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THURSDAY 5th MARCH
FATCAT'S 'NRL TIPPING COMPETITION WITH A DIFFERENCE'

The Earlwood Social Golf & Euchre Club (ECN001), a magnet for under-performing golf and euchre players from Earlwood and surrounds, is again hosting the innovative Fatcat's 'NRL Tipping Competition With A Difference'.  An $80 entry fee, which must be paid prior to the start of the competition, ensures participants a season of weekly angst.

There are a few things that make this competition stand apart from all the others.  The first is so very simple and yet fiendishly difficult - you don't make a selection in every game.  WTF !?!  On a normal weekend, you 'only' need to pick 6 winners from any of the 8 games.  These 6 picks are known as your scratch selections.

Second, another class of selections is added to the mix - handicap selections.  The underdog in each game is given a points start and you must select a further 4 winners, again from any of the 8 games, taking the starts into account.

Besides the major prizes, there are 11 opportunities during the season to win some cash.  And finally, Fatcat conducts an entertaining, professional and most importantly a transparent competition as evidenced by the fact last year nearly half of the tipsters (48 of 102) had been playing for 20 years or more and 67 had been involved for at least 10 years.

With Round 1 split over two weekends and the first two games being played in the US on Sunday, the tipping competition will begin the following Thursday with the remaining 6 games

Although sharing sporting, pseudo-celebrity, gambling interests and greatly admiring the now defunct charity's business acumen and chutzpah, Fatcat's 'NRL Tipping Competition With A Difference' was regrettably never associated with The Shane Warne Foundation.  However, in a major step up from registered charity status, the Earlwood Securities Exchange has accepted our bona fides as an accredited Tier 1 Ponzi (or Pyramid) Scheme.

Too easy to just pick 6 scratch winners?  Last season, over 27 rounds with 102 tipsters, there were 195 instances of all 6 selections winning and 111 of those happpened over 3 rounds

Based on the 2025 competition

Tipping Competition Rules

SATURDAY 16th MAY
THE YET TO BE NAMED TOUR

Like every one of the past years, the ESG&EC will soon pack up it's bag of tricks, multiple decks of Queen's Slipper playing cards, golf sticks and Scanlen's footy cards and travel up to the NSW Central Coast to conduct it's week-long festival of sport and provide solace and cheer to the good burghers of The Entrance.

To assist players with their preparation, the club offers voluntary but extremely popular pre-tournament 1, 2 or 3 day sea-level acclimatisation and intensive hydration certificate programs run by the Shearman Institute, the self-accredited industry leader in hydration theory - but certainly not practice.  Program graduates are invited to apply for their Hydration PhD at Wednesday's 10 to 10 session at The Lakes Hotel under the watchful gaze of institute supremo, Professor Sir Dickworth Faldo.

Visit the 'Fatcat's NRL Tpping' area of this website to see our extensive collection of 1980 Scanlens footy cards

Not to be confused with Jose-Mumma Olazabal, a rather bad burgher

The 10 to 10 may start at 9.00am if the hotel's morning Happy Hour is operating

MONDAY 18th MAY
WORLD SERIES OF GOLF

The feature tournament of The Yet To Be Named Tour, the World Series of Golf is the ESG&EC's premier event.  It is played over 4 rounds (2 teams and 2 individual days) at accredited courses on the World Series roster - Gosford, Wyong, Kooindah Waters, Everglades, Toukley, The Springs and Shelly Beach.

Defending champion Grantief Goosen (RSA) will headline the expected international field of *Garry Mize (USA), *Seve Hemosteros (ESP), Paulking Harrington (IRL), *Jose-Mumma Olazabal (ESP), *Peard Fulke (SWE), *Davidson Love III (USA), Muzzy Zoeller (USA), *Hunter Meehan (USA), *Java Haas (USA), *Edwardo Romero (ARG), Dick Faldo (ENG), *Cavey Pavin (USA), Bourkie Baird (USA), *Soldier Montgomerie (SCO), *Trent Strange (USA) and *Notah Kelly III (USA).

* Past World Series Champion

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WEDNESDAY 20th MAY
WORLD SERIES OF EUCHRE

The lesser tournament of the week is played at The Lakes Hotel Euchredome.  The knock-out event is held after Wednesday's races and begins with the all important draw for partners conducted under the Blue '6 Card' Sheedy B.Eu (Hons) protocol.  '6 Card', who threw in his hand for the final time in September 2023, was the Earlwood Euchre University's professor emeritus.  According to the wily old matchmaker's protocol, last year's winners, Dick Faldo and Davidson Love, will start at long odds to team up let alone go back to back.

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