Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of Greenacres (Men’s) Golf Club will be held on Wednesday 23rd March 2022 at 7:00 pm in the Golf Centre. Full details can be found on our AGM Page.

2022 / 2023 Membership

Due to a change in the Golf Ireland billing process, the deadline for the 2022 / 2023 Membership to be paid will be 30^th March 2022.  If a member has not paid by then they will be resigned from the Golf Ireland Central Handicap database. Then in early April 2022 members will be blocked from entering Club Competitions.

Membership forms are available in the members room or can be downloaded from the Membership Page.

Members wishing to pay via Bank Transfer should email info@greenacres-golfclub.co.uk to request and electronic form and Bank Details.

Competitions

The last of our Winter League competitions will be Friday 18^th March 2022. Weather conditions will determine when the Sunday, 60 Plus and Midweek summer Leagues will start.

The aim is to hold The Open 9 Hole Championship qualifier on 26^th March and then have the first of our summer Saturday competitions the following weekend.

2022 Schedule has been published and can be viewed on the Schedule Page.

Rules

From 1^st April 2022 all Clubs will revert to the rules of golf regarding score cards with the requirement for a marker to complete and return a physical score card with both signatures on it.  Members can still enter their scores into the handicap system via the Touch Screen or the HowDidiDo app.

Handicaps

Our Course was re-rated in August 2021, and we have received a new rating for our tee boxes as follows:

Tee	Course Rating	Slope Rating
White	69.9	123
Blue	68.3	117
Red	71.1	124

Alternate Day Competitions – 60 Plus

As Golf Ireland have stated that ‘alternative day’ competitions can be run over no more than three consecutive days we are going to let our members decide which days to run the 60 Plus Summer competitions over. See notice board for further details

AIG Men’s Junior Cup

To be eligible, players must have held a handicap index that was not lower than 2.5 in the period 1st July 2021 until 1st January 2022.

AIG Men’s Jimmy Bruen Shield

To be eligible, players must have held a handicap index that was not lower than 3.5 in the period 1st July 2021 until 1st January 2022.

For a pair to be eligible, their lowest handicap indexes during the above eligibility period when added together must not have been lower than 14.0.

AIG Men’s Pierce Purcell Shield

To be eligible, players must have held a handicap index that was not lower than 10.5 in the period 1st July 2021 until 1st January 2022.

For a pair to be eligible, their lowest handicap indexes during the above eligibility period when added together must not have been lower than 25.0.

Men’s Four-Ball

To be eligible, players must have held a handicap index that was not lower than 14.5 in the period 1st July 2021 until 1st January 2022.

For a pair to be eligible, their lowest handicap indexes during the above eligibility period when added together must not have been lower than 34.0.

Fred Perry Trophy

To be eligible, a players lowest handicap index held in the period 1st July 2021 until 1st January 2022 can be no higher than 28.0

When both players in a pair add together their lowest handicap indexes during the eligibility period, their combined handicap index must not be higher than 42.0.

Players’ current handicap indexes will now be used to determine shots, unless their handicap index on the day of the match exceeds the lowest handicap index they held between 1st July 2021 and 1st July 2022, in which case they use their eligibility handicap index to calculate their course handicap.

The playing handicap limit of 15 for each pair will still apply, but using the criteria above as opposed to handicap index on 1st January.