Hi all

Please note that I will be away on holiday from 21^st February to the 13^th March

Our Vice Captain Rod Bools will be looking after matters for the Eric Clack Trophy on 21^st  Feb, Winter Stableford Round 5 26^th Feb, and the Prize Giving and Chapman Format on 28^th Feb.

Cliff Smith with then look after the Bowmaker on 5^th March, Winter Stableford R6 on 7^th March and the Monthly Medal for the 12^th March

Change to competition fees

Following our recent committee meeting there was agreement to increase the main competition fees to £3 and the Championship to £4 from 1^st March.

Main competitions are Medals, Summer and Winter Stablefords and Trophy Board competitions

Roll ups will continue to be £1.

Looking at all our competitions, 64 remain at £1, a total of 35 increase by £1

The proportion of prize money will still be 50% or as near as possible until there are more than 35 players for a competition.

The reason for the changes were

1. Provide support to members attending Away days
2. Provide refreshments at the Prize Giving Days
3. Additional prize monies
4. Additional spot prizes to share the spoils around

I have arranged for 2’s competition to be in place for the £3 competitions from the 1^st March with a £10 prize pool to be split between any players scoring a Gross 2, no handicap allowance to apply..

Looking over the last 20 competitions only 3 times did more than one player score a 2.

If no-one scores a 2, which in the last 20 competitions happened 8 times the prize money will roll over onto the next £3 competition with a £20 prize pool.

We will see how this works for the next couple of months and if it is not successful, change it to another format.

Make sure you circle the 2 on your score card.

I will be back for the match at Lilleybrook on 14^th March for which we have a full team and will e-mail the players separately on this.

We also have a match on 21^st March at Meyrick Park, Bournemouth Away for which I am 1 player short and this can be a player up the a 35 handicap, so let me know if you want to play for the team.

Finally we play Kirtlington on 26^th March again we have a full team.

First Tee times will revert back to 8.00am from 2^nd April for the Summer Stableford R1. Robbie please note

Regards

Rod

Rod Rapley

Witney Lakes Seniors Captain

                                                                                                                                            

m:  07721420100 

e:   rod@jtiuk.com