Commonwealth Bank Sydney Golf Club

2018 Annual General Meeting - Minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date/Time: 6th December 2018 @ 6.00pm Location: Occidental Hotel, York St Sydney

Attendees (26)

Peter Bendeich (Life Member & Patron) Greg Liversage

Peter Cassin Stephen McCammond (Life Member) Steven Chan Dave McCann

Bruce Clausen (Life Member) Richard Mair

Chris Dowell (Life Member) Steve Nicholson George Emerson Michael Parker

Graham Flanagan Craig Springett Warren Francis Dom Khoury

Ted Geekie (Life Member) Willem Van Vuuren

Terry Hillman Simon Soo Bob Hooper Mark Ward

Craig Horley Glen Williamson Allan Kenny Ian Watson

1. Apologies – Rowena Rees-Poole, Lloyd Rodger, Steve Wise, John Bennion, Dave Bridges, Pat Bridge, Simon Cooper, Christine Cullinane, Dermot Cullinane, Brad Farrell, Gordon Ho, Steve Iacono, Tim Lesina, Andrew McRae, Rudi Minbatiwala, Oliver Sieur, David Smallacombe, Norm Towells, Michael Vickers, Darren Wissam

2. Welcome and Acknowledgement of life Members (Club President – Mike Parker) Welcome, to the night of nights our gala event for CBA NSW Social Golf Club. Opportunity to acknowledge those within the club who have tasted success as we present our major awards and trophies and for the rest of us time to reflect over the year and think about what could have been. Acknowledge life members/patron in attendance, apologies and agenda run sheet (Ted Geekie, Bruce Clausen, Stephen McCammond, Chris Dowell and Peter Bendeich. This presentation night and AGM provides the opportunity for the Club, its members and committee to review the past year, acknowledge those who have contributed additional commitment and often financial contribution to guarantee its sustainability and set the club up for a great 2019 (as highlighted in attendees above) for their continued support.

3. Presidents Report (transcript text) With some 16 club events plus several “special” events offering subsidy for members it is has been another full year of golf and enjoyment. This does not happen without the active participation of our members, committee and executive team that are prepared to step up, own and deliver on the multiple activities to make those events locally and interstate successful – thank you. We are also fortunate to receive levels of sponsorships to support the club including: • Gateway Bank • Pat Wong (Dolphin Powder Coatings) • Tiger Chan • Ted Geekie • Rowena Rees-Poole • Dave McCann • Peter Bendeich • Life Members • All members via captain’s cash. Apologies if I have overlooked anyone as your support is extremely valued. George and Tiger will also provide a report covering a number of successes and achievements for this club in 2017, including financial position, membership levels and our events and club winners. It would also be remiss not to call out several key contributors in the year: Dave McCann – booking officer a critical position and often operates unseen George Emerson – stopping the executive spending Stephen McCammond – handicaps week in week out, Richard Mair – vice with some major lifting especially in regard to the Bank Holiday Tiger Chan – 10th year as captain. Brilliant job. Craig Horley – a special thank you for the rigour and commitment to the role and keeping the committee on task. Committee and members. And patron Peter Bendeich (always stepping up and in to support the club, whether it is via his mentoring as patron or direct involvement such as the Winter Cup) Plus, all our winners…… I Have been privileged to have held the President position for eight years however I feel one of the key accountabilities is to ensure succession, so this year I will not be seeking re-election as president and delighted to hear we have a nomination for 2019. However, will still remain as an active member and contributor to the club. On that note like to announce this year’s president trophy’s winner and number one selection for the RS Elliott for 2018. 317 points, some 37 points in front of the runner up, Warren Francis who also had a stellar year. Played all 13 president events, 2 wins, 1 runner up, and 5 in the top ten) Well done Richard Mair. Thank you and best wishes to everyone for a safe and wonderful Christmas and a successful 2019.

4. Minutes AGM 2017 – Craig Horley Nil business arising from 2017 AGM. Minutes were accepted. Accepted : Ted Geekie Seconded: Graham Flanagan

5. Treasurers Report The 2018 Summary report, presented by George Emerson, highlighted key points :

For 2018 CBASGC operated with a $906.00 profit which was a 1.4K turnaround from previous year, based mainly on a 2K profit on the bank holiday event.

