Oatlands Enews – Friday 4th November 2022

Published on 4th November 2022 in E-News, Guests

Content

This week’s Enews covers the following topics:

From the Course
Men’s Club Championship
Ladies Club Championship
Digger’s Day 2022 – Saturday 12th November
Oatlands Cup – Saturday 26th November 2022
Veterans Closing Day
Linda Bestford – Hole in One
Single Use Plastic Bags Banned – Bring your own Cooler Bags for Ice
Harrison Crowe’s Shot to the 18th at St Andrews
Join Our Members Only Facebook Group
Pennant Update
Upcoming Trophy Events
Recent Trophy Winners

From the Course

Rainfall for the Week: 1.5mm, Rainfall for 2022: 1,967.5mm Dam: 100% Green Speed: 10 feet

Mother Nature threw a different challenge at the team this week with the strong winds on Tuesday and Wednesday causing planned applications of growth regulator to fairways and roughs to have to be rescheduled. These spray applications will now be performed early next week, weather permitting. These winds removed the high humidity that we were experiencing last week, which has also meant the surge in growth that we saw in the fairways and roughs, has settled down as well, making it less critical to complete the growth regulator application this week.

The strong winds, along with sunny skies also dries out the greens faster, so team members have had to probe greens more regularly this week, with hand watering of any low reading areas required to ensure the putting surfaces stay as stress free as possible.

Members playing in the Wednesday competition would have noticed the course team laying the Zoysia turf around the 1^st greenside bunkers. Whilst it wasn’t ideal to get this delivery on Wednesday, team members stayed back to lay all the turf out around these bunkers to ensure this turf had the best chance to establish. This showed great dedication by all team members involved. Turf will now be ordered for the fairway bunker surrounds which should be completed within the next fortnight.

The Club was able to obtain some free Santa anna couch during the week and taking advantage of this, the team quickly stripped the 11^th women’s tee pad on Tuesday and replaced it with this free turf. With the weather warming up now, this couch turf should establish quickly, so a temporary tee will be in place for a short time until this turf takes root.

Our volunteers were on course Monday morning raking bunkers, trimming the hedges at the 6^th tee, tidying up around Farmer Tunks Hut, trimming tree suckers, and repairing the lifted rubber tiles at the front clubhouse entrance. Thank you gentlemen for all your assistance once again this week!

Have a great weekend!

The Course Team

Men’s Club Championship

The Semi-Finals of the of the Men’s Club Championship Matchplay took place on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th October, and we are now down to the final two players in each grade with the finals of all four grades to be played tomorrow, Saturday 5th November 2022.

The finals will be as listed:

Open Championships: 10am & 2:30pm – Luke Mason vs Rowan Easterbrook (36 hole match)
Plate Championship: 2:20pm – Craig Millen vs Jimmy Hawach (18 hole match)
Middle Markers Championship: 2:10pm – Rod Bowyer vs Christian Fong (18 hole match)
Long Markers Championship: 2:00pm – Scott Whittaker and Jonathan Bell (18 hole match)

Members are encouraged to get along to the Club and spectate some fantastic golf ahead of toasting the Champions in the Clubhouse at the completion of play.

Click here for a full list of result from the 2022 Men’s Club Championships

Ladies Club Championship

The Semi-Finals of the Ladies Club Championship Matchplay took place on Thursday 3rd November, and we are now down to the final two players in each grade with the finals of all three grades to be Thursday 10th November 2022.

The finals will be as listed:

Open Championships: 7:56am – Jenny Doherty vs Linda Gyzen (36 hole match)
Division II Championship: 8:31am – Lexi Grice vs Lisa Bechara (18 hole match)
Division III Championship: 8:38am – Jill Browne vs Rosemary Jones (18 hole match)

Members are encouraged to get along to the Club and spectate some fantastic golf ahead of toasting the Champions in the Clubhouse at the completion of play.

Click here for a full list of result from the 2022 Ladies Club Championships

Digger’s Day 2022 – Saturday 12th November

The Club is pleased to announce that the annual Digger’s Day in support of Legacy Australia will proceed as planned on Saturday 12th November.

The event will follow the same format as recent years with the event running throughout the AM and PM shotgun starts.

Entry will be $50pp and will include:

Competition Fee
On-course BBQ
Post Golf Snack
Legacy Donation

Golfers will be able to purchase drinks throughout the day from the drinks cart and clubhouse. The usual betting options will be available at registration, and the on-course BBQ and Rum Cup will be run from Farmer Tunks Hut between the 6th green and 7th tee.

All members are encouraged to take part in this event which raises a significant amount of money for Legacy Australia. Below is a short video on the important role Legacy plays in supporting the families of Australian Defence Force veterans who have given their lives or health.

