Helen Caris

Ladies' Captain

Welcome back to full competition at the Bris-

bane Golf Club and playing in fours again.

After a lot of hard work, especially from our

club captain Alan Grieve, we have managed to

reschedule all our major and honour board events. We start this

coming Tuesday with the conclusion of the Violet Midson

Memorial.

The remainder of the changes to our Honour Board Events are as

Alan has already advised in his email and these are set out in

chronological order on the next page (see Upcoming Events).

Our Winter Cup will start on the second Thursday in June and

thereafter every second Thursday, finishing in the second week of

October. If you haven’t registered for the Winter Cup and would

like to play, please see me or our Vice-Captain, Berenice Holmes.

You still have a couple of weeks to do so.

The BDLGA had little choice but to cancel Pennants for 2020. There

was a lot of ground work done to organize our teams and everyone

was looking forward to the season. Thank you to all the players

who put their hand up to be part of the Pennant team and I hope

that next year you will all be available again.

We achieved a great pace of play when playing in twos, so let's

keep it up now that we are playing in fours and please remember

the rules for social distancing.

I would like to thank our Club Committee, staff and the ground

staff led by Mitch for all their hard work in these tough times and I

hope to catch up with everyone on the golf course, and in the not

too distant future, for a drink in the club house.

Julie Whan

Ladies' President

Hello Ladies

Who would have thought that some, not all, would be complaining about boredom! For those who don’t want to read any more books, complete

any more jigsaws or remove another weed from the garden and ladies that have been managing home schooling and stay at home family members, the latest news on COVID restrictions I imagine is very welcome. It has been a very different few months to be your Ladies' President and whilst we have not been able to get together socially, I am sure that those of you who have managed a game of golf are very appreciative of all the hard work be-hind the scenes to keep BGC operational. On your behalf I would like to thank Phil Wikman and the Committee for all the extra work undertaken to keep us walking the fairways. The very informative emails have been keeping us up to date and abreast of the situation at the Club. Over the past few days those emails have allowed us to feel that in some small ways our golf is returning to normal. This will only happen if we continue to abide by the rules, so I would encourage everyone to keep up good practice and then we may be able to make some more small steps to con-tinue our journey back to happy days in the Clubhouse. Isn’t the social side the reason many of us torture ourselves by playing the wonderful game of golf? It's great to see that the Garden Room will now be open every day – with the usual distancing rules – so please try to support the Club by using this much missed facility. I look forward to catching up with everyone both on and off the course very soon, so until then please stay safe and healthy.

The Red Tees WINTER 2020

From the Ladies’ Committee

WELCOME BACK!

Catherine Hammond

Saturday

Representative

It seems such a long time ago, but our first Honour Board event for the year was completed in March. The Joan Fletcher Champions for 2020 were Angela Fong in Division 1 and Margaret Dowzer in Division 2. Congratulations to the winners and a special thankyou to Kate Morgan for refereeing the Division 2 Final. The Monthly Medal winners for March were Angela Fong in Division 1 (nett 72) and Margaret Dowzer in Division 2 (nett 71). Unfortunately due to COVID-19, Weekend Pennants was cancelled. Thank you to Debbie Kember for organising both Weekend Teams and we look forward to 2021 where we hope to have two

strong teams again. We have been very fortunate to be able to reschedule all our Honour Board Events with some clever work from the Ladies' and Men’s Captains, as well as rescheduling our Guest Day to Saturday, 12 September. The qualifying round for the Johnson Staines Weekend Four Ball Honour Board event will now be held on 30 May, with quarter finals on Sunday, 31 May, semi finals on Saturday, 6 June and the Final on Sunday, 7 June. Good luck to everyone!

UPCOMING EVENTS

May Tues, Thurs 19, 21, 26 Violet Midson Mem Trophy Sat 23 Ex WAAAF Cup Sat, Sun 30, 31 Johnson Staines 4Ball June Tues 02 Kerry Cup qualifying Tues, Thurs 04, 09, 11 Kerry Cup knockout & Final Sat, Sun 06, 07 Johnson Staines knockout & Final Tues 23 Macartney Cup 4somes qualifying Thurs, Tues 25, 30 Macartney Cup knockout Sat 27 Heather Timms Mem Trophy July Thurs 02 Macartney Cup Final Sat 11 Nat Green 4somes qualifying Tues 14 Tanner Cup Sat 18 Weekend Mem Salver Tues, Thurs 21, 23 Senior Salver Sat or Tues 18 or 21 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS - Round 1 Thurs or Sat 23 or 25 Round 2 Tues 28 Round 3 Thurs 30 Round 4 August Sat 1, 8, 15 Nat Green knockout & Final Tues 11 Foursomes Championships Sun 23 Cherry Cribb Mem Day Sat 29 Heather Timms Sun 30 Brisbane Cup

ZOOM BIRTHDAY PARTIES IN LOCKDOWN

REMEMBER IRISH DAY?

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Frederick’s delicious Steak & Guinness Pie

Just who WAS that bearded

Lady?

COMPETITION OF THE DAY RUNNERS-UP

COMPETITION OF THE DAY WINNERS

AND THE WINNING LIMERICK WAS:-

We go out to golf to have fun And to enjoy our day in the sun But with COVID-19 There’s no handshakes on greens So we just give a tap on the bum!

← Social distancing