AUSTRALIA Day week - a time for heroes. But down Wallcliffe Road way it has been about a heroine.
Take a belated bow Sue Bloxam, proud women's club champion for the 13th time, all in the space of 17 glory years.
Bloxam carded her 54-hole 236 to beat runner-up Kerry Farrelly by 17 shots. Bloxam also had the best nett return of 220, four better than Rhonda Hearn.
Getting more up to date, there's no dispute about the Man of the Moment. Evergreen veteran Gordon Smith really cleaned up again.
Each week Smith and fellow octogenarian Ray Atcheson make a daybreak start not only to empty the bins around the course, but also to sort the rubbish for its designated destination.
He even found time to play a couple of games and collected in both of them, winning the nine-hole veterans competition on Tuesday and following it with super success in Thursday's Mad Fish Wines scroungers event.
The veterans competition was a practice round for the coming club championship, a stroke event played off the blue Tiger tees, but Smith took it all in his stride to record a nett 34 - two better than Jim Watson.
Smith did even better in the scroungers, setting a sizzling-hot pace with 40 stableford points, one ahead of Nick Taplin, who edged out Cody Laskey in the countback.
Congrats also to Dave Goodall and Di Linfoot, respective winners in the recent mixed Rosily stableford.
Goodall pipped Daniel Hunt on a countback after they both recorded 35 points, while Linfoot, also with 35, relegated Maggi Foy into second place with 34.
