JUNIOR NEWS
February 2025
Hello to all Riversdale Junior members. I am writing to introduce myself – Gerri Biggs and I am taking over the role of Junior Coordinator. Tini McKimm has devoted 10 years to the role and decided last year to step down. I’m sure you would like to thank Tini for her devotion and commitment to the Junior members of Riversdale. The Junior membership has grown immensely over the last few years and this growth has contributed greatly to the success of our Youth and Men’s Pennant teams. Our Women’s Pennant team also now has benefited from strong Junior members.
Over the coming months, the Junior Development Committee will be offering information sessions on rules and various aspects of the game. We will also be providing playing opportunities to meet other juniors and learn different forms of the game of golf.
Tee times will be reserved for Junior members to play on a Sunday afternoon. This is an opportunity to meet and play with other Junior members. If you would like to play on a Sunday afternoon you need to put your name on the registration sheet that is exclusively for Junior members wanting to play on a Sunday afternoon. Alternatively, you can contact the golf shop. If the places are not filled by Thursday, the time slots will be opened up to the rest of the membership. Remember that the booking sheet opens at 1.30 pm, 6 days prior to the day of play.
Some of you will have participated in the Junior Development Trophy over past years. The format will be different this year. The Junior Development Trophy will run over the winter months – June, July, August. The competition will be open to Junior members 18 years and under (turning 18 this year) and Cadets. The trophy will be awarded to the player with the highest aggregate of 4 Stableford cards submitted over the 3 months. All games must be played at Riversdale. If you play more than 4 games over those months, the best 4 will count to the aggregate. The presentation to the winner will be on Sunday 21st September after the 2nd round of the Junior Championship.
For those of you who make bookings already, you know that on the timesheet, male members are in black and female members are in red. We will soon be having our junior members represented in green. This is so that Junior members will know who are other Juniors and be easily be able to play together.
Finally, the home page of the Club’s website has a list of “Quick Links” on the left side. You will soon see a tab for “Juniors”. This will take you to information relevant to Junior members.
Dates for your diary
Monday 7th April – school holidays
1.30 pm A talk on rules followed by Ambrose – if you don’t already know what Ambrose is come along and find out. This will be an opportunity for Junior members to meet other Juniors.
Junior Championship
2 rounds of golf on consecutive Sundays – September 14 and 21.
If you would like to contact me for any reason this is my email address
geraldinebiggs99@gmail.com
