the first draw of this year’s 150 Club was held on the balcony on Tuesday, April 16th. The winners of the March draw were:

100 Euro – Elaine Macmillan

75 Euro – Boris Zilbermints

50 Euro – Michele Miller

25 Euro – Alexander Popov

The April draw will be held at the end of this month. Kirill still have some lucky numbers left, please contact him for details. 

Boris Zilbermints

Club Captain

Dear Club Members

The Club Championships weekend, 11 and 12^th May 2024, is fast approaching.

At the time of writing there are 53 entries for the White and Blue Tees, Medal Format.

The Committee have reviewed this low level of entries, for what is one of the most important Club Competitions of the year.

The Committee has tried to analyse why the entry numbers are so low and we have received the following responses from a number of members who haven’t entered the Competition.

The main reason put forward was that playing from the White and Blue Tees in a Medal Format for 2 days is just too difficult for many of the Senior/Super Senior Members, both Male and Female.

Another issue related to the fact that if a couple shared a buggy because they need to use a buggy, on Day 2 of the Championship, they would not be paired together.

The Committee have decided to introduce a supplementary Club Championship Plate  based on a 2 Day Stableford Best Score for Members who would prefer to play from Yellow and Red Tees on both Days:

Day 1 – White and Blue Tee Medal Entrants tee off first – Yellow and Red Tee Stableford entrants follow

Day 2 – Yellow and Red Tee Stableford entrants tee off first in the same order as Day 1 to be followed by White and Blue Medal entrants who tee off in a Scoring order

Two issues to understand: 

Stableford Yellow and Red can only win the Championship Plate Prizes, Medal White and Blue can only win the Championship Prizes. 

Yellow and Red Tee Times on Day 2 will start from 07.00 am

The Committee are proposing this initiative so that a very full field of Members can have the opportunity to participate in the Club Championships “weekend”. The presentation ceremony will be held soon after the competition, where the Club champions as well as Championship Stableford Plate winners (both men and ladies) will be announced. There will be a small concert and a BBQ style buffet on the grass area. No payment is required from the competition participants.

More details to follow.

Best Regards

Boris Zilbermints

Club Captain

Best regards,

Secret Valley golf club together with “Rainbow in Cyprus” charity are pleased to inform you that thanks to your generous donations we would be able to assist two girls from Latvia rainbowcyprus.com/en/persons/daiga-with-daughters-eliza-and-tina (please follow the link) coming to the Paphos region for a vacation and cure. You would be able to meet the girls in person on Sunday, May 12^th, 2024 when they will visit our Club to learn about golf and to take part in the Club Championship rewards ceremony.

I was advised that some of our members had reservations that “Rainbow in Cyprus” helps Russian children, and the members did not feel inclined to help. Firstly, I am shocked personally that diseased children are being singled out based on nationality and secondly, these two girls are coming from Latvia, an EU member state, where our three members: Tatiana and two others, are from.

As advised during the AGM the 2024 Committee has decided to spend members’ funds on members’ events and we have reduced the number of competitions where money paid in by the members are being allocated to the charity. At the same time we would like to encourage the members to give generously to the charity by buying Gold Membership and Parking Slot raffle tickets, by actively participating in the 150 Club and Quiz nights. The money you donate would make diseased children happy and could assist their recovery.

Best regards,