The Treasurer acknowledged the concentrated effort by the committee to increase our financial results by introducing new strategies and revenue raising opportunities.

The club has a 70K turnover during the year, putting approx. 50K back into the clubs via green fees. We are a large contributor to the Sydney golfing community.

The report/balance sheet was accepted and seconded as follows: Accepted: Stephen McCammond Seconded: Peter Bendeich A copy of the Profit/Loss Balance sheet can be found in Appendix 1.

6. Captains Report (transcript text) Steven Chan presented a comprehensive report of the Club’s events and results for a busy 2018 schedule. Highlights :

8000 hits on the web site Average attendance 31 in 2018. Acknowledgement to 4 members attending every game Membership approximately 80 and steady 2019 Game Schedule has been released by the Booking Officer (Appendix 2)

who again has done a great job. Cabramatta – a ‘floater course’ is not in 2019 schedule but could again be

included in future years.

The transcript follows: Welcome everyone to this year’s Annual General Meeting & Presentation night 2018 As usual, it is always a busy year for the club:

- We hosted a very successful Bank Holiday at Twin Creeks - participation wise and financially. It was great so see the numbers for this year up near the 100 mark

- We had sent teams to the RS Elliott and Interbank and again had success coming back again with some trophies

- The website has been a winner again this year with over 8000 hits. Attendance…. This year’s attendance average was approximately 31 and is still a reasonable number. I would also make mention of the 4 x players who attended all 13 regular games.–

Richard Mair Warren Francis Dave McCann Stephen McCammond

Well done to those players.

Membership…. Our membership numbers are still looking good. We have again been around the 80 mark for some time and we are still seeing a few new members joining though out the year. Great stuff ! Looking forward to next year’s games…. The 2019 schedule will see us playing Liverpool in January and Eastlake in February again. In August, we will be at Warringah GC instead of Cabramatta. The remainder of the year is pretty much the same except for October where we will be at Camden Lakeside instead of Carnarvon. We will be back at Carnarvon in 2020. Booking Officer…. Well done to Dave McCann for taking on the Booking Officer role this year. Everyone would agree his done another great job. Matchplay…. This year is the third year we’ve run the matchplay with 16 players and we will continue with the same format. Qualification for the 2019 matchplay draw will be again last year’s winner (Richard Mair) and the top 15 x players (who are yet to qualify) from the Eastlakes, Koohindah Waters & the Mona Vale game. The first round will again start at the Glenmore game. The full match play schedule will be noted on the 2019 fixtures list. Rules On the Rules front, there are a handful of new rules coming in on 1st January 2019. A couple of the reasons for the rule changes is to speed up play and to remove some of the penalties that are caused by accidents or nature itself. A few of the new rules will include:

- Dropping a ball from knee height instead of shoulder height - Time looking for a ball will be reduced to 3 minutes (instead of 5 minutes) - You can now leave the flag in the hole when you’re putting on the green - You can now repair damage to the green which includes the tapping down spike

marks on the green - In the bunker or penalty areas (penalty areas being Water hazards & lateral water

hazards) you will be able to pick up and remove loose impediments like sticks or stones without penalty.

- You will now (with a 2 x shot penalty) be able to take relief from a bunker using the line of sight from the hole and drop outside of the bunker. Currently you can still take relief in a bunker with a 1 x shot penalty, but you need to drop the ball within the bunker

