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| Tee times for Faldo Event | The draw for tomorrow evening’s event at the Faldo is as shown below:
1735: (1): Tim Collins, Steve Allen, Dean Moss, Mike Belt
1735: (10): Kader Tazerout, Ted Green, Peter Boland, Mike Wells
1745: (1): James Walters, David Evans (g), Tim Harford, Chris Patt (g)
1745: (10): Archie Gemmell, Ian Savage (g), Terry Harman (g), Darren McDonald (g)
1755: (1): Steven Batchelor, Philip Bray (g), Ian Courtiff (g), Antony Gilliam
1755: (10): Paul Stump, Aric Ault (g), Matthew Bazeley, Adam Priestley
To expedite the process we will have a small prize giving straight afterwards in the bar downstairs - if you could hand me your scorecards in the bar straight after your round, that would be much appreciated.
We will be playing the blue tees and we have small prizes for the top three players and four NTPs.
Event details are as detailed below:
Date: Sunday, 22nd January
Time: 1735 rolling (see above)
Venue: Faldo
Cost: Dhs 295 for Members; (Dhs 295 for Guests)
As always, the usual conditions apply - last minute cancellations and “no shows” will pay the full unsubsidised rate. | |
| Boeing Day: Results | Ken Schultz and his Boeing colleagues hosted yet another great Society Day at the Faldo on Saturday. As always, the format was a Texas Scramble and as all players were allowed to take the "best" drive, it made for some spectacularly low scores. Therefore, with a score of 59.2 the team of Steve Allen, Carl Brandenberg, Christian Futschick and Leo Fewtrell took the spoils and all received a Callaway Hawk Driver as a reward. Following closely behind with a score of 61.6 were the team of Tim Collins, James Taplin, Peter Kesby and Peter Boylan, who were all given Callaway Hawk 3-woods as prizes. The third-placed team on 61.7 (only 0.1 behind the second-placed team) were given Callaway hybrids and consisted of Dave Moore, Darryl Atkins, Dave Ladd-Thomas and Swarm Singh. Finally, the fourth placed team of Craig Williams, Dean Moss, Didier Saunders and Jacques Cloete on 62.6 were awarded Odyssey Putters.
The "nearest-the-pin" prizes were won by Matt Bazeley (hole 8) and Kader Tazerout (hole 12) who received a dozen Titleist Pro V1s for their great shots. Tony Benecke won the longest drive with a massive hit on hole 16 and Tim Collins won the straightest drive on hole 18 - both won a Callaway Laser Rangefinder. | |
| Paul Nightingale Crowned Club Champion Again | Congratulations to Paul Nightingale who has won (for the fifth time consecutively?) the Club Championship at the, I must say, perfectly manicured Majlis course at Emirates Golf Club. Paul came in with an impressive 78 beating his nearest rival Dave Loftus by two shots (who won the Net prize). Iain Lachlan came third, carding an 81.
As mentioned, David won the net prize who (with a host of others) carded a net 73. Matthew Bazeley came second and David Ladd-Thomas third, based on a count-back of the back nines.
Nearest-the-pins were won by: Guenter Hirsch (4th hole), Franck Michaud (7th and 11th holes) and Didier Saunders (15th hole).
Again, many thanks to Duncan Davies from Emirates Flight Catering who kindly sponsors our premier event of the season. | |
| Summer Challenge Results & Winter Schedule | Summer Challenge Results
Many congratulations to Didier Sanders who won this years Summer Challenge event - his best two scores, both 37 points, at the second and third event combining to give 74 points was to prove unassailable by the chasing pack at the last event. Great golf in hot and humid conditions!
On the day, the individual event was won by Adam Moore, a guest with 37 points. He was closely followed by Steve Allen on 36 points and Didier (again, though not reaching his previous heights) with 33 points. NTPs were won by Archie Gemmell, Steve Allen, Mazen Qursha and Craig Williams.
Many thanks to all those who joined and made the Summer events so successful.
Winter Schedule
Please note, our winter schedule is now nearly upon us, and the first of these - the EKFC Club Championship - is now open for registration on the website. Please note, these next five events are our “premier”” events, which are heavily sponsored to our members and thus registration is now only available to fully “paid-up” members of the Society. Places will be limited and thus registration should be made as early as possible. With this in mind, spaces for guests will also be limited, though we will always try to accommodate if we can (though they will not be able to win prizes apart from NTPs).
Fri 21 Oct: EKFC Club Championship at Majlis, Emirates GC. Dhs 170.
Fri 11 Nov: Boeing Golf Day at Faldo, Emirates GC. Dhs 170.
Fri 16 Dec: OnAir Golf Day 1 at Earth, Jumeirah Golf Estates. Dhs 200.
Sat 14 Jan: OnAir Golf Day 2 at Fire, Jumeirah Golf Estates. Dhs 200.
Feb: EGS Captain’s Day. Still planning.
