The 2016-17 season opening on Saturday 2nd April 2016 will once again be an Ambrose event followed by lunch. There will be no online booking for this competition and members wishing to play must place there name and make payment for the competition on the booking sheet at the club.

Ambrose teams will be drawn randomly and as usual numbers will be limited. Bookings will close on Thursday 31st March if not full earlier.

The 2016-17 Club Program can now be found via the link below as well as on the Competitions --> Program section of this website. Members are reminded that this program is subject to regular change and the above webpage will always contain the most up to date version of the Club Program.

Variations made to next seasons program are summarised below:

1. The majority of trophy rounds are now multi round events (either 2 or 3 rounds). This is designed to make these trophies more prestigious as they require the winner to have had multiple good rounds.

2. There are two new trophies:
    

• The "Blue Block Challenge". Three stableford competitions during the year will be held off the blue blocks and the winner of the Blue Block Challenge will be the player with the best aggregate points total over these three events.
• The "Public Holiday Trohpy". There are 7 (stableford) events programmed for various public holidays during the year. A separate competition will be held on each day (much like a normal Saturday or Thursday competition) as we regularly have a number of members playing on these public holidays. The trophy winner will be the player with the highest aggregate counting their best 3 scores over these events.

3. The Foursomes Championships will be permanently brought forward into February. This change commenced in this years program and included holding a matchplay final to determine the net winners along with the regular matchplay event for the gross winners. The matchplay component will be altered for 2016-17 to a top 2 gross AND net qualification with a 36 hole gross final and 27 hole net final to be played.

This alteration also allows the handicap matchplay competition to be brought forward so that we have (a) better conditions for this competition and (b) it leads into, rather than overlaps with, the mens pennants season.

4. Finally the stroke competition for Thursday mid week competition will be moved from the FIRST Thursday each month to the THIRD Thursday each month. This change is aimed to better mix the competitions on a weekly basis and avoid the overlap of holding a stroke competition on a Thursday followed by a monthly medal competition on the following Saturday.

2016-17 Program

- Match Committee

Winners of club competitions can now use their competition vouchers at House of Golf - Mile End. Simply present your voucher and House of Golf will put the face value of the voucher towards your purchase.

The committee hopes that this will provide members with extra value to be able to use their vouchers at a fantastic golf shop to help meet their needs whilst also allow members to support a new sponsor who supports their club.

Members may still use their voucher at the club to buy an array of balls, tees, apparel and accessories, along with food and drinks.

Full results for the 2016 Autumn Classic can now be found on the Autumn Classic webpage.

A fine, warm but humid day meet a full field of 128 golfers for this years golfers with a fantastic mix of members and visitors to enjoy the course. A huge thank you to all golfers for attending and making it a memorable day and a big congratulations to the days champion in Jonathan McGleish, shooting a fantastic 1 over 71 to win the overall competition.