Mens Order of Merit - 2008

The Men’s Order of Merit (OOM) will operate over the summer period starting from the 01 April until the 31st October.

The OOM will encompass all Weekend Monthly Stablefords and Weekend Monthly Medals during the dates stipulated above. OOM points will be awarded to the top 20 places (on each day irrespective of Division) with 20pts being awarded for 1st place down to 1 point for 20th.

The OOM will embrace all Men’s Single Stableford and Medal play Board Competitions during the dates stipulated above. OOM points will be awarded to the top 20 places with 20pts being awarded for 1st place down to 1 points for 20th.

The OOM will include both the Men’s Scratch and Men’s Handicap Club Championships. OOM points will be awarded to the top 20 places (in both competitions) with 40pts being awarded for 1st place down to 2 points for 20th.

Entry into the event Men’s Order of Merit will be automatic.

The following Single Competitions are excluded from the Order of Merit:

Midweek Stablefords
Midweek Medals
Bank Holiday Stablefords
Medal Winners Cup
Stableford Winners Cup

Tigers and Rabbits/Guides and Brownies - Result

Today witnessed the first Board competitions of the new golfing year. The mens competition (Tigers & Rabbits) saw some excellent scores with Purnell & Walpole scoring 41 Pts, Beecroft & McDonald socring 44pts. However, neither these scores were good enough to overhaul the eventual winners Colin Morgan & Tony Ward (pictured with Club Captain, Graham Purnell) with an excellent 45 pts, congratulations gentlemen.

The Ladies event also witnessed some excellent scoring Surgeon & Lawless finishing 2nd with 34pts, but congratulations go to Denise Beasley & Catherine Mawditt who won with 38pts, pictured with Ladies Captain Claire Surgeon.

Daily Mail Foursomes Round 1 Result

Congratulations to Denise Beasley & Guilia Lawless who were victorious against a pairing from Woodford Golf Club in the first round of the Daily Mail Foursome (Ladies) competition. In difficult conditions the Manor pairing easily beat their opponents 6&5.

Best of luck in the next round ladies!

Play your Captain & Pro in support of the Captains Charity

The Pro (Ben Goodey) and your Captain (Colin McDonald) await your fourball betterball challenge. Dates are now available throughout the 2008/09 with all members welcome, just find yourself a partner and give it a shot, entry is via the sheet in the Pro Shop. Ben and Colin look forward to your challenge.

A prize will be awarded for the best pair performance.

Start time for Tigers & Rabbits and Guides & Brownies

TIGERS & RABBITS - GUIDES & BROWNIES

30th MARCH 2008

18 HOLE GREENSOMES STABLEFORD - 7/16 OF COMBINED HANDICAP

Time
08:00 Twigg M. & Anderson G.
08:00 Chapman G. & Kebble T.

08:08 Morgan C. & Ward T.
08:08 Rowe J. & Charles M.

08:16 Purnell G. & Walpole J.
08:16 McIlwham K. & Rixon C.

08:24 Tomei F. & Foot R.
08:24 Wright J. & Wright D.

08:32 Martinelli T. & Casey P.
08:32 Davies M. & O'Conner M.

08:40 Leeds C. & Aitken A.
08:40 Patten S. & Ward S.

08:48 Marshall D. & Barker G.
08:48 Callen I. & Smith S.

08:56 Russell J. & Harrod J.
08:56 Cater T. & Clarke T.

09:04 Heffer M. & Clarke J.
09:04 Gay S. & Grover C.

09:12 Trevillion L. & Trevillion B.
09:12 Beecroft T. & McDonald C.

09:20 Hollyoake D. & Walker R.
09:20 Paine C. & Surgeon E.

09:28 Leaf C. & Allen S.
09:28 Lawless G. & Surgeon M.

09:36 Beasley D. & Mawditt C.
09:36 Surgeon C. & Charles H.

09:44 Weller G. & Tyler P.
09:44 McDonald S. & Paine L.

09:52 Clarke J. & Heffer J.
09:52 Hollyoake T. & Elkins N.

2008 AGM Minutes

MANOR OF GROVES GOLF CLUB
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
11 MARCH 2008 - 7.30p.m.

Graham Purnell (Captain) opened the meeting by welcoming members and representatives of the Manor of Groves Management and ISS Waterers to the 2008 Annual General Meeting.
1. Apologies for Absence: Pam & David Tyler, Ted & Margaret Surgeon, Joyce Dexter, Geraldine Rowe, Keith Borrett, Sue Brown, John Burlison.
2. Minutes of last years AGM. Dave Green proposed and Derek Filler seconded acceptance of the minutes for 2007.
3. Matters arising. There were no matters arising.
4. Captains’ reports.

Clare Surgeon (outgoing Lady Captain) said that her year had passed very quickly. She thanked Jean Clarke her Vice Captain for all her hard work and support. She continued by saying she had not realised the level of commitment required and found it difficult working full time and living so far away. She thanked Graham Purnell (Captain) for sharing his year with her and said how much she enjoyed golf with him. She ended by saying what a privilege it had been and wished Jean and Colin (Vice Captain) lots of luck and good wished for the coming year.

Graham Purnell (Outgoing Captain). Graham opened by saying that there were a few problems in his year and by October the Golf Course was not looking good but since the appointment of ISS Waterers the course is now looking good and should now be one of the best courses around. He followed by saying another issue, close to his heart, was the lack of junior golfers in spite of his efforts to recruit more, he was pleased to see that fees for juniors have now been substantially reduced. Graham thanked Dean Thomson (General) Manager and Kaye Bernard for their help with regard to the reduction in Junior fees.
He congratulated the Scratch Team on their successful year, having been promoted from division 5 to 4 in the County League. He mentioned that the average age of our scratch team is considerably higher than that of most other teams. He congratulated Dave Bristow, (Scratch Team Organiser) for doing a great job; he thanked Peter Wigg for running the Scratch Borders League.
He continued by thanking Bob and Val Walker for all that they do for the Club, Del Hollyoake for producing the newsletter, ISS Waterers, the Head Greenkeeper and his staff for the work being carried out on the course and the Seniors, a great group of people who he enjoyed playing with. He said that playing with Ben Goodey, our PGA Professional; he had learned how to take defeat as they were not very successful in the Captain/Pro challenge matches. He said Ben was a good Pro and a great teacher and asked members to support him.
His charity, National Deaf Children’s Society will benefit from the £2250 collected in his year he said. He recalled the longest day challenge when he, Steve Coombs, Stuart Lythell and Colin McDonald played 4 rounds of golf in a day for the charity.
He commended Colin McDonald his Vice Captain for the tremendous support he had given him, was delighted to have been Captain and having won the Club Championship in the same year, a feat he mentioned duplicated by Clare who he thanked for being a superb Lady Captain.
He concluded by reminding us what a great membership we have and that it is the Members who make the club what it is and it can only get better.

At this point, Clare presented Jean Clarke with her Lady Captain’s broach.
Colin McDonald the incoming Captain took the Chair.

Jean Clarke (incoming Lady Captain) thanked the members for giving her the opportunity of being Lady Captain. She said she wanted to enjoy her year, invited the Member to enjoy theirs, and said she wanted to get her handicap down.
Rainbow Services, a local charity would be the joint Captains’ charity this year she said and she and Colin had some novel ideas to raise money. She said she wanted to raise as much money as possible for this cause.
Jean presented Clare with a gift.

Colin McDonald spoke next, thanking the Members saying without them the Club would not exist and thanking Graham, Jean and the Committee. He thanked Graham for asking him to be his Vice Captain expressing what an honour it was.
He continued by saying that as Captain he wished for 5 things in the coming year:
To represent the members, both at home and away, with discretion, integrity and decorum;
to try and ensure that everyone in the club has an enjoyable and successful year;
to work with the Business and the Pro Shop (Ben and Neil) to encourage younger generations to play our great game, preferably here at the Manor;
that the weather is good in June for our Club Championship and our Captains Day;
and finally to raise as much money as possible for our chosen charity.
He concluded by saying that it filled him with great pride to undertake the post of Manor of Groves Captain for 2008/09.

5. Vice Captain
Colin introduced Mark Heffer as his Vice Captain and Jean introduced Giuilia Lawless as her Vice Captain.

