Job Vacancy - Club Administrator

CLUB ADMINISTRATOR

All applicants must have good IT skills, an interest in golf would be useful and a commitment to providing good customer service is essential. Peebles is consistently recognised as providing a warm welcome and the successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a commitment to service excellence.

The post is integral to every aspect of Peebles Golf Club’s operation and is heavily relied upon by the members, visitors and staff. Applicants must be available to work occasional weekends.

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Club Championship Draws

Congratulations to all golfers who have qualified for the knock-out stages of the Club Championship across our various categories, with matches being held from Monday 25 June through to our Finals Day on Saturday June.

The eagerly anticipated draws have now been made so to find out who is playing who in the first round, click on the links below:

> Men's Club Championship: 1st round on Wednesday 27 June

> Ladies Championship: 1st round on Wednesday 27 June

> Men's B Championship: 1st round on Tuesday 26 June

> Ladies B Championship: 1st round on Monday 25 June

> Men's C Championship: 1st round on Monday 25 June

> Junior Championship: 1st round on Monday 25 June

Should you require any further information on the Club Championship, please contact the office. We would encourage all members to come and support the players throughout the week or join in the celebrations at the presentation, taking place in the evening of Saturday 30 June.

Ladies Open Greensome Results

We hope all those that took part in the Ladies Open on Saturday 9th June enjoyed their day despite the thunder and lightning delay. Nice to see a strong field taking part and look forward to having you back soon. The results are as follows:

1st - Judy Cairns & Sue Nelson (both Peebles GC) - 66.8

2nd - Sheila Horsburgh & Lorna Rutherford (both Peebles GC) - 67

3rd - Val McKean (Peebles GC) & Maureen Pia (Liberton GC) - 67.2

4th - Mary Ann Richmond & Liz Tweedie (both Biggar GC) - 68

Best scratch prize - Jane Herd (Gullane GC) & Sal Shepherd (Craigmillar Park GC) - 78

Nearest the pin on Hole 1 - Sheila Cuthbertson (Peebles GC)

Nearest the pin on Hole 7 - Cat Cheape (Grangemouth GC)

Nearest the pin on 12Sal Shepherd (Craigmillar Park GC)

Nearest the pin on 16 - Sandra Hennessy (Broomieknowe GC)

Longest drive on hole 9 - Anne Brownie (Mortonhall GC)

All Peebles members, prizes will be available to collect from behind the bar. All visitors who won prizes will have vouchers sent to their respective clubs. 

PGC Belhaven Brewery Mixed Open Results

Thank you to all those who participated in the Belhaven Brewery Mixed Open yesterday. We hope you enjoyed yourself. The results are as follows:

1st - Steve & Moira Brown (Peebles GC) - nett 65.6

2nd - Thomas & Helen Lang (Harburn GC) - nett 66.4

3rd - Stephen Matthews & Sue Nelson (Peebles GC) - nett 68.0

4th - Alan MacDonald (Jedburgh GC) & Lorna Rutherford (Peebles GC) - nett 68.2

Best gross- Stephen & Mandi Roger (Peebles GC) - 73

Nearest the pin competitions

1st - Sandy Wood (Peebles GC)

7th - Douglas Leithead (Hawick GC)

12th - Laura Hall (Penrith GC)

16th - Karen Pearson (Brampton GC)

All those non members who won prizes will have them sent out to you this week. Hope to see you all again. 

 

Peebles Golf Club Ltd – Members Privacy Notice – May 2018

What we need

Peebles Golf Club Ltd. will be a “controller” of the personal information that you provide to us in this form, unless otherwise stated.
When you register as a member of Peebles Golf Club or renew your membership (including if you are registering or renewing on behalf of a child under the age of 18), we will ask you for the following personal information:
• contact details – name, address, email address, and date of birth;
• membership criteria/category – athlete, parent, volunteer; and
• equality information – disability (if any) and gender identity.