- There will be no penalty for double hits now….you just treat it as the one shot - Another significant rule change will see courses having the choice of adding a local

rule that allows players the option (under a 2 x shot penalty) to take a drop when a ball is lost or out of bounds. You basically determine the point where the ball is lost or out of bounds, take a line of sight from the hole. You then move to the edge of the fairway (no nearer the hole) and take another line of sight to the hole. The area

between both line of sights will be the area you can drop in (still no nearer the hole). Although this not a compulsory rule, I’m sure we’ll see courses add this to their local rules in an effort to speed up the game and minimize the time taken when a player decides to reload. I will add some links on the website for people to refer to if they want to find out more on the rules changes for next year. Thanks to Dave McCann for sending out the leaflet on the rule changes. Ok…..let’s move on to the Representative events….. RS Elliott This year’s RS Elliott tournament was hosted in Adelaide at The Grange GC on a Thursday & Friday. Thursday saw us play on The Grange East course and the west course on the Friday. Thursday’s game saw South Australia win the Managing Director’s trophy with a 157 points. The Managing Director’s trophy is now the aggregate of the best 5 x stableford scores from each state. Friday’s game saw South Australia win the RS Elliott with 438 strokes to NSW’s 454 strokes. The Brisbane Salver was won by Western Australia with the best individual player stableford average of 30.0 points calculated over the 2 x days. The Gateway Cup which is the best individual stableford on day 2 was won by Andrew McRae (who was playing for Qld) with 37 points . The Melbourne Cup was won by our David Wirth from South Australia with 85 strokes. The 2019 RS Elliott tournament will be hosted by Queensland on the Sunshine Coast during the Sunday 10th to Wednesday the 13th of March next year. The golf will played on the Twin Waters course on Monday and Maroochy River on the Tuesday. Accommodation will be at the Atlantis Marcoola Resort which is a short drive from the Sunshine Coast airport. The players that will be joining Richard Mair to represent NSW next year will be announced shortly. The Summer Cup The inaugural Summer Cup was held on Sunday 25th February this year at the Hunter Valley Golf & Country Club. The Summer Cup is a stroke event and was started after the retiring of the Sydney vs Newcastle game. The winner of the Summer Cup for 2018 was Glenn Williamson with a gross score of 81 strokes and net 66 strokes. Well done Glenn. Interbank The 89th Interbank Tournament was held at Stonecutters Ridge GC this year and was hosted by Westpac.

The combined Westpac/St George won the Interbank Pennant (Scratch Stableford) with a score of 136 points. CBA were runners up with 129 points. For the Interbank Trophy (Handicap Stableford), Westpac were successful in wining this trophy as well with 375 points while CBA came in at 2nd place with 357 points. The only highlight was Greg Liversage who won individual B grade with 40 points. Well done Greg. The 2019 Interbank will be on Friday March 8th at Stonecutters Ridge GC again and will be hosted by CBA. Winter Cup The 20th Winter Cup was again held in June at the Federal Golf club in Canberra. The winner of the day was Richard Mair with net 73. Runner up on the day was Andrew McRae with a net 76. Well done to Richard Mair on winning and another big thankyou to the Winter Cup sponsor Peter Bendiech. Next year’s Winter Cup will again be held at Federal Golf Club on Sunday 28th July which should nice and fresh. Bank Holiday For the 67th Bank Holiday, the event was held again at Twin Creeks GC. Congratulations to Simon Cooper on winning the Welfare/Watson –Mason Cup with 76 strokes and congratulations also goes to George Emerson for winning the Ted Geekie Veterans trophy with 36 points. Craig Springett won the Overall Stableford trophy (sponsored by Gateway Bank) with a whopping 47 points. Well done Craig. Other highlights were Mark O’Connor winning A grade with 45 points and Allan Kenny winning B Grade with 39 points. Overall, it was a very successful event and thanks to everyone that helped in making it a great day. Numbers were up in the high 90’s so the move to Twin Creeks definitely paid off. We will be back there next year and hopefully we will have similar numbers again. CBA/Westpac Challenge The CBA/Westpac challenge, hosted by CBA this year, was contested again at the Riverside Oaks on the 19th Aug and also played on the newer Bungool course. After all 20 matches had been completed and tallied, CBA were the winners again with 12.5 points to Westpac’s 7.5. Highlight of the day was Richard Mair winning the day with 37 points and Westpac’s Rolf Krammer scooping the $200 Captains Cash pool with the only birdie on the Par 3 (the 15th hole). Next years challenge will be hosted by Westpac and will be played again at Riverside Oaks on Sunday 18th August 2018. Sydney V Brisbane - The 41th Sydney V Brisbane Tournament was recently held again in Coffs Harbour again. Reports of perfect weather this year was great to hear. The winner of the Shannon Driscoll Aggregate trophy went to our own Dom Khoury with 93 points (35 at Bonville & 58 at Coffs Harbour). Well done Dom. Steve Nicholson didn’t come home empty handed either….he won the Wendy trophy with 56 points.