Oatlands Cup – Saturday 26th November 2022

The Oatlands Cup is the Club’s annual Golf NSW Vardon event. In recent years, Covid has restricted the event to members only.

2022 will see the return of the visiting golfers who are restricted to a handicap of 4.4 or less.

The Oatlands Cup is open for Oatlands members playing on a handicap of 9.4 or less.

Entry is $80pp for visitors and $40pp for members.

To facilitate the event without members not eligible based on handicap, the day will run as an AM and PM shotgun start, with the Oatlands Cup played during the AM shotgun start only.

Members wishing to play can book via the Club website now, with entries closing at 5pm on Thursday 18th November, prior to the general timesheet of the day opening.

Veterans Closing Day

The ladies held their Annual Veterans Closing Day on Monday 31st October and had a a wonderful day of golf and friendship as the formal golfing programme winds down for 2022. Despite an early hiccup when MiClub (Club’s website provider) went down nationally resulting in no scorecards and handicap at the beginning of play, our ladies set out with their usual enthusiasm and joy for a day on the course.

The 2Ball Teams event was won by Jenny Petherbridge & Jill Davey with 46 points from runners up, Barbra Beasley & Jan Rogers with 43 points.

Linda Bestford – Hole in One

Oatlands Member, Linda Bestford recorded a hole in one on the 9th hole during her quarter-final match of the ladies championships on Thursday 27th October. What made this hole in one slightly different was that Head Professional, Jeremy Ward, was on hand to see the reaction as Linda retrieved the ball and video’d the response.

Well done Linda! Rumour has it that it was one of the best celebrated Hole in Ones at OGC for some time!

Single Use Plastic Bags Banned – Bring your own Cooler Bag for Ice

Members are advised, that as of 1st November, Single-use plastic items are now banned in NSW, with environmental campaigners welcoming the move as a major win for birds and marine life. Once commonplace items including plastic straws, plates, plastic-stemmed cotton buds, cups and personal care products with microbeads are now outlawed in NSW.

As a result of this, members wishing to get ice from the Club to take out onto the golf course, will need to bring there own re-usable bags or Eskies.

Harrison Crowe’s Shot to the 18th at St Andrews

An Australian golfer, who went viral this year after hitting an unbelievable trick shot from outside a pub onto the 18th green at St Andrews, has qualified for next year’s US Masters and British Open.

Harrison Crowe, 21, won the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship on Sunday with an even-par final round of 72 at the Amata Spring Country Club in Thailand. It means the precocious Australian amateur has qualified for the Masters at Augusta National in April, as well as the British Open in July.

The creator of the video had heard a story that South African golfer Ernie Els once hit a shot at 4am from the Dunvegan Hotel, about a three-minute walk from the course, over buildings on the street and onto the 18th green at the Old Course.

Crowe happened to be in the pub with mates when he was dared to try and replicate the audacious shot.

In front of a handful of onlookers – about the time of the 150th British Open, which was won by fellow Australian Cameron Smith – Crowe hit a near-perfect blind shot onto the green of the hole named “Tom Morris”.

The first shot he attempted was off a tee and went a little right. On the next attempt, Crowe hit the ball off the concrete and onto the green.

Crowe and his mates walked straight back into the pub before the youngster then inspected the green to check where the shot landed.

Join Our Members Only Facebook Group

The Club’s members only Facebook Group is a fantastic way for members and staff to engage with each other.

We now have almost 350 members who have joined the group and we would love to see that grow to include all of our members.

Importantly, members are advised that this social media platform will not be used for the Club to communicate critical information, that will remain via the Enews, website and direct email however, it is a place that members and the Club can post interesting Club and golf related items to compliment this Enews.

To join the Members Only Facebook Group please click on the link below and then click on the “JOIN GROUP” button. You will be asked a few questions to verify you are a member and then approved by the group administrator shortly thereafter.

www.facebook.com/groups/870087546972166/

Pennant Update

Encourage Shield

Our Encourage Shield side had another good win last weekend and have now qualified for the finals regardless of the result of their last pool match this Sunday.

In defeating Roseville 4-2 at Northbridge, the side are now 3 wins from 3 starts and get a free hit when taking on Northbridge at Avondale this Sunday, with finals to commence the following week.

The team for this Sunday at Avondale (1pm tee time) are:

Christian Fong
Ricky Fang
Jerry Qin
Alicia Luo
Jeremy Liew
Donovan O’Conner

Reserve – Jonathan Le

Upcoming Trophy Events

Men

October

November

Sat 5th Nov – Club Championship Finals – All Grades
Sat 5th Nov – Annual Presentation Dinner (Bookings available via Club website or Reception)
Sat 12th Nov – Diggers Day
Sat 26th Nov – Oatlands Cup Vardon
Wed 30th Nov – Christmas Cheer

December