Why we need your personal information – contractual purposes

We need to collect our members’ personal information so that we can manage your membership. We will use our members’ personal information to:
• provide you with core member services, including, insurance, licensing and PVG checks;
• set up your online membership account and administer your account online; and
• send you membership communications by post or email in relation to essential membership services, including but not limited to, membership renewals and information on membership benefits.
If you do not provide us with all of the personal information that we need to collect then this may affect our ability to offer the above membership services and benefits.

Why we need your personal information – legitimate purposes

We also process our members’ personal information in pursuit of our legitimate interests to:
• promote and encourage participation in Golf by sending members’ communications and booking information for upcoming competitions and events. Our competitions and events may be filmed or photographed and your personal information may also be used in images captured from our competitions and events, which we use for promotional, education and development purposes;
• provide competition in the sport of Scotland by accepting and managing entries for our competitions and checking your personal information to ensure you are entered into the correct category;
• develop and maintain our members’ qualifications, including sending email communications to members to inform you of upcoming courses, renewal requirements and verify that you have completed any mandatory training and PVG / child protection requirements; and
• respond to and communicate with members regarding your questions, comments, support needs or complaints, concerns or allegations in relation to the Peebles Golf Club.


We will use your personal information to investigate your complaint, suspend membership and take disciplinary action where appropriate. Where we process your personal information in pursuit of our legitimate interests, you have the right to object to us using
your personal information for the above purposes. If you wish to object to any of the above processing, please contact us via secretary@peeblesgolfclub.com

If we agree and comply with your objection, this may affect our ability to undertake the tasks above for the benefit of you as a member.

Why we need your personal information – legal obligations

We are under a legal obligation to process certain personal information relating to our members for the purposes of complying with our obligations under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 to check that our coaches and volunteers are able to undertake regulated work with children and vulnerable adults.


Other uses of your personal information

We may ask you if we can process your personal information for additional purposes. Where we do so, we will provide you with an additional privacy notice with information on how we will use your information for these additional purposes.


Who we share your personal information with

We may be required to share personal information with statutory or regulatory authorities and organisations to comply with statutory obligations. Such organisations include the Health & Safety Executive, Disclosure Scotland, and Police Scotland for the purposes of safeguarding children. We may also share personal information with our professional and legal advisors for the purposes of taking advice.
As an affiliated club of Scottish Golf we are required to ensure that all of our members are members of Scottish Golf and the border golfers association (bga) as a condition of affiliation. We will share your name and membership category with Scottish Golf and bga who will become a controller of your personal information when they receive it.
Scottish Golf’s privacy notice explains how they use your personal information and can be accessed here www.ScotlandSGB.org.uk/privacynotice.

In the event that we do share personal information with external third parties, we will only share such personal information strictly required for the specific purposes and take reasonable steps to ensure that recipients shall only process the disclosed personal information in accordance with those purposes.


How we protect your personal information

Your personal information is stored on our electronic filing system and our servers based in the UK and is accessed by our staff and volunteers for the purposes set out above.

How long we keep your personal information

We will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with membership services. Unless you ask us not to, we will review and possibly delete your personal information where you have not renewed your membership with us for six years.
Your rights
You can exercise any of the following rights by writing to us at secretary@peeblesgolfclub.com
Your rights in relation to your personal information are:
• you have a right to request access to the personal information that we hold about you by making a “subject access request”;
• if you believe that any of your personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, you have a right to request that we correct or complete your personal information; you have a right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information for specific purposes; and
• if you wish us to delete your personal information, you may request that we do so.
• Any requests received by Scotland Sports Club will be considered under applicable data protection legislation. If you remain dissatisfied, you have a right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk

R&A 9-Hole Championship & Maureen Haig Memorial Salver

On Wednesday 16 May the club will be staging a qualifying competition for the R&A 9-Hole Championship, with the chance to win a place at Carnoustie in the final. This exciting new event will also be played in conjunction with the inaugural Maureen Haig Memorial Salver, open to women, women and juniors with a handicap limited of 36 and 28.

