COVID-19 Update: Max of 2 households per group

Dear Members,

We received an urgent communication this afternoon from Golf Ireland. These additional requirements from Sport Ireland come against a backdrop of escalating public health challenges with the incidence of COVID-19 cases rising exponentially in Ireland.

Sport Ireland have issued a further update to the current Level 5 measures, which will remain in place until 12th January 2021. This will require golf clubs to urgently note the following additional points:

· Participants in sport and exercise in unsupervised/uncoached activity must be from no more than two households.
· Therefore, groups playing on golf courses during these Level 5 measures must be confined to a maximum of two households.
· This means that all tee times must be either two-balls, or alternatively three-balls and four-balls where players in the group are from no more than two households. A household for these purposes includes a household support bubble, guidance for which is available here: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/3516d-support-bubbles/.

While we understand that we have timesheets booked for the Christmas period, timesheet bookings from Tuesday Dec 29th will be deleted. Timesheets for Tuesday Dec 29th to Sunday January 3rd will be available from Monday Dec 28th at 8.00pm. In the interim given the seriousness of the situation we would advise Members to adhere to all guidelines.