Annual General Meeting 

The Annual General Meeting will be held at Long Reef Golf Club on Thursday 26 October 2023 commencing in the Pacific Room at 7.30pm.

Members in the categories of 7 Day, 6 Day, 5 Day, Special, Gold, Life, Retention, Retention Plus and Intermediate are eligible to attend the Annual General Meeting.

Board Elections

Members eligible to vote will have received an email on Thursday 12 October from Elections Australia Pty Ltd containing a unique voting code and details on how to access the voting portal and cast your vote. If you are unable to locate this email, please contact the office asap for assistance.

Voting for Board elections will close at 4.59pm on Sunday 22 October 2023. 

Results of the election will be announced at the Annual General Meeting on Thursday 26 October at 7.30pm.

Election of Club Captain

There were no nominations received for the position of Club Captain. Therefore, following the declaration of the Ballot at the Annual General Meeting, the position for Club Captain may be filled by any eligible Member (7 Day, 7 Day Special, Life or Gold Member) present at the Annual General Meeting, so long as the Member gives their oral consent and are orally nominated by two Members eligible to nominate.

Should there be several nominations, an election will be conducted at the meeting, with the greatest number of votes being elected. 

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact reception on 9971 8113 or reception@lrgc.com.au

These two prestigious events were played in conjunction with the qualifying rounds of the Club Championship and the defending Champions of both retained their respective trophies.

Chun-Ta Wu is our Junior Champion with an aggregate score of 143 while Jimmy Little beat Ian Brown on a countback, after both finished on 151.

Congratulations to both Chun-Ta and Jimmy. 

Club Championship and Grade Cups

Last weekend saw the Matchplay kick-off and from 16 qualifiers in each grade, we now know the semi-finalists, who, next Saturday, will play for a place in the 36 hole finals.

In the Championship, top seed and defending Champion, Chun-Ta Wu beat Mitch Bockman 6&5 to set up a tie against Jimmy Little, who beat Dom Dowling 5&4. The other semi-final will be between Jimmy Knox, who beat Nick Hutchison on the 19th and Luke Edgell, who beat Adam Lynn 2up.

In A Reserve, Lennox Cleary was too good for Simon Couch, winning 5&4 and he will now play Andrew Hayward who beat Nigel McCook 1up. Chris Yates saw off Warren Evans 4&2 and he will take on Richard Smith, who beat David Bradley 2&1. 

Greg Dousset beat the number one qualifier in B Grade, David Wing, 4&2 and in the semi-final he will play Cameron Daddo, who beat his good mate, Rick Christensen by the same score. Michael McNee beat Rex Adams 4&3 and will now play Will Elliott for a place in the final, after he beat Richard Spence 1up.

The number one qualifier in C Grade, Carter Harris, booked a semi-final match-up with Sacha Plate by beating John Dertateossian 2&1, while Sacha comfortably beat Brad Johnson 7&5. Yukata Yoshino was way too strong for Anthony Korbel, winning 7&6 and he will now play Aram Margarian, who beat Denis Watchorn on the 19th. 

The semi-finals will be played first thing next Saturday (21st) so if you are up early and can come down and watch, please feel free.

If you can't make that, the finals will be played on Sunday 29th October and it would be great to see as many Members as possible come out and support. Immediately after the conclusion of the finals, we will be holding our presentation of the Club Championship trophy and Grade Cups, as well as all the other major trophies of the last year.

I won't promise, but you might find that if you come along and support and stay for the presentation, there may be a refreshment and some nibbles in it for you!!!!  

Desperate times call for desperate measures!

When you're one down playing the last and your opponent is in a good spot, you need to go for the miracle shot and that is exactly what Adam Lynn did last Sunday. 

Hole-in-One's

In the first round of the A Reserve Matchplay last Saturday, Glen Evans holed his tee shot on the 2nd for his first ever hole-in-one. Congratulations Glen.

I can just picture the scene on the 2nd tee after the excitement calmed down and Richard Smith went to tee his ball up and Glen says "this for a half, Rich".

On Sunday 8th October, David Murrell started his round with 2 wipes, a 1 pointer followed by a 2 pointer before acing 4B for 6 points! 

Today (Wednesday 18th Oct) Laurence Archer also holed out on 4B. He said it was the only hole he didn't 3 putt all day!!

