The Women's National Club Teams' District Final was held at Harewood Golf Club on Friday in fine weather and the course in great condition.
26 clubs from the Canterbury Region were represented in the 18 Hole Four Ball Strokeplay event where the aggregate of the four ball scores of the club's two pairs is the team's score.
As is expected in this event the scores were again very close with just five strokes separating the top 7 teams, but it was Tai Tapu's team of Adrienne Shadbolt, Jill Gimblett, Karena Gibson and Jeanette Drinnan who prevailed on a combined total of 132,...
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Several Canterbury players across the full range of Age Groups had maiden victories in their respective events over the last week.
Firstly, Canterbury representative Kazuma Kobori joined an illustrious group of a handful of amateurs to win on the Jennian Homes Charles Tour, claiming the Autex Muriwai Open. The 20-year-old Rangiora Golf Club member carded rounds of 66, 75, 69, and 68 to secure the victory by 4 strokes seeing off a competitive field. Read the full review here - https://www.golf.co.nz/news-detail?newsarticleid=25760&tags=Tournaments
Meanwhile, in Tasman Canterbury Masters stalwart Aaron Forsyth claimed the inaugural South Island Seniors Championship coming from behind on the final...
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It was great day out for Waimairi Beach Golf Club at Coringa Golf Club on Sunday where the Metro A and B Finals were played in fine conditions and the course in great order.In a first for the Waimairi Beach Golf Club both their Metro A and B teams won their respective Finals. In Metro A Waimairi Beach's team (pictured above) of Steve Priest, Grant Bunting, Uinisoni Saafi, Gary Eyre, Craig Prior, Craig Allsopp, Dave Smith and Lloyd Dungey defeated McLeans Island 5-3.
In the Metro B Final between Waimairi Beach and Russley, the teams finished 4-4 at the end of...
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Canterbury Golf is now seeking expressions of interest for the Manager positions for the 2022 Canterbury Representative Teams. These are rewarding roles that contribute to the ongoing success of Canterbury Golf.
The purpose of these positions is to assist players to ensure they are supported and managed to perform at their best while representing Canterbury. The available roles and their job descriptions can be found below:
Men’s Representative Team Manager
Men’s Representative Team Assistant Manager
Women’s Representative Team Manager
Women’s Representative Team Assistant Manager
Men’s Masters Representative Team Manager
Each position's term is 16 May – 31 December 2022.
Applications in writing, outlining relevant skills and experience can...
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Kaituna Golf Club held a unique golf tournament on Friday 1 April using "night flyer" glowing golf balls.
With daylight saving ending, and darkness descending early, nine holes were played from 5pm followed by supper. By then it was dark enough to have a par-3 men’s and women’s “champagne” shoot-out using “Night Flyer” golf balls. The flag and edge of the greens were identified by special glow sticks, and the tee box lit up with a car’s lights.
Hitting the "night flyer" golf balls was a unique experience for all, and lots of fun was had as the balls flew through the...
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Sunday 3 April saw all 14 Presidents teams competing at Clearwater Golf Club. Overcast conditions at first turned into a great day for golf. With four clubs in contention for the Presidents Cup, the play turned out to be as bright as the conditions.The day started with both Templeton and Russley on the same match points in the lead. On tiebreak, half a game advantage, had Templeton in first. Close behind these two were Waitikiri and Clearwater.
The key matches were Templeton vs Coringa, Russley vs Clearwater and Waitikiri vs Bottle Lake. There were tense individual games with the results often...
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Canterbury Golf is delighted to confirm the selection panels for the 2022 Men’s and Women’s Canterbury Representative seasons. The panels are as follows:
Canterbury Men’s Selectors
Ian Donaldson (Convenor of Selectors)John RademakersMatt McLean
Canterbury Women’s Selectors
Mel BrewRobyn Gillespie
The Canterbury Men’s Selector panel will cover the team selections for the following events during 2022:
Event
Date
Town vs Country
28 Aug
Canterbury v Aorangi
18 Sept
Canterbury Boys U19/U16 team to compete at Boys Interprovincial
3 - 7 Oct
Canterbury Masters team to compete at South Island Interprovincial
1 - 2 Oct
Canterbury Men’s team and Boy’s U19/U16 team to compete at South Island Interprovincial
29 - 30 Oct
Canterbury Masters team to compete at NZ...
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The Annual Representative fixture between Canterbury North and Buller Westland was played on 26-27 March at the Reefton Golf Club in summery 26 degree conditions.
Results were as follows:
Senior Men4BBB - Canterbury North 2, Buller Westland 3Foursomes - Canterbury North 2, Buller Westland 3Singles - Canterbury North 5.5, Buller Westland 4.5Overall - Canterbury North 9.5, Buller Westland 10.5Intermediate Men4BBB - Canterbury North 1, Buller Westland 4Foursomes - Canterbury North 2, Buller Westland 3Singles - Canterbury North 5, Buller Westland 5Overall - Canterbury North 8, Buller Westland 12
Buller Westland winning overall 22.5-17.5Andrew Green, Jason Sincock and Zac Norton were unbeaten in the fixture.
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After years of talking about it, Sir Bob Charles, Glenn Bongartz and Stu Upton organised the first Golf Warehouse New Zealand Hickory Open at the Christchurch Golf Club, on the Shirley Links for the 13th of March 2022.
66 golfers from North and South competed in the tournament.
The morning Gross Foursomes team of John Rowland and John Elliott won a tight chip off playoff from Bongartz/Lawson, Devlin/Lund and Bath/Hilton. All finished on 4 over par 40.
Bongartz/Lawson had also tied in the Nett Foursomes with Neil and Sam Bromfield. Bongartz and Lawson going on to win that playoff to be Nett Champions....
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The newly launched Canterbury Golf Talent Development Plan is in full swing with monthly sessions having been delivered in January, February, and March.
The programme's intentions are to bring together our best emerging young players and to provide holistic talent development support to help them realise their potential as golfers and as people.
In keeping with this holistic support theme, so far the participants have been introduced to content focussed on Athlete Life and Skill Development. In session 1 the participants learned about the concept of long-term athlete development and where they sit within this followed by an introduction of player welfare...
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