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CLUB NEWS FEBRUARY 2026

RODWAY HILL WINNERS 2025

The winners of our club competitions are shown below.  Prizes will be presented at Presentation Evening (and AGM) which has now been rearranged for Friday 27 February at 7pm in the Clubhouse – all welcome: details to follow.

MENS, MIXED AND SENIORS COMPETITIONS

RODWAY HILL LADIES WINNERS 2025

CLUB SUBSCRIPTIONS 2026-267

It is time to pay your CLUB subscription, NOW £45, which is due by 31st March.  If you are under 18, the Club membership is £30.

You can pay it in one of four ways:

• By Standing Order, which many members already do. If this applies to you, you need to make sure that you havr changed your Standing Order to £45.  If you would like to set up a standing order, please ask at the desk in the clubhouse for an application form which contains the relevant section for you to take to your bank.
• By BACS to transfer to our Club account – Account Name: Rodway Hill Golf Club; Sort Code 30-90-09; Account Number 48093168. Please use your name as the reference.
• By cash or by cheque (made out to Rodway Hill Golf Club) which you can leave in the competitions box in the clubhouse.

We prefer Standing Order or BACS payments please as it minimises administration.

IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID YOUR MEMBERSHIP FEE BY 30th APRIL 2026, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY IN ANY CLUB COMPETITION/S AND YOUR NAME WILL BE REMOVED FROM H0W DID I DO UNTIL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS PAID.

We know that some of you have already paid, for which many thanks and apologies for troubling you. It may be that you have decided not to rejoin this year: if so, please let us know so that we can keep our records updated.

Please note that of your £45, £28.03 is paid as an affiliation fee to England Golf and Gloucestershire Golf Union (£24-25 for Ladies) and £4 for the subscription to How Did I Do to maintain your Handicap.  The remainder is used to support club events and activities, pay for members playing in regional competitions and administration costs.

The benefits of Club membership:

• AN OFFICIAL GOLF HANDICAP UNDER THE WORLD HANDICAP SYSTEM. The Club maintains the record of handicaps and our software enables you to record your scores and have your handicap index updated.
• ON-COURSE INSURANCE IN THE CASE OF AN ACCIDENT. Membership of the Club provides affiliation to England Golf, which in turn provides insurance for you when you are playing. It provides personal liability insurance for golf club members in the event that they are held liable for injuring someone or causing serious property damage at a golf facility. The cover is provided for members playing at any club in the UK. There is no excess in respect of personal injury claims, and a £500 excess in respect of damage to third party property. Note that this does NOT cover your clubs or equipment, which are normally covered by home insurance.
• REDUCED GREEN FEES AT COURSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. Club members are affiliated to Gloucestershire Golf Union, which provides you with a County Card – now provided through an app on your phone – that entitles you to reduced green fees throughout the country.
• THE CHANCE TO PLAY IN COMPETITIONS AND TEAMS AT RODWAY HILL. Club members can play in Club competitions and roll-ups, and represent the Club in matches with other Clubs.

Once you have paid your membership, you will receive an e-mail confirming this.  You will then be able to collect a Club Fixture List from the pigeon holes above the competition box in the club house.  It will have your name on it and be in the correct alphabetic section.  We will do not issue stickers to go on bags, or anything else to confirm your membership, as we maintain a record of club members through How Did I Do? Please make sure you collect your Club Fixture List as it not only contains the dates of all Club events, but also an outline of each of the Club competitions.

2025 BALANCE SHEET AND TREASURER’S REPORT

RODWAY HILL GOLF CLUB

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 2025  (1.1.2025  TO 31.12.2025)

NOTES ON THE ACCOUNTS FOR 2025

1.1 The Treasurer and Committee present the accounts in a way that best enables members to see how their subscriptions are spent.  This is achieved by showing the accounts in four sections:

1.  Income from subscriptions and expenditure against that income.
2. Income from competition entries and spending on prizes and related items, such as signwriting of honours boards
3. Charity income and donations
4. Seniors’ and Club activities – the Club account is used as a holding account for activities such as away days and Christmas dinners, all of which are fully paid for by income.  The account also holds surplus income for seniors, currently a little over £300.
5. The sub-total line therefore gives the best picture of the state of the Club’s finances over the year, and shows that we spent £1130 more than our income in 2025. This excess of expenditure over income was anticipated and is primarily explained by:
   • Increased expenditure on affiliation fees. Our subscriptions to Gloucestershire and England Golf increased by £750, as a result of an additional 17 members and fee increases. The 2025 figure does not include our £240 club subscription to the National Association of Public Golf Courses (NAPGC) as this had been paid in 2024.
   • An increase of £150 in our subscription to V1 systems for How Did I Do? to pay for additional members.
   • The introduction of bank charges which amounted to £107 for the year. The other major administrative cost is the printing of fixture lists, which cost £345.

3. Club Representation: costs are for individuals and teams to play in competitions organised by GGU and NAPGC. The expenditure reflects the success of Club members in regional and national NAPGC competitions and is partly offset by income within the competitions budget, when players pay an additional fee for entry to these competitions – this income amounted to £218
4. Competitions: It is always the Committee’s intention to ensure that expenditure on prize vouchers, trophies, engraving of perpetual trophies and signwriting of the honours boards does not exceed the income from competitions, but is also close to it.  It is extremely difficult to provide detailed figures as the costs in 2025 are in part for the 2024 season – signwriting, trophies for presentation night. The costs for trophies, signwriting and engraving for the 2025 season are not yet known.  It is further complicated by entry fees for Winter League competitions being paid in in one financial year, and prizes expended the following year.

However, the Treasurer estimates that the conditions above will be met.

5. Charity: in support of the 2024 Captains’ charities fundraising, a donation of £1635 was made to the Senior Captain’s charity JRDF (now Breakthough T1D, supporting people with Type 1 Diabetes), a donation of £245 to Mindsong, and a donation of £475 to the Great Western Air Ambulance. In addition, following the 2025 Captain’s Day, £2580 was donated to the James Hopkins Trust. Currently, the Club is holding a further £635 for this charity, £1193 for the Senior’s Captain’s charity in aid of Prostate Cancer and £126 to be shared between these charities and the Ladies’ charity, Mindsong. In addition, the November Stableford raise £237 for the Royal British Legion.
6. Seniors and Club Activities: these are holding accounts for particular events which have not been utilised in 2025.
7. How members’ subscriptions break down: in 2025, members paid a subscription of £35. Of this, in 2025, men paid £28.03 and Ladies £24.25 for affiliation to England Golf (£11.25) and Gloucestershire County Unions (Men £16.78, Ladies £13.00), and £1 for club affiliation to the NAPGC. The cost of How Did I Do? was approximately £4.20 per member.  This totals more than £33, leaving just £2 for all other costs.

While the year’s accounts show a deficit of £1130, if the effect of charity monies being held is removed, this is increased to £1283.  This deficit was foreseen and led to the decision a year ago to increase the Club subscription to £45 a year from 2026, with an under 18s subscription of £30.

Bob Wolfson, Club Treasurer, February 2026

CLUB POLICIES

The Committee has recently revised its Disciplinary Procedure and its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.  These, together with the Club’s other key policies, can be found on the Club tab of the website, and members are urged to update themselves on these matters.

CLUB COMMITTEE 2025-26

The following are members of the Club Committee and the composition of the Club Committees.  If you have any queries for them, please use the email [email protected] and it will be directed to the appropriate person