Board and Special Events Update
Posted on: 25 May
Our Club’s Board Events have been updated with the view to allowing all Members regardless of gender to participate where practical.
Historically, a number of these Events precluded women from participating but with the World Handicapping System not differentiating between genders there is no reason for this to continue.
We are also utilising Golf Australia’s Vision 2025 strategy and the Australian Human Rights Commission’s guidelines to develop and implement a progressive diversity and inclusion policy at our Club, and this is one step in achieving this.
For the time being there are some events that will remain gender specific (such as the Club Championships) and others that require further review to ensure opening them to all Members is workable (eg. Scratch Match Play).
The Saturday Monthly Cup (Men), Saturday Monthly Medal (Women) and Wednesday Monthly Medal (Women) will remain gender specific at this point in time. This constitutes a Special Measure under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (the Act).
The Bert & Doris Storey Trophy, historically a single Stableford round with separate Men and Women competitions, is now an Open American event with both Gross and Nett winners recognised.
Golf Australia’s website holds a lot of information around Vision 2025 and we encourage you to review it if it is of interest to you (which we hope it is). Click here for more info.
If you have any queries for which you can’t find the answer, please don’t hesitate to contact the Club Captain, who will assist. The ‘Board Events’ page on our website has been updated with the new information.