Gathurst Golf Club

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Captain’s Blog, July 2020

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Hello Everyone,

Little did I think that the first 6 months of my year as Captain would be such a unique experience!

It’s been great to get back to playing golf and to be able to get the first Major of the year under our belts.

I’d like to thank the Scratch Cup / Keith Memorial Trophy prize donors. On Saturday this was Tom King and Frank Fanning – sorry Frank I forgot to get a photo of you – unless you were social distancing off screen; on Sunday Brian Coupe and Stephen Haigh provided the prizes.

Congratulations to the winners, Andy Halladay is the Scratch Cup winner with 71+73 = 144 Gross, and Paul Willis won the Keith Haigh Memorial Trophy with 73+66 = 139 Nett. Considering the difficult conditions, these were fantastic scores.

It was great to see the clubhouse reopen, a massive thank you to Keith and his staff, David & Mickey for the catering, the greens staff, Pro shop, all the directors, and helpers. A special thanks you, the members, for sticking to the rules during these difficult times and making the opening of the club house a great success.

Ben

Scratch Cup & Keith Haigh Memorial Trophy

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This weekend sees us playing for the Club Championship over two days. COVID-19 restrictions will impact on the course, and also in the clubhouse.

As always, local rules of the day are displayed on the noticeboard and in the Proshop, and it is the responsibility of ALL PLAYERS to familiarise themselves with ALL of these rules BEFORE PLAYING.

On completion of your round ALL PLAYERS MUST enter their score electronically, either using the HowDidIDo phone APP, or using the touch screen in the games room. Once you have entered your score electronically please put your signed scorecard in the box provided.

This is a two-day competition and it is vital that you complete the electronic score entry accurately. Scorecards will not be checked until 24 hours after the event as a COVID-19 safety measure. Your playing handicap WILL, however, be adjusted for Sunday using the scores you entered electronically.

Concerning the electronic entry of scores and the marking of scorecards:

  1. Players must always enter their GROSS score for each hole on the touch screen or APP.
    This is the case for both Stoke Play and Stableford. The system automatically calculates your nett score or Stableford points. Failure to enter your GROSS score will log incorrect results and wrong handicap adjustments. These errors cannot be corrected until the cards can be checked manually.
  2. Under COVID-19 restrictions players are responsible for marking and signing for their own scores.
    Players must mark their own score in the PLAYER column on the righthand side of the scorecard, putting down their GROSS score in the column marked A. They can, if they wish, also put down their nett score or Stableford points, but your GROSS score is the only one which counts for the purposes of checking the results.
    You should also mark the score of one of your playing partners in the MARKER section of the card so that you are able to cross-check each other’s score.
  3. Under COVID-19 restrictions, all cards must be signed by the player only.
    Do not sign your playing partner’s card.

 

Scorecard Entry Using the HowDidIDo Phone APP

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Club systems V1 have now opened an on line score entry system for all singles competitions. In the near future they will have the same option for team events.
To enter your score you need to open HOWDIDIDO on either your mobile phone or using web browser. Only your score can be entered by this method.
Below is a guide to using this score entry system.
Cards will still need to be placed in the competitions box for ratification.
By using this system it will greatly reduce the amount of work needed to manually enter scores for everyone. We will continue to use this system even when the clubhouse has been opened. This will reduce the number of people using the touch screen.

The HowDidIDo APP can be downloaded from the Apple App Store or Google Play.

OnlineScoreEntry

 

 

Local Rules (June 2020)

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Bunkers

All bunkers will be in play for competition golf.

The ball may be lifted and placed within one club length in the bunker and no nearer the hole.

Having played your ball, the sand should be smoothed using a club.

Slits on Fairways

Ball resting on any of the open slits on the fairways may be lifted and dropped no nearer the hole and within one club length without penalty.

Golf Committee 6 June 2020

Steve “Radar” Norman’s May Photographic Tour

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“Radar” has been busy with his camera again.

Some things you will recognise, other features will be new to you, we hope you like them, Danny and his team have worked hard over the winter on these improvements.

Once lockdown has ended he will be able to complete the finishing touches on the paths and new winter tees. The work will improve course availability to those with buggies and trollies without winter wheels.

You can also catch some glimpses of new wild areas, these have been seeded with wild flowers, the areas will be spectacular when fully mature.

Some Recent Photos (April 2020)

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Whilst the country remains on Lockdown we wanted to share with you some photos of the course taken over the last couple of weeks. Most of them have been posted on Facebook and Twitter, but we know there are members who don’t use these social media platforms, so we shared them here as well. We will post more when we can.

Thanks go to Scott Rigby, Steve Banks and Steve Norman for the pictures,  we hope you enjoy them, stay safe.

Steve’s Handiwork

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As mentioned in an earlier post, Steve Norman has been taking his self isolating exercising on the course – one of the joys of living in a house so close he can almost step out of his back gate into the clubhouse.

His exercise has been to do some jobs around the course. He’s already jet washed the patio, which now looks brand new. His current exercise to repaint the marker discs, he’s doing a fantastic job.

Many thanks Steve, we all look forward to seeing the fruits of your labour “in the flesh”. For now we will have to make do with some photos.