Women's Camden Cup

A beautiful day, challenging pin placements and a solid field of visitors.  

The Nett winner was Toni Antigo (Queanbeyan) who won by one shot with a score of 76 off a handicap of 26. 

Narelle Hellier (Hurstville) was a close second.

Quite an amazing occurrence that Michael Bell was the leading Camden player in the men's Camden Cup and Candice was the leading Camden player in the women's event.  Well done Bells.

Last Sunday, Camden hosted a junior event with a good field of junior talent from different parts of Sydney.  A field of 40 players competed for the championship.  The scratch winner was Joshua Todd (Randwick) with an excellent score of 73. Second was William Moody (Avondale) 76, with local Joshua Battle third a further stroke back.

In the Nett event, Blake Hodges (Dunheved) won in a very close finish with Camden's Geordie Taylor.  Geordie had an excellent Nett 69 off a handicap of 17.

They face Richmond in 2 weeks at Richmond for the last game of the season, and whilst Richmond are too far ahead to hunt them down for the overall win, their latest form should see them be competitive against the leading team.

• Some members with GPS, can now download the new distances for the 8th and 9th holes. We are having some difficulty with a few providers.  MGI /Sureshot should be OK. Bushnell say it is done, go to www.bushnell.igolf.com and do a single course update. We are still waiting on Garmin and Golfbuddy.  Are there any others we need to contact?  Let Greg Matheson know please.

• The new internal out of bounds on the 12th hole is located to the right and 60 metres from the tee box, clearly marked with white and black tipped pine logs.

• The soil removed from the 11th dam that has been located to the left of the 12th hole is to be treated as GUR at this stage.  There are significant track marks leading from the 11th dam to the dumping area and should be treated as GUR.  Great to see some rain to fill up the 11th dam after the work has been done.

• Please ensure that after bunkers are raked that the rake is placed in the middle of the bunker lying in the direction of play.

• Pace of play becomes far more important during winter months. In recent weeks we have had some groups finishing in the dark. If your group falls behind (identified as two shots behind the group ahead), utilise strategies of increasing pace of play such as:

• having two players who have putted out move to the next tee box to tee off.

• incorporating 'ready golf' - hitting out of turn to increase speed of play is acceptable within your group.

• Brisk movement between shots.

• Divot filling is essential at all times, particularly in winter.

• The bark on the left of the 10th hole is in play. This had been removed from the GUR notification on Stu's white board a few weeks ago.