Congratulations gents! 

Carter Harris won the C Grade Medal and Score of the Day with nett 66, beating Josh Dowse by one. Gary Martinolli took out third place in C Grade, beating Denis Watchorn on a countback, after they both finished with nett 68. 

Nett 68 was the winning score for the Medal winners in both A Grade and B Grade - Nick Hutchison won A Grade while Malcolm Weir beat Angus McPhee on a countback to win B Grade. Colm Galloway was runner-up in A Grade with nett 69, while Nigel McCook was third with nett 71, after a four way countback with Harry McKerihan, Jimmy Little and Brad Verrills. Richard Spence was third in B Grade with nett 69. Vanessa Murphy won the Women's Medal with nett 75.   

Saturday 14th October

Paul Toussaint had a very successful day because his 44 points won him C Grade and Score of the Day and he partnered with Chris Mitchell, who himself had 40 points and won third place in A Grade, to take out the 2ball Multiplier. They were a hot group because another of their playing partners, Jack Sloman had 41 points and came third in C Grade. They were the last group to finish so you have to feel for Harry Maynes who looked home for both C Grade and Score of the Day with his 43 points but had to settle for second.

Matt Savage was the A Grade winner with 41 points and Shane Parsons beat Chris Mitchell in a countback for the runner-up spot.

Kevin Macmillan won B Grade with 39 points, one ahead of a group of 6 but Keith Masterton and Pete Munro filled the other places, after the countback. 

Vanessa Murphy backed up her Medal win from the previous week and again won the Women's comp with 38 points. 

Wednesday winners

Michael McNee won A Grade and Score of the Day on Wednesday 4th with 41 points, with Andrew Frith beating Don Brown, after a countback for second and third - both had 38 points. 

Andrew's 38 though was enough to see him win the Vince Horan Memorial Trophy against the monthly qualifiers from the previous year. Congratulations Frithy Junior! 

Ken Compton was the B Grade winner with 40 points, one ahead of Mitch Cleary who beat Alan Dean, on a countback for second.

Warwick Akhurst took out C Grade, also with 40 points with Brian Cronan (39)  beating Chris Sparkes on a countback, which also included David Moss and John Cranfield.    

Greg Black and Peter Nicholls beat Ross Kocass and Stewart Nettleton on a countback in the 4BBB after both pairings finished with 47 points.

Chun-Ta Wu won Scratch with 1 over par. 

Steve Buchan won B Grade and Score of the Day last Wednesday with 42 points and also teamed up with Brian Cronan for 50 points to win the 4BBB.

41 points was the winning score in both A Grade and C Grade with John Williams and Peter West achieving that respectively. John and his partner John Briscoe also finished runners-up in the 4BBB (48 points).

A countback settled the other places in A Grade with Jamie Duff beating Geoff Osborne, after both finished with 40 points.

In B Grade, Michael Bowyer was runner-up with 38 points while Martin Bowyer was third with 37.

Doug Moult was runner-up in C Grade with 39, one ahead of Peter Stephenson and Gary Martinolli with Peter winning the countback for third.

Jimmy Knox was the Scratch winner with 1 over. 

Bunker update

We're on the home stretch!!

Work has started on the 11th hole, which only leaves us the 12th, 13th, 15th greenside and 17th to go and weather permitting, we are expecting to finish around the first week of December.

Earlier this week, we shortened the 9th to a par 3 to protect the Team working on both the left hand side of the 11th and the new fairway bunker on the 9th. That bunker was not included in Craig Parry's original plan but he always knew he needed to do something to make it a tougher par 5 for the longer hitters and so discussions continued with a view to implementing his idea when finalised and when we completed the rest of the work on the 9th.

Sand went into the left-hand bunker on the 10th on Monday and we will Klingstone and fill the remainder of the right-hand bunker when we complete the construction work on the 11th. 

Thank you

It has been an honour and a privilege to be your Captain for the last four years - it's even been very enjoyable...most of the time!!

This will be my final Newsletter as Captain so please forgive my self-indulgence while I thank a few people.

Whether it was COVID, the rain that just kept falling, or more recently, the bunker plan, I have enjoyed an incredible working relationship with Pete, Kurt and all of the Course Team and I now have a far greater appreciation for the work that they do daily to present our fantastic course the way they do.

