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President - Mark Teed R O G S
Captain - Dean Merritt
c/o Mr G R Storey, Secretary
DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL REPORT Vice - Ian Spalding 9 Boswells Close, Bere Regis, BH20 7JE
Secretary - Guy Storey
Telephone:- 01929 471041
Treasurer - Peter Cheeseman
Dorset for You new Website www.bereregis.com e-mail: golf@bereregis.com
The new website has just launched Golf Days held every month, usually the last Friday, from February through to October.
(Dorsetforyou.gov.uk). This includes the new New members are invited to join. Contact Guy Storey – 471041 for membership forms and details.
homepage and some new services. All other V E N U E S 2018
services are being updated and will transfer over in
the next few weeks. As the team continues to work Date Venue Trophy Winner
on the new site, a few snags are being raised and
resolved. There are ‘feedback’ links on most 23 February Paultons Golf Centre Members Challenge Peter Cheeseman
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so please use these to let the Dorsetforyou team 30 March Weymouth Golf Club GRS Trophy Cancelled
know if you spot anything that isn’t working as it 27 April High Post Golf Club Jim Corbin Cup Jim Goodey
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should.
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25 May Salisbury & South Wilts Golf Club Ex-Landlord’s Cup Dean Merritt
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29 June Manor House Golf Club President’s Cup
Finance 27 July Wareham Golf Club Captain’s Cup
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I am pleased to let you know that we were able to close the Council’s accounts 31 August Bath Golf Club Memorial Cup
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in record time for the financial year 2017-18. And I’m even more pleased to
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confirm that together, as a Council, we achieved a small overall underspend of 28 September Rushmore Golf Club Whitbread Pairs
£238,000. This is no mean feat in light of the challenging and increasing budget 26 October Lyme Regis Golf Club Zoom Trophy
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pressures we face as a Council, with demand for social care services growing
year on year due to an ageing population, and the Council’s funding from Summer Tour – 15 -17 June 2018 AGM 7:00pm for 7:30pm Wednesday 7 November, Bere
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central government falling. In addition, government regulations allowed us to Old Thorns Golf & Spa Hotel Regis Sports Club
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make some one-off adjustments to our financing arrangements in 2017-18 and to Autumn Tour - 13 – 22 September Cup of Good Cheer & Presentation Evening – 8 December
put aside some money to cover costs associated with forming the new unitary Belek, Turkey 2018 Dorset G&CC (tbc)
councils. This improved the Council’s overall year end budget position by another
£4m. This money has been added to the Council’s reserves.
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We managed to achieve this significant result thanks to hard work across the
council to tackle potential budget overspending. However, we cannot rest on
our laurels. The budget challenge continues: the Council’s savings target for 2018 Ex Landlords Cup 2018
-19 is just under £19m. We face ongoing budget pressures due to inflation, 30 ROGS members and 2 guests turned it in beautiful
continuing growth in demand for social care, and other factors. We must ensure sunshine for the Ex Landlords Cup kindly sponsored by good
that Dorset County Council is in a stable financial position ready for the transition friend Mr Mark Teed. It was played at the beautifully
to the new unitary councils in April 2019. I will be working closely with directors to manicured Salisbury golf course situated adjacent to
ensure we achieve this. Salisbury Racecourse. The day was started once again
with an FA cup style live draw which once again threw up

some interesting groups.
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The ROGS toiled in the humid conditions and returned some impressive scores,
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A combination of warm and wet weather has resulted in the green verges and with all of the top 3 players returning a very respectable 37 points. In 3 position
hedgerows of Dorset becoming lush and luxuriant. Dorset County Council

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