RBTs. Treat yourself to that extra schooner in these stressful times.
RBTs. Treat yourself to that extra schooner in these stressful times.
Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greenskeeper, now about to become a Masters champion..... It looks like a mirac.. It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
In a nutshell - not today
GA sent a detailed advice to clubs at 4pm today, which was already forwarded to members of my club - CITY GC. I expect your club will pass it or its probably on GA website by now.
One relevant paragraph is:
There was also some suggestion to use gloved hand on Flagstick and Bunker rakes - not sure how that would help.It should be noted that the vast majority of golfers can and should continue to visit your clubs or facility as per normal. Of course, golfers should exhibit a heightened awareness of personal hygiene as has been encouraged by state and federal health departments.
Just watching The Back Page and shaking my head as I listen to people who are obviously clueless as to the severity of the current scenario.
I'd suggest that patronising the course won't be a problem. Even in a strict social distancing scenario, it is possible to play without getting too close to other persons. Of course, this restriction may be a problem for those who depend on a cart, as they either won't be able to share a cart, or will have to pay full csrt hire.
The clubhouse is another matter. Post round drinks might get banned, and if so, the clubhouse itself will probably close, and all revenue will be lost.
We are better off than most other sports, but there are no guarantees.
"There are 50 things to remember in the golf swing. Trouble is that I can only remember 49 of them" - Bob Hope.
My take on the current Drum Beats;
- We will shortly close our Borders
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-...rseas/12065050
- State are also considering closing their Borders, at least for Air Travel;
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-...ravel/12063364
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-...ction/12062368
If my grandparents were alive today they would laughing at us for calling this a crisis. (Albeit this is still likely to be the worst crisia of my lifetime)
Australia was just too slow to react to close the borders.
A country like India ( for example) closed borders immediately to the countries in crisis. China, Japan, Korea, Iran and Italy. They have now refusing pretty much all of EU.
Australia took 8 days to react just to quarantining people from Italy let alone the first cases like China in fear of what it may do to the economy , or even forbid be called racist.
India have 114 cases and pretty steady but still growing.
Australia 350 or so cases and rapidly growing.
Australia had no rapid response to infectios disease like some neighbouring Asian Countries.
They had more plan because they were harder hit but SARS, another form of corona virus.
Sure some Asian countries have been hit hard but no where near as hard hit as Caucasian countries.
Once you go yellow, you will never go back
Looks like we will be on lock down like France with essential shopping and work only reason to leave home.
House down the road from me has an open house this Saturday and Auction in 3 Saturdays time at a cafe. Good luck with that!
Trump thinks otherwise, maybe look to your great grandparents Blakey.
He compared the reach of the disease to the 1918 influenza pandemic that infected one third of the world’s population and killed an estimated 50 million people and the economic impact to the Great Depression.
“In terms of the economic dislocation, I think it’s fair to say we are going to quickly surpass anything we saw in the Great Recession and the only measure or the only comparison will be the Great Depression,”
Like to know how reliable the source is!
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I am working on our Pandemic response and Business continuity for how my organisation deals with a lockdown.
We have not been given a date to work to, but will have everything ready for 6000 people to work from out of the office concurrently by COB Friday. Up to 1000 will still have to attend their job with customer facing biosecurity roles, but it will be interesting to see how many will actually be required with the closure of airports, seaports, and import and export facilities. Stuff will still get imported and exported, but markets for things such as cut flowers and export meat and grain may drop as other countries close their borders.
The potential impacts to our ability to feed our country, and send the raw food and agricultural materials to other countries could be quite severe and long lasting.
So get out and play golf ASAP - its probably the next thing to be banned.
Last edited by WBennett; 18th March 2020 at 08:29 AM.
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Cobra Speedzone::Cobra Speedzone Tour 3 wood, Cobra F6 5 wood: Mizuno H4's, :Mizuno 50, Mizuno MP 56 and 60*:TM Works #7
AndyC will always be my AndyB(unny)
Schools are still open, but both my sons have coughs and probably aren't too welcome at school, yet we can't get them tested. Are they just meant to miss out on getting an education now? Coughs don't usually go away in a hurry.
well..... WA Men's Pennants is now canned
https://www.golfwa.org.au/cms/2020/03/golfwa-covid-19-virus-advice/
Sydney Major Pennant have been postponed as well...
My Foxtel subscription, without live sports there was no need to keep it.
Wrestlemania has been moved from a 75,000 seat stadium to the WWE performance (training) centre gym with no crowd.
Woohoo, Mother in Law has been blocked from entering Australia from tomorrow- its a dream come true!
Bit of light reading
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imp...16-03-2020.pdf
Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greenskeeper, now about to become a Masters champion..... It looks like a mirac.. It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
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