Newsletter | September 2024

I have been requesting from you the Members to put suggestions forward on what you would like me to present in my Captain’s Letter each month, as it is hard to always find topics of interest. I have received little or nothing from the Members, however I did receive communication from one Member in the form of an email and I thank you for the email referring to my letter of last month. He is perplexed which generally means that he is confused or baffled.

1. My reference that the Saturday Morning Field do not Rake Bunkers and as Caesar said “what’s written is written”. The results of my statement had the desired effect as the Bunkers are now been raked – well done guys now try and fill in more divots and repair your pitch marks
2. My holiday to Mauritius to celebrate the Twins, Casey & Megan,40^th Birthday – not been relevant to Milnerton Golf Club. I see it as very relevant as the Club is The Members. My report goes out to around 1000 members, so what is news to one may not be of interest to others. Note the Twins are our only Lady Single Figure Golfers at MGC and Casey is our reigning club champion for the past five years. She represented Milnerton at Clovelly in the Champion Of Champions and came 4^th . Well done Casey.

Work in Progress:

• Pump House all work near completion. Only the AOX pipe work to complete and with all our dams full we are ready to switch on the sprinklers as soon as they are required.
• Golf Cart pathways now completed.
• The Fountain in the 7/13^th Dam installed and looking good.
• With the cleanup around the halfway house and painting of same it is also looking good.

Well done to our Harry Solomon Boys on winning another Trophy for our Club.  It sure was a nail-biting finish

Our Course has stood up well with all the rain that we have had this winter. The 18^th fairway has taken a bit of a beating. It has been impossible to get the water off the fairway because of the high tides and high-water table. Hopefully we will get a few dry days soon and all the panic will be over until something else happens.

You ask what the latest is on the completion of the wall along the first fairway. It has gone through about 12 Departments and is now with some Department that will decide on what penalty we should pay because we disturbed the Doons! Can you believe it? We try to protect the doons and they want to penalize us. They are happy to see the doons wash into the sea and do nothing and if you try and protect then you are penalized. We have lost about 6 meters of ground along the 2^nd fairway up to the 5^th Tee Box and the Environment Department that are supposed to “protect” them. They do nothing and refuse to let us protect our Golf Course. If anyone reading this can advise or help, we would be very grateful.

Remember that you have your way. I have my way.  As for the right way, And the only way, It does not exist!!

Happy Golfing

Billy O’Brien
Captain

We welcome the following new members

Dean Jackson Alexander Flay Louise Hinds Sipho Bawuti Daniel Wilshire Jack Tredoux Yamkela Ntshakaza Keano Marco Valethi

Warrick Gouws Kevin Jones Jarryd Green Sabino Karoloes Sebastian Mantoua Maximus Mantoua Nicholas Mitchell Murry Lee

Monthly Golf Fixtures & Results

From the Desk of the Lady Captain

A hearty hello to everyone. What a Month August has been! I blinked my eyes and the last week of August was upon me! Before we realize it we will be wishing everyone a Blessed Christmas.

August has been a month like most of us have never ever experienced before, with the endless cold rainy days – and today with snow on Table Mountain.

The Ladies Division hardly had a game of Golf this month. Fortunately, the Club have allowed the Ladies to play on Thursday 29 August as we missed our Trophy Tuesday game again due to the heavy rains. We have a bumper turnout with 18 ladies. WOW wish we had that every week.

As previously mentioned, we have not done well this year with League and ended up bottom of the Log in both the 1st and 5th Divisions. We are however coming back next year with much determination to climb the Log Ladder. We are hoping to introduce some new players to our League Squad.

We welcome to our Ladies Division a new Member – Louise Hinds, we look forward to you joining us very soon on a Tuesday albeit in the beginning for the prize giving to get to know us.

Our Match Play is drawing to closure, and I want to congratulate Ntsoti who has gone through to the Final. She beat Deirdre on sudden death after playing 20 holes. Ntsoti will either be playing Karien or Casey in the Final who are yet to play their Match. Again, the rain hasn’t been in favour as well as other matters, but we look forward to our Final. We will announce when the Final will happen so that we all can be in support of the Final Players.

Casey represented Milnerton at the Champion of Champions on Sunday 1 September at Clovelly. Congratulations Case on securing 4th position.  Well played.  You really are an ambassador for Milnerton Golf Club.

Our Open Day is drawing very close now – 19 September. We have almost a full field – 4 x four balls yet to fill. Amazing Sponsors and amazing prizes.

A reminder that we have, Arno, from Loots Golf & Tours, who offers lessons on our new upgraded Driving Range at Milnerton Golf Club.

That’s it from me for now – wishing everyone better happier golfing days in September.

Judy Rae Teixeira
Lady Captain

 

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