It may well be that hibernation has set in around the Shirley Links as there appears to be a dearth of current events over the next wee while! It looks to be a good time to buy tickets to AMI Stadium and get down to support the AB's against Italy next Saturday evening.
Match of the day is stableford three grades and it doubles as a shootout round. As a further experiment to see if we can increase the pace of play we are testing the first hole as a call up hole. A marshall (me!!) will be posted down 1 approximately by the left hand bunker and when the preceding four are on the green the following 4 will be asked to play their seconds after which the original 4 will putt out and move to the second tee. We are hoping this will alleviate waiting times on the second both on the tee and in the fairway and the third tee.
Last year we trialled 3 as a call up hole but that was largely unsuccessful and not repeated. Over the years at varying times we have requested 7 be a call up hole so we would ask that players bear with us in implementing this proposal for a week to ascertain if there is any advantage in it and I will report in due course.
For me the week is a mixture - a Collective Bargaining mediation on Monday and two personal grievances on Tuesday. Wednesday sees me fly to Auckland for a workshop on Mediator competencies followed by a two day training session on multi employer/employee collective bargaining. The Department appear to attempting to save money by holding it at Auckland Centra Airport so I won't even get into the big smoke. I am scheduled to return to Christchurch at 4.30 but with Fridays and Auckland Airport you never know, however hopefully I will get to the Clubhouse for a wine sometime after 5.00.
In the interim good golfing...........
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