Inside Golf, Australia. July 2014 | Page 5

starters box Sand saves: how Balgowlah escaped the bunker Richard Fellner n! oo s ng i om INTRODUCING A NEW C MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY $ 3,500 * per year Group Editor [email protected] @insidegolf WITH NO ENTRY FEE! M A U S T R A L I A ’ S G O L F N E W S L E A D E R www.insidegolf.com.au Publisher: Outdoor Sports Publishing Pty Ltd ACN 113 836 301 ABN 30 043 104 919 PO BOX 437, Miami, QLD 4220 Editor: Richard Fellner P: 0407 000 440 [email protected] Chief Writer: David Newbery [email protected] Design & Layout: Stacey Fortescue, Rhys Martin, Rob Kirk Contributors: Larry Canning, Denis Dale, Peter Croker, Michael Green, Karen Lunn, Stephen Pitt, Mat Howe, Brian Thorburn, Henry Peters, David Merriman, Richard Nizielski, Andrew Crockett National Sales: Sam Arthur P: 1300 4653 00 | F: (07) 5535 4922 M: 0410 575 303 | E: [email protected] QLD Sales: David Ross M: 0439 612 458 E: [email protected] NSW/ACT Sales: Robbie O’Donnell M: 0439 144 256 | E: [email protected] VIC/TAS/SA Sales: Jon Perrett M: 0402 852 637 | E: [email protected] Advertising Sales: Lisa Coleman E: [email protected] | M:0406 031 344 National Agency Sales (non golf) Marc Wilson | M: 0419 107 143 New Zealand Sales: Daniel Sim M: 0439 856 752 | E: [email protected] Accounts: Sheridan Murphy M: 0404 075 823 E: [email protected] Cover Photo: Courtesy of Hoylake/R&A. Inset photo: USGA It’s official: 43,575 Inside Golf Magazines distributed each month for the period: October 2013 - March 2014 Distributed to over 425 golf clubs, social golf clubs, driving ranges and retailers Australia wide every month The Board and club then introduced some major changes which eventually saw the club return to cash-positive in 2013. “We changed from employing greens staff to maintaining the golf course through contract management by Landscape Solutions,” says Tom Bourke, President of Balgowlah Golf Club. “This has produced excellent results in course presentation and cost savings, both in staff management overheads, less administration work and management of environmental and occupational health and safety issues.” “The Professional and Pro-shop activity at Balgowlah Golf Club is now run by an experienced team lead by Head Professional, Andrew Webster, who also manages golf at Wakehurst Golf Club. This has resulted in significant cost savings to the Club, a very well-stocked, presented and maintained Pro-shop and regular golf clinics for children of all ages,” he adds. Additionally, the Golf Club appointed an experienced club manager and an experienced finance administrator to replace the previous full-time and part-time staff. The club also replaced their in-house catering operation with an experienced local catering firm to establish a consistent and viable catering operation which provides good food at competitive prices. The club is also determined to be innovative. Balgowlah opens all club competitions to all players (though they admit few men are yet brave enough to play on the traditional Tuesday/Thursday “Ladies days”!). The 9-hole configuration of Balgowlah Golf course lends itself well to the modern requirements of today’s “family-oriented”