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| The Els Day: Results | The results of the Els Day on Saturday 28th March are as follows:
1st: Matthew Bazely (33 points)
2nd: James Walters (32 points - countback)
3rd: Aric Ault (32 points)
Nearest the pins on both the 4th and 17th were won by Christopher Farrell.
Prizes will be distributed at the next event. Well done to all who won! | |
| Change in Venues: Summer Challenge | Dear All,
Due to planned maintenance taking significantly longer than anticipated at the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club, only 9 holes will be open when we were planning to play the first two events of the Summer Challenge. Based on this, we were offered alternatives - in June we were offered the the Majlis; the Faldo for our July event, both of which which we have accepted - the dates remain unchanged as does the cost, however, the starting time is now 0730 (which is probably better in this heat!). August and September remain unchanged. We have 32 spaces available at both events.
Therefore, if you need to amend your registration (cancel or register), please click the following links:
Kind Regards,
Committee
Emirates Golf Society | |
| Tower Links Results | Results for last week’s Society event at Tower Links are as shown below:
1st: Paul Nightingale (38 points)
2nd: Kader Tazerout (37 points - countback)
3rd: Rosie Hansford (37 points)
Nearest-the-pins were won by Paul Nightingale (4th) and Kader Tazerout (16th). | |
| Summer Challenge | We have organised another Summer Challenge event this year, though as we have managed to secure some great rates from the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club, it will be hosted there. Due to this, we can price each of the games very aggressively - Dhs 160 for EGS members and Dhs 240 for guests. Furthermore, if you are a member of the Creek (either as a “Full” or “Summer” member), the cost will only be Dhs 50.
However, there are some caveats…. We do need a minimum of 24 people at each event and thus need to know the enthusiasm for playing - last year, we did struggle getting members to play during the Summer for a variety of reasons. By now, you should hopefully know your Summer plans and so we are hoping that you are able to commit (or otherwise) at this early stage - FYI, we need to confirm/commit to the Creek by the end of May. Therefore, if you are likely to play at these events, could you please register so we can plan accordingly. Thanks (in advance) for your assistance!
As a recap, the Summer Challenge Champion will the person with the best nett two scores from the four events. There will be individual prizes for each event also.
To register for the events please go to the events page. Full details are as below:
Dates: 25th June; 23rd July; 12th August; 17th September
Time: 0830 Shotgun
Sponsor: EGS
Venue: Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club
Format: Individual stableford
Price: Dhs 160 (Guests: Dhs 240; DCGYC Members: Dhs 50)
Thanks again for your support!
Kind Regards,
Committee
Emirates Golf Society | |
| Captains Day Results | Congratulations to Tony Benecke and Wolf Lennert Didszuhn who swept away the field at this week’s Captain’s Day hosted at Sharjah Golf and Shooting Club. As a two ball-better ball event, they scored 47 points, four points ahead of their nearest rivals of Paul Stump and Kevin Creane. In third place were Dylan Mustard and Leonard Thyagarajan on 42 points.
Nearest the pin on 3 (&12!) was Archie Gemmell. Our Captain, Iain Lachlan, also won a NTP on hole 8 (&17), inches away from an expensive hole-in-one. T’was a great shot!
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| IMPORTANT: New Policies | Dear All,
We are now coming to the end of the Golf Society’s “fiscal” year (1st April 2010 to 31st March 2011) and we hope that you have enjoyed the various tournaments organised thus far. With this in mind, we would like to remind our members that we are now collecting subscriptions for the next year (1st April 2011 to 31st March 2012). The rate remains unchanged at Dhs 250.
We would also like to bring to your attention of some significant policy changes that the Committee have agreed upon from 1st April 2011 – these have been made in part due to the growing membership base (increasing of staff numbers), together with the still restricted access to weekend tee-times (i.e. we are unable to increase the number of slots available). As the duty of the Golf Society is first and foremost a club setup to serve staff, the first policy change is to ensure that the Society first serves Emirates staff members above other membership categories for a Society event. Therefore:
- Fully-subscribed “Staff” Society members (i.e. those who have paid their subs!) will get priority over any other member category such as “Associates” (which includes spouse of staff). Note, however, once an event is “closed for registration” all staff lose their right to priority over non-staff. I.e. staff are unable to “bump” non-staff from an event once registration has been closed, which will be a week before the event .
The second policy change provides a new category of membership:
- “Honorary” membership: these are ex-staff who have either retired from duty or who have served the organisation for a significant number of years. Invitation will be based on whether the ex-staff member is entitled to “retiree” travel benefits as per the employee regulations. This membership category has less priority than “Staff” membership, but higher than the “Associate” member category.
The final policy change is in response to the fact that due to the increasing number of non employee members participating in events many of the winners this year were non-staff. Therefore, our final policy change is:
- All main prizes (1st, 2nd, 3rd) for events can only be won by members in the “Staff” category (i.e. current EK Group employees). Where there are a significant number of “Associates” or “Guests” in an event, a separate prize will be provided. Nearest-the-pins, longest drives and other miscellaneous prizes can be won by any competitor, whatever membership category.
