2015 AGM and Opening Muster - Results

Thanks to everyone who came along to the AGM and Opening Muster yesterday (Sunday 22 March) and helped to make it a successful and enjoyable day. Our efforts to ensure that the business part of the day would be completed in less than an hour worked only too well. In fact, we finished the AGM with half an hour to spare, but this only gave us the problem of coping with the rush to get out on the Golf Course and getting information to those who were arriving in expectation of an eleven o'clock tee-off for the Opening Muster. Inevitably this resulted in a small degree of confusion but it all sorted itself out, allbeit with a couple of teams having just two members instead of the desired 3 or 4. Fortunately this did not affect the results.

The Opening Muster is a scratch competition over 9 holes so that all members can participate despite the status of their current handicaps. The teams are selected by the Committee so as to result, hopefully, in an even mix of abilities in each team. The contest is over just 9 holes so that - a) we can be broken in gently to the new season, and b) we can finish in time for lunch. This year we decided to have separate male and female teams, and from all the evidence it looked as if this had the desired result of allowing new and not so new members the opportunity to get to know each other.

The winning team for the gents was that captained by Ian Brownlie which had a team average score of 43.7 for the 9 holes. Isobel Millar's team won the prize for the ladies with a team score of 55.5. Moira Ferry's team was not far behind on 56.25. The gents' longest drive was won by Robert Frame and the ladies' by Jenny Harvey. Nearest the hole at the 6th was won by Ian Brownlie.

The AGM business was concluded very smoothly and rapidly.

Euan Webster drew attention to an unintended omission in our proposals for the updating of the Constitution. This is in the process of being corrected and will result in there only being one Captain of the Golf Club in future, who may be either male or female, rather than the present requirement to have a gents' and a ladies' captain. In fact the wording of the entire Constitution will be checked and altered where necessary to ensure that any office-bearer may be male or female.

Elaine Horner asked if consideration could be given to having a greater number of Stableford competitions amongst those in our Fixture List. There was general agreement to this request and the Committee are currently deciding which competitions or medals can become Stablefords. An updated Fixture List will be sent out very soon.

Thanks to David Laird for his considerable help in organising the Opening Muster and for providing the prizes for longest drives and nearest the hole from his own resources.

Here's looking forward to many nice warm sunny days on our course this year.

Take care,

Allan

2015 AGM and Opening Muster

Hello RPGC Members,

Welcome to the 2015 season.

It's just 3 weeks to the AGM now on Sunday March 22nd and I need to let you know of a slight change to the timetable for the day. In order to get the AGM business completed as soon as possible so that we can get on the course for the opening muster I have decided to order the tea and coffee for all those attending at 9.30am and to start the AGM at 9.45am. This, I hope, will enable us to aim realistically for a tee-off at around 11am for our golf competition.

I need to impose a closing date of  5pm on Friday 20th March so that I can organise the teams and starting tees etc. Would you please let me know by email as soon as possible if you wish to enter for the opening muster and/or attend the AGM. The event itself will be a competition similar to those played at the opening and closing musters last year.

It will be a team competition over just nine holes and will be a shotgun start. Handicaps will NOT be applied and so every player will play off scratch. This will allow Golf Club members who have not yet got their official handicap to participate. The organisers will compile the teams from the list of those entering so as to achieve a fair mix of low, high, or no handicappers in each team.

Each player will mark his or her own card, with a maximum score of a triple bogey (6 or 7) for each hole. The team captain will sum the totals and divide it by the number of players in the team (expected to be 3) to provide the team score. The team with the lowest team score will be the winners and will receive prizes. We will meet in the House after completion of the rounds, hopefully not much later than around 1pm, to reveal the winners and present the prizes.

Your emails indicating that you wish to participate will be acknowledged fairly quickly. You will learn who your team mates are going to be on the morning of the competition. As usual we want to encourage lady members to play in this competition. It's a gentle introduction to the season.

Fingers crossed for a nice sunny day.

Allan