Captains' Update - March 2026

MAGENTA LADIES OPEN DAY 
Magenta hosted our annual Ladies Open Day on Monday 16th February. There were 112 players with 74 visitors from 16 different clubs including 7 Sydney clubs. A great day was had by all on and off the course. Together with $5 donation per player and proceeds of our fabulous raffles over $3,000 was raised for the CCWGA 2026 Charity Wyong Hospital Palliative Care Unit.
Many thanks to those who helped make the day happen including Lisa Atkins, Margot Drakeford, Gay Saines, Chris Bennett, Ash Atkins, John Wylie, the Monday volunteers and all the morning tea providers together with the Pro Shop team.
A big thank you also to those who contributed to the raffle prizes including Drummond Golf, Metro Cinemas, Dolce Vita Shin and Bliss Hair Salon to name a few.

VISITORS
The rules and fees for visitors and Member’s Guests are currently under review. When the review is completed the rules and fees will be published on the website.

NEW MID-WEEK COMPETITION 
From April 7 there will be a new Tuesday morning all-in competition. 
 
HOLE INDICES 
The analysis has been completed and several changes were made to both Mens and Ladies indices from 1 January 2026. 
The methodology used was consistent with that recommended by some golf bodies and clubs. All competitions scores from January to August 2025 were used. The ratings for the hardest holes were determined from the scores of only the lowest handicap players and for the indices for holes rated 16-18 were determined by the scores of the players with handicaps 15 and above. All scores were grouped by handicaps to enable all the intermediate indices to be determined by those players for whom the indices were most relevant. Consideration was given to having different indices for each tee colour as some clubs do but this would add considerably to administration time. The indices would not be significantly different by colour except for the Men’s 18th rating from White. This will be rectified soon as it is intended to generally use the new tee produced for the Australian Women’s Classic. For matchplay we will in future use the Golf Australia Recommended Matchplay Index. 
 
TEE TIMES & WAITLISTS  
Some time ago timesheets for Saturday and Wednesday competitions were altered to increase the gap between the morning and afternoon fields. However, if there was a waitlist extra time slots were added to create 16 additional spaces. As this has become necessary almost every week it has been decided to add the 2 tee times on both holes 1 and 10 back into the timesheet except on Saturday Monthly Medal days. This will reduce the need to put your name on a waitlist. A reminder for those teeing off first in the morning that they must wait after their first nine holes until all players in the morning field have teed off on their first hole be it hole one or ten.
 
PACE OF PLAY  
Please keep track of your score on each hole. When you can no longer score a point in Stableford or a net par in a Par event then pick up. Do not keep playing until you have putted out. 

From your Captains, 
Kerri Cook & John Wylie 
 
Course Care – DO THE RIGHT THING 
Rake Bunkers, Fill Divots, Fix Pitch Marks