9/18ths of handicap), last 6 holes (gross score minus 6/18ths of handicap), last 3 holes (gross score minus 3/18ths of handicap) and and finally hole-by-hole from the 18th hole.

** Stroke Index table can be viewed on a wider screen **

R&A Marrickville Stroke Index (as at October 2021)
Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Par	3	3	4	3	4	3	3	3	3
Index	2	9	17	7	14	1	11	6	10

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	3	3	3	4	3	4	4	3
Index	5	15	8	4	18	13	12	3	16

MATCH INDEX AND TIES

The match index does not necessarily refer to the difficulty of each hole but rather attempts to provide an even distribution of strokes during a match.

Linking the match handicap (the difference between the handicaps of the two players) to the match index gives you the holes on which the player with the higher handicap will receive a stroke, or if the match handicap is greater than 18, two strokes.

A match which ends all square will be played off hole-by-hole until someone wins a hole. The play-off starts on the hole where the match began and handicap strokes should be given/received on the same holes as per the first 18 holes.

** Match Index table can be viewed on a wider screen **

R&A Marrickville Match Index (as at October 2021)
Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Par	3	3	4	3	4	3	3	3	3
Index	18	10	3	16	6	8	7	1	14

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	3	3	3	4	3	4	4	3
Index	5	12	11	2	15	13	4	17	9

MATCH PLAY CONCESSIONS

Conceding is a feature of match play. Players may concede their opponent to have holed out with their next stroke and the ball may be removed by either player with a club or otherwise. A player may concede a hole or match at any time prior to the conclusion of the hole or match. Concession of a stroke, hole or match may not be declined, nor withdrawn.