Men's AGM - Sunday 30th Jan 2011

The Men's Annual General Meeting was held last night in the Clubhouse. I am not sure if it is a sign of the times, but the attendance was to say the least moderate and to be more accurate, pathetic! We struggled to make a quorum ie 20 voting members, and if we had failed to do that, we would have to abandon the meeting and rearrange the event next month. We got there, but it was close. The few members who did make the effort were rewarded with reports from the Chairman, Captain and Treasurer. Two new members of the Committee were elected, Terry Mann and James Dowdell. Colin Davison was elected as Men's Treasurer and I was elected as Men's Secretary. The AGM also witnesses the change of Captaincy with Brian King handed the Captain's tie to Brian Rutherford who in turn announced his Vice Captain for 2011 as Graham Bell. Congratulations to all concerned.

Presentation Night

The re-arranged Annual Presentation Night was held last Friday in the Clubhouse and the event saw lots of prizes awarded to our ladies, men and juniors. The evening was reasonably attended with the majority of the prize winners making the effort to collect their winnings from the 2010 season. The Player of the Year award for the Men went to Rod Armstrong for his superb results and golfing achievements in 2010 and the Most Improved Player was Wayne McCulloch. Well done to all those concerned and good luck for the 2011 season.

Course Conditions

I have been asked where the greenstaff post their day to day information about the condition of the course and how members would find such information. The first area is on Facebook ... you need to be registered and then search for 'Parklands Golf Club' ... pick up the reference and then add them to your list of friends and 'voila' you will get all the postings to your home page as soon as the greenkeepers punch in the info on their mobile phone. The second area is on Twitter, where again you need to register and then search for 'landsgolf' and then click ... follow ... and any tweets they make will be shown on your home page.

Closed by the wet and the cold!!

I've just read the following missive on Facebook from the greenstaff .... "Course Closed! After heavy overnight rain and ice areas melting, the course is unplayable, and not looking good for the rest of the week, with the weather forecast!"

Lets hope the forecasters have got it wrong ....

Club Presentation Night

The re-arranged Club Presentation Night will be held on Friday 28th January 2011 commencing at 7.30pm in the Clubhouse. If you are a trophy winner, please note the date in your diary and let us know if you are attending the event.

Yippee - its open

The New Year has started and the course is OPEN ... well nine holes are but its a start ... we are on winter greens and there is no playing from the fairways (place in the semi) and the ground is still frozen .... but its open to play golf and that's why we are members. So fingers crossed for a slow thaw and drying winds ....