Summary from the Golf Club Committee meeting held on 12 March…..

Items discussed at the meeting and actions arising are as follows:

• Capital Management Plan – Feedback from the members in relation to the plan has been limited.  We will now discuss the plan more fully with Ainslie to agree work and equipment purchases to be funded by the Golf Club and Ainslie in the 2020 golfing year.
• Member numbers are being discussed with Ainslie and Murray in the context of continuing to grow these.  We currently have 538 members across the various categories. This is slightly up on the 2019 figure.
• Penalty area marking is underway – the current red stakes are being removed and replaced with a line marking the edge of the penalty area.  In accordance with the Rules of Golf, if your ball is resting on the line the ball is classed as in the Penalty Area.

• Now that our dams are back at full capacity, Shane and his team are busy doing whatever they can to return our fairways to their former quality.  Irrigation of the fairways has resumed and will continue as deemed appropriate.
• The fairways have been scarified to encourage the growth and to establish a seed bed for the over-sowing that has recently occurred.  Approximately four tonnes of rye seed has been spread on the fairways and tees, with a number of the fairways also being sown with a special grass to deter birds from feeding.  Around  five tonnes of fertiliser has also been spread.  Some weed growth is occurring on the fairways which cannot be sprayed until the grass seed has germinated and become established.  We are hoping that we can spraying the weed growth within the next few weeks.  We are hoping that the fairways will in in very good order with six to seven weeks.
• A gathering of the club’s Juniors’ community was planned for Thursday 19 March.  Unfortunately, this gathering had to be cancelled due to recent Covid 19 restrictions.  Our thanks to Amanda McLoughlin for her work and planning in relation to the Junior activities.  A range of coaching clinics are planned in the coming months which will be conducted by Ross McLoughlin and our new Professional Gary Dowling. The committee noted its appreciation of the work being done in support of the Juniors.
• There was no monthly financial information provided to the Golf Club by the Ainslie Group, which meant there could be no financial discussions at the Committee meeting.  We will be discussing this with Ainslie, in that we must have information against which our accounts can be regularly examined.
• Advice on the Covid 19 virus and the associated restrictions will be distributed to members as it becomes available from Golf Australia and the Ainslie Group.  Members are asked to check the posts on the Website (MiClub) regularly.  A post was loaded late last week providing and update.

Richard Oliver/President 

GLGC Pennant Teams Update

Gungahlin Lakes Pennant Teams

This post is to inform all members on how our pennant teams are progressing this pennant season. 

For those members (about 180 members) that have access to our Facebook page (Gungahlin Lakes Golf Members), you may have seen most of the pennant results as these are generally posted on our Facebook page each week. 

For those that don’t have access to Facebook or do not wish to be on Facebook (about 350 members), you can check the individual men’s and junior results using this link.  https://www.golfbox.dk/livescoring/tour/?language=2057#/interclub/1130/overview

You can check the Women’s results at: http://csga.asn.au/cms/category/pennants/

We have 9 pennant teams, 6 men’s teams, 2 women’s teams and a junior team, see summary below.

A grade division 1 team

Our club’s top team is having a great season so far and are currently in 4^th place with 4 wins and 2 losses.  They play against a strong Royal Canberra team in the last round next week and will need to win to have a chance of making the finals.

A grade division 2 team

This team has had a lot of close results without success but had a great win on the weekend.  They have had 1 win and 5 losses.  Unfortunately, it is unlikely the team will make the finals.

B Scratch team

This team has been performing well and beat the top team on the weekend.  They have had 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.  With two matches remaining they will need to win at least one of those matches for a chance to play in the finals.

Handicap team

This team is playing very well and is currently undefeated and on top of the ladder with 5 wins from 5 matches.  They are guaranteed of playing in the semi-finals.

Senior Scratch team

This team has played well and had a great win against a strong Royal Canberra team last week.  They have had 2 wins and one loss, with one week washed out.  They are guaranteed a place in the semifinals.

Senior Handicap team

This team has played well and have had one win, three draws and one loss, with one week washed out.  They will need to win their remaining two matches to have an outside chance of making the finals.

Bronze Shield Women’s team

This team has played one match and had a great win over Murrumbidgee.  There are 4 more matches to be played before the finals.

Brindabella Shield Women’s team

This team has played two matches with one win and one loss.  There are 4 more matches to be played before the finals.

Junior team

Our juniors have played very well with 1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss.  They will need to win their remaining 3 games to have a chance of making the finals.

2020 Autumn Cup

2020 AUTUMN CUP – Starts Tomorrow, Wednesday 18th March

Eclectic Stableford

The AUTUMN CUP is open to all financial members of the Gungahlin Lakes Golf Club who hold a current GA handicap. It will be run in the form of a player’s Eclectic stableford score over the nominated rounds.

How does this work? The players Eclectic stableford score is the total stableford points from each of the 18 holes from all the nominated rounds. For example, if you score 2 points on the 1^st hole and in the 5^th round you improve to a 3 pointer for the 1^st hole then that is added in for your total score.

It will be interesting to see if anyone can record 18 x 3 pointers over the nominated rounds.

There will be following divisions:

• Men’s (Div. 1)
• Men’s (Div. 2)
• Women’s Division (minimum of 5 players required)

Prizes will be calculated on the number of players per division

The nominated rounds are as follows:

 All Wednesday Stableford competitions from 18^th March until end of May 2020

 Entry Fee – $20.00 per player for the season

(plus normal daily Comp Fees)

ENTER At The ProShop!

Entries Close Wednesday 6pm 25^th March

Junior Community Putt-Putt and Pizza

Attention all Junior Golf Members and their families

Come along to the Junior Golfing Community get together

There will be a mini putting comp, pizza and soft drinks

When Thursday 19TH March 2020

Who  Gungahlin Lakes Junior Members and their families.

Where:  Function room Main club house (details at reception)

Bring a putter

RSVP Amanda McLoughlin a_r_mcloughlion@bigpond.com

SUMMER CUP RESULTS

We finally have the winners of the Summer Cup! Due to a programming glitch the results had to be done manually so hence a bit of a delay.

Ladies I am still working on your results. These should be available over the coming few days

Thank you to everyone that participated and from feedback everyone enjoys this type of event.

Next Wednesday is the start of the Autumn Cup

Regards

Murray Blair

WINNERS 2019/20 SUMMER CUP

Stableford Eclectic

Div 1 (0-17)

1^st Place    George Zolotic       57 PTS       $192                     

2^nd Place     Kevin Flanagan       56 PTS       $115

3^rd Place     Stu Logue             54 PTS       $77

Div 2 (18 -36)

1^st Place    Andi Julias              57 PTS       $120                    

2^nd Place     Daryl Parker           55 PTS  ocb     $72

3^rd Place     Phons May             55 PTS       $48

         Congratulations to all winners.