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Away Interclub Match vs Minthis – Wed 12th March 2025

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Dear Members,

It is with pleasure that I wish to announce our first inter-club team selection for Season 2025.

On Wed 12 th March 2025, the SVGC team is drawn to play against Minthis at the Minthis GolfClub, and the first tee grouping will start at 8:00am (and 9 min intervals thereafter). 

General Information:
1. Team photo opportunities – all SVGC team members are asked to arrive at Minthis
ahead of the first tee time for a group photo. A second group photo may be arranged
during the luncheon.

The driving range, practice bunker, chipping area, and putting green will be available for
your warm-up practice ahead of your tee time (to be advised shortly).
2. Club polo – all club members are asked to wear the SVGC hot-pink polo and navy-blue bottoms (ie. trousers, shorts, skirts).
A small stock of the SVGC hot-pink polos (in limited sizing) are available in the Proshop.
The polos are offered ‘free-of-charge’ for new team members. Note that an additional
batch of SVGC hot-pink polos will be ordered shortly for the upcoming interclub
matches in 2025.
If you are unable to source a SVGC hot-pink polo from the Proshop, please wear your
own hot-pink polo for this Minthis match.
3. Teams – there are two competing teams of 20x players each, comprising 6x ladies and
14x gents, respectively. There will be 10 flights of 4x players each. Team match play
rules apply.  The ladies will play from the red tees and the gents will play from the yellow tees. Maximum handicaps apply for the ladies (36) and for the gents (28).
4. Lunch – Minthis will offer a ‘wrap’ lunch in their downstairs restaurant to follow the group matches. The cost of the wrap is Euro 9 pp (and drinks are extra). Cash payment is preferred. Details of the wrap options will follow shortly.

The Team

Ladies – 
Catrin Koring (C), Kathryn Lawson, Tatjana Ptasica, Friederike von Zenker*, Shelagh Koulaouzos, Margaret Cooley (6 out of 6 filled). 
Reserve: Elizabeth Owens*
Gents – 
Daniel Schmidt, John Owens, Boris Zilbermints, Kevin O';Toole, Bob Lye, David Hardy, Trevor Holden, Kieron Healey, Steve Krysik, Michael Mason, Willie El-Fakir, Demetris Paphitis, Shamir Sidhu, Robin Reed (14 out of 14 filled). Reserves: Simon Wijker, Gordon Cooley

*Buggy
Best regards,
Bill Kemter

2025 Vice Captain (elect)

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AGM 2025 Proxy Form

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Dear Members,
Please be advised that the Proxy voting Form for the upcoming AGM is now available. Members who are unable to attend may appoint a proxy to vote on their behalf.
The form can be accessed on the members' portal and is also available on the clubhouse notice board. Please ensure completed forms are submitted as per the stated deadline.
For any queries, please contact [email protected] or speak to a member of the pro shop staff.
Best regards,
Adam Collinson

Director Of Golf | Secret Valley Golf Resort 

PGA Professional

TPI Certified

Tel: +35726 27 4000/2   |  fax:+357 26 274001

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Quiz Night on Friday March 14, 2025

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Dear Members, 

Our next Quiz night is Friday, March 14th.  A good turnout will be helpful for raising funds for the Captain’s Charity.(Ronald McDonald House). We should have the use of a new sound system which we expect will help people to hear the questions!  Members and guests are welcome.  Please contact Toma to enter.
Trevor Fordham will be the Quizmaster on the night.
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Regards,
Webmaster

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150 Club 2025

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Dear Members I am pleased to inform you that Kirill Lyushinsky has agreed to volunteer the significant Charity raising initiative „150 Club“ again this year. He will now be chasing members for their money. You can pay the annual cost of €50 direct to our member Kirill or you leave an envelope with the exact amount and your full name in the ProShop. Please let him know if you wish to keep your number from last year. The first draw will be made in March 2025 on the terrace immediately after a comp. The monthly winners and all other important informations regarding the 150 Club will be announced on our website under the specific Link.
Good luck!
Catrin Koring Acting Captain
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– Resignation of Members Representative

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From: Noel Greene
Subject: Resignation of Members Representative

