QUEANBEYAN GOLF CLUBNEWSLETTER | Issue28 1

Out of

the

Rough

December

2016

What’s in this Edition?

$12 Schnitzel

New Club Opening Times

IPhone Access to Results

Friday Pro Comp

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TIP FROM THE TOUR

A huge thankyou to everyone for their support in 2016. Wishing all the members a safe and Merry Christmas, and looking forward seeing all the members in the new year!!!! Jake, Mat and the Boys If your game needs a tune up, see Matt or Jake in the pro shop.

Christmas is just around the corner and all Match Committee members are looking forward to a well earned break. I wish to say thank you to each committee member for the many hours given in making sure competitions run smoothly. Jake and his Pro Shop staff will look after all competitions until Match Committee resume duty on Saturday 21 January 2017. Pennant 2017 – We have a list of players who have expressed interest in possible selection in the seven teams that will compete in 2017 and it is hoped teams will be formed prior to Christmas. The season will begin on 29 January for Handicap team, all other Sunday teams a week later and the two Masters teams to play from 2 February. When Queanbeyan is hosting we will limit the impact on our members and spread matches over the whole day. Sponsor for all teams or even just one would be great, if anyone would be interested please contact me at captain@queanbeyangolf.com.au or leave phone details with Jake in Pro Shop. Mixed Foursomes Championship – Saturday 10 December twenty four pairs ventured out in perfect weather conditions for the annual 27 hole event, some new combinations and many returning partners out to do better than last year. It was organised for the game to finish at the 18th and be greeted by watching audience, this finish will

continue for this event and Men’s Foursomes Championship next year. Congratulations to Wendy Lynch and Tasi Lolesio, a one stroke win from Lauren Maher and Daniel Goodchild. Nett winners were Lorraine Greenwood and Ray Hocking ahead of Patsy Morgan and Ian McKenzie. Presentation Evening Saturday – A very enjoyable meal, nice company and prizes aplenty.

Club Champion Lachlan Tisma won almost all major events for the year-Club Championship, Matchplay Championship, Summer Cup, Eclectic gross and was runner-up in Foursomes Championship. Junior member Lachlan De Jongh with Junior Nett Champion, Junior Eclectic nett, most improved junior and topped it off with a Hole in One. I am sure he will be taking home many prizes over the coming years. 20 Holes in One awarded for the past 12 months and a fantastic Albatross by Dom Di Campli.

(PTO)

The Captain’s Desk From Gail Goiser

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Congratulations to all major trophy winners Sunday Hamper Day – A very popular event to finish off club competitions for 2016 and this year extremely good scores were required to take home one of the hampers for Christmas. Vice Captain Leigh Blyton is thanked for preparing all the hampers.

SPONSORSHIP

Members with businesses that may be interested in Club Sponsorships should contact CEO David on 6297 1669 or ceo@queanbeyangolf.com.au. Packages can include Membership, Advertising on-course, in-club or in newsletters, tickets to special events, Corporate Golf Days and other benefits tailored to your needs.

You can get the attention of members and visitors by promoting your business through the club’s channels.

NEXT VOLUNTEER DAY

Any interested volunteers please contact Des Byrne on 0438 877 237 or desbyrne08@gmail.com. Usual generous 'remuneration'!! Beer n Burger on completion!

NNEXT VOLUNTEER DAY

DAY

TEE TIMES

We are getting better at deleting our names, however, we tend to do it at the last minute i.e. Friday nights. Be fair to your fellow members. If you are unable to play please delete your name as early as possible. Please don’t leave it till the day before or morning of your game. Spots do become available because of the “no shows”, you can ring the Pro Shop, 6297 2542, on the comp day to see if spots have become available.

BREAD’N’PUTTER BRASSERIE

LADIES HOLDEN SCRAMBLE

$12 Schnitzel with chips on Wednesday includes a drink. They also have an “all you can eat” Pizza and Pasta Night on Thursdays from 5.30pm. Cost is $15 for adults and $10 for kids 12 years old and under.

