July 2021 Web Notes
An email will be sent to the Ladies section asking ladies to be more considerate of others and to contact them if they have to take their name off the timesheet or move to a different time. The email will also remind ladies that if anyone is left on the timesheet on their own that they can join with another group or a group can split to accommodate the single player.
One lady played with a number of junior girls recently and was impressed with their abilities. She was wondering why the juniors are not allowed play in the adult competitions. While the Ladies Committee will allow junior girls to play in Wednesday competitions the juniors must first be proposed by the Junior committee and approved by the Ladies committee. The Chair of the Junior committee said that they review the Juniors (girls and boys) on a regular basis and they are not putting forward any names for approval at the moment.
An email was sent to all members re General Play guidelines. There was one reply asking why do they need to hand in a card when Golf Ireland doesn’t say you have to do this. Questions were also asked as to why you need to register your intention to play a counting casual round and why the men are allowed use the computer terminal and ladies are not allowed. The card is needed because many ladies make mistakes when entering their scores in the App and the card is used to verify scores entered on the App. The Lady card checkers wish to continue limiting the use of the computer terminal due to COVID.
Lady Captain will run a 9-hole competition over two days for 5-day ladies, SIG ladies and ladies who are no longer able to play 18 holes. The entry fee will be €8. It is hoped that by doing this it will give the ladies a taste of a two day event and encourage some to become full members. It may be helpful to remind 5-Day members and the SIG ladies that payment of membership can be spread over the full year.
As there are many outstanding prizes to be presented a presentation be held on Saturday, 24th July after play in the Captain’s Prize to the Ladies. An email will be sent out to all, listing the winners and asking winners to attend or nominate someone to collect their prize for them.
The rose bed outside the office is in need of attention. A course tidy-up is usually done before the Men’s major competitions. Lady Captain said she will bring this to the attention of Captain Aidan.
Junior lessons have finished and competitions are in full swing now.
The Marketing committee are looking for more people to help out with the social media platforms. Ilona Madden, Rosemary Kavanagh and Lady Captain Clodagh were all congratulated on the fabulous jobs they are doing.
Catering is going well at the moment and notices have been put around the course asking players to ring in their orders.
One Club Model Pilot: Golf Ireland is looking for 25 clubs to take part in a One Club Model Pilot programme. Wicklow GC has applied for this but may not take part if accepted. In this model Clubs will have Ladies and Men’s Sub-Committees, there will only be one Club AGM, one Handicap Secretary, one Competitions Secretary, etc. A discussion was held and many felt that our Ladies Club is a very active, friendly section and we don’t want to lose our identity within the general Club. The general feeling with the Ladies committee is that we should leave it to other clubs to take part in the programme, let them make the mistakes and we can learn from them. There are still many problems with Golf Ireland and the transition from ILGU and GUI. Communication from Golf Ireland on queries are taking up to 9 weeks presently.