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St Patrick’s Day – Friday 17 March 2023

Lakeview Bar will be turning green to celebrate St Patrick’s Day on Friday 17 March. Members and their guests are invited to enjoy the following specials:

Golf Shop Specials

Wear green on St Patrick’s Day and receive an additional 10% off all clothing in the golf shop. This is in addition to the Members’ discount and excludes all reduced to clear sales items.

Food and Beverage Specials

  • Steak and Guinness Pie – $16
  • Irish Lamb Stew – $16

Both dishes are served with colcannon mash and peas.

  • Guinness Can – $7 
  • Jameson Irish Whisky – $6
  • Irish Coffee – $7

Date: Friday 17 March 2023
Time:
 from 11am
Location: 
Lakeview Bar and Lakeview Terrace

Social Sunday – Billings Cup Qualifier 

The next Social Sunday event will be held on The Pines golf course on Sunday 19 March 2023. This will be the qualifier for the Billings Cup with the top 8 teams qualifying for the Match Play rounds.

Date: Sunday 19 March 2023
Time: 12:30pm shotgun start
Location: The Pines golf course
Bookings: Bookings are now open via the online tee sheet.

For a full list of Social Sunday rules, please click here.

Men’s Guest Day

Bookings are now open for the next Men’s Guest Day on Friday 31 March 2023 on The Pines golf course.

Each Member can bring one guest for the day. This is a great chance to showcase our world-class facilities to your friends.

Date: Friday 31 March 2023
Time: 8am and 12:30pm shotgun starts
Location: The Pines golf course
Bookings: Via the online tee sheet
Cost: $35 includes green fee, competition fee and post-golf food platters

Sanctuary Cove Body Corporate Services Works

Sanctuary Cove Body Corporate Services will be undertaking work, of which some is on our land, for the A-Class water pipe.

The contractor will under bore the road on St Andrews Terrace and The Parkway and trench the remaining section in preparation for the mainline installation. At this stage, they will be ready to commence works in this area on 20 March and the section is expected to take 1-2 weeks. Under bore machinery will be located on the corner of St Andrews Terrace, however approximately 50m of pipework will then be welded and pulled back through from the pathway side.

For Golf Club access, the area will be suitably barricaded with traffic management in place to ensure little to no disruption to pathway users.

We kindly ask Members and your guests to please drive with caution through this area.

Friday Night Dining in The Jabiru Restaurant  – Closed for Private Function Friday 17 March

The Jabiru Restaurant will be closed this  Friday 17 March for a private function. Bookings are now available for Friday 24 March 2023 and reservations can be made via the online tee sheet or by phoning 07 5699 9000.

Date: Friday 24 March 2023
Time: Bookings are available from 6pm
Location: The Jabiru Restaurant
Bookings: Bookings can be made via the online tee sheet or by phoning 07 5699 9000

Sunday Breakfast in Lakeview Bar

Due to staffing shortages, Lakeview Bar will be closed for breakfast this Sunday 19 March 2023. The Club’s coffee cart will be open 6:30am – 11:30am. We apologise for the inconvenience and look forward to welcoming guests on Sunday 26 March 2023.   

Golf Buggy Parking – Porte-Cochère

Members are reminded that parking is not permitted under the porte-cochère at the Clubhouse main entrance unless in an allocated parking space.

Golf buggy parking is available in front of the golf shop and in the designated Clubhouse entrance cart park.

Your cooperation and understanding of these guidelines are appreciated, so as to not jeopardise the Club’s ability to accommodate emergencies such as fire and ambulance arrivals.

We thank you for your support on this matter.

Members’ Working Group

The Members’ Working Group is a group of Members who volunteer their time to assist the Golf Course Maintenance team with various tasks on and around the golf courses. 
 
The group meets fortnightly on Tuesdays, and we invite any Members interested in helping to contact Gary Simmons.

The Palms Fairway Topdressing

The topdressing of The Palms fairways will be completed on Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 March 2023. This was unable to be completed during the course renovation period due to supply shortages of sand.

Topdressing is the application of a sand-based topdressing mix to the playing surface, the benefits of which are listed below:

  • The filling of aerification holes with sand keeps these channels open for air, water and amendments, allowing them to penetrate to the root zone
  • The removal of thatch by core aerification, coupled with the topdressing sand application, is a combination that creates a tighter, firmer, and more even playing surface
    • Thatch is the result of applying turf which produces organic matter in the upper rootzone (thatch)
    • This creates a soft, undesirable playing surface
  • Rubbing in of topdressing sand fills in any uneven surfaces and levels out these areas

During the topdressing period, Members and guests will experience minimal impact on the golf course.

Congratulations to the SCGCC Employees of the Quarter – Ashleigh Blacksell, Andrew Lothian and Nick Harris

Ashleigh Blacksell
Ashleigh is responsible for retail in the golf shop and has led the team to enor­mous retail results, surpassing budget by a significant amount since December of last year.

December – $163,523 in sales against a budget of $84,800 (this was a record month and was done with limited staff due to staff annual leave).

February – saw the budget surpassed by over $45,000.

While Ryan Gailey was away on annual leave during February, Ashleigh stepped up and went above and beyond for Members and helped run the operation. Ashleigh took all challenges in her stride and we would like to congratulate Ashleigh on all of her efforts.

Andrew Lothian and Nick Harris
Andrew Lothian and Nick Harris were both selected for their continued dedication and hard work, especially during the recent The Palms renovations. They both worked well over the required hours in extreme conditions to make sure the job was adequately completed.

Congratulations to Ashleigh, Andrew and Nick.

MiScore App Update

On Wednesday 8 March 2023, the Club’s MiScore app received a major upgrade. The upgrade was installed automatically on devices with automatic app updates enabled. Devices with automatic app updates disabled will require a manual update via the app stores. Please click here for instructions regarding how to upgrade the MiScore app manually if you don’t have automatic updates installed.

In order to continue using the MiScore app, all Members are required to accept the version upgrade by the end of March.

2023 Buggy Stickers

A reminder to all Members that as of Sunday 1 January 2023, all Members must display a 2023 buggy sticker on their buggy when accessing the golf courses. 2023 buggy stickers can be collected from the golf shop Monday to Sunday, 6am to 5pm.

Sunday Night Roast and Members’ Draw

The weekly Members’ Sunday Night Roast is held on Sunday evenings from 5:30pm.

The roast is $35 per person and includes a soup, a selection of traditional roast meats and vegetables and dessert.

Places are strictly limited, to avoid disappointment please book by phoning 07 5699 9000.

The Weekly Members’ Draw will be drawn at 6:30pm. The Members drawn in the last Members’ Draw were Mr Adrian Garnett and Mrs Colleen Davis. Mr Garnett and Mrs Davis were not present, therefore the amount has jackpotted to $2,400 Club Credit with two chances to win.

Date: Sunday 19 March 2023
Time: From 5:30pm
Location: Lakeview Bar

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