BTRGS

The membership in 2011 was a little down on last year which was to be expected given the ever increasing demands on work and a number of people leaving the company. Although we lost some long standing members, I was particularly pleased that we were still able to welcome a number of new members this year.

Once again we had a very successful year of events both internal to the society and external matches. Starting with the Spring event in Ely and finishing with the Autumn event in Colne Valley. Unfortunately whilst successful, both these events and many of the other events throughout the year, the numbers had declined and in some external matches it was difficult to raise teams. This appears to be the result of the current climate we’re in and hence we will be looking at strategies to improve on this next year. In spite of this, match captains persevered to arrange teams and still organise excellent events. So even more so than usual special thanks and recognition need to go to all committee members who organised and managed to balance the budgets for these events.

The Two Day Away event was once again a great success. The “Battle of Stamford Bridge” between the Anglo Saxons and the Vikings took place at Hanbury Manor, with two teams of 10 players each, which included 4 rookies in total. I’ve had a lot of excellent feedback from people about a thoroughly enjoyable event and superb venue. Thank you to Stephen Stokes for taking over the organising of the event quite late in the year to allow it to still go ahead. He did a great job despite choosing a date that I personally could not attend (drastic measures to avoid dropping me from his team). Congratulations to Erik Hansen and his Viking team for winning a very close fought battle (8-7) taking the Trophy from the Saxons.

The Golf Lessons continued this year with 3 x 1 hour group sessions in the Spring; a 2 hour playing lesson in the Summer; and another 3 x1 hour session including a video lesson in the Autumn. Once again providing our members with excellent opportunities to improve their game at very low cost. We also arranged a golf fitness session this year provided by a local physiotherapist. Unfortunately there was quite a low take up on all the learning activities this year, which perhaps needs a rethink about the approach for next year.

Finally, I would like to thank the Committee members for their continued dedication, hard work and support. Without you we would not have a Golf Society. It is becoming more and more difficult to find time in our schedules to meet for Committee meetings every month, and even harder to commit to events when we have to balance Golf against ever increasing work commitments. I am pleased that we have managed to do so successfully for another year and have every confidence we can continue to do so next year.

2.2) Match Secretary's report

External Match Summary

Spring Meeting 3/5/11
Ely Golf Club, Newmarket. Attendance – 29
Doubles 4BBB: J Williams & D Allen, 41 pts.
High handicap: Chris Burrows, 39 pts.
Low handicap: Dave Murray, 38 pts.

Autumn Meeting 19/9/11
Colne Valley Golf Club, Lowestoft Attendance – 29 (27 in AM, 2 additional in PM)
Doubles 4BBB: P Burke & J Brown, 44 pts.
High handicap: S Hughes, 39 pts
Low handicap: E Hansen, 37 pts
Combined winners: 4BBB: P Burke & J Brown. Singles: C Amor Lowest Gross: J Harrison.

Marie Hunt Charity Shield 7/8/11
2nd place (T Pittman, C Burrows, D Allen and J Hopkins).

2-Day Event 23rd and 24th Oct /2011
Hanbury Manor. 2 teams of 10.
Vikings won Vikings 8, Anglo Saxons 7.

Doubles KO Competition 2010-11
Tim Pittman & Chris Burrows beat Andrew Wright & Rob Glassford.

Gabriel Martins
BTRGS Match Secretary 2011

2.3) Treasurer's report - Jon Hopkins

We finished the year with 42 paying members and 5 life members, which is four lower than last year. I appreciate the efforts of the Captains of the day to return match accounts, cheques and receipts promptly which has helped keep the accounts ticking over although there has been an interesting variety of ways of providing the accounts which has kept myself and the Auditor busy for a while.

We currently have £1,633 in the bank account, which is down by an apparent £193 on the year and there is a potential additional £56 of refunds which are currently held in the account. Again we have focussed this year’s ATLAS funding on training events which has allowed us to successfully trial a golf fitness session in addition to the regular lessons and on-course sessions. These have been less well attended with 30 attendances this year for the Spring/Summer/Autumn lessons against 43 last year. This has meant that the training events have taken £935 of subsidy on their own and despite securing an increased ATLAS grant this year we have had to additionally subsidise these events from club funds. We will need to get more people along to these events to make them sustainable.

I would finally like to thank Bob Spillett for once again passing his keen eye over the BTRGS accounts to perform the audit which he has been doing for many years now.

AGM

BTRGS AGM, 7/12/2011

1) Minutes of last year's AGM

2) Officers' reports

2.1) Captain's report

2.2) Match Secretary's report

External Match Summary

2.3) Treasurer's report - Jon Hopkins

3) Election of Officers

4) Election of auditor(s)

5) AOB)