Pro Shop Black Friday Sale: Friday 29th November – Sunday 1st December

The Oatlands Pro Shop will be running a Black Friday sale from Friday 29th November – Sunday 1st December inclusive.

During the sale, all retail items (excluding MGI electric buggies) will be 25% off the marked price.

Purchases can be made using cash, card, ball or trophy prizes, so it is a great time to stock up on golf balls, gloves and accessories or to get in early for a Christmas gift for a fellow golfer.

From the Course

Rainfall for the Week: 19.0mm,  Rainfall for 2024: 1,037.5mm, Dam: 100%,  Green Speed: 9.5feet

Construction work has commenced on the practice green area this week with good progress made stripping the existing material from this site and starting to shape up the clay base contours of the green and surrounding bunkers. Work has also commenced down at the 19^th green with material being stripped off this site so that material from the practice site can be reused down at the 19^th green site.

Green surrounds were sprayed with regulator this week to gain some control over the growth in these areas. The humidity has certainly increased growth of the kikuyu in recent weeks, so the growth regulator is a great product to use to assist with our maintenance practices.

Debris from our trees continues to be a constant issue this week, with our Eucalyptus trees shredding their bark to deal with the climatic conditions being presented. It’s a labour intensive process trying to keep playing surfaces clean of debris. Firstly, we need to blow the leaf and bark debris from fairways into rough lines before the vacuum then comes along and collects it all up. Fairways are being blown everyday and we can manage to get across all fairways, but it takes the vacuum the entire week to get across all of the course.

Our volunteers were on course Monday morning replacing one of the practice nets and cleaning all the practice bays, clearing debris from the down pipes at the front of the Clubhouse, stick picking, and divotting of fairways on Thursday morning. Thank you to all those involved this week, your assistance is always very much appreciated! 

Greens will be cut on Saturday and Sunday morning.

Happy Golfing!

The Course Team.

Summer 7’s Stableford in December

December will see the introduction of Summer 7’s Stableford each Friday from 6th to 20th December with tee times from 4pm – 6pm.

The event will be a 7-hole stableford on holes 12-18 followed by an optional Nearest to Pin or Long Drive in the Simulator Studios.

Any member or guest taking part in the Summer 7’s Stableford will receive a complimentary drinks voucher to use with any meal purchase at Bistro 94 after golf.

Bookings for Friday 6th, Friday 13th and Friday 20th December are now open via the Club website.

Ladies Annual Dinner

The Oatlands Ladies held their end of year Annual Dinner on Thursday 21st November, with a small but enthusiastic group of ladies kicking up their heels to end the year, and toast the major trophy winners for 2024.

The ladies celebrated well into the night to the sounds of a 3-piece band QC-Collective who have played previously at the Club for Grooves and Greens.

Simulator Studio Bookings

It has been great to see so many members utilising the Simulator Studios over the last week.

Going forward, commencing Monday 25th November, the Studios will operate as follows:

• Daily from Pro Shop opening to 12pm: No booking required with time allocation based on common courtesy and other members waiting
• 12pm to Pro Shop close: Booking via the website in 30 minutes intervals (details of Booking System outlined below)
• PGA Professional Coaching and Club-fitting will take priority at all times (as is the case with the practice range)

Simulator Studio Booking System

Commencing Monday 25th November, bookings can be made in the Studios from 12pm to 6pm daily.

The booking system is now live on the Club’s website, and a request has been made with our website provider to place a direct link to this booking resource on the Members Homepage of the website.

For the time being, Simulator Bookings are accessible through the following pathway on the website:

1. Fixture & Bookings, then;
2. Other Bookings (at the top right of the Fixtures & Bookings page), then;
3. Simulator Studio Bookings

The booking system is setup for a single bay to allow the second bay to remain available for coaching. In the event that there are no simulator and / or lesson bookings, members may continue to utilise the studios on a walk-in basis.  

Members are reminded of the following conditions applying to simulator use:

• Golf Balls – The Golf Balls to be used will be provided as the golf balls need to be new to avoid damage to the impact screen
• A maximum of one person at a time in each bay
• Check-in with Pro Shop staff required prior to use

Club-fitting

The simulator studios will give our PGA staff the ability to conduct comprehensive club-fitting for members and guests.

The Club currently has the latest Titleist club-fitting equipment, however Taylormade, PING and Callaway are all set to launch new model clubs in January 2025, and as such, the fitting equipment for these three manufacturers will arrive early in the new year.

For more details on club-fitting sessions, please contact the Head Professional Jeremy Ward via email golfoperations@oatlandsgolf.com.au or by phoning the Pro Shop (02) 9630 4444 ext 1.

We look forward to as many members as possible utilising this newest addition to the Club’s offering over the coming weeks, months and years.

November Bettington Restaurant – Menu Available

The end of year Bettington Restaurant nights are always popular with our members and we are looking forward to the next instalment on Wednesday, 27th November.

Chef, Andrew Yang, has just produced the menu for the evening which is shown below.

Members and guests are welcome at the Bettington Restaurant which presents great value for a fine dining night out.

Bookings are available for 2 to 10 diners, with a two course menu for $55 or three course for $69.

Seating times are available at 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm and 7:30pm, so grab some friends and join us for another great night of food and friendship.

Bar account credit and Birthday vouchers redeemable.

MENU

On arrival

• Okra with sesame sauce
• Bread and Butter

Entrée

• Lightly crumbed scallops on yuzu mayo with nori and bonito flakes
• 100-day aged saucisson, pickled cucumber and baguette
• Chicken crisps, pimento cheese and grapefruit (gf)

Main

• Singaporean soft–shell crab, king prawns and calamari, shoestring fries
• Pinnacle 200gm scotch fillet, heirloom tomatoes, truffled mash and jus (gf)
• Roasted cumin lamb cutlets, sweet potato, pickled cabbage and shiitake mushroom glaze (gf)
• Confit duck leg, braised red cabbage, green peppercorn sauce, caramelised apples (gf)

Side – $12.00 each

• Roasted potatoes, rosemary salt (v, gf)
• Green oak lettuce, honey vinaigrette (v, gf)
• Skin on fries, truffle mayonnaise (v)

Dessert

• Coconut crème caramel, summer fruits and honeycomb (gf)
• Fried salted caramel ice cream, maraschino, cinnamon caramel sauce (gf)
• Passionfruit souffles with vanilla anglaise (gf)

Christmas Cheer – Ham Day’s

The Club’s annual Christmas Cheer days will be held in early December. Based on member feedback in recent years, 2024 will see the Turkey prizes replaced, and the major prize winners will receive 1/2 Ham + family size Christmas Pudding, while the Turkey rundown will now be replaced with 1/2 Hams.

The schedule for this years events is as follows:

• Wednesday 4th December: Men’s Christmas Cheer (7am and 12:30pm shotgun starts)
• Thursday 5th December: Ladies Christmas Cheer (8am shotgun start)
• Sunday 8th December: Mixed Christmas Cheer, Main prizes only, no rundown (normal Sunday timesheet)

Entry for the Men’s and Ladies events will be $29pp, while the Sunday event will be the standard club competition fee only.

Booking sheets will open at their normal time, 8 Days in advance at 4:30pm.