Sections of the course were severely damaged in flash flooding on Monday March 21 and the course is closed till further notice.

There is a huge amount of work to be done in restoring the course to its former glory, with the first working bee at 8am on Wednesday March 23. Ring the club for details.

It appears the 1st, 7th and 11th greens have been almost totally destroyed.

Members and other volunteers are invited and implored to lend a hand to get the course back on its feet.

Jim Butt has called from Shoalhaven Heads to say that until Jamberoo is reopened our members can play at Shoalhaven Heads at local member rates.

CLUB member Arthur Bosanquet took these photos of the course during the recent mini flood and passed them on to new board member Lieve Stassen.

Thanks Lieve for passing them on to the Daily Cow.

The heavy rains and waterlogged conditions closed the course for a time.

Fingers crossed, hopefully that’s it for the rest of the summer.

OVER the past four years volunteers have done a wonderful job maintaining the gardens at the club under the “Adopt a Garden” Scheme.

There are 26 volunteers who regularly attend to their designated gardens with much enthusiasm and enjoyment.

Most recently, the 6th garden was deemed to have passed its use by date and volunteers got together to dig out the old plants and renew it.

Darryl Campbell constructed a brilliantly conceived steel framed pergola (some erroneously thought it was going to be some kind of public flogging complex for golfers who don’t fill their divots) that will be the centrepiece of the new display.

Over the course of several weeks the garden has taken on a new look and as it continues to grow and develop golfers can continue to appreciate the progress as they pass by.

The Public Flogging Complex idea is now under consideration.

(Thanks to Margaret Stephens for the original info and photograph)

SEVENTEEN year old Shellharbour golfer Tom Holz has won the 2010 Murray Tractors Jamberoo Men’s Open in a closely fought battle on Sunday (July 25).

In a day when no-one got the better of the picturesque Jamberoo course, the gun Illawarra junior golfer beat Wollongong’s Justin Craig and fellow Bonnie Doon member Aaron Keevers on a countback.

The threesome finished the round equal on two over par and all were ruing lost opportunities, particularly with putting in conditions that were not always ideal.

“I played all right. I got lucky on a few occasions. I just played my own game,” Holz said after accepting the winner’s trophy.

The annual Jamberoo event attracted 98 competitors from clubs across the Illawarra and Sydney.

Holz has won a number Illawarra junior and senior events and is now a member of the well respected Bonnie Doon Golf Club in Sydney.

Whilst it seemed to be mostly the younger brigade fighting it out for the major title – and for some it was Jamberoo’s tough, steeply sloping 18th green that finally decided the matter – the Nett Winner Trophy went to a player toward the other end of the spectrum.

Jamberoo’s Norbert Beringer streeted the field with a magnificent under the circumstances Nett 57.

The A Grade Nett Winner was Port Kembla’s Barry Chin with a 61, B Grade Gross Winner was N Porteous (St Georges Basin) 76, B Grade Nett Peter Francis (Jamberoo) 61, C Grade Gross Steve Robertson (Jamberoo) 85, C Grade Nett Alan Cox (Jamberoo) 66.

Jamberoo Golf Club President Phil Lewis said it was a great day of competition with scattered showers and damp conditions keeping the two under par course record safe.

Mr Lewis thanked the organisers and ground staff and the major sponsors Murray Tractors from Robertson and Fredericks Store Jamberoo.

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