June 2022 Web Notes
Condolences were extended to the family and friends of Sean Dooley, Roderick Kenna and Chrissy Roche on their recent deaths.
An email was received regarding travel expenses for matches and alternate competition playing days. The lady has been involved in a number of teams and has a lot of golf related travel. She is proud to play for the Club but with fuel prices soaring it has now become very expensive. Most of the clubs that she has competed against have their team meals paid for them while anyone representing Wicklow G.C. has to pay for everything themselves. She would like to see the Club pay a contribution to players expenses. She also said that she is missing out on her personal golf and would like to see more alternative competition days available. The committee discussed both matters and while all were sympathetic it was pointed out that we now compete against South Dublin clubs that have bigger memberships and annual fees that are much more expensive than Wicklow. As all teams (Ladies, Men’s, Mixed, Juniors) must be treated the same Lady Captain will bring the matter to the CoM. With regard to alternate competition days all agreed that there are sufficient alternate days available. The Committee understands that players have a difficult choice to make when asked to represent the Club as a player or manager on a team(s) as for many their own personal golf will suffer.
A Bunnies 9-hole Round Robin Matchplay will start soon.
The Australian Spoons South Leinster final will take place in W.G.C. next Monday.
The Club Mixed Foursomes qualifying competition takes place on Saturday, 18th June. It was reported that some people do not agree with a qualifying competition as they believe that it should only be matchplay and not a strokes competition as well. The Competitions committee will review the entries from other years but the qualifying competition will remain for this year.
A nominal fee of €1 be charged for ladies entering the Ballycurry singles matchplay as this way they will have to physically enter the matchplay competition and will be committed to it.
It was mentioned that some ladies are unable to play in the Medal competitions on Wednesdays and would like to play this on Saturdays or Sundays as an alternate day. It was pointed out that when ladies join the Club they know that our main competitions are on a Wednesday. The Men’s club control the weekend competition timesheet and it would be highly unlikely that they would agree to this.
The Little and Large competition and Barbeque was a great success. Joanne and Mark Doyle attended a Junior Development coaching session run by Golf Ireland. Junior competitions have started. Girls and boys teams have been entered in the Tilestyle Trophy to be held in Stackstown G.C. on Monday, 18th July. A practice round for the U19 match has been arranged for Tulfarris G.C. on Thursday, 21st July and the Junior committee are treating this as a social occasion and have invited all the 18-hole girls.
One member of the kitchen staff unexpectedly handed in her notice. She will leave in two weeks. An advertisement will be going in the local newspaper this week.
The Business Hub on the website is being updated. It can be used by members’ businesses as well as sponsor’s businesses.
The dates for next year’s Ladies major competitions should be booked as soon as possible. Lady vice-Captain said she booked her date for next year earlier today and it will be held on 21st and 24th June 2023.
A lady asked if a Dyson hand drier could be purchased for the Ladies locker room. There is one in the Men’s locker room already.
A request was made that the bushes around the path at the 12th green be cut back as they are very sharp and impede buggies.
Lady Captain said she was thinking about having a fun event later in the year, possibly a Fashion show. Fishers from Newtown will host the event in the clubhouse. Some members will be asked to be models and Louise might show some clothes also. All agreed it was a great idea and recommend that it is done on a Friday night. The Juniors could also be involved.
Lady Captain said she saw a person get out of a car parked in the disabled spot and have difficulty walking over to the clubhouse. She suggested that the reserved spaces for the officers could be moved to the centre of the car park and the area around the front of the clubhouse be allocated to disabled spaces. She has spoken to the Men’s Captain about this and he is in agreement.