6. Treasurer’s Report.
Alan Goodman presented the accounts, reminding members that the figures related solely to the Committee’s activities (primarily competitions). He said that we turned over £68,000 during the year. Over the year we have ended up with a surplus of around £280. Medal income is down but Stableford income is up; this has been helped by playing these over the two days at weekends. We are more than £4000 down on last year in terms of competitions income due in part to the cancellation of the Ladies Open and having fewer members. Grovers made a small surplus. We made a surplus on matches because we had more away matches than home and there was a small amount of interest from our deposit account.
Prizes and Trophies were down with smaller fields. Spending on prizes was less than last year in keeping with reduced entries. Presentations include thins like the Captain’s jacket, flowers etc. Last year under we had to spend considerable sums on new Honours Boards, trophy cabinets this is the reason that spending on improvements is significantly down this year. Dave Bristow continued his sound financial management of the Scratch Team.
There were no questions from the floor. Dick Watt proposed acceptance of the accounts, seconded by Dave Green. The meeting accepted the accounts.
Alan thanked Philip Chamberlain, Honorary Auditor, who had agreed to stand again. As there were no more nominations, Philip was accepted unanimously.

7. Election of the Committee.
The following officers remained on the Committee as of right by virtue of the Constitution:
• Colin McDonald – Captain
• Jean Clarke – Lady Captain
• Mark Heffer – Vice Captain
• Graham Purnell – Immediate Past Captain
• Giuilia Lawless– Lady Vice Captain

Bob Walker (Secretary) and Alan Goodman (Treasurer) are Officers of the Club and are voted for by the Committee every two years.


The following nine Members offered themselves for election; there were eight Committee places available.
Mick Charles Lyn Paine Derek Filler David Green
Judith Heffer Clare Surgeon David Tyler Val Walker
Dick Watt

Following a ballot the following were elected.
Mick Charles Val Walker Dick Watt David Green
Lyn Paine Clare Surgeon Derek Filler Judith Heffer

------------------THIS ENDED THE FORMAL PART OF THE MEETING-------------------------

8. AOB and Question and Answer Session.
Chris Rixon Will problems with the watering system be addressed? Mark Wells from ISS Waterers said that the system had been ‘fired up’ and a number of leeks detected which will b e repaired. He was hoping to get commitment from Stephen Hung to carry out repairs; we will manage the system more efficiently this year. Member will be kept informed.
Rob Woolston Will the three flag system for pin position be re-introduced. Mark Wells said no but an improved ‘pennant’ system will be put in place.
Giuilia Lawless Can the warning sign at the site entrance about golf being play be replaced? Dean Thompson – yes.
Del Hollyoake Asked about the Pro Shop not stocking good with the old Club Logo which id preferred by many Member. Dean deferred his response.
Jean Clarke Can something be done about the ladies 5th tee which is in poor condition? Mark Wells – yes.
Rob Woolston Can we get bigger winter mats? Mark Wells will investigate and let Member know the outcome.
Mark Heffer When can we have a replacements mat in the practice nets. Dean Thompson – we will replace it.
Derek Filler After congratulating the greenkeeping staff for their hard work he asked if the Committee would consider the voting rights of five day Members. Alan Goodman explained what advice was taken from the EGU and several other clubs before the Constitution was drafted – none included five day Members.

MEETING ENDED AT 8.35.
Bob Walker
Secretary

MOG 2008 AGM Agenda

MANOR OF GROVES GOLF CLUB
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
11th MARCH 2008 - 7.30 PM

AGENDA

1. Apologies for absence.

2. Minutes of last years AGM.

3. Matters arising.

4. Captain’s Report.

5. Treasurer’s Report. & Election of Honorary Auditor.

6. Election of the Committee.

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7. Any other business and question and answer session.

Congratulations!

The weekend witnessed the finals in 2 of the Winter Doubles with the Ladies and Mixed Doubles being decided.

In the Ladies Doubles, Rose Borrett and Helena Charles were facing the tough challenge against Denise Beasley and Tina Holyoake. In extremely windy conditions the fourball took on the challenge with the eventual outcome being a win for Denise and Tina - CONGRATULATIONS

On Sunday the Mixed Final took place between Aileen and John Burlison and the dubious pairing of Stephanie and Colin McDonald. Taking into account some extremely windy conditions the fourball displayed some fine golf with the eventual winners being Stephanie and Colin McDonald - CONGRATULATIONS.