 An Eagle Christmas came early for our President - Ian Mckenzie, he scored an eagle on the 1st on Christmas eve  click to enlarge MEMBERSHIP Our membership now stands at 514 - up from 468 at mid year. It is always a question that comes up when we talk of membership numbers: "how many of those are playing members ?" The bar chart alongside shows a comparison between December 2013 and December 2014 - up from 293 to 355. We pay both our state and national golf affiliation fees based on these numbers - this year we will pay approximately $12,000. In the coming year we will be trying to encourage members to participate in the competitions and 'rejoin' those of us that play regularly. It is easy to get out of the 'habit' of not playing each week and a little encouragement to those 'resting' golfers may see them come back to the fold. |  The sign-up sheet for the Arthur Brassey singles knock-out is in the pro- shop. The standard entry fee can also be paid there. The conditions of the competition is posted on the club notice board and are the same as last year. For those who have not entered before, members who sign up for the competition are drawn in a knock-out draw format, e.g. if 8 players enter then the first round pairs play off and then the next round, consisting of 2 pairs play off, and then to the final with the last 2 golfers competing for the trophy. It may be that 12 people sign up and then the draw is done and the 1st round will only have 12 people drawn to play the 1st round, but some of those will have a bye, i.e. they pass through to the 2nd round without having to play a round. Knock-outs are matchplay, that means that the play is hole by hole rather than the total of strokes minus handicaps over the round. Matchplay is an exciting form of the game and to allow players of different standards to compete on a "level playing course" and an allowance is made for a difference in handicaps and this difference is taken up during the course of play in accordance with the matchplay index which is on the score card. Matchplay is really great fun and for those who haven't tried it - please try. |
Our computer booking system troubles.
We continue to have troubles with the club's computer booking system. This problem started in the middle of December and manifests itself by a users computer screen 'freezing' when they try to make a booking on the system with the address http://110.142.92.78/ifacts/gcsbook.dll/login shown in the address bar. To recover from this problem the computer server in the office must be restarted and now the pro-shop staff can do this when they come into work in the morning. The problem usually becomes apparent in the early evening.
What is happening to resolve the problem ? Unfortunately during the Christmas/New year period not too much as the company that we use for advanced operating system support is not available. The computer uses an operating system called Windows Small Business Server 2011 and the setup of the computer application is complex and bears little resemblance to the Windows computers that we all have at home. Over the period of this problem we have systematically tried to eliminate potential causes of the server computer crashing but so far have had no success.
What can be done in the meantime ? The booking system is normally operational during the period from 07:30 pm until around 5pm - bookings can be made in this period.
Update Monday 5th Jan
The server for the last couple of days, has been performing faultlessly, so it is hoped that the last remedy has worked. Watch this space.
Update Tuesday 6th at 6am
So the fault remains with the system stopping sometime overnight. The company that provides operating system support is now back at work and is looking at other possibilities .
We continue to have troubles with the club's computer booking system. This problem started in the middle of December and manifests itself by a users computer screen 'freezing' when they try to make a booking on the system with the address http://110.142.92.78/ifacts/gcsbook.dll/login shown in the address bar. To recover from this problem the computer server in the office must be restarted and now the pro-shop staff can do this when they come into work in the morning. The problem usually becomes apparent in the early evening.
What is happening to resolve the problem ? Unfortunately during the Christmas/New year period not too much as the company that we use for advanced operating system support is not available. The computer uses an operating system called Windows Small Business Server 2011 and the setup of the computer application is complex and bears little resemblance to the Windows computers that we all have at home. Over the period of this problem we have systematically tried to eliminate potential causes of the server computer crashing but so far have had no success.
What can be done in the meantime ? The booking system is normally operational during the period from 07:30 pm until around 5pm - bookings can be made in this period.
Update Monday 5th Jan
The server for the last couple of days, has been performing faultlessly, so it is hoped that the last remedy has worked. Watch this space.
Update Tuesday 6th at 6am
So the fault remains with the system stopping sometime overnight. The company that provides operating system support is now back at work and is looking at other possibilities .
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