Congratulations to Geoff Reynolds who scored his first ever ace today. Geoff’s great achievement came on the 7th after decades of trying with many near misses.
Playing a sweetly hit 8 iron Geoff excited his playing partners, Chilby, Holt, and Poidevin. The great shot was also witnessed by Head Greenkeeper Nick.
Geoff’s name has been entered on the hole-in-one honour roll, and he has been rewarded with 6 golf balls from the club. His prized ball will be mounted onto a permanent trophy to act as a permanent reminder of his perfect shot.
Well played Geoff.
Another fantastic shot today.
I know the 12th was playing really as a par 4 but to score a 2 is still a great achievement.
Today Terry Sense holed his second shot for a 2 on the par 5. That’s officially an albatross!
It highlighted a great day for Terry where he won the Super Shot, scored 43 points and won the skins from his mates.
Nominations are called for those members who wish to be considered to represent Jamberoo Golf Club in the upcoming 2025 Pennant season.
In 2025 the season will commence on Sunday February 2 and run every Sunday morning until the end of March.
Jamberoo has nominated to contest the B Pennant (for those players with a GA handicap of 5.5 or higher);
the C Pennant ( for those players with a GA handicap greater than 12.5);
and the White Horse Cup (handicap matchplay for those players with GA handicaps less than 24.4). We have two teams competing in the White Horse Cup.
In B and C Pennant handicaps can fall below the cut-off points once the competition has started. Teams consist of 6 players per side.
In the White Horse Cup teams consist of 7 players.
An email has already been sent to prospective and past players. Please check your emails.
We are also very interested in enrolling players who have a desire to represent the club, or who maybe new to the club and think they would like to be involved.
A nomination sheet will be available for members to register near the starters area.
The greens on the front nine have undergone their spring renovations on Thursday and Friday and are now open for play. Obviously they will be slow and sandy for the first couple of days so please be aware and make allowances.
The back nine will be undergoing their renovations on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th of November.
Grass bunker on the third hole open for play.
The grass bunker on the third is now open for play from Saturday. If your ball ends up in that bunker then you have to play it from where it lies treating it like the rough.
grass bunker on the third is now in play
“Doing it for Jarrod”.
Jamberoo Golf Club, continuing our tradition of helping worthy charities, has enrolled to hold a special charity day for the “Doing it for Jarrod” charity which was formed in memory of popular Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle who sadly died from cancer. The charity supports children with cancer.
The day will be held on Saturday 23rd of November. As part of your entry you will automatically be included in a raffle for special prizes including golf balls, towels, hats etc.
Round 6 of the Trevor Bell Memorial Shield competition was held at The Grange today. Jamberoo dominated the day taking out first, second and fourth prizes in the individual competition. The team score (best six of eight scores) equalled the third best team score of the season – 216 points. We also hold the best team score of the season, 222 points, scored at Port Kembla in August.
Jamberoo now leads the season team point score with 1181 points, 5 points ahead of The Links, Shell Cove. Port Kembla is third, 42 points behind The Links. The Shield winner will be determined at the final round at Wollongong on Monday 4 November.
The team score of 216 gives an average of 36 points per player for the six counting scores. This is exceptional for the team to have achieved this twice in the season.
Individual performances today were:
Ron Chilby 40 points Winner
Craig Foster 40 points 2nd place
Ken Holt 38 points 4th place
Congratulations again to the team and may they get some handicap back by November.
Lance
Gold Medal Playoff Information.
Each year the winners of each monthly medal get the chance to contest in the playoff for the Gold Medal. A Gold Medal is awarded for each of the 3 grades. The first qualifying monthly medal was held in November 2023 all the way to our last Medal in October, 2024.
All players playing in the November medal day get the chance to qualify for the 2025 Gold Medal Playoff.
The Women’s event will be contested on Tuesday 12th of November.
The Mens Event will be held on Saturday 2nd of November. Only current Jamberoo members are permitted to play.