When I received notification on Friday last that the AGM was further delayed until Friday 28 February at 11.00am I immediately resigned as Members Representative from the Club Committee. 
It was never my intention to put my name forward for reelection for 2025 so I had assumed that my tenure on the Club Committee would end on 18th January 2025. So with yet another postponement I asked myself could this go on and on and would there even be an AGM this year. 
I know that the majority of members accept that the 2024 Committee worked very diligently in ensuring that Members interests were at the forefront of every decision taken. I can say that there were 5 very different and strong personalities on the 2024 Committee – some Committee meetings were very difficult but in every case there was either consensus or majority decisions taken. 
Thanks to the Captain Boris Zilbermints for his leadership in very difficult circumstances for him personally. He was always the first to call a vote on contentious issues and once a decision was taken that was it. 
My thanks also to Vice Captain Catrin, who brought a new dimension to the organisation of Inter Club matches, who brought multiple sponsorships to the Club, and if I am not mistaken ran the knockouts with a precision unseen before at SV. 
On behalf of the Members, special thanks due to Michele who brought a new level of efficiency to the management of Club Competitions. I think that only the Committee members could fully understand the amount of time, effort and indeed thought that went into her daily work over the past year. 
I leave the Treasurer Matt Wake until last. What sort of a Golf Club are we at SV where the best Treasurer we ever had feels the need to not renew both his and Irene’s membership at Secret Valley. It was Matt who discovered the VAT anomaly which resulted in most members getting VAT refunds never mind saving the proprietors hundreds of thousands of Euro per year. 
And yet he feels the need to walk away. Members should think long and hard about that. 
And thanks to my partner Margrit, who had to put up with my mood swings over the past year. I would not allow this to happen again. 

Regards

Noel Greene

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Resignation of Treasurer

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Dear Members,
Irene and I have decided that we do not wish to renew our membership for 2025 and with effect from 16th February we will not be members of SVGC. In accordance with the Club Constitution, I cannot then hold any position on the SVGC Committee. I have therefore today tendered my resignation as Club Treasurer to the acting Club Captain with immediate effect.
I have handed over all of the cash within the Members Funds previously under my custody, a total of €2,807, and have received a signed receipt from the Acting Captain to that effect.
I shall now be unable to attend the forthcoming AGM to deliver the Treasurer’s Report to the Members and so I have uploaded a written report to the Member’s portal in the section where Income and Expense Reports are posted.
Could I suggest to each and every Member, who last year signed a petition to remove me (and my hard working Committee colleagues) from office, that they now consider devoting a substantial amount of their time to provide a service to Members on a completely voluntary and unpaid basis and volunteer to fill the Treasurer position that I now vacate – failing which yet more responsibilities which should rightly be held within the structure of the Members’ Committee may instead be transferred to a paid contractor of Management, reporting to Management.
I wish to advise that, on Wednesday 29th January, I wrote to the Proprietor (with copy to the Vice Captain) to seek assurances from the Proprietor that (1) in accordance with section 4c of the Club Constitution, the Committee had full responsibility for the organisation of club competitions and (2) the Proprietor would honour the Club Constitution.  I am pleased to say that the Proprietor promptly confirmed that “the Committee is responsible for organising golf competitions and social events – that is 100% clear”. The Proprietor further confirmed that it would be “up to the Committee to decide on how to operate to fulfil this responsibility”.  The Proprietor additionally confirmed their full respect to the Club Constitution and I thank the Proprietor for these clear assurances.  A copy of that correspondence has been passed to all Committee Members.
With best regards,
Matt Wake
9th February 2025

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– Thieving Update

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Dear Memberp
Further to my email on Friday.  I am told today by Minthis members at the CGF event, that they were targeted yesterday.
Members locker(s) were broken into and cash and cards were removed from wallets and the wallets put back!
Please keep valuables to a bare minimum and on your person.
There might be a chance the person is dressed “like a golfer”.
Both Aphrodite and Elea have been informed.
Sad times
Kind regards

Michele Miller
Competition Coordinator

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New 2025 AGM Date and Agenda Announcement

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Dear Members, 
This email has been sent on behalf of the SVGR Proprietor and the AGM notice is attached. 
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting (the “AGM”) of Secret Valley Golf
Club (the “SVGC”), originally scheduled for Saturday, 22nd February 2025, will now be
held at the Secret Valley Clubhouse on Friday, 28th February 2025 at 11:00.

For any clarifications and other 2025 AGM related issues, members may submit their
message to [email protected] Formal responses to such messages will be
given via return email within 2 business days and maybe made public to all members.

Members may also contact the Proprietor representatives at 800 00 801 or seek advice
from the Management at Secret Valley.
Kind Regards

Jamie Evans
Competitions, Handicaps & Membership Secretary
Secret Valley Golf Resort

E Mail: [email protected]

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