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19TH NEWS

Friday 8 September 2023

Sports Bar
Course report
Club Person of the Year
Super Saturday
Winners
School Holiday Camp
Darts
TRIVIA
Upcoming Events
Joke of the Week

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Save the Date for Our Grand Opening Event!

The excitement is building as the Sports Bar area is quickly taking shape! All the TVs are now installed including our megascreen. We received the new furniture which, thanks to some fantastic members, is being constructed over the next couple of days. Big thanks to Steve Callaghan, Chris Jeffers, Rob & Matt Righton and Rusty Fennell for their hard work!

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Course Report

Sadly, this week we farewell Course Superintendent, Dean Lenertz. During the last year Dean has made many positive impacts both on the Course and with the team and we wish him and his family every future success and happiness. We thank him for his last Course report and together with his team, a successful Course Renovation!

Over the next couple of weeks we are conducting interviews from a strong list of candidates and we look forward to introducing Dean's successor shortly.

Anthony Ryan - General Manager

Greens Renovation: On Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 September this week we completed our spring renovations. This included the aerating of our greens, tees, fairways and green surrounds. The benefits of this will improve the overall health of the turf.

The weather gods were on our side this week with blue skies and light winds, almost feeling like the end of spring rather than the beginning. We had an early 5am start to begin coring of our greens. This is the slowest part of the process as all the cores have to be picked up before we can start applying the sand. Once the sand is applied it takes 3 to 4 hours for the sand to dry and rubbed into the core holes.

Once the coring of the greens is completed, we start on our tees and green surrounds. This is a much easier process as the cores can be rubbed in with a metal drag mat and blown away with our commercial tow behind blowers.

Due to the size and area of our fairways an outside contractor is hired to complete the process of aerating. Please see photos below of some of the work including the machine that aerates the fairways.

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Club Person of the Year

By nominating a Member you can show your appreciation of fellow Members who volunteer their time supporting our Club, so please help thank them by getting in your nomination forms this week. Nominations close on Monday, 14 September 5pm, so there is just over a week left.

This Award is presented to the person the Members and Board believe has given the most to the Club during the past year. To nominate, just CLICK HERE for a nomination form or obtained a form from Club Reception. You can nominate any full Member or Social Member but not employees, contractors or standing Directors.

Nominations must be signed by the Nominator, contain a description of why the person is being nominated and then placed in the nomination box at Reception or emailed to: office@northrydegolfclub.com.au

Club Person of the Year will be announced at the Commemoration Dinner, on Saturday, 7 October.

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It's Super Saturday Time this Weekend

Join us this Saturday, 9 September, for Super Saturday and our monthly FREE live music entertainment. This month welcoming back duo group JT33 who can take us back to classic hits from 60's, 70's, 80's all the way to current pop music, just let them know your speed. Join in the fun from 4:30pm. All are welcome to join in the celebration of great music, our Golf winners from August and for the chance to be one of our three lucky members, social or full playing, to win a share of the $1,000 CASH in the Members Draw.

Winners are Grinners

Congratulations to Father Mark Bragg (Braggy) & Sons who won five Meat Trays in last Friday nights Meat Raffle, donating back two to let others have a chance of winning. What great Sports!

Be part of the weekly Friday Night Fun with 18 quality meat trays raffled each week, tickets on sale from 5:30pm. Members Happy Hour from 4:30pm-6:30pm and after the Meat Raffle there is the Members Cash Draw of $1,800 this week - Friday, 8 September.

Be here to win or just for a fun evening out. Then if you don't want to go home to cook you can go on to enjoy a meal at the Dragon on the Green.

School Holiday Golf Camp - Booking Now

This two day camp at North Ryde Golf Club is designed to help our young up and coming golfers develop their skills. Golfers of all abilities and potential golfers between the ages of 8-15 years old are welcome. The front 9 will be closed to cater for this camp.

The camp is designed and run by PGA professionals who love to provide coaching in order to see development of our youngest golfers. Over the two days, our PGA Professional Coaches will be working on skills such as golf's most important basics from short game to rules and on course play.

Morning tea and lunch will be provided (Any allergies will be noted). What you need to bring is comfortable clothing, hat, sunscreen and drink bottle. Hurry, as numbers are limited! To lock in a place, please CLICK HERE and fill in the registration form. Once completed, email the form to the proshop@northrydegolfclub.com.au

Darts Wrap

Both our darts teams has fantastic results last week, Wednesday, 30 August (Round 6). A great 8-4 home win for our B Grade Tigers over last years premiers and current leaders Garry Owen to consolidate them into the top 4 which saw some great scoring and finishing from young gun Ryan Bissett, having 6 x 100+ visits to the board and a brilliant 97 checkout (look out you A Graders !!).

Capping off the night and away from home was the highly anticipated A Grade top of the table clash against Gladesville Grizzlies who prior to this match remained unbeaten. It didn't take them long to establish themselves either going ahead early to a 4-1 lead in the doubles, leaving The A Grade Team with a real fight to pull them back. So step up to the plate The Crockart cousins !! With the bit between their teeth they managed to lift their partners and win the next 4 games straight edging us ahead 5-4. With the singles games now to play they then kept their nerve in a nail biting finish to win both their singles matches with Tom getting the important 8th game win for a superb captains knock and the team scoring a very impressive 9-6 comeback win leaving the A Grade Team with a bye in hand as outright leaders after round 1 of the comp. Well done boys !!

Also, Special mention to Ben Cutrone who not only had his hand in the A Grade darts victory but also took out the A Grade Singles Bowls Championship at Denistone the previous weekend - Well done Benny !!

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Upcoming Events

FRI 8 SEPT - Meat Raffle and Members $1,800 Cash draw from 5:30pm
SAT 9 SEPT - Super Saturday, Live Music, Presentations & $1,000* Members Cash Draw from 4:30pm
WED 13 SEPT - Free TRIVIA Night 7pm
THURS 14 SEPT - Min Smith Match Play Salver, Round 1

Helpful knowledge

At a golf course, four men approach the 16th tee. The straight fairway runs along a road and bike path fenced off on the left. The first golfer tees off and hooks the ball in that direction. The ball went over the fence and bounced off the bike path onto the road, where it hit the tire of a moving bus and was knocked back on to the fairway. As they all stood in amazement, one man asked him, how on earth did you do that?

Without hesitation, he said, you have to know the bus timetable.

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North Ryde Golf Club
www.northrydegolfclub.com.au
Twin Road, North Ryde, NSW 2113

P: (02) 9887 4422
E: office@northrydegolfclub.com.au