Captain's Update - February 2026

IMPORTANT NOTES 

Visitors 
The rules and fees for visitors and Member's Guests are currently under review.  
The current rules allow Member’s Guests to be booked with the Member on Saturday competitions from 11.15am from the 10th tee and Wednesday competitions from 7.00am from the 10th tee. Other visitors including hotel guests are not permitted in Saturday competition times (although there will be a small number of old bookings made before October 2025 still being honoured). 
Other visitors are allowed to play in Wednesday competitions with tee times from11.55am from the 10th tee. Please note that no visitor including a Member’s Guest is permitted to be booked into a competition time on any Saturday or Wednesday if they are a member of a virtual or social golf club or are unaffiliated. Any Member’s Guest playing in a competition must be accompanied by the Member. 

Late Cancellations and No Shows 
This has been raised several times. 
There were 16 cancellations between 8pm last Friday and 6.30am Saturday morning. It is really hard to believe that none of these 16 knew well before 8pm on Friday they would not be playing. 
Last year we had 176 No Shows by Members. While many of these would have been because of inclement weather the correct thing to do is call the Proshop unless the course is unplayable. 

New Mid-Week Competition 
Watch out for a new weekly competition. Gavin is planning it now. 

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. 

UPCOMING EVENTS 
Monday 16th February - Magenta Ladies Open Day 
Wednesday 25th February- Monthly Medal & Ladies NSW Medal Qualifier 
Monday 2nd to 8th March - Australian Women’s Classic – Course Closed
Monday 9th March – Australian Women's Classic Volunteers Thankyou Event
Friday 13th March - Par 3
Saturday 14th March -  Monthly Medal; NSW Ladies Medal qualifier
Friday 20th March - St Patricks Day Novelty event
Saturday 21st March - Handiskins Round 2
Sunday 22nd March - Short Course – All in Stableford
Monday 23rd March - Ladies Fun Day
Wednesday 25th March - Mid Week Medal; NSW Ladies Medal qualifier
Sunday 29th March - Mens and Ladies Foursomes
Monday 30th March - Course closed (instead of April 6).

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