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SEPTEMBER 2025

Welcome to Spring Futures Family!  Finally the weather improves and we get more events, coaching and fun days.  As always watch our facebook page for all upcoming dates!

We are making some changes within the membership based on feedback from our clubs, members and golfing leaders within our community.  I will emphasize these below but I promise it will make a more positive experience for all players on the course.

School Holidays are just around the corner, please remember that a golf club is not a baby sitting service.  We do not have staff available to watch unsupervised players and do not want more complaints about unsupervised players not following rules and etiquette.  If you are asked to leave the course, please do so and respect the course supervisors and workers.

To support our clubs we are now asking for player details to be collected and reported to us if there are instances of concern, which we will follow up with parents and players.  If necessary memberships may be suspended or withdrawn. 
 

 

 

 

FUTURES ETIQUETTE MEETINGS

To ensure that right information is reaching our players, we will now expect all new members to attend an etiquette meeting to sign off on appropriate play.  This will hopefully start to reduce some of the poor course etiquette we are getting reports on about our juniors and ensure expectations are set early on.

At these events we will also hand out the membership bag tags.

We will be tag attendance on your dotgolf record so that all clubs can confirm you have had this set of information.  New members will have 3 months to attend a meeting before their membership will be cancelled.

Our first meeting will Thursday 25th September 6.30pm at Otago Golf Club.  Future meetings will always be held on the last Thursday of the month.

 

 

 
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MEMBERSHIP CHANGES

All players will now need to attend an Etiquette meeting and get signed off which will be marked on their dotgolf record.  This is relevant to new AND existing members of the club.

All of our amazing member clubs are aware of these changes and will implement on course.  We have a new printed member cards which will also better identify member categories for the clubs.

Under 10

  • Players will ALWAYS need to be playing with an adult in their group (playing or walking) to ensure appropriate pace of play and behaviour.  If you would like to play with your junior, Adult Memberships for U14 Children remain at $150 per year.

Under 14

Unfortunately this age group is one of our biggest challenges.  In this age group children simply do not follow etiquette, maintain positive course behaviour and keep up with pace of play.  We get complaints time and time again relating to children aged between 12-16 who are dropped off at clubs, and left to their own devices.  This cannot continue to happen or we will lose our relationship with our clubs and be unable to offer memberships.

  • Players with no handicap will be given 3 months to achieve a handicap.  This is simply playing a minimum of 6 holes at least 6 times.  A handicap indicates to the club/s that you play well, follow etiquette and are responsible on the course.  
  • Players with no handicap following a 3 month start off, will need to be playing with an adult (playing or walking) with their group.  If you would like to play with your junior, Adult Memberships for U14 Children remain at $150 per year.

High School Students

This membership group is for students 14 years + and still in high school.  If members continue to use their memberships and are no longer in high school they will be cancelled immediately and no pro-rata refund will be offered.  If you have a current membership and have left school, contact us now for a pro-rata refund.

  • We will be doing pro-rata memberships for high school students who are 18 years and still in school, these will be set to expire in December.
  • Parent membership for high school members are $250 per year.  Parents can ONLY use this membership when playing with their Futures Dunedin members.
 
 

GET YOUR NEW MEMBERSHIP CARD

All players with an expiry dates between January 2026 - September 2026 will have new printed membership cards available.  These can be collected at any etiquette meeting and your attendance will be marked on dotgolf.  Get that bit of life admin done!
 

 

 

 
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TERM 4 COACHING

We are now preparing the coaching timetable for Shelley and our other PGA coaches, Patrick & Sam at St Clair and Mike & Callum at Otago Golf Club.

We will be offering a variety of classes, all following a 6 week series, all starting week commencing 13th October 2025, with no classes on Labour day.  Our goal to keep these class sizes small means that they sell out quickly, to secure your preferred spot please email your booking quickly to futuresdunedin@gmail.com.  I will come back and confirm your booking following this.

Keep and eye on our Facebook page for class timetables.  I will post these all on Wednesday 17th September.
 

 

 

 
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GOLF OTAGO FUTURES DEVELOPMENT DAY

Golf Otago is hosting a training series on the 28th/29th September at Otago Golf Club.  This is for players with a handicap under 16.  If you are interested register here.
 
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TOUCH BASE ANYTIME

Jenn Bowman - FuturesDunedin@gmail.com
 
 
Dunedin Junior Golf Club
www.dunedinjuniorgolf.co.nz
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