Seniors Section Tuesday Group

STOP PRESS: The Tuesday Game was able to get up and running despite our Organiser Anthony Bell being taken to hospital with acute appendicitis. Thankfully, he is on the mend and we can look forward to regular Tuesday games when we are allowed back on to the course following the second lockdown introduced on November 5th.

A new Tuesday Group has been established by Seniors Section Captain Bill Walker following a survey of members which highlighted the desire for an alternative to the Tuesday roll-up which was suspended due to the Covid 19 pandemic.

Anthony Bell has been seconded as an ex-officio member of the Seniors Committee to manage the group via WhatsApp. If you are interested in joining the group please contact Anthony on 07817 328554 or anthonycbell@hotmail.com

The group was due to tee off with a pilot meeting on October 27, followed by further meetings beginning on November 10.

Participating members must communicate their availability to Anthony for each date they wish to play at least 10 days in advance and, if asked, be prepared to book their group’s tee time as soon as it comes available.

The Tuesday Group – Guiding Principles

Purpose.  The Tuesday Group is a John O’Gaunt GC Seniors’ Section sponsored Covid19 safe group set up to enable members to meet and play casual golf with a variety of other members during the Corona virus pandemic.  Non Seniors’ Section members are also welcome providing the group is not over subscribed. The Tuesday Group is also intended to act as a useful conduit for new members to integrate into the Section by meeting as many other members as possible.  The Group will start play at 9 AM on those Tuesday mornings when the Seniors’ Section does not have a formal competition scheduled.  The following are the principles aimed at guiding how the group is managed and format of casual golf played.  At all times, the Covid19 safe rules of social distancing, mask wearing in certain locations and other precautions prescribed by the Club are to be strictly observed:

1. The group will be sponsored by the Seniors’ Section Committee who will exercise overall control. All matters of dispute or grievance that cannot be resolved by the day to day organiser are to be referred to the Seniors’ Section Immediate Past Captain. Day to day management of the group will be performed by one or more nominated organisers. 

2. The nominated organiser(s) are to:

1. Maintain a current list of participating members.
2. Set up and manage an efficient and effective two-way communications links with members. 
3. Monitor those communications links to ensure traffic is limited to Tuesday Group coordination.
4. Receive notifications of availability from members.
5. Perform a draw for each meeting organising members into 3 and 4 ball groups with allocated tee times starting at 9AM. 
6. Nominating a player in each group to be responsible for booking the allocated tee time for his particular group.
7. Checking that all groups have been booked in according to the draw and noting any variations of allocated tee time caused by booking difficulties.
8. Refer any disputes that he cannot resolve himself to the Seniors’ Section IPC.

3. Group members must undertake to:

1. Proactively inform the Organiser(s) of their availability to play on a particular date at least 10 days prior to that date.
2. Book the tee time for their group as early as possible after release if nominated to do so. They may volunteer to do this on a regular basis for any group they are part of if they wish.

4. Format of play:

1. All play is to be off full handicap in accordance with World Handicap System rules.
2. 4 ball groups should play 4-ball better-ball in order to promote speed of play. Other formats are permissible if agreed by all 4 players providing slow play is avoided.
3. 3 ball groups are recommended to play singles stableford.
4. Small wagers within each playing group are permissible such as purchase of post round refreshments.