Reef Breezes | Wednesday 16 October 2024

From your Captain

Club Championships

Upcoming fixtures:

From your Women's Committee

Women's Annual General Meeting

From the Course 

Some exciting news from the Maintenance Shed. After a 16 month wait, we received delivery of our new Toro 3400 Triflex greens mower last week. Over the past four years, there have been significant delays for machinery, resulting in additional servicing and maintenance to mowers that have exceeded their expected hours of use. Our team are fortunate that the Club has a great equipment replacement plan, ensuring we continue to turnover our key machines. Last month our Toro Multi Spray vehicle was delivered and we are still waiting on a Toro Rough Mower and Toro Coring machine.  

As we progress through the Club Championships, the golf course is in great condition and our team is working hard to maintain the Course presentation and playability conditions. The combination of hot and cold days has presented its challenges, but our maintenance efforts and the resilience of the Course are keeping things in check. While rainfall has been scarce, the downpours received have been very welcomed. Our dams are holding at 85% capacity and we are managing our resources carefully to ensure the greens and fairways retain good turf quality. Our regular dusting program on the greens has helped to maintain a smooth and firm surface, helping prevent disease and thatch build up.

From your Golf Shop 

Longy Shootout
The Longy Shootout is a social event put on for all Golf Members and their friends on Friday 1st November from 5pm to 7pm. Our team of Golf Professionals will be running putting, driving and nearest the pins comps, all whilst you can enjoy a drink and laugh with other Members around the putting green. 

Please RSVP to golfshop@lrgc.com.au 

Jenny Schulenburg | Director of Golf

From The Bar & Cafe

Long Reef v Goulburn 

Sunday 10th November 

Rules with George | Question

Question: Erik a relatively new member was playing in a group of four in a stroke round. During the round they noticed that Erik seemed to be looking at his an unusual number of times and almost every time before he played a stroke he would bend down and touch his ball lightly to identify it. It seemed that on almost every stroke he would slightly rotate his ball making sure that before he hit the ball it was in its original position. They asked him about this and he said he had to be certain that it was his ball.

Which of the following applies?

A) Each time Erik touched his ball he got a penalty of 2 strokes.

B) Each time Erik touched his ball he got a penalty of 1 stroke.

C) Probably Erik should be disqualified.

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From the Archives - History of the Game  

No.3 LADIES FIRST -  Despite the fact that there were over 500 members of the ladies golf club at St. Andrews in 1892 there was still no event in which they could compete against each other on a full course. In 1883 Isette Pearson formed the Ladies Golf Union and attracted 55 ladies to a tournament on the full length course at Royal Lytham and St. Annes. The event was won by Lady Margaret Scott who later in the year defeated many of her male counterparts at a tournament at Cheltenham. 

No.6 GIDDY-UP  - Perhaps the most underrated golfer Australia has produced is Norman Von Nida. "The Von" as he was known competed with such legends as Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, Harry Cotton, Gene Sarazen and Ben Hogan. In 1947 he won 7 titles in Great Britain and took out the Vardon Trophy. But golf is only part if the story. "The Von" loved the Sport of Kings and was friends with jockeys Scobie Breesley and George Moore and trainers T.J Smith, Bart Cummings and Lee Freedman. In 1969 he suggested to businessman David Hains that a property he owned on the Mornington Peninsula would be a great place to raise race horses. The property was called Kingston Park. "The Von" selected most of the blood mares and a dynasty was born - Kingston Town, Lowan Star and Kingston Rule were notable champions.

No.7  ROYAL PLAY - Horse racing is known as the sport of Kings but there is evidence to suggest that golf is the sport of Queens. Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII played golf while the King was away on business. Mary Queen of Scots was instrumental in taking the game to France but golf was also a contributing factor in her death. She played at Seton Fields in Musselburgh the day after her husband was murdered. As a result her sister, Elizabeth I, was most upset by her lack of respect and immediately signed her death warrant. 

No.9  THE IMPREGNABLE QUADRILATERAL - Robert Tyre Jones (Bobby) has long been hailed as one of, if not the greatest golfer in the history of this wonderful game. Between 1920 and 1930 Jones competed in 45 events, winning 21 and finishing second on 7 occasions. Between the ages of 19 and 28 he won 13 Major Championships and set records that stood for more than 60 years. He is also the only man in the history of the game to win all his era's Majors in the same year - the British Open, the British Amateur, the US Open and the US Amateur. No amateur has won the US Open since the 1930's so Jones version of the Grand Slam will likely never be equalled. 

Rules with George | Answer

Answer:  B is correct.  
Because of the problems of adjusting his score for the number of breeches the best that could happen would be for his round to act as a lesson . Clearly Erik has a lot to learn about marking his ball before touching it or lifting it to examine it.

Erik should be made well aware of the detail of Rule 14 of the Rules of Golf.

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