{"id":25688,"date":"2025-07-15T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brisbane.miclub.com.au\/cms\/?p=25688"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:19:33","slug":"volunteer-update-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brisbane.miclub.com.au\/cms\/2025\/07\/volunteer-update-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Yesterday\u00a0a very hardy bunch of volunteers and staff braved a very cool morning and continued to clear the underbrush and overgrown vegetation on the golf course.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We attacked the messy area left side of the currently renovated 11th hole where many stray golf balls find themselves from the 11th and 12th tees. Balls in this area are difficult to find and if found can be unplayable and awkward to get back into play encouraging rules breaches and a serious slow play issue in this corner of the course.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The volunteers managed to load\u00a07 or more large tractor driven trailer loads of dead branches and newly removed lower branches and unwanted self sown pest trees and shrubs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Discovered in this area were attractive tall spotted gums, several Illawarra Flame trees alongside rainforest trees including\u00a0the Jagera fruit bearing variety. All good stuff being choked and compromised by overgrowth, typical in many areas of the\u00a0BGC property and needing to be maintained regularly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many thanks to Al Haydock, John Puttick, Janet Nathanson, Leigh Francis, Lisa Shoutrop, Rob Keers, Dennis May and Gerry O&#8217;Shaughnessy alongside\u00a0our course staff Eric (trailer driver), Mark (chainsaw specialist) and Super Marcus (chainsaw trainee).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our next effort is yet to be scheduled so will keep you all posted and we welcome any new members to join this dedicated group of passionate\u00a0helpers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cheers<\/div>\n<div>Lloyd Cotterill<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u00a0a very hardy bunch of volunteers and staff braved a very cool morning and continued to clear the underbrush and overgrown vegetation on the golf course.<\/p>\n<p>We attacked the messy area left side of the currently renovated 11th hole where many stray golf&#8230; <a class=\"read_more_link \" href=\"https:\/\/brisbane.miclub.com.au\/cms\/2025\/07\/volunteer-update-8\/\"> Read More&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1395,"featured_media":25689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Volunteer Update - The Brisbane Golf Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Volunteer Update - The Brisbane Golf Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday\u00a0a very hardy bunch of volunteers and staff braved a very cool morning and continued to clear the underbrush and overgrown vegetation on the golf course. 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