What's on 22 April 2022
Saturday 23rd April; 11am Card draw. Matches are a priority please.
Sunday 24th April; GHB Pennants round 4. Championship 1 division is at home, (9 fours) tee of 11am
Monday 25th April; Anzac Day As a mark of respect, the course is closed until 12 noon please. Women v Men 12 noon tee off. Waitahora Cup, best stableford on the day.
Local Rule; The greens staff have requested a local rule be put in place for the immediate future to protect the Par 3 Tees. "Please use a Tee on all Par 3 Teeing areas"
Practice Fairway; The area behind the car park, running alongside the 5th fairway is the official practice area. Please refrain from hitting multiple balls on fairways, and onto greens. Practice on the practice area, play the game on the course proper.
Management Meeting 20th April;
Carts. Members need to book carts please. With the clubhouse not manned, members are taking carts, when we have visitor bookings. Please contact Mike, if and when you require a cart
Trundler Shed; Sadly property is going missing from the trundler shed. Some of the fault can be laid at our members feet. If you keep your clubs in there, by all means use the key pad to get your gear out, but do not walk away and leave the door open and latched back. When we have all teed of, for some time there is nobody around the club house, so whats to stop someone driving in, takings clubs etc and leaving. Captain Mike has scoured the security footage, and he's disappointed how many people appear to be snooping around with no known purpose. We need all to be more security conscious. Sadly a members electric cart was removed from this shed a couple of weeks ago. He still has the battery and charger, so it's not going to be easy to use, and if anyone local has it, they are going to stick out manually pushing an electric cart around. If any member has any information about said cart, please contact President Tony of Captain Mike. The second matter to be mentioned here is property found on the course. Yes people leave clubs behind, drop keys or phone etc. If you happen to pick them up, please notify the starter of the day, or mention it to Tony or Mike. This equipment should always be returned to the rightful owner. Finally on this topic, yes you should be able to leave your gear safely in the shed, but theft is nothing new unfortunately. Best option is to take your clubs and trundlers home with you.
NZ Golf; Captain Mike has been in contact with a staff member from NA Golf, regarding their new player program, "a hit for women", "a hit for men" and a High School session. The High school have been out there prior to the holidays, and will continue in term 2. The men's and ladies program will be notified closer to the time.
House Committee members; Please if you are locking up for the night check , check and check again. The external doors to the men's and ladies changing rooms are being left open. The cart shed chain and door is being left unlocked. We need to tighten our security please. Our security company comes around checking these thing and report them to Tony and Mike, sometimes at unfriendly hours, so please let our President and Captain get some sleep.
Have a great week end everyone, and again if traveling, do so safely. Good luck to members still in the Championships, and those playing Pennants on Sunday. Bring you A game for the Waitahora Cup on Monday.
Good Golfing,
Bryan Burt
Club Scribe