In Ben, I have had a great sounding board and I have truly appreciated his input when I've started any of my many sentences with "what if?" or "what do you think?". His guidance certainly helped me be the best Captain that I could be.

The Golf Committee that I have had the good fortune to Chair has had many Members and I thank them all for their contribution. I would like to mention my Vice-Captain for three of the four years, Cam Gillespie who, amongst other things, stepped in to cover the prize presentations on a Wednesday or Saturday when I couldn't make it.  

The next exciting chapter of our Professional services will come to fruition in early 2024 but I want to thank all of the Teed Up Team that have assisted me with timesheets, results, representative team uniforms, Chippers and everything else over the last four years.

Finally and most importantly, I would like to thank you, the Members.

I have often said that we have a great golf course but it is the Members that make Long Reef a great Golf Club.

Nobody seems to be able to remember when a Captain was previously elected by the Members so I will always be grateful for the fact that you elected me twice. 

My role was to serve you and your best interests and in doing so, I promised to be open and honest with you and encouraged two-way communication and I have appreciated all of your feedback, whether it was supportive or not - it shows you care.

All I can say is that I gave it my best shot for you.

 Doug Campbell | Captain

We had 62 players participating in the Club Championship qualifying rounds on Tuesday 10^th and Thursday 12^th October. Thank you to everyone who entered.

The quarter-final matchplays were contested on Tuesday 17^th October. It was a cold, wet and windy day with very few glimpses of sunshine. Congratulations to all the players on getting to the quarter-finals and to those who got through to the semi-finals on Thursday 19^th October.

In the Open division, it was great to see 17 players play in both qualifying rounds. Congratulations to Emma Thurlow who was leading after the 1^st round with an 82 C/B from Natalie Driver. After the 2^nd round, congratulations go to Jen Jansson who played well in both rounds and took 1^st place in a tight contest with a total of 173, Jenni Brown was 2^nd with 175 on a C/B from Karen Smith, Emma Thurlow was 4^th with 176 on a C/B from Natalie Driver. Kim Sloane was 6^th with 180, 7^th Helenka O'Connell 182 and 8^th Vanessa Murphy 184.

Congratulations to Emma Thurlow who won the scratch prize on Tuesday with 82 C/B and Jenni Brown on Thursday with 85 C/B. Jen Jansson took out the 36 hole scratch prize.

Jen Jansson won 3 & 1 versus Vanessa Murphy, Helenka O'Connell won 2&1 versus Jenni Brown, Karen Smith won 5 & 4 versus Kim Sloane and Natalie Driver won 6 & 5 versus Emma Thurlow.

In the Bronze division there was a great turnout which saw 28 players contest both qualifying rounds Congratulations to   Karmen Whitford who was leading after the 1^st round with 95, Robyn Lyon 2^nd with 96. The 2^nd qualifying round saw some great scoring and congratulations goes to Karmen Whitford with overall 193, Fiona Woolley 198 on a C/B from Robyn Lyon, Clare John 199, Dani Montgomery 200, Debbie Hankey 201, Chez Hickman 205 C/B from Julia Deere-Jones.

Congratulations to Karmen Whiford who won the scratch prize of Tuesday with 95 and Lyndall Bacon on Thursday with 90. Lyndall also took out the 36 hole Scratch prize with 190.

In the quarter finals Karmen Whitford won 1 up versus Julia Deere-Jones, Chez Hickman won 5 & 3 versus Fiona Woolley, Debbie Hankey won 6 & 5 versus Robyn Lyon and Dani Montgomery won 1 up versus Clare John.

In C Grade there was a great turnout which saw 17 players contest both qualifying rounds. It was lovely to see some first-time players qualifying for the quarterfinals of the matchplay. Jill Hensman led after the 1^st round with 107 with Liza Jenkins close behind on 109. After both rounds Jill Hensman stayed on top with a total of 212, Lisa Jenkins 212, Lisa Mackenzie 223, Ondrae Heiser 227, Sue Dewell 228, Shelia Dickson 232, Robyn Carson 238 on a C/B from Sonya Cordaiy

Congratulations to Jill Hensman who won the scratch prize on Tuesday with 107 and Lisa Jenkins on Thursday with 104. Jill took out the 36 hole Scratch prize with 212 and Lisa Jenkins (38) won the 36 nett over the field with 137.