Competition Rules

• Nominate your partner before the day of play and add your names as a pair on the sheet provided
• You may play alongside your partner but you cannot play as just a two-ball – you must compete within a three-ball with one other player. If competing in same group players in the same team must not give advice or mark each other’s card.
• You do not have to play with your partner but you both must take part in the competition
• A player’s 9-Hole handicap allowance will be calculated by our club system’s software using the following formula. [Exact Handicap + Nine-Hole SSS – (Nine-Hole Par x2)] / 2.
• The scoring format is 9-hole net stableford
• Each player must register a 9-hole stableford score
• The winning team will be the highest combined stableford points score
• In the event of a tie, the team with the highest individual score will be the winners
• In the scores are still tied, there will be a card countback on the highest winning score – last 6 holes, last 3 holes, last hole
• The competition is open to men and women with a CONGU handicap
• Teams can be made up of two men, two women or a man and a woman

Other notes:
• One junior can play with an adult
• You must be available to play the next round on 14/15 June 2018
• The final is on Sat 14 July 2018

Prizes:
• The winning pairing will qualify to play in the R&A 9-Hole Championship Scottish Final which will take place at Milnathort Golf Club on 14 or 15 June (players can nominate their preferred date from the two date options).
• The leading two teams from each day of the final, based on combined net stableford 9-hole scores, will win a place in the R&A 9-Hole Championship Final at Carnoustie on Saturday 14 July – on the eve of The Open Championship.

THE WINNING PAIR AT PEEBLES WILL WIN THE INAUGURAL MAUREEN HAIG MEMORIAL SALVER

Further details of the R&A 9-Hole Championship can be found on the link below.

> R&A 9-Hole Championship

 

2018 KNOCKOUT COMPETITIONS DRAW

The draw for this season's knockout competitions has taken place. To find out who you are competing against please follow the relevant links below. Please play your ties before the deadline given, any issues please contact the office.

SUMMER SINGLES - DRAW

ALEXANDER ROSEBOWL - DRAW

BALFOUR BEATTIE 4BBB - DRAW

MASCOT BOND - DRAW

GENTS BALLOT FOURSOMES - DRAW

LADIES BALLOT FOURSOMES - DRAW

Good luck to all those competing.

 

FACTORY CUP 2018 RESULTS

Congratulations to the ‘young team’ of Cameron McBride, Jamie Fenton, Kris Hopkirk and Martin Walker who took victory in the Factory Cup with an impressive score of 125, beating off competition from 38 other teams. A great day at the club in glorious sunshine with another packed course and busy clubhouse.

1st - Cameron McBride, Jamie Fenton, Kris Hopkirk & Martin Walker = 125 points
2nd - Toby McDonald, Brian Robson, Andrew Thomson & Alister Lambie = 126 points
3rd - Grant Parker, Kevin Blacklaw, Douglas Parker & Guest of G. Parker = 127 points

Well done to all who took part.

GENTS SENIORS 4 MAN TEXAS SCRAMBLE RESULTS

Well done to all those who took part in a wet and windy Gents Seniors  Scramble yesterday. Glad you all enjoyed the course, hope to see the visitors again soon.

1st team prize - A. Mckenzie/G. McClelland/A. Hunter/G. Wither all from Swanston GC - nett 59.7

2nd team prize - C. Espiner (Ponteland)/ G.Waugh (Gosforth)/G. Hill (Ponteland)/ T. Longhirst (Maften Hall) - nett 60.1

Nearest the pin on the 7th - Iain Mitchell (Peebles

Longest drive on the 9th - Tom Litster (Peebles)

Nearest the pin on the 16th - Ian Clincscales (Galashiels)

Peebles members will be able to collect their prizes from the bar, we will be in contact with all victorious visitors. 

Full list of scores

Captain's v Vice-Captain's Challenge - The Result

It proved to be a winning start to the season for the new Captain as Ross Duncan's side edged out Gavin Carruthers' troops by a margin of 11.5 - 8.5 to get the season officially underway the Spring sunshine.

The course was in excellent condition for the time of year and with the lure of new caterer Gary Moore's Sunday carvery waiting back in the clubhouse, the pace of play proved to be very quick! 

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A big thanks to our Piper Tracey Thomson for piping us in and out at the Millennium Cairn for the opening ceremony, and to David Brown, Gordon Sanderson and the Carruthers family for hosting the annual Jim Carruthers Memorial Walk.