All the best to our new Ladies Captain |
Dear Valued Members
We would like to inform you Lynda Smit and Deidre Botha decided to stand down as both Ladies Captain and Ladies Vice-Captain. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to both Lynda and Deidre for their contributions to the Ebotse Links Committee.
We would therefore like to take this opportunity to inform you Zenia Theron has been appointed as the new Ladies Captain with immediate effect. We would like to wish Zenia all the best in her term as the new Ladies Captain of Ebotse Links.
Thank you,
Hardus Maritz
GM - Ebotse Links
The 2019 South African Inter-Provincial Tournament is currently taking place at Mbombela Golf Club.
The EGU team is currently tied first, and are taking on Central Gauteng today.
Keep up to date with the live action here.
Good luck to the team with the rest of the week.
Leslie takes home the Jackpot |
Well done to Leslie Nienaber for winning the Jackpot on Saturday.
She managed to get 12 points on Holes 1, 9, 10 and 18. The Jackpot on Saturday was R440.
| | Captains Dinner & Golf Day |
Dear Members,
Please save the date for the 2019 Captians Dinner and Golf Day to be held on the 18th October 2019.
The VW East Rand I.P.S Competition will be this Saturday.
As you are aware, we will have a shotgun start at 07h00 so that we can finish in time to watch the Springboks vs the All Blacks. Kick-off is at 11h45.
This will be the first Saturday of VW Cup Series.
All members that particpate on the VW East Rand Saturday competitions are automatically entered into the cup. The member that has the most points of the 3 events will be crowned the VW Quaterly Cup winner.
Make sure you book your rounds with the Pro Shop on 087 285 3555.
We will be doing our Spring Treatment from Monday 30th September till Thursday 3rd October 2019. The golf course will be closed for this period.
We will open on Thursday 3rd October from 11h00.
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I am sure many members would have been wondering why the golf course is so dry; we have been in the process of redoing the pump house and only had 1 pump working for over 3 weeks, while they were busy with installing the new pumps, filters and piping.
Why did we redo the pump house?
The old pumps were working on a negative suction, meaning the pumps were above the water source, normally pump houses work on gravity-fed water supply. The maintenance cost and electricity were very high each year because the pumps have to work so much harder.
New improved pump house
Because of the water source being below the pump house we opted to go for submersible pumps, these pumps don’t need to be primed, previous pumps always needed to be primed.
1. Four new submersible pumps were installed, these are top of the range pumps and motors, all the suction lines were also replaced. The pumps are 6m below the water surface to ensure they do not suck any air.
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2. All the pumps get controlled by a VSD (Variable Speed Drive), one main pump runs straight of the VSD, where the other three pumps works with slave drives controlled by the VSD.
The previous pumps worked on a VSD and electrical breakers, electrical breakers kick in and cannot be controlled by the VSD, works on pressure alone to switch on and off.
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3. All the piping and filters were replaced inside the pump house, the filters are very important to ensure no foreign objects goes into the irrigation system which will damage sprinklers and solenoid valves.
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The irrigation is the heart of the golf course, without a proper pump house it is very difficult to irrigate the golf course. We have 16 hectares under irrigation with over 3 000 sprinklers, you can only imagine how hard these pumps need to work.
Thank you,
Hardus Maritz
GM - Ebotse Links
The pipeline project has reached the 17th green, and is at that stage where we needed to change the golf course around.
The 16th Hole will be a par 3 playing from the Tee Box of the 18th Hole before the bridge crossing over the enviromental area. So we will have back to back Par 3’s.
The 17th Hole will now be a par 4, and then players returning back to the 18th Hole. We apologize for any inconvienience casued, but this is a temporary solution for the interim.
Squash Championships will be played in a pool format, so everybody will get to play a few games with the top players going through to the final.
Divisions are:
Men’s, Ladies, junior boys (U19) and junior girls (U19).
The Championship will be commencing on the 23rd September 2019.
Members can contact Graeme Chown via email or on his cell phone +27 82 805 4903.
Saturday 14th September 2019
Betterball Stableford
AM
1st – Johann Gerber & Pauline Geber – 49 pts
2nd – Dawie Strydom & Amanda Du Toit – 46 pts
PM
1st – Phil Venter & Kevin Sammons – 45 pts oco
2nd – Darren Fox & Brett Strydom – 45 pts oco
Visitors
1st – F P Merwe & Eddie – 47 pts
18-Sep McIntosh Andrew
19-Sep Mwale Nelson
19-Sep Vorster Stephan
22-Sep Pretorius Ronel
22-Sep Schmidt Pierre Jacques
23-Sep Fraser Grant
23-Sep Ireland Keagan
23-Sep Katzin Jarrod
23-Sep Kruger Johann Bernhard
25-Sep Du Randt Sandra
29-Sep Nienaber Leslie
29-Sep Pohl Gareth Benjamin
What's coming up at the Club? |
September 2019:
22nd – Witbank Muslim Golf Day
23rd – PTG Classic
27th - EBOTSE Family Picnic
October 2019:
2 October - Wine & Dine
19 October - Octo Beer Fest
November 2019:
27 November - Charity Golf Day
Every Monday the GVG Academy will be running a Ladies Golf Clinic from 10h30 – 11h30. R150 per hour. Bookings to be made with info@grantveenstra.co.za or call 087 285 0703.
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