President's Report

It appears spring weather has certainly arrived with a change in temperature and some drier conditions which is providing some run on the golf course. The greens are getting firm and fast with some very hot scoring 36 to 46 points across the different grades at our Thursday tournament this week. It certainly makes a huge difference to have sunshine on your back and dry ground under foot to enjoy your golf.

We are making good progress with the final stages of our Irrigation Project. Jared and some of the volunteer team have commenced with ground repair work to the fairway and trenched areas around the course. There are a number of piles of clean topsoil placed around the course in preparation for this work. If you are unlucky enough to land in or on these piles please take relief and we would appreciate you not walking on or over these piles. In the coming weeks these areas will be seeded and with a bit of warmer weather we will have grass starting to grow and provide a good playing surface. Please take care when playing near repaired areas as we still have a full club length placing rule in place to ensure you can clear the repaired areas without doing any damage.   

Club membership numbers have changed with a small number of people deciding not to renew their membership due to relocation, age or health reasons. On the other hand we do have new people signing up to join our Club and as you meet new members please help them out and make them welcome.

Thank you to the following sponsors for their coninued support of our club

Captain's Comment

Hello everyone and welcome to Spring, daffodils, lambs and when you are on the 15th green, check out the lovely red blooms on the early Rhododendrons too.

Mens interclub is underway, Thompson McDonald starting slowly, a win, a half and two losses.  Pressies a good win first up. Over 60 has their first round on 28 September, and Metro A and B start mid October.

Thursdays are going well and will get better each week now as the days lengthen and gradually warm up. Come along any week and bring a friend if you like. You can book in but that is not compulsory, we will always find you a group to play in. 9:30 tee off, everyone welcome.

Saturdays this Month start with top dog this week, then a nine am multi tee start on the 13th when we play a Four ball better ball.  On the 20th we are playing the five club yellow ambrose that was cancelled in the rain last month, loads of fun. Final Saturday is the Battersby cup, play in pairs and multiply your stablefords with each other on every hole. 3 x 3 = 9 which is good, however 3 x 0 = 0 which is not so good!

Lastly I thank you in advance for sanding divots and repairing ball marks on the greens. Also you will see Jared and his willing helpers working their way through spreading soil on the fairways. Where it is raked and finished it is also seeded, so Please can you walk/drive on it as little as possible. Still drop off those areas too.

Go well and I'll see you out there, Captain Warren

Seeded topsoil going down - please keep off these areas if possible

From the golf shop

Welcome to new members this month: 

Jodi Apiata, Devlin Coates, James Vanderpyl and Graeme Pickering. If you bump into them out on the course, please introduce yourself and welcome them to the club.

Introducing your McLeans Island Golf Club team:

In the golf shop we have Monty MacAlpine, who needs no introduction, and is our fulltime golf shop attendant. Andy McGinty and Alan Smythe share Sunday mornings in the shop on alternate weeks, and our two junior staff members are Kaden Fraser, who usually works Sunday afternoon, and Will Patchett, who usually works Saturday afternoon. Out on the course you all will know Jared Wilson our longtime Greenkeeper, behind the bar we have Des Brocherie, who has been assisted the past few weeks by his daugher Lynda, and Jan Spooner looks after the cafe with help from her granddaughter Ashleigh. In the office is George Williams.

Thank you to the following sponsors for their coninued support of our club