April Showers, not!

Course Flooded and Closed until further notice.

Heavy overnight rain dumping 171 mm onto the course, and a high tide have combined to leave our course in a very sad condition.

My on the site reporter, Bob, thinks it is the worst he has seen in the last 25 years.

“Only seen it as bad as this once before in 25 years. Fence posts along the 16th fairway not visible which gives you an idea of the depth over a huge area of the course”.

The water has receded in sections leaving a huge amout of wet and damaged areas with some greens having their surface grass ripped off.

We will need to call on our wonderful army of volunteers to help clean up the debris.

The greenstaff will check on conditions on Monday to see if the course is dry enough to begin stacking piles of debris for removal.

Trevor Bell Shield at the Grange postponed.

Monday’s round at the Grange has been postponed as the Grange GC also has been inundated and closed.

Lance Fredericks

Saturday Monthly Medal Postponed

Due to the amount of rain dumped on the course on Friday and the forecast rain tomorrow it has been decided to close the course for Saturday.

The Monthly Medal day has been postponed until Saturday the 20th of April.

An inspection will be held tomorrow afternoon around 3/4 pm to decide if the course will be open Sunday & the same on Sunday for the WGI pennants on Monday.

Larry Kent, Captain

Women Veterans Thursday Results.

What a day it turned out to be. It rained and made it miserable and very wet.
With 22 starters and only 11 finished in comp.
1st Shirley Walsh 36 $25
2nd Victoria Day 35 $20
3rd Gail Rutledge 34 $15
8balls was given out
Barbara Costello 30
April Van Woerkom 28
Tracy Watson 28
Pam Middlebrook 27
Janelle Anderson 27
Helen Wainwright 24
Clare Morgan 24
Michelle Johnson 20
Thank you Annette and Dulcie for your slices.
Thank you to all who stayed and had lunch 🥗 and helped clean up.
Regards Lorraine 🏌️‍♀️⛳️

Latest News from the Course 3rd April

Tree Lopping.

R Neilson, Honorary Secretary JGC.

At last, after a several month wait and protracted negotiations, the council has allowed the club to trim a limited number of trees on the course.

The day that the arborist will be coming to complete the work is Thursday 11th April, a day that will suit our green staff.

The current plan is to focus on tree trimming that day but NOT to close the course; Closure of individual holes will be announced if/when necessary.

Change to MiGolf

The club will be switching to the Migolf software package on Wednesday 10th of April. Part of the change will be the ability to use your phone to enter scores. This is called MiScore and can be downloaded to your phone using the App store on your smart phone.

It is not available for use just yet until we make the switch on April 10.

User name will be your membership number 212080xxxx and password will be the day number and month number of your birthday. If you born on the 6th of October it will be 0610.

Other details will follow.

Women’s Competition News.

April Monthly Medal

Div 1 Winner – Judi O’Brien 79 nett

Gross- Judi O’brien 102 scr.

Putting – Pam Middlebrook & Judi O’Brien 29 putts

Div 2 Winner – Shirley Walsh 75 nett

Gross – Shirley Walsh 106 scr.

Putting – Judy Casey & Cheryl Smee 30 putts

Div 3 Winner – Sylvia Karschies 76 nett

Gross – Sylvia Karschies 120 scr.

Putting – Leesa Swan 31 putts

Vouchers

Div 1 (0 – 32) Shirley Walsh 75 nett ($25)

R/Up – Judi O’Brien 79 nett ($20)

Div 2 (33 – 54)

Winner – Sylvia Karschies 76 nett ($25)

R/Up – Cheryl Smee 78 nett ($20)

Stableford – Helen Wainwright 30 pts ($15)

R/Up – Gloria Thompson 25 pts (ball)

Super Shot – Cheryl Smee 0cm

Drummond Golf Winner – Shirley Walsh

Coming Events

Monday 8th April – Silver and Bronze Pennants at Jamberoo. No Monday Veterans comp on this day.

Tuesday 9th April – Womens 4BBB Stableford

Good luck to Gold pennant team playing Monday 8th April at Links Shellcove against Port Kembla.

30th April – Draw for partner – names to me by 23rd April to go in draw – remember to let me know if you need a cart so I can draw a partner also needing a cart.

Good golfin’

Judi

News from the Club

Easter Bunnies spotted at Jamberoo!

A pair of sister bunnies were photographed near the putting green last Friday.

Tracey and Kelley Bunny shown wearing lovely Easter attire with matching socks.

Veterans News

Trevor Bell Memorial Shield.

Trevor Bell Memorial Shield competition for 2024 commences at The Grange on Monday 8 April.

Jamberoo Team for the first round will be:

Ron Chilby

Ken Holt

Warren Joannou

Craig Foster

Rob McLean

Peter Hackett

Peter Francis

Chris Leckey

Support for the opening round was very strong with a dozen people putting up their hand to be in the team. Unfortunately the team is limited to eight players so some have to miss out. There will be six more opportunities to represent Jamberoo Vets during the year.

The Grange will have a one tee start commencing at 8.00am. Players will be notified of their tee times as soon as I receive the starting times from The Grange.

Good Luck all!

Lance Frededricks

Changes to our Competition Software providers

The Club is about to go live with a new competition and member management software program. It is understood that this software system will enable members to spend their trophy account funds over the bar, on competition fees, cart hire, in the shop, on their membership fees etc.
More infomation will be detailed to members in the upcoming weeks. Presently Staff and Directors are undergoing training with the new program. By all accounts it is a vast improvemnt on what we currently use.

This will mean, of course, that our current booking programme, OURGOLF, will cease operating and will be replaced by a new version from MiGolf.

April Programme of Events

4BBB with in conjunction individual stableford

For those not aware there is a extra $2 entry fee for these type of events as informed on the club document “2014 conditions of play and competition rules” which can be found by clicking

2014 Conditions of play and competition rules

Here is the relevant wording from page 5:

“Four-ball Events: A small extra $2 fee will be charged forentry into any “in conjunction” fourball event.Where golfers are left without a partner in a Four-ball event,
they are to complete a single card in the format for the day –
stroke, stableford or par. The match committee will select all
single cards for the day and randomly combine them into
pairs for the competition of the day.
Please be careful also when booking in for Four-ball events.
Pairs will play in the groups as listed on the time sheet. Most
Fourball Stableford events will be run in conjunction with a
single stableford event and will be handicapped.”
page 5 – 2014 conditions of play and competition rules

This is to allow for a larger prize pool so that fair prizes can be awarded for both the fourball and the individual events. The whole $2 is allocated for the fourball prizes and separate ball comp.

I hope to see you on our beautiful course during April. It is a real treat to the eyes!