News Archive

11th April 2025

2025 Mixed Foursomes Championship Entries Now Open

Entries are now open for the 2025 Mixed Foursomes Championship to be played on Friday 9th & Friday 16th May.

Times for 1^st round will be available in designated AM and PM fields.

A seeded draw will occur at the conclusion of the first round. Final round to be played in the AM field only.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD AN ENTRY FORM

All players must:
- be “5, 6 or 7 – day” members or Life Members of Chirnside Park Country Club;
- hold a current GA handicap;
- have played a minimum of 5 competition rounds within 6 months prior to the date of the event.

Format:

The Mixed Foursomes Championships is a stroke play event where 2 players play as partners and use one ball.
Each hole is completed by alternate shots.
Penalties do not affect the order of play.
The Mixed Foursomes Champions will be the players who return the best (lowest) gross aggregate score. Nett Champions will be the players who return the best handicapped. The same team is permitted to win the nett and the gross events.

Playing Conditions:

Played: Over 36 holes (2 x 18-hole rounds)

Order of Play: Round #1 – men hit off the odd tees, reversed for round #2.

Tees: Blue (Men) & White (Ladies). Rounds may commence from either the 1^st or 10^th tees.

Golf Carts: Use of motorised golf carts allowed, unless Club management prohibits use due to course conditions.

11th April 2025

Saturday Guest Day: How to Make a Booking Online

Saturday19th April 2025 is a designated “Guest Day” providing members eligible to play on a Saturday the opportunity to introduce one guest upon payment of the competition fee only. Guest bookings are restricted to the PM field (11:32am – 12:44pm).

Bookings open at the regular time of 4pm six days prior.

If you are unsure how to add a guest to your booking, please use the links below for step by step instructions:

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A VIDEO TUTORIAL EXPLAINING HOW TO MAKE A BOOKING

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD STEP BY STEP WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS

29th March 2025

Course Ratings and Scoring Index Update

From time to time course ratings are amended mostly at the request of Club’s seeking to ensure that their Club’s ratings accurately reflect the playability / difficulty of their course.

Gardiners Run ratings were last reviewed and modified in 2021 and the Golf Committee agree that it would be appropriate to review ratings at regular intervals. In 2024 the Club requested Golf Australia to review our ratings, which they do via a comprehensive model.

Late last month GA provided their recommendations for Gardiners Run.

The Golf Committee reviewed the recommendations, which were closely aligned to the feedback we have received over the past couple of years, and agreed to implement them for both Men’s and Ladies courses effective 1st April 2025:

GA added that “by reducing the scratch and slope ratings what we should start to see is players GA Handicaps increase which will also make them more competitive when playing away. It should also make it a bit harder for visitors to play to their handicap at Gardiners Run.”

In the following chart, the impact of these changes, at several handicap levels, is summarised:

Scoring Index

To complete a review of our key metrics, the Golf Committee also reviewed the Stroke Play Index, which was also last reviewed in 2021.

The impact of the enhancements to the 6th hole to the scoring index was regularly raised with our committees.

This review assessed the scoring data from 22,000 rounds from Men’s competitions on the Blue and White Courses and 2700 rounds by Ladies on the White and Gold Courses.

The Men’s index only required some minor changes with changes to holes 1, 4 and 6. The data showed that hole number 6 was now marginally more difficult than hole number 1.

The Ladies index also elevated hole number 6 to rating #1. The data also guided some changes to several holes, while maintaining a good balance between the front and back nine holes. The Revised Indexes are shown in the updated scorecard below: