News Archive

20th January 2025

Wittenoom Cup – Winner from Joondalup

This past week, the annual Wittenoom Cup was held by the Albany Golf Club and attended by 24 or so members from Joondalup. This weeklong festival of golf has been held for decades now and culminates in a 2-day stroke round held with 240 in the field and attended by approximately 170 visitors from around the state.

For those who haven’t played the Albany golf course it is a challenging, par 72, links style course that runs beside the ocean and is a monster to play in the prevailing winds.

So it is with great fanfare that we can announce that the Best Gross winner of this year’s event was our very own Ian McPherson on a score of 156. Under the very strong and blustery conditions for both days this is a tremendous effort.

Congratulations Ian.

20th January 2025

Congratulations to Oliver Holmes for his hole in one on Dune 4 last Saturday morning.

Oliver is a fairly new member and, as we all know, it takes a while to get used to our course. However, we now know that Oliver is an expert on how to play Dune 4.

Well done and may there be many more.

12th January 2025

Summer Cup 2025

The first “Major” of the year, The Kevin Smith Memorial Summer Cup, was held yesterday in glorious conditions. The event attracted a full field with every effort made to maximise tee times without this impacting too much on the crossovers and speed of play.

The club acknowledges the tremendous sponsorship provided by Jody Henshaw of Fairway Finance and the continuing support of the Smith family who donated the 12 nearest the pins and participated in the event and the presentations.

Thank you too to Danielle and Kiara in the office for their hard work behind the scenes organising the competition and compiling the results.

This year the winner, on a score of 59 points, was Charlotte Hicks, seen here with Emma Elliot (nee Smith) and Kate Longman (nee Smith). Runner ups were David Money and Jarrad Smith on 58 points. Best Gross men was Michael Starkey and for women, Terri Davies.

22nd December 2024

Christmas Cheer Presentation

Yesterday was the annual Christmas Cheer with all players attending the Saturday AM and PM presentations receiving a gift from Santa. Alan Korolyk. alias “Santas not so little helper”, shopped around to provide a myriad of sweet and chocolatey delights that, apart from tasting good are called delights because they are a delight to the local dentists!

The prize table was on display and the PM presentation was a full house with great atmosphere and plenty of comments about how great the prize table looked.

Joondalup Resort provided excellent sponsorship with their first and second prizes. Graeme Hyland thanked the bar staff and the volunteers for their efforts during the year as well as providing gifts for Danielle and Kiara from the office as acknowledgment of their terrific work for the club.

It was then onto the presentation with some popular winners and plenty of banter as member names were called out to step up to the table and choose their gift.

To top off a great evening the bell was rung, and it was free drinks all-round provided by the Resort.

Here’s to a safe and enjoyable Christmas time to all our members and we look forward to a wonderful new year.

18th December 2024