NOVEMBER GOLF

Welcome to November, the busiest golfing month of the year at PIGC. A notice re the dates, handicap grades, etc, for the 2024 Men's Club Championships is below. We have many new members who may not be aware of all the extra events that occur during this month so please read below. 

Saturday 16^th Nov is Round 1 of the Club Championships. It is also the Nov Monthly Medal sponsored by Paul Waylen. The 2024 Saturday Medal of Medallists is also awarded. The twelve winners of monthly medals from Nov 2023 until Oct 2024 compete for the medal of medallists with the best nett score of the twelve taking the prize. The contenders are, Brenton O'Brien, Heath Grace, Chris Ross, Athol Hill, Mark Jamieson, Ricky Males, Liam Keating, Paul Dickson, Alex Bowden, John McKechnie, Brenton O'Brien, and Alex Andrews. November medal day is also the start of the PIGC Men's Putting Competition, which runs over eight monthly medals till June. Only the best five scores are averaged to provide the winner. Providing your mi-score settings enables the recording of putts YOUR number of putts will be submitted when submitting the daily scores. Two playing partners using the app is ideal, both scores recorded. Unfortunately, any other scenario will require one or both to still record their number of putts taken on their card.  

Tuesday 12^th Nov is the visit of Flinders Golf Club for the annual Westernport Challenge. Please note it is essential that members register in the golf shop, naming a partner if known. There will be no 18-hole spots available for bookings when the fixture sheet goes live on the prior Thursday evening. Members will be added as soon as we receive the same information from Flinders.  

Sunday 24^th Nov is Round 3 of the Club Championships for the Men's A & B grades only and are seeded. The timeslots for the Sunday will be completed on the Saturday afternoon after golf.  

Saturday 30^th Nov. Final Round of Club Championships for all Men's grades and Ladies A & B grades, to be followed by the PIGC presentation evening. Proceedings start once the presentations of the daily competition are completed. 

Men's & Ladies Captain & Match Committees 

MEN'S CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Club Championships will be decided over four (4) rounds of stroke play (72 holes) in the Open, A grade nett, B grade gross & nett events. Three (3) Rounds (54 Holes) in the C grade gross & nett, D grade gross and nett, Junior gross and nett events and Senior (over 70 at start of championships) events. Play for all the grades will be on Saturday 16^th, 23^rd, & 30^th November. The Open, A & B grades will play their 3^rd round on Sunday 24th November.  

In the case of severe weather or other adverse circumstances, the Match Committee reserves the right to nominate an alternative date, play 36 holes in any one day or shorten the event to a minimum 36 holes. 

There will be an Open Championship, Handicap A, Scratch & Handicap in B, C, D grades and Junior events. Nett event only in Seniors Championship. (Over 70) 

Handicap divisions will be: 

A Grade               0 -   9 daily h'cap 
B Grade               10 - 16 daily h'cap 
C Grade              17 - 23 daily h'cap 
D Grade              24 - 40 daily h'cap 
Junior's               Daily H/Cap 40 max, U21 at 01/07/2024 

Handicaps as of midnight on the 15th of November 2024 will be used for the 4 rounds of the championships but will be adjusted for the daily event on each individual day.  

The Junior (under 21) gross and nett and a Senior (over 70) Nett Club Champions will be decided in conjunction with the event. 

The order of play for rounds 3 & 4 (A&B) will be according to the progressive scores in the previous rounds, i.e., a seeded draw. The top 8 players in each division will play seeded on Saturday November 30th. The championship seeded names for Saturday 30th will be added to the time sheet prior to being live on Monday 25^th November. 

Ties in scratch events will be decided by a sudden death playoff using holes 1 & 9. Ties in handicap events will be decided by a count-back. In multi round events the last 18 holes will be used and if still tied the usual count-back of last nine will be applied. 

VETS GOLF

The next Vet's golf day is at Phillip Island on Monday 11 November.

It is the second round of the Vet's Championship and is a shotgun start at 9 am.

If you intend to play please let Mark Reid know by text (0467000456) or email (sandybaypi@bigpond.com)

Please also let Mark know if you intend to share a cart with another Vet.

And this is a further reminder that the Vet's Xmas event is at Korumburra on Monday 2 December (not 9 December).

NINE & DINE

The next Nine & Dine will be played on Friday 22nd November. Following this, we will have one in December on Friday 13th before we move into 2025. 

$25 per person and this includes your entry into the competition as well as the evening meal.