Charles Mackintosh and Amanda Boserio at the Canowindra Golf Club’s ninth hole
After a bit of a spell in the rough, Canowindra Golf Club has chipped back nicely onto the fairway with a new committee and a new bar service management system headed by one of the region’s most experienced young hotel workers. Announcing the changes this week, club president Charles Mackintosh, hailed them as heading “a new keenness in the club after a bit of a lay period.”
The club’s board has appointed Amanda Boserio to head the bar service, working with a team of casual staff, and the executive are convinced they’ve made the best possible choice. Amanda, who lives in Cargo, comes from a well-known regional hotel family – her parents, who used to live in Canowindra, are currently running the Black Stump at Trunkey Creek after managing the Bridge Hotel at Perthville, 10kms out of Bathurst. She says her new duties at the golf club will be “a challenge, but then most jobs are. Luckily I’ve been in the hospitality business all my life.”
According to Charles Mackintosh, the new management system will solidly underline a bid by the club to grow its current facilities and list of 400-odd players and social members. “We’re open to new members,” he says, “and we’re also encouraging juniors to come along and join. We plan to start a tuition program for up-and-coming Canowindra and regional golfers. We offer them one of the nicest nine-hole golf courses in the Central West — one that a lot of golfers from Orange and other regional centres come here to play.”
The club’s Chinese restaurant continues to draw wide attention, too. As a recent glowing review on the TripAdvisor Australia website said of it: “I’ve lived in China (Taiwan) and live in Melbourne with its host of fabulous Chinese restaurants, but at this casual room at the tiny golf club I ate the BEST crispy skin duck and the finest seafood stew imaginable… all at bargain basement prices.”
By Derek Maitland