We realise these policy changes impact a significant number of our membership, but hope you can understand the reason for our decision. Although we will still provide subsidised golf to all our membership, whatever category, our duty first and foremost is in serving our staff. Therefore, if you are impacted, we hope you understand and continue to support the Society going forward.
Kind Regards,
Committee
Emirates Golf Society | |
| OnAir Results | The second round of the OnAir Golf Day at the Fire course (Jumeirah Golf Estates) provided some very entertaining play, primarily due to the high winds; though this didn’t stop some excellent scores being posted…. However, before we get to who the winner was, here is a little recap from round one played in January: the first round was played at the majestical Earth course and the winner on that day was Dean Moss with 37 points, though there were a host of others snapping at his heels - Tony Benecke (36), Simon Mackenzie (36), Paul Nightingale (34), David Moore (33). All of these and a few others around the fringes were poised well for the second and final round.
Fast-forward a couple of weeks to a wind-swept Fire course, where it was easy to spill a few shots due to the near gale-force conditions. As mentioned earlier, based on this there were some amazing scores posted. Winners of the second OnAir day included a couple of new names: James Walters won the day with a fantastic 39 points with David Moore and Andrew McFarlane sharing second and third respectively, both carding 37 points. However, David’s second-placed finish still wasn’t enough to stop Dean Moss from being crowned OnAir Champion - he carded 35 points on the day, which gave him a combined total of 72 points, 2 points clear of David. Well done Dean (who has been on a bit of a winning streak this year…….).
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the OnAir team of Ian Dawkins and Franck Michaud for providing the sponsorship of the event - it really was a fantastic two-match series and we hope it will be the first of many! Also, our thanks go to the team at Jumeirah Golf Estates who hosted us - both the courses were excellent tests of golf, in great shape and were staffed by a professional and courteous team. | |
| Jebel Ali Results (18th December) | It was one of the smallest fields of the year, but it was still a very entertaining day at Jebel Ali. The weather was perfect for playing golf, though as seems to be normal at Jebel Ali, it is a difficult course to score on! The winner on the day was the guest of Simon Mackenzie, Richard Berry, with a commendable 34 points, who beat both Cees van Dooren, Jaco Rudolph (Paul Stump’s guest) and Ted Green by just one point (who all had 33 points). Cees pipped second place with a better back nine from Jaco and then Ted (19 vs 17 vs 15 points, back nine scores).
We also had two nearest-the-pin prizes: Jaco Rudolph took the prizes on the 8th hole and Wayne Classen on hole 11.
As it was a rolling start, we didn’t have a prize giving afterwards, therefore we will distribute the prizes at the next event. | |
| Al Badia Offer | Off Peak Single Membership (for Emirates Airlines Employees Only)
Price: Dhs 9,900 (Applicable only on one time single payment upon registration)
Offer includes:
- Unlimited Golf Play (Sunday to Thursday for tee off after 3 PM)
- Unlimited access of the Driving Range with unlimited use of range balls (Sunday to Thursday for tee off after 3 PM)
- Full Summer Membership ( 1st June 2011 - 30th Sep 2011)
- Booking privileges (21 days)
- 20% Food and beverage discount at all InterContinental Dubai Festival City outlets
- Complimentary Wi-Fi Internet at the Al Badia Golf Club
Please contact Al Badia directly on Direct: + 971 4 601 0200 or email abgc.membership@ichdfc.ae to avail of the offer.
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| Paul Nightingale Retains EKFC Club Championship | Congratulations to Paul Nightingale who survived a small scare on the 18th (he lost a ball) to retain this year’s club championship with a gross core of 79, one shot clear of David Loftus (who won the “nett” overall). In distant third place was Tim Collins on 85. As mentioned, David won the best “nett” on a count-back from David Moore - both posted nett 72s. A further stroke back was Tony Benecke. David Moore was also the recipient of two “Nearest-the-pin” prizes.
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| Boeing Day Results |
Boeing Results
Congratulations to Dean Moss, Mike Belt, Andrew Griffiths and George Fitchet who won 2010's Boeing Golf Day with an impressive 58.3. They each were the recipient of a Callaway Diablo Edge Driver. A close second were the team consisting of Rafael Giraldo, Damien Bolton, David Moore and Sharon Moore on 59.5 - they received a Callaway 3-wood for their efforts! Coming a close third was the team of Tim Collins, Bob Atkins and Matthew Warren on 60.5, who who awarded each a Callaway hybrid. And finally in fourth place on 60.8, were the team of Sat Sembi, John Reavy, Tony Benecke and Kevin Creane who won an Odyssey putter each! T
There were also prizes for "nearest the pins", each of whom were also given an Odyssey putter: Madhu Ramaswarmy, Rafael Giraldo and Tim Collins. Dean Rainkie showed his muscle by taking the two longest drives, bagging him 2 dozen Titleist Pro V1s!
Again, many thanks to Boeing for a wonderful day at the Creek - the weather, course, food and hospitality were all what we could have hoped for! It is indeed the highlight of the EGS season. | |
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