The 2021 season will “officially” conclude with “Closing Day” on Sunday 5th December, with a “2 Ball Ambrose” starting 8.30/9.00 followed by the club presentations from around 2pm and lunch.
The usual comps will continue throughout the summer, with the 2022 season beginning early March as per the soon to be published 2022 calendar.
Friday – Chook Run – 9 Holes, Open to all, Tee-Off Currently 3.30, will become 4.30/5.00 with daylight savings. Can also be played throughout the week – Play your game, place cards – signed and verified by partner – with $5.00 in an envelope and slide under the door.
Membership – As mentioned previously, the number of social golfers using our course – and paying Green Fees – seems to be growing every week, which is great for the golf club and the community.
The cost of Memberships for the remainder of the year (until 30 March) is currently reduced to $50.00/adult and will be reduced as the year progresses, so a GREAT TIME TO BECOME A MEMBER – fill in a membership form – and email it to admin@jinderagolfclub.com We can help you get a handicap (if you want) and join in our very social competition days – or simply play at your leisure without having to worry about green fees!
Pennant – The Mighty Jindera Golf Club took out the 2021 MDGA Pennant competition last Sunday the 21st Nov at Thurgoona. It was a hard fought affair against a very competitive Culcairn side where all games bar one went to the 17th and 18th holes before being decided.
Thanks go out to Steve Keshire and the MDGA (Murray Districts Golf Association) team for organising another great Pennant competition.
The competing clubs were :- Jindera (A/B), Culcairn (A/B), Holbrook, Howlong (A/B), Thurgoona (A/B) Corowa (A/B), Albury and MDGA All Stars.
Course Works – The grounds committee have been working hard over the past few weeks installing some “Couch” turf around some of the greens in a bid to encourage it to spread out to the fairways thereby improving the approach to the greens. Currently targeted are the 1st, 6th, 8th and 9th greens. We ask all players to treat the new work as “GUR” and please take care, as this is the start of on-going works in this area.
Working bee to install “couch” around the 1st,6th,8th and 9th greensWinners are Grinners – Jindera 2021 Pennant winners Left to Right – Ash Paech, Craig McMillan, Aaron Melbourne, Trevor Freeman, Greg Allen (Capt) (Graham Moore and Bob Sheerans unavailable).
The end of the competition season is almost upon us, with the tournament being held on the 26th September and now mostly club comps running apart from the MDGA Pennant.The MDGA (Murray Districts Golf Association) Pennant is currently underway and will run until the 21st November when the “Final” will be played between the top two teams from “Pool A” and “Pool B”.
The Jindera teams are doing very well so far – after 3 rounds “Pool A” have won 3 out 3 and “Pool B” 2 out of 3 – Go The Dogs !
Round 3 of the Pennant was held at Jindera on the 24th Oct, with around 60 players competing. It was a great day, with the course looking a treat.
Friday – Chook Run – 9 Holes, Open to all, Tee-Off Currently 3.30, will become 4.30/5.00 with daylight savings. Can also be played throughout the week – Play your game, place cards – signed and verified by partner – with $5.00 in an envelope and slide under the door.
FINALLY, the new fairway mower has arrived and been given a workout by chief pilot David Briggs. Our apologies for the inconsistency of the fairways over the past few months, however things will be back to normal very soon – hopefully!
Membership – As mentioned previously, the number of social golfers using our course – and paying Green Fees – seems to be growing every week, which is great for the golf club and the community.
The cost of Memberships for the remainder of the year (until 30 March) is currently reduced to $60.00/adult and will be reduced as the year progresses, so a GREAT TIME TO BECOME A MEMBER – fill in a membership form – and email it to admin@jinderagolfclub.com We can help you get a handicap (if you want) and join in our very social competition days – or simply play at your leisure without having to worry about green fees!
Junior Golf
The final clinic will be on Sunday 31st October with a shortened game and modified rules.
Thanks to Cameron Odewahn for the time he has put into the kids in somewhat difficult circumstances with the dreaded COVID situation.
September has seen a number of COVID related interruptions to our golf program, including challenges to course maintenance and our Tournament, which is FINALLY on Sunday the 26th September.
Junior Golf kicked-off on Sunday 8th August at 10.00am with around 12 kids learning the basics of golf under the expert tutelage of Cameron Odewahn. The following Sunday however was cancelled due to the new Covid restrictions brought in by the NSW government on Saturday 14th Aug. This was unfortunate as we had around 22 kids registered with a lot interest being shown by the community. The program will continue when Covid rules allow.
Jindera Golf and COVID –
Given the new covid restrictions applicable to regional NSW, The advice from Golf NSW – see below – is that usual club golf may continue provided that –
Groups are a maximum of two players (unless they are from the same household)
Usual Covid restrictions are observed (5km travel limit, social distancing, Masks, Covid check-in etc)
Consequently, our usual comps. will still be on as per the following advice from golf nsw, bearing in mind that the groups must only be in pairs and that all players wear masks where required.
COVID -19: NSW Latest & FAQ’s
Published By Golf NSW
Last Updated: August 14, 2021
STAY AT HOME RULES
The COVID-19 situation continues to evolve and due to the risks associated with an increasing number of venues and transmissions which have occurred, the strict stay-at-home rules that were applicable to ALL of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour have now been extended to all of regional NSW, from 5pm Saturday 14 August.
Other than in the areas of concern, people will only be able to leave home for one of the following four reasons:
Shopping for food or other essential goods and services
Medical care or compassionate needs
Exercise outdoors in groups of a maximum of two (unless players are from the same household) within your own Local Government Area (LGA) OR if outside your LGA it must be within 10km of where you live (5kms from Monday 16 August))
Essential work, or education, where you cannot work or study from home
July has seen some very challenging weather for both playing golf and also for the grounds committee in trying to maintain the course.