Hole in Ones’ No hole in one’s this year, so Bruce and I save a few dollars again on trophies this year. Club Championships The club championships were recently conducted over 2 rounds at Penrith and Carnarvon Golf Club’s. The Club Championship grades were Scratch, 0-13 for A Grade, 14-17 for B Grade & 18+ for C Grade. The champions for 2018 are: - Open /SCR Simon Cooper 69 points (33/39 - Trophy) Runner up Richard Mair 55 points (32/23) A Grade Allan Kenny 70 points (38/32) Runner Up Pat Kastl 66 points (30/31) B Grade George Emerson 77 points (35/42) Runner Up Terry Hillman 73 points (38/35) C Grade Pat Wong 76 points (35/41) Runner Up Willem Van Vuuren 74 points (35/39) Congratulations to all of the above. Match Play The 27th Match Play final was held again in September at Long Reef where Richard Mair defeated Stephen McCammond 4/2. Congratulations to Richard on winning his first Matchplay trophy. Long Drive The long drive comp this year has gone to Stephen McCammond. He hit 4 x long drives wins during the year. The wins were at, Carnarvon, Cabramatta, Lynwood and Kooindah. Well done to Stephen Rookie of the Year trophy There is no recipient for the Rookie of the Year trophy this year.

Presidents Trophy Chuck has already presented the Presidents Trophy, but a quick run-down on Richard’s performance this year……so to win the Presidents trophy, he had 2 x wins at Richmond and Long Reef, a third at Liverpool and 5 x other top 10’s. A very well deserved winner and automatic selection for next years Elliott team. Well done Richard. RS Elliott Interstate Team It is now my pleasure to announce the team (which now can be someone who isn’t or has not worked in the bank) to represent NSW at the 55th tournament to be held in Queensland next March. Ok….here we go….the first person (as you would already know) to represent NSW is ….

No. Name First year Number of selections (including 2019)

1 Richard Mair 2015 (WA) 5th

2 Warren Francis 1997 (WA) 12th

3 Glenn Williamson

2013 (Qld) 4th

4 George Emerson

2009 (WA) 3rd

5 Dave McCann 2004 (Vic) 8th

6 Simon Cooper 2001 (Qld) 14th

7 Bruce Clausen 1974 (Qld) 23rd

8 Graham Flanagan

1997 (WA) 6th

9 Michael Parker 2008 (NSW) 5th

10 Patrick Walton 1994 (Qld) Semi-Virgin

2nd (previous 25 years)

Reserve – Allan Kenny Reserve – Bob Hooper Reserve – Mark Ward If a reserve if required, the selection committee will determine which of the 3 x reserves will be asked to replace the unavailable player. Groupies – if there are any other people (including the reserves) that would like to still attend as a groupie, would they please let us know. Queensland have requested we confirm numbers by 5th January next year.

2019 Interbank Team The following players have been selected for the Interbank Squad in 2019 which will be hosted by CBA and played at Stonecutters Ridge on Friday 8th March 2019. (The Elliott players will still have a chance to play another game before heading up Queensland).

1) Stephen McCammond 2) Mark Ward 3) Steve Chan 4) Allan Kenny 5) Simon Soo 6) Lloyd Rodger 7) Ed Chan 8) Greg Liversage 9) Bob Hooper 10) Gordon Ho 11) Ehtesham Fassih 12) Willem Van Vuuren 13) Dom Khoury 14) John Bennion 15) Peter Cassin 16) Steve Wise 17) Steve Nicholson 18) Ganesh Ramachandra 19) Kevin Ho 20) Pat Bridge

In closing, I would also like to again thank all players for their conduct on and off the course during the year, and to all the committee members for their assistance throughout the year. This has been my 10th year as captain and I have again thoroughly enjoyed supporting the club and look forward to serving as Captain again for the 11th year. I hope everyone has a safe and happy Christmas this year, and all the best for 2019.