Please note that Rod Hodkinson was the C Grade Medalist for February with a nett 57. My apologies for the earlier error.
Golden Putter 2024.
Held in conjunction on Gold Medal Day for Men those monthly winners get the chance to win the Golden Putter Trophy by having the least number of putts over the round.
Ken Bradley 2022 golden putter winnerDavid Garcia 2023 Golden Putter
At the recent Veterans shotgun start day the weather turned very ugly as we waited to move to our designated tees. With a break in the rain at the right moment players quickly moved to their designated tees awaiting the blast on the hooter.
The showers persisted but this did not discourage the 70 players who completed their rounds, sodden but not deterred.
The fourball winners on the day were Jeff Draper and George Wells with a well complied score of 45 points. The minor placings went to 2nd: Bill Morris & Rod Poidevin 43 pts 3rd: Geoff Reid & Ken Holt 42 pts 4th: Brian Aboozaid & Alan Jones 41 pts (c/b).
After a fine sausage sizzle, cooked perfectly by Lance Fredericks and John Pringle, it was time for the official proceedings.
It was with great pleasure that Geoff Reid and Gary Brickell were announced as our inaugural Winter and Spring Medalists.
Well dressed medalists -Geoff and Gary accept their medals.
Following the wine raffle, Lance Fredericks spoke to our Veteran Members about the upcoming Seaside and Valley Vets tournament which will be held at Jamberoo and Kiama from Monday 25 till Friday 29th of November with Jamberoo hosting round 1 on the Monday and the team fourball on the Friday. For those interested please see the flyers around the club. All money raised by Jamberoo in the tournament raffle will be returned to our Veterans club.
The Vets Summer Medal will be contested on Monday 9th of December and presented at the Xmas BBQ and Shotgun start day to be held on Monday the 16th of December.
B9 is alive.
The Blokes 9 hole (B9 for short) comp will be held on Thursday 17th from 2.30 pm. A very interesting round of golf is to be expected, not to mention a few ales sunk in the aftermath.
Plenty of banter will be exchanged I am sure!
Special Womens Golf Report – WGI event at Nowra.
Well done to all the Jamberoo players who played in the WGI Tournament in Nowra on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. As well as looking great at the Presentation today, Jamberoo players came home with lots of prizes.
Winning the WGI Trophy was Lyn Kuskey.
The 36 Holes Nett Winner in Div 1 was April van Woerkom.
The 36 Holes Nett Winner in Div 2 was Judi O’Brien
The Foursomes Div 2 Gross Runners Up were Lyn Kuskey & Margaret Cook
4th Place were Lidia Waine & Jenny Strong
Nett Winners were Sylvia Karschies & Cheryl Smee
Nett R/Up were Lorraine Southwell & Rhonda McKinley
It was great to hear the President of WGI, Ann Finlay congratulate Jamberoo for its support of WGI events and charity days and open days at other clubs – so KUDOS to you all!
Margaret and LynSylvia and CherylLorraine and RhondaLidiaJudiAprilLyn and Golf NSW (Illawarra)’s Tahnia Stalker
Types of 2 Ball Stableford competitions.
Normally we play a 4 Ball Best Ball Stableford where the best stableford score per team of 2 per hole is recorded as the team score. It is called a fourball best ball because there are 4 players in each group making up the 2 teams. In reality it should be a 2BBB.
On occasions this 2 ball event has its scoring format changed.
Instead of taking the best score per hole sometimes both stableford scores of the team are added together. This is known as an aggregate, or 2 Ball aggregate.
Sometimes the team score on each hole is found by multiplying the individual stableford scores together. This is called a Multiplier, or 2 Ball Multiplier.
On even rarer occasions instead of taking the best stableford score per hole the worst score is taken. This known as a 2 Ball Stableford Worst Ball.
Sometimes a combination of these formats is used. This is known as a split six.
