Last chance saloon, the August Medal.

Eric Apperly Shield team, Sunday 11^th August

Our younger golfers had a good away win at Camden, winning against Camden 3&1/2 to 2&1/2. 

Wednesday 7^th August

Overall winner of the day was Craig Roberge with 39 who won on a countback over Geoffrey Luck and Dragon Mitrovic. 

Saturday 10^th August

Overall winner of the day was Garry Riggs with a Net 66, following up on a 36 on Wednesday. Chun-ta's 64 became a net 66 and he lost on a countback, but did collect his usual scratch prize. 

Wednesday 14^th August

Overall winner of the day was some chopper called Tony Holley with a score of +3. Chun-ta still got scratch by 1 with 2 under.

Saturday 17^th August

Overall winner of the day was Rod Willment with 41 on a countback from Jie Cheng. Chun-ta claimed another scratch with 4 under.

Clubhouse Master Plan Information Session | Thursday 22nd August

Over the past fortnight Members were sent an email invite to the Clubhouse Master Plan Information Session. The email can be viewed by clicking here, you can also view the information on your Members news page. If you haven't received the email, please check your junk folder as it was sent from clubhouse@lrgc.com.au

The information session will take place in the Clubhouse tomorrow Thursday 22nd August starting at 6pm.

9971 8188

Save this number in case of an emergency! 

This number will bypass the switchboard and ring in all departments, ensuring a staff member can get out to an on-course emergency. In the case of a medical emergency, call '000' immediately and have someone else call this number to ensure a staff member can get to the scene as well as meet an ambulance on the road.

The Club has recently adopted a Golf Course Emergency Response map (Click Here).  

These are located at each of the four Automated External Defibrillators (AED) locations:

1. Clubhouse Main Bar
2. Golf Shop
3. Course Maintenance Depot (located outside Toilet Door)
4. 16th hole at the commencement of the fairway beside the public walking path

The Women's Club Championship is open to all 5, 6 and 7 day women members.  The qualifying rounds for the Open, B and C Grade championships will be played on Thursday 19 and 26 September 2024.  Eight players from each division to qualify for the match play, which will be played on Thursday 17 October 2024, Thursday 24 October 2024 and the final on Thursday 31 October 2024.  The final of the Open Championships will be played over 36 holes, the B and C Grade finals will be over 18 holes.  Presentation of Trophies will occur after the finals.   

Women's Weekend Premiership

The Women's Weekend Premiership is an honour board event.  To ensure all weekend women members (6 and 7 day) are able to play in the Women's Weekend Premiership, the event will be played on a Sunday over 36 holes stroke.  The first round will be played on Sunday 20 October 2024 and the final round on Sunday 27 October 2024.  All 6 and 7 day women members are eligible to play in both the Women's Club Championship and the Women's Weekend Premiership as they are two separate honour board events.  Times will be allocated on the Sunday timesheet for the Women's Weekend Premiership.  Please put your name on as usual on the timesheet within the allocated times for the first round.  The second round will be a seeded draw.  The winner of the Women's Weekend Premiership will be announced at the Men's Club Championship presentation.

The Women's Medal Competition is a competition of six Stroke rounds, played in three Divisions, and must be played between January and September.  The winner of the Medal in each Division is the player returning the lowest nett aggregate of three scores at the end of the six rounds. 

August was the last of the Golf NSW six rounds.  The winners with the lowest nett aggregate of three scores were A Grade Vanessa Murphy, B Grade Corinne Crawford and C Grade Lisa Jenkins.  The Weekend winner was Emma Thurlow.  Congratulations to these players who now go on to play in the Metropolitan final to be played at Carnarvon Golf Club on 8 November 2024.   

Remembrance Day

Due to the weather the 18-hole Sherrie Hughes Plate and the 9-hole Forget-me-not trophy will now be played on Thursday 5 September 2024.  If you want to play in the Par round and the Remembrance Day events, please put your name down on the sheet in the locker room or message me and I will put your name down.  A draw will be done on Thursday 29 August 2024.   