7. Election of the 2019 Committee

The 2018 Committee was dissolved and the following committee elected: President – Richard Mair Vice President – Mike Parker Captain – Steven Chan Secretary – Craig Horley Treasurer – George Emerson Handicapper – Stephen McCammond Booking Officer – David McCann General Committee – G Flanagan, T Hillman, G Williamson, Allan Kenny, Dom

Khoury, Warren Francis.

8. Election of Patron Richard Mair, President (newly elected) thanked Peter Bendiech for his continued support and effort in this Patron role during 2018 and nominated him for 2019.

Nominated – Richard Mair Seconded – Resounding approval from the AGM attendees.

Peter made a short acceptance speech thanking the club for again considering and offering him the privilege of continuing as Club Patron.

9. General Business Richard Mair introduced, as his first order of business as new president, a new invitational event for the successful winners during 2018. Details follow :

2019 January Invitational - Sunday Jan 20th, Ryde-Parramatta Golf Club, 12:10pm

Starting in 2019, a single stableford competition for the top 15 golfers from the previous year PLUS the captain

will be contested in January, playing off for the perpetual trophy.

Cost expected to be $55 pp playing off White Tees, slope of 134

1. Captain, and

2. Previous year’s winner, and

3. President’s Trophy winners from the previous year (max 13), THEN

4. Club Champions Open - C (max 4), THEN

5. Match play winner, THEN

6. The top of the President’s Trophy table

Totalling to 4 groups (16 golfers) to be played in the final week of January.

2019 invites:

1. Steve Chan

2. George Emerson

3. Lloyd Rodger

4. Mark Ward

5. Patrick Walton

6. Richard Mair

7. Stephen McCammond

8. Ganesh Ramchandra

9. Allan Kenny

10. Greg Liversage

11. Todd Sarris

12. Simon Cooper

13. Pat Wong

14. Warren Francis

15. Glen Williamson

16. Dave McCann

Reserves: Chuck Parker, Pat Kastl, Simon Soo

No further Business was raised Meeting Closed by Craig Horley @ 7:40PM Date of the next Committee Meeting TBA.

Appendix 1.

COMMONWEALTH BANK SYDNEY GOLF CLUB

TREASURERS REPORT FOR YEAR ENDING 30 NOVEMBER 2018

OPENING BALANCE (1st December 2017): 17,998.82

ACTUAL

INCOME YTD

Bank Holiday (net) 2,973.78

Capts Cash (net) 1,584.00

Donations 0.00

Fundraising (net) 190.00

Interest 272.19

Membership Fees 1,230.00

Non Attend Fees $10 per non attendance 0.00

Syd v Newc 0.00

T Shirt Sales 110.00

Trophies 2,469.00

8,828.97 8,828.97

26,827.79

EXPENDITURE

AGM 500.00

Coffs Harbour (net) 462.34

Deposits Utilised 0.00

Green Fees (net) 0.00

Interbank (net) 800.00

Miscellaneous Trophy Engraving, Bank Fees, Accruals ```````````` 257.22

R S Elliott 2,689.21

Syd v Newc 0.00

T Shirt/Caps Purchases 399.35

Trophies 2,345.49

Westpac Challenge (net) 475.00

7,928.61 7,928.61 P/L

18,899.18 $900.36

ACCOUNT SUMMARY (as at 30 November 2018)

Outstanding Banking - DIFFERENCE 0.00

Cheque Account No 1 4,413.19

Gateway Term Deps 13,070.77 Deposits

Gateway At Call 18.22 Carnarvon 400.00

O/S Deposits and Stock on Hand 1,465.00 Glenmore 100.00

18,967.18 Liverpool 50.00

Less O/S Payments 68.00 Long Reef 50.00

18,899.18 Mona Vale 100.00

Shirts SOH 765.00

1,465.00

Appendix 2.