CART 20 CARD

LADIES HOLDEN SRAMBLE

Cart 20 Card – A new prepaid cart pass is now available from the pro shop. The pass will provide for 20 9/18 hole rounds for the discounted price of $475. Carts are subject to availability.

FRIDAY PRO COMP

For those on holidays over the xmas period don’t forget there is a Friday Pro Comp on from 8am to 10am.

Same process as booking for competition golf.

LADIES COME AND TRY GOLF

Sunday afternoons at 2.00pm

for a 2.30pm start. No experience needed. No need to book.

Play 8 holes in an all Beginner Women’s Comp. Cost only $7. Meet and pay at the Pro Shop.

You will learn about golf in a friendly and non-threatening environment with help to enjoy the game at whatever level you would like.

If you are only available on another weekday and would like to give golf a go then phone Pauline (see below) and see what can be arranged.

Professional lessons available from Jake Nagle and his team at the Pro Shop. Ph. 6297 2542. Check for Ladies clinics and packages at affordable prices.

Membership for women available in all categories. Get a handicap and play in the Women’s competition on Tuesday, Saturday and medley Sundays.

It’s fun and you will be helped all the way. Phone Pauline Jeffery 6285 1846 or 0422 204 988 Email: paulinejeffery@hotmail.com

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SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT

2016 has almost passed and what an interesting year it was. Record rains affected us in many ways, with many competition rounds lost through bad weather. The golf course was continuously saturated and unfortunately more rain fell on our comp days. Few braved the conditions, so congratulations to the die hards that enjoy their golf week in week out despite the weather. With the course now completely dried out, we are endeavouring to keep the soil moisture up and the turf healthy, stress free and alive. Green speed won’t be as fast as liked, importance and emphasis this time of year is to keep all areas irrigated where possible. This involves daytime manual watering with late night and early morning staffing to ensure our irrigation is working as well as possible. Please be patient if playing and irrigation is on during the day. It’s done for good reason and will continue. The course has been in great condition with many visitors both locally and interstate enjoying their experience and wanting to

return. The ProAm and ACT Senior Amateur where the highlights and both a great success. The course generally is well looked after by its members. Disappointingly though, a small minority of members when practising insist teeing off areas where blue markers are out for the weekend or from where they think the markers may be. The tees are well grassed and expensive to maintain and keep in that condition, so please treat the course with respect and only tee off from the markers of the day. I would like personally thank our small staff, Jimmy, Richard, Jamie and Mark for their dedicated contribution during 2016, Leigh Blyton, Des’s volunteers, and Pauls work for the dole crew who assisted with many aspects of course maintenance and development. It’s been a satisfying year which I trust you've all enjoyed, and look forward to 2017 in maintaining and improving what we can. From all the greenkeeping staff, we wish you a Happy Christmas and a safe holiday period.

CLUB OPENING TIMES

LADIES HOLDEN SCRAMBLE The Club will open from 11AM on Mondays. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Saturday and Sunday will still be 10AM BOOKINGS & COMPETITION RESULTS ON MOBILE DEVICES

To view comp results, log in as if you are making a booking. Press on the menu bar on the top right. A menu will come up. Click on Results 2nd from the bottom. If you are still having problems viewing the results:

On iPhones, if you open Safari and click to open a new browser page there is a Private button on the bottom left of the screen. Same is the case on an iPad. The Private button should not be highlighted, otherwise the page is in Private browsing mode.

On Android devices this is called Incognito Browsing, and this is turned on or off via the browser menu.

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We have had our AGM which resulted in a couple of changes to the makeup of the Board of Directors. Aina Blyton has stood down as Vice President and Chair of the Finance and Administration Committee, thanks to her for all the work she has put in over the past year. Leigh Blyton has been elected unopposed as Vice President for the coming year. Cathy Hanrahan has been elected unopposed as Director, we are all looking forward to working with Cathy over the coming year. All other positions remain unchanged which I believe is very important for the continuity of decision making going forward. The club is still awaiting news of our insurance claims regarding the Cottage fire and the business interruption claim. As I am ever the optimist I am hoping for a Christmas present from our insurers, let’s hope I am right.