An epic game saw Sonya Cordaiy win on the 22^nd hole versus Jill Hensman. Lisa Jenkins won 3 & 2 versus Robyn Carson, and in another epic game, Lisa Mackenzie emerged as the winner on the 23^rd hole versus Shelia Dickson. In the other quarter final Sue Dewell won 5 & 4 versus Ondrae Heiser.

On Thursday 26th October 2023 the finals will be held. Afterwards light refreshments will be served to congratulate our 2023 winners. We hope to see as many members as possible join us in attending this celebration.

Below:  Congratulations to Fiona Woolley (24) who won the weekday medal winners cup with an impressive nett 66

Congratulations to Gilda Severino and Dani Seisun who played in the GNSW 2ball Ambrose regional final at The Links, Shell Grove, Wollongong on Sunday 15^th October. Gilda and Dani were joint runners-up but sadly lost on a C/B  with a nett 67.5. Jenni Brown and Natalie Driver played at Carnarvon on Monday 16^th October where they enjoyed the day.

We welcome new member Lydia Sloman and we look forward to playing golf with Lydia soon.

Results

Tuesday and Thursday's stroke rounds saw Helenka O'Connell (20) win division 1 on Tuesday with a nett 66, 2^nd  Natalie Driver (14) nett 68.  Thursday was won by Sue Kruse (15) 70, 2^nd Jenni Brown (14) 71 C/B. Division 2 on Tuesday was won by Karmen Whitford (27) net 68, 2^nd Robyn Lyon (26) nett 70, Thursday was won by Fiona Woolley (28) nett 66 C/B from Lyndall Bacon (24). Tuesday's 3^rd Division was won by Pertrina Rousel (44) 71 C/B from Lisa Jenkins, Thursday's was won by Lisa Jenkins 67, 2^nd Jill Hensman (34) nett 71.

 Helen Cregan won the 9 holes on Tuesday.  (37) 22 pts and also NTP on the 7^th.

 Up Coming Fixtures:

 Thursday 2^nd November Teams event will be Dropout Ambrose. Please book in the normal way.  

Wendy Thomas | Women's Captain

Women's Annual General Meeting.

Our AGM will be held Thursday 2nd November 2023 commencing at 6pm. This will be followed by the 2023 Prize Presentation.  A light meal will be served on the evening so confirmation of attendance will be required. Bookings are essential. A sheet is now posted on the Ladies notice board. Alternatively, you can email us at ladies@longreefgolfclub.com.au

This event is a great avenue to hear and voice your contributions regarding women's golf at LRGC. 

Gilda Severino | Women's President

Featured Spring Wine by the Glass
Mitolo 'Jesters' Vermentino (McLaren Vale, SA)
Small Glass $9.40
Large Glass $12.80
Bottle $40.80

Don't forget our Non-Alcoholic range on offer
Henkel 0% Sparkling 200ml Piccolo's $11.10
Henkel 0% Sparkling 750ml $27.20
Bilpin Zero Alcohol Apple Cider $6.40
Bilpin Zero Alcohol Raspberry Apple Cider $6.40
Heineken Zero $5.50

Tell us about yourself.
I did 25 years in the Police then 10 years at Monash Country Club, now at Long Reef until I retire. 

What do you like to do on your days off?
I enjoy keeping active playing netball, going to the beach, swimming, enjoying the sunshine, walking ALOT,  good champagne and beautiful friends. 

B)  Alf gets one stroke penalty.

C)  Alf gets two strokes penalty.

D)  Alf gets the General Penalty of Loss of Hole.

 During an interview with Phillip I was able to learn something about Peter, as he was known, and his time as a Captain and share the information we had. So as we prepare for an election let's look at the Club's 9^th Captain of nearly 67 years ago.

Rule 12.2a specifically refers to the removal of loose impediments and movable obstructions, which includes any reasonable touching or movement of the sand that happens while doing those things.

Before making a stroke at a ball in a bunker, a player must not deliberately touch sand with a hand, club, rake or other object to test the condition of the. sand or touch sand in the bunker with a club:

• In the area right in front or right behind the ball
• In making a practice swing,or
• In making the backswing for a stroke