Greetings from Bellville | Thursday, May 02, 2024 |
Last week the spring treatment took place on the course, which saw the greens and closely mowed kikuyu turf areas (tees, fairways and surrounds) hollow tined. This cultural practise does reduce the quality of playable surfaces for a few weeks, but is essential to maintaining putting surfaces and an important puzzle piece when irrigating with poor water quality to assist with turf health. These are some of the key reasons for hollow tining: Root development. · Thatch control. · Release of toxic gasses. · Improves wetting or hydrophobic soils. · Compaction relief. · Disruption of soil layering. · Better response to fertilisers. This week we hosted the first Greenkeepers revenge, the goal for the event is to generate funds that can be put back into the course. Our first goal is to increase the tree planting on the course with the aim to (a) improve the strategy of the golf holes, (b) improve safety by blocking selective danger areas and (c) soften roads and houses. Reminder Kindly inform the Club in writing if and when any of your personal details change. To ensure better communication. Regards, Werner | | Monthly Meat Competition New monthly meat competition taking place once a month on a Wednesday. Sponsored by Beans for Africa Coffee Roasters (Stephen de Coito). The next meat day competition is taking place on 28 September 2016. | Our Bellville GC growing a young member program started in August 2016. This program is open to all junior members of Bellville Golf Club. The goal of this program is not just to teach the young members the basic techniques and fundamentals of the game but also to teach them how to act, dress, behave and be a proud member of the club as well as knowing the rules and ethics of the game, the club and how to take care of the golfing environment. The young members will learn the different types of competitions as well as how to score for different formats. They will also be exposed to golf instruction ensuring they are ready to play at a healthy level when playing with other members, guests and when representing the club in junior competitions ex. Junior league ect. This is a open invitation to all young golfers of Bellville GC under the age of 18. The program will run every Wednesday 16:00-17:00, Bellville GC. Contact us to book your junior's spot or if you have any questions. | | | We are hosting our very popular Durbanville Children’s Home Golf Day on the 14 October at Bellville Golf Club. | At this prestigious event, guests can look forward to a nice day of golf, an interesting goodie bag, networking opportunities and a prizegiving event. We also host a short auction, with Wicus van der Merwe as the auctioneer. Neels van Jaarsveld will be our MC for the day. Please support us by enrolling in a 4-ball at R3 000 or sponsor a hole at R2 000. All funds raised at this event will be used to sustain our Bridging House for young adults leaving care. The House offers our children an opportunity to get job training, employment and study further | | | | | NG Kenridge Gholfdag 2016 NG Kenridge bied ‘n gholfdag aan wat DV sal plaasvind op Dinsdag, 11 Oktober by die Bellville Gholfklub. ‘n Vierbal beloop R2 200, wat ‘n smaaklike aandete insluit. Kontantkroeg beskikbaar. Daar is putjies te borg teen R4 000 met die geleentheid om die organisasie deeglik te bemark en blootstelling te kry vanaf die besige Jip de Jagerrylaan. Daar is talle pryse op die spel. Die formaat van die kompetisie is “Fourball Alliance – two scores to count”. Afslaantye vanaf 11h44. | Indien jy ‘n vierbal wil inskryf of ‘n putjie wil borg, kontak vir Liezl in die kerkkantoor (tel. 913-4206 of epos liezl@ngkenridge.co.za). Betalings: NG Kerk Kenridge Absa Tjek 1410 580086 Bankkode 632005 Verwysing: Gholfdag en jou naam. NG Kenridge PBO No. 930012918 | | Hoërskool Bellville Gholfdag See the poster below for more information. Edgemead 2016 golf day See the poster below for more information | This Friday: Buy one, get one free special from 16:30 – 18:00 - Castle Lite & Black Label Draught
- Smirnoff Vodka
- Bells Whisky
- Richelieu Brandy
- Olof Bergh Brandy
Snack baskets will also be available. | | | Happy birthday to the following members who are celebrating their birthdays this week: 08.09.2016 Riaan Geldenhuys Du Preez Muller 10.09.2016 Ernst Maritz Christoff Steyn | 12.09.2016 George Laurens Pieter Muller 14.09.2016 David Amerika Carl Potgieter | Rule 31 Four-Ball Stroke Play 31-8 Effect of Other Penalties If a competitor’s breach of a rule assists his partner’s play, the partner incurs the applicable penalty in addition to any penalty incurred by the competitor. In all other cases where a competitor incurs a penalty for breach of a rule, the penalty does not apply to his partner. Click to enlarge | | Are you interested in becoming a member at Bellville Golf Club? Maybe you alreay are a member but you're not aware of all the benefits that we provide? - View the poster on the right to see what we are offering you!
- View a full list of Membership 2016 benefits here.
| The Summer 2016 Edition of Northern Hills Magazine is now available. View it online |
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| If you have to grip the club too tightly, you’ll struggle to make a good, fluid swing. You’ll find it even harder to swing on plane with a good swing path. Your grip on the club needs to be firm and secure but relaxed. From there it is always easier to make a good swing. Tighten up and golf gets a | | | | |
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| Golf books often start with grip /stance / posture as the fundamental of our game. But by the time readers have turned the pages to chapter 4, they’re now so bogged down in technique that they’re having mental cramps. | | Whatever swing you’re making, that’s the objective. If you’re struggling with ball striking, why not: get to the range; clear your mind; forget about distance and a target; and swing with only the objective of square contact? Let us know how that went. | | We get so obsessed with getting the ball around the golf course that we often lose the joy of making square, solid contact. If you’re shooting in the 90’s or even higher, forget the scorecard and think “square, solid contact”. Come and see us. We can help. | |