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Members update – 18 April – Summary from the Committee meeting on 8 April

Members 

• Reports were tabled from Executive members as usually occurs.

From the President…

• Members – As at 16 April we have 698 members across all categories.
• Water Remediation Plan – An initial meeting has been scheduled with a Water Management consultant to discuss what such a plan might look like and how we might move this project forward. As planning progresses members will be kept informed.
• Guidance Statements – the club’s Guidance Statements have now been revised. These statements are regularly reviewed and are available to members on the Website. Thanks to Adrian Andreatta for his work on this.
• Pace of Play – this remains an issue and members have been prompted in the recent edition of Slash. Players are to be actively encourage to stay in touch with the group in front of them.

From the Treasurer…

• The club has approximately $25,000 in funds not already allocated after known expenses have been debited. Known expenses were outlined for members in recent updates and mostly related to funds allocated for course improvements.  The $2 Course Improvement will help to rebuild this amount.

From the Captains…

• Local Rules – two temporary local rules implemented due to stump grinding and Irrigation system upgrade. (These will be removed when no longer required.)
• 9-Hole Yellow course competition – will continue during non-daylight savings for a trial period of 4 weeks. Minimum numbers of 10 players will be required.
• Match-play entry forms – to be distributed starting this weekend. We are hoping for strong interest this year. Due to numbers and in agreement with Ladies Captain. The Ladies and the Men will alternate the use of the 10^th tee each year for the 1^st round of the Matchplay tournament. 2021 will be Men’s turn.
• Sunday Medley – The trial of the full comp Sunday Medley was not well received and it has been agreed to return to having separate competitions. This is effective immediately.

Grounds and Greens

• Greens staff – we have 5 full time staff with an apprentice to be added to this team.
• 15^th/16^th Mound – Work on the mound is complete which has now included the planting of the trees. The local rule about new planting and staked trees applies.
• Irrigation system – the work has been completed and is now ready for operation.
• Blue Frames – The painting black of the remaining older blue frames has been completed. Signage is now being redone and will be returned to the signs in the near future.
• Stump Grinding – around 170 stumps have been ground and Dad’s Army is working on the sanding and seeding of the areas from where the stumps have been removed. Where the work has been done these areas have all been marked as GUR.
• Paspalum – most of the Paspalum in the course has been sprayed with Roundup. Localized spots that will die as a result of this. 
• 16^TH Fairway – Casuarinas identified last year and approved by the ACT Government for removal will begin to be felled in the coming weeks.
• 18^TH Fairway – every second Casuarina at the water’s edge (between 150 and 50m from green) will be removed to reduce competition among trees, and allow for grass growth (currently very poor) in the first cut of rough and fairway. This will have no impact on the playability of the hole, and the trees have no strategic value.

Juniors….

• Currently have 36 Junior members. With the Junior program being run by Amanda McLoughlin we are hoping to grow this number.

Matters discussed in General Business not covered in other papers/reports

• Pennant Dinner – Fiona provided a paper re the proposed Pennant Dinner, including format etc. Richard to discuss with Simon potential “sponsorship” and support from Ainslie. 
• 25-Year Anniversary Dinner. Paper of proposed format of Dinner provided.  Richard to discuss further with Simon re costs and possible support from Ainslie.  A small sub-committee has been formed to progress.
• Number for a valid competition – Kevin provided a short paper re looking at what numbers constitute a competition. Committee agreed that the number should be 20 who play in and complete a competition.  For Women the number is 6. 

Next meeting – 13 May 2021

Richard Oliver/President

Member update 12 April – Whats happening with the irrigation project this week?

Members

A quick update on the irrigation works.

The Waterland folks did lots of work on the course last week which is summarised as follows:

• 2nd Green Surround – work concluded
• 3rd Fairway – work concluded
• 6th Green Swale – work concluded
• 7th Blue tee – work concluded
• 7th Fairway Rough – work concluded but some reseeding required
• 14th Blue Tee – work concluded 
• 15th Blue tee – work concluded
• 16th Blue tee – work concluded

This week we are expecting to complete the following:

On Monday and Tuesday 

• 1st Fairway – new sprinklers to the RHS of Fairway 166-100 mts from the green and to the RHS of fairway 50 mts from green

On Wednesday 

• 13th Fairway – RHS of fairway before bridge 211 mts from green and LHS side of fairway after the bridge

On Friday 

• 18th Fairway – Right hand side of fairway from approximately 220 mts from green to 80 mts.

The works are being repaired well and hopefully this will continue as we have some warmer weather still with us left before the cold comes.   There is some growing time left.

For your information.

Richard Oliver/President

Splash April 2021 – Updated

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Members Update 1 April 21 – Where are we up to with the irrigation works?

Members 

Earlier in the week, if you played on the course, you might have noticed that additional sprinklers have been installed on the blue tees on holes 14, 15, 16 and 18.  This will give the back of each of these tees better water coverage.  Thanks to the care bring taken by the Waterland folks, the trenching necessary for the new sprinkler heads and the associated pipes and wiring has been carefully repaired to the extent that is hard to see where the work has been done.  Great work by Waterland and our thanks to them for looking after our course.

There was no actual installation work was done today.  Today time was spent marking the next set of adjustments to the out on the course.  Members will see that there are flags and spray paint on the 1^st fairway, 2^nd Green surrounds, 3^rd fairway, 6^th Green Surrounds, 7^th fairway, 13^th fairway – before and after the bridge as well as the 18^th fairway.  These are the areas on the course where additional sprinklers will be installed with work starting on Tuesday after the Easter holiday period.

On Tuesday work will commence on the 7^th fairway.  This will see three new sprinklers on the right hand side of the fairway/rough after the water crossing and before the first set of trees.  The tees for Tuesday will be moved forward to the fairway to ensure the safety of workers.

Wednesday will see the completion of the work on 7, and then the “walk off” area on 6 will see the installation of two new sprinklers.

Below the front bunker on the 2nd will see three sprinklers installed on Thursday – there has been preliminary work in this location during this week.

Friday will see an additional sprinkler be installed on the 3^rd hole in the area short and left of the green.

We urge all golfers to be patient during this period and to not hit up on any workers – please wait for a signal from the staff.

Projects like this take lots of coordination and careful management.  Our thanks to Mark Hynes, Shane (our Super) and Norm Loughton for together coordinating the work and ensuring the work is done to the necessary standard.

Have a great Easter and play well on any of the four days that we have competitions running.

Regards 

Richard Oliver/President

Tree stump grinding Temporary Local rule

Temporary Local Rule:  Tree stump grinding areas.

Due to the tree stumps on the course being ground down, the Match Committee has implemented the following temporary local rule.

Local Rule:

“Any ground affected by recent stump grinding, including temporary accumulations of stump grindings in the general area is to be treated as GUR from which free relief is allowed under Rule 16.1”