Visitors Day

Our Visitor's Day will be held on 12 September 2024.  The event will be Waltz event commencing at 8am with a Shotgun start.  Please put your name down on the sheet in the locker room.  If you have a visitor, please provide their GolfLink number.  The draw will be done on 5 September 2024.  Given it is a shotgun start can you all please pay via the registration sheet which is open on the timesheet.  The cost is the normal competition fee of $15.00.  The cost for Visitors is also $15.00.  

Lunch will be served at the back of the room.  Please let Michelle Milsted know if you or your visitor has any dietary requirements.   

Results:

On Tuesday 6 August 2024, the winner of division 1 was Prue Bardsley (22) with 34 points from Gilda Severino (17) on 33 points.  The winner of division 2 was Deb Kent (29) with 40 points on a c/b from Corinne Crawford (28) with 40 points, the winner of division 3 was Lisa Mackenzie (36) with 40 points from May Yeng (41) on 35 points.  The Gold tee division was won by Jo Bellemore (41) on 38 points from Andy Mckenzie (44) on 31 points.  The 9- hole competition was won by Ann Henderson (38) with 18 points from Carol Cummins (41) on 17 points.  

On Thursday 8 August 2024 the winner of the A Grade medal was Ali Gattas (18) with 72 nett from Lynne Clayton (20) with 76 nett.  The winner of the gross was Jen Jansson (12) with 91.  The winner of the B Grade medal was Corinne Crawford (27) with 67 nett from Cath Piper (23) with 73 nett.  The winner of the gross was Jeanni Reitzer with 102.  The winner of the C Grade medal was Colleen Thompson (40) with 76 nett on a c/g from May Yeng (41). The winner of the gross was Jan Hanson with 114.  The gold tee stableford competition was won by Julia Mahn (29) with 36 points on a c/b from Chris Bush (41).  The winner of the 9 hole competition was Muriel Dawson (27) with 15 points.  

On Saturday 10 August 2024 the women's monthly medal was won by Alyssa Starc (6) with 70 nett from Jenni Brown (16) with 73 nett and third was Vanessa Murphy (15) with 81 nett. 

On Sunday 11 August 2024 Lisa Jenkins (34) came fourth with 39 points. 

On Tuesday 13 August 2024 the winner of division 1 was Jenni Brown (16) with 34 points on a c/b from Corinne Crawford (25), division 2 winner was Sachiko Elsworth (39) with 41 points from Petrina Rousel (39) with 36 points.  

On Thursday 15 August 2024, division 1 was won by Jie Cheng (24) with -2 from Wendy Thomas (21) with -5.  Division 2 was won by Robyn Lyon (29) with -1 on a c/b from Therese Hettler (45). 

On Saturday 17 August 2024, Jie Cheng won the C Grade medley competition with 41 points.   

Up Coming Fixtures:

29 August - last round of the Supervets

5 September - last Par round mixed divisions for the McNicol Trophy and the Remembrance Day Trophies

12 September - Visitors Day

19 and 26 September - qualifying rounds for the Women's Club Championships. 

This year, we planned to conduct our spring renovations on the greens, including hollow tining and topdressing with sand for the first time in eight years. Unfortunately, we encountered two breakdowns with our core master, which caused damage to the 12th and 13th greens. (see pictures below)
To prevent further damage, we reverted to solid tining to avoid tearing up more greens and minimise the risk of additional breakdowns. The day started overcast and eventually turned to rain, adding to the stress. However, Tuesday brought better weather, allowing us to complete the renovations and get all the sand rubbed into the holes. Moving forward, I will be exploring alternative machinery options, particularly for the Autumn renovations next year.

Long Reef is currently looking to hire an Apprentice Sports Turf Manager. If any Members know of young people interested in pursuing a career in the Golf Course industry, please encourage them to contact me directly at 0450 411 928 or super@longreefgolfclub.com.au for more information.

Kurt Schulenburg | Course Superintendent

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Everyone is gearing up for our visit to Goulburn on Sunday 10th November, clear a spot in your diary and enjoy a weekend in the country. Long Reef won 10 games to 3.

Thanks to the club and all the staff for making the event such a success.

 A special thank you to the twin Masters of ceremonies Paul Falk and Jimmy Knox.

Greg Dousset

He started play with 14 clubs in his bag.

On the fourth hole he asked for his wedge. His caddie said he could not find it. We must have lost it. Only 13 clubs in bag.