I am very pleased to inform you all that our Christmas function numbers have been going through the roof. Thank you to all those people that have thought of the club for their end of year get togethers, it has certainly been a busy time over the past few weeks with more to come this week. Well done to our staff both bar and catering for putting in the extra effort to look after all our guests. As this is the last newsletter for the year I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. I will see you in our club and hopefully on the course in the New Year.

RULE UPDATE

Please make sure you read the local rule board. Rule 7 on the new card should include “if a ball strikes the Guy Wires it is to be a compulsory replay”.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Please send contributions and suggestions for future newsletters to ceo@queanbeyangolf.com.au.

GOLF PASS

The club currently has two packages available for social golfers, 10 social rounds for $150 or 20 social rounds for $270 both valid til 31 December 2017. For more info go to www.queanbeyangolf.com.au

Reminder for

Social Play.

Please play

from the

Yellow Markers

at all times.

GM’s Update From David Doyle

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CONTRIBUTIONS

JUNIOR NEWS

Pennant The junior pennant team is looking sold for this coming season with all the team members posting some great scores in our local comp days, Rory DiCampli 41 points in the hamper day, Lachlan DeJongh 66 net (beating dad off the stick for the first time), Harry Smith Gross 79-80 working on his handicap. Chloe and Amber Thornton will start their pennant season off in February 2017 with a full schedule of tournaments to follow. Ambrose event January 22nd 2017 will be the 2 person Ambrose where our low marker members team up with a junior, this has proven to be tightly contested event with Daniel Goodchild & Blake Christofersen winners of the George Maconachie Memorial trophy and the winners of the Brian Thomas Cup were Jake Nagle & Lachlan DeJongh. if you are interested in playing please contact Jake Nagle, Gail Goiser or Jerry Smith. Presentation night A good night was had by everyone and again thanks to David and Jo in the office, Gail and Leigh our captain and vice captain for organising.

Chloe Thornton and Lachlan DeJongh cleaned up in the trophy department with Lachlan also being the most improved junior over the past 12 months.

Golf Clinics/Lessons If any of the juniors or adults are interested in golf lessons please contact Jake Nagle or Mat Rainsford in the Pro shop. It’s a helpful, faster and better way of learning the game of golf.

“Remember practice makes perfect”

Jerry Smith Junior Committee

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What’s on in the Club Happy Hour now 7 days a week, starting at 5.00pm and a second happy hour at 8.00pm Friday night only. Beer and wine

available @$4.00. Wednesday meat & beer raffles 5@5pm

Friday raffles meat tray raffles @ 8pm Friday night euchre starts @ 6.30pm Karaoke every fortnight from 8.30-12.30 Poker on Thursdays starting @ 6pm FREE WIFI Ask the bar staff for details

RECIPE OF THE MONTH - BEEF STROGANOFF INGREDIENTS

1/4 cup plain flour

700g lean beef stir-fry strips

1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil

1 brown onion, halved, thinly sliced

250g button mushrooms, sliced

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 cup Campbell's Real Stock Beef Salt Reduced

2 tablespoons light sour cream

Orrecchiette pasta, cooked, to serve

Steamed green beans, to serve

Micro herbs, to serve

DIRECTIONS

1. Place flour, and salt and pepper in a shallow dish. Lightly coat

beef strips in flour. Add 1 tablespoon of oil to frying pan. Add the

beef. Cook over high heat until meat is browned, stirring

occasionally. Remove.

2. Heat 2 teaspoons of oil in a large non-stick frying pan over

medium heat. Add onion. Cook for 3 minutes. Increase heat to

high. Add mushrooms. Cook for 4 minutes, or until tender. Set

aside.

3. Return beef, onion and mushrooms to frying pan. Add stock and

Worcestershire sauce. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-

low. Simmer for 8 minutes, or until sauce has thickened slightly.

Season with salt and pepper. Remove from heat. Stir in sour

cream.

4. Serve stroganoff with pasta and green beans. Add a dollop of

extra sour cream and scatter with micro herbs.