Our annual tournament slated for the weekend of 24/25 July has been a casualty of the continued run of bad weather, exacerbated by Covid lockdown restrictions on victorian golfers.
The tournament has now been moved to the weekend of 25/26th September where we hope that the weather and Covid restrictions will align for a successful day.
We will be running a junior golf clinic on Sundays beginning on the 8th August and finishing with a mini tournament on the 26th September. The clinics will run for around one hour and start either before or after the usual Sunday competition.
The age group is 6 to 14, there is no cost and membership of the golf club is not required.
Highlites of May include the Golf NSW/MDGA sponsored round 2 of the “Juniors on The Move” tournament held at Jindera on 16th May and our annual charity day on the 30th May which raised $714.00 for breast cancer awareness.
Both GolfNSW and the Murray Districts Golf Association (MDGA) are great supporters of the Jindera Golf Club where we have been fortunate in receiving grants from both associations to the value of $1,100.00 from MDGA towards the promotion of junior golf, cost of purchasing a new computer and accounting software and $10,000.00 from the GolfNSW “Foundation Grants” towards the cost of a new fairway mower. It goes without saying that all help for volunteer golf courses is always greatly appreciated.
This is a GolfNSW initiative, in conjunction with Murray District Golf Association – (MDGA) – to which we are affiliated to promote junior golf in our region and greater NSW.
It is a junior tournament aimed at involving kids in sport – golf – with a number of rounds throughout the year hosted by various clubs in NSW – Jindera hosted round 2 on Sunday 16th May.
It was a tremendous day, with Cade Webb (GolfNSW regional manager) setting up an electronic swing analyser which the junior players and many of our normal Sunday comp players tried out. It tracks real time ball trajectory, spin, speed and other data which was displayed on the clubs outdoor scores presentation screen.
Thanks go to Rawinia Smithenbecker and Dave Gray from Jindera for organising the food and BBQ and Cameron Odewahn for conducting a coaching clinic at Jindera prior to the event.
Special mention to Our own Bonnie McMillan for winning the ladies longest drive.
Stayed tuned for further developments regarding junior golf …
For full report from Cade Webb and results click on the following link.
This was a 2 Ball Ambrose organised by our ladies captain Rawinia Smithenbecker and saw 24 players enjoy a wonderful day of golf whilst also raising $714.00 for Breast Cancer Awareness.
With the temperature hovering around zero degrees at tee-off, players were well rewarded with a beautiful sunny day, great BBQ lunch and plenty of prizes.
First round of the Monthly Medal “Stroke” event was held on the 14th March with 14 players competing for the coveted medal. The weather was kind to us again and the course in great shape.
The “Vets” season 2021 kicked off on Wedneday morning with 15 players, playing 9 holes and “3 Ball Ambrose”.
The morning was enjoyed by all, with a fine autumn day followed by BBQ lunch.
Results –
Winner’s. F Carmody, G Miller, J Haderle 27.75
Runners up – D Castles, M Dickson, D Webb 29.75.
OPEN DAY SEASON 2021 SUNDAY MARCH 7th
The Open Day for season 2021 was “Kicked-off” with a mixed and mens “2 Ball Ambrose” and a total of 48 players. It was a great day with perfect weather and the course in very good condition – thanks to the dedicated “Grounds Committee” and volunteers. Thanks also to the “Match Committee” for a well run day and the ladies for a wonderful lunch.
Winner and Runners up prizes were kindly donated by IGA Jindera.
NTP and Straightest Drive vouchers supplied by Drummond Golf.
Next Sunday – 14th March – is the first round of the Monthly Medal.
Results :-
MensWinners – Ash Paach and Pat Maling,
Runners up – Frank Carmody and Bob Sheerans
Mixed Winners – Daryl Klein and Mihi Smith
Runners Up – Aaron Melbourne and Virginia Ebert
Straightest Drive – Ron Smithenbecker
NTP – Not Claimed
Balls – Ron and Rawinia Smithenbecker, Trevor Freeman and Mark Dickson, Steve Keshire and Greg Kent, Dave Briggs and Brenton Polkinghorn, Simon Cossor and Phil Manwarring
Scores :–
Name
Hcap
Hcap
Comb Hcap
Net Score
A.Paech
15
P.Maling
27
10.5
63.5
M.Smith
54
D.Klein
19
18.25
63.75
B.Sheerans
20
F.Carmody
30
12.5
64.5
D.Briggs
26
B.Polkinghorne
18
11
65
V. Ebert
34
A.Melbourne
23
14.25
65.75
R.Smithenbecker
17
R.Smithenbecker
12
7.25
66.75
P.Manwarring
28
S.Cossor
17
11.25
66.75
G.Kent
16
S.Kishere
39
13.75
67.25
R.McMillan
29
C.McMillan
6
8.75
67.25
T.Freeman
23
M. Dickson
27
12.5
67.5
S.Millar
21
J.Metcalf
10
7.75
68.25
F. Shannon
20
D.Webb
25
11.25
68.75
T.McGrath
36
K.Barton
36
18
69
D Castles
18
B.Castles
29
11.75
70.5
G.Moss
12
G.Broad
15
6.75
71.25
H.Chaston
34
P.Chaston
36
17.5
73.5
J.Dent
16
S.Pantony
18
8.5
75.5
B.Day
19
R.Inglewood
28
11.75
81.25
LADIES COMPETITION
11/3/2021 – Stableford – Opening Day – Winner:- Heather Chaston (38pts), R/Up Mihi Smith (33pts)