Jim sent his caddie to the Pro Shop to borrow another wedge.

Jim used the borrowed club on the next few holes after his caddie returned.

Which is correct?

1. Jim is OK . He again has 14 clubs....No penalty.
2. Jim will be penalized for replacing his lost club.
   

 Featuring Rae Milsted and Judy O'Brien 

2024 is the first year of Michelle's Presidency. Joining at the same time as husband Gary in 2019 she now shares a love of the club with Gary's Mum, long-term member, Rae Milsted.

Rae joined in 1977 and Michelle was to become a part of the family very soon after and has always been very aware, having heard all of Rae's stories over the years of the great value of being a member of Long Reef Golf Club. 

Gary has stories to tell too. He grew up just around the corner, where the family live now and he acted as a caddy at the club as well as having a continuing involvement in the Surf Life Saving Association. Michelle and Gary have travelled many miles since first moving to Collaroy when they married. Their first home was originally owned by Rae's Mum.

Michelle grew up in Villawood and as a teenager excelled as a runner competing at State level Cross Country events. It was the game of Volleyball that became a life-long passion. She played for 40 years commencing at school and soon becoming a member of the U16 State team and progressing through to the Open State Team and the National league. She has travelled to a number of World Master's Games, winning gold in Beach Volleyball and Silver at the indoor event. When first knowing Gary, she joined him as a member of the Surf Club. At this time, she was part of the first female Bronze squad at Collaroy SLSC, going on to compete in beach sprints and later in March Past. Currently her other passion, besides golf, is beach tennis and she can often be seen playing this on Collaroy beach, summer or winter. 

In her working life, Michelle pursued all sorts of clerical duties, media buying, progressing to Office Managing. Gary and Michelle have two children, Emma and  Melanie and she did work part-time for a while when they were younger, and of course there were a variety of volunteer roles to do at the children's school including things like coaching Little Athletics

Family life was to change somewhat in 1998 which led to them only spending three years in Australia over the next 20 years. The first trip with Gary's job, took them to York in England for 16 months before returning to Australia. It was long enough away to get a taste of travelling and living in Europe. Three years later another opportunity was offered. Gary was working for Nestlé in a variety of roles, but mainly purchasing and commodities. The family moved to Switzerland for three years in 2003, then England to Croydon near London for nine years and then back to Switzerland in 2015 for four more years.

 With every move Michelle used playing Volleyball to meet people, but in England also took up Tennis, which was mainly played indoors. 

By the end of 2018 they were ready to come home. Eldest daughter Emma had already made that decision a year earlier and  Melanie decided to stay in the UK where she remains. Arriving back in February 2019, Gary and Michelle joined the Rookies only a month later in March. They followed the philosophy that playing a sport was the best way to settle back in, meet new friends, as well as learning a new sport together. 

 The Rookies group gave Michelle everything she hoped for. She made new close friends and at the same time learnt and improved her golf game very quickly. In a matter of a year her handicap was down to the mid 20's. She has achieved a hole-in-one, been the runner-up in the Long-Markers trophy in 2022 and played in the Bronze Plaque Pennant team.

Rae is galloping towards gold membership status. Sadly eye problems prevented her from continuing her golf and attending the Bridge club which she has done for years. There were so many achievements at every level. Rae was on the very first Barrenjoey Committee. On the day that she joined in 1977 Judy O'Brien was interviewed too and they became friends and followed similar paths to the pennant teams, major trophies and friendships. They won the Bronze Foursomes in 1987, having been the runners-up the year before. As an example, they were also together in the Bronze Plaque in 1988. The reason for mentioning Judy in Michelle's story is to say a very Happy Birthday to Judy for this week she has turned 90.

HAPPY 90^th BIRTHDAY JUDY O'BRIEN 

Judy may have stopped playing golf ten years ago, but her infectious laughter can still be heard on Bridge Club days and she is still a member. The golf achievements are one thing, there was also time being on the committee, playing pennants and winning trophies, not to forget being President of the Bridge Club. But... lets acknowledge Judy as a major organiser of the legendary concerts! Judy is the talented singing and dancing star, and she raised the bar for all. The ideas and execution of Christmas dress-up day ideas were so clever and fun! Golf days were happier when she played! Have a great day Judy.