November 2024 Web Notes
This was the 2024 Women’s Committee last meeting. Captain Valerie thanked all members and stated that she believes the Women’s section and committee had a very successful year.
Special thanks were given to our outgoing committee members:
· Ilona Madden our outgoing President for her work and support especially for our new members. Her enthusiasm has been really appreciated along with picking up the mantel to compile the club newsletter since our General Manager resigned.
· Caitriona Fogarty for keeping us all aware of the many course closures during the year.
Vice-Captain Paula thanked Captain Valerie for her excellent leadership and steering our committee. We all agreed with these comments and those of our Treasurers who thanked our Captain for her leadership, availability to the Committee, her calm approach and willingness to listen to members.
Bereavement
Condolences were expressed on the passing of Noelle Fogarty the sister of Caitriona.
Review of Townhall Meeting
The committee felt that the Townhall meeting was very successful and allocated time for reviewing members feedback in relation to the meeting Agenda Points. Update as follows:
· Categories / Division prizes for competitions - Comprehensive Data supplied in the meeting of 2024 prize winners was well received and it was agreed that there is no need to change the prize format for the 2025 season. Analysis of this data will continue in 2025.
· Monthly presentation evenings will remain in the Qualifying season and will, where possible, will be held on the evening of the medal (stroke play) competition.
· We have entered the inter club competitions as agreed in the Townhall meeting. The committee have reached out to Arklow and Blainroe to try and arrange for ‘friendly’ inter-club Matchplay competitions for golfers with a handicap index of 36 or higher.
· Foursome Matchplay competition – format. An anonymous questionnaire will be sent via WhatsApp asking members to vote whether:
a. Do you want to have a partnership decided by either:
i. High/Low draw for partners in 2025 & 2026; or
ii. Choose own partner 2025 - High / Low draw 2026
· Potential new Matchplay competition in 2024 – Fourball Matchplay competition. This will be a better ball competition where you choose your own partner. The survey question will be:
i. Will you be interested in entering a women’s section Foursomes Matchplay and the Fourball Matchplay competition
· Members Agenda Point: We sent a thank you response to Golf Ireland for providing us with information to answer our members Agenda Points as these were based on R&A / WHS recommendations. We have also asked for the date when they will be sending out communication to club competition committees to ensure they are aware that that need to be prepared to justify reasons, if requested to do so, if they apply WHS Rule 7.2a. (introducing handicap limits to a competition).
· Preparation for our Inter-club matches. A notice will be posted in the locker room for members to volunteer as team managers. Thanks to the current volunteers as 2025 Team Managers who are, Phyllis Kavanagh, Joanne Logan, Maria Kerr and Ann Nichols. Our teams still need additional volunteers to take on this role. It is really good fun to be part of the team and will also help our section and club continuity planning if we had an experienced team competitor and a new team competitor / member as joint managers for each team. Please don’t exclude yourself from putting your name on the list. Our section Needs you
· Inter-club Sub Committee – So far, we have had no volunteers for this subcommittee, and really want to encourage a couple of our experienced match play golfers to step forward to take on this role. As discussed we are all aware that there were issued this year we with team food availability, bunkers not
being in play, co-ordinating team tee times etc. By volunteering you are assisting our section and club’s reputation by having overview of all our inter-club competitions to avoid these types of issues again and ensure that the focus for competitors is their golf.
· Wednesday winter competition – Team events. We will be looking at introducing some team events as discussed in this meeting.
· Social Sub- Committee – Following the appeal for volunteers in the meeting, we are delighted to let you know that Grainne Macklin and Susan Henderson have stepped forward to take on this role. Look out for their social event details in our club newsletter, posters and the 2025 web notes.
Club Prize giving
19th October 2024 club prize giving was very successful. Thanks were expressed to all the helpers who organized the cleaning and engraving of these trophies. There are still some Trophies to be presented at the Xmas dinner celebration on Friday 6th December. These are:
· Ballycurry Cup – Maureen O’Dea
· Silver and Bronze Medals (Mary Cahill & Clodagh Doyle)
· Winter League Prize Winners
We are delighted that the Gleeson family have offered to donate a Weekend Golfer of the Year Trophy to the women’s section in honour of our deceased member Michael Gleeson.
Annual Handicap Review
This has been completed by our Handicap Secretary, Mary Cahill. Details of review have been sent to Golf Ireland for approval. Affected players will be informed once the Golf Ireland approval is received.
Winter League Competitions - Winter League competitions commence the first week of October 2024
2025 Committee –Full details of this committee will be part of the club AGM.
Social Events
Wyder Cup Weekend – This was a very successful weekend with over 20 attendees. Thanks were expressed to Vice Captain Paula for organising this event. The winner of the Wyder Cup Trophy was Angela Singleton for the second consecutive year. We wait to learn of her plans for our 2025 Wyder Cup event.
Christmas Party – 6th December
Poster displayed with the details of our end of year party and Christmas celebration. Reminder to:
· Pay for your meal behind the bar during this week
· Dust off your Christmas outfit – there will be a prize for the best Christmas themed dresser.
Have a wonderful Christmas.