Courtesy of NZ Golf
Canterbury is well represented up the top of the leaderboard after the first round of the 118th New Zealand Amateur Championship held at poverty Bay Golf Club. Hororata’s Dominic Brettkelly and Rangiora’s Momoka Kobori both sit atop of the standing after the first of two rounds of qualifying for the matchplay. Brettkelly fired a flawless round of seven-under 65 to sit two shots clear of Zachary May, Tyler Wood, and Jayden Ford. Teeing off the first, Brettkelly quickly got into his work. He made birdie at the first and made two more at the fifth and nineth...
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The Flexi Lease Canterbury Women's Team produced a strong performance at the Ashburton Golf Club to win the South Island Interprovincial.
The Canterbury Women's Team won all three matches against Otago, Aorangi and Tasman.
Canterbury beat Aorangi 7-1Canterbury beat Tasman 7-1Canterbury beat Otago 6-2
Click here to view the full results.
The team are pictured from left Kara Campbell (Manager), Maddie May, Amy Weng, Yoyo Fu, Jasmine Clancy, Mel Newburn, Hillary O'Connor, Amelia Garvey, Catherine Bell, Steve Campbell (Assistant Manager).
Thanks to the Ashburton Golf Club for hosting this event.
The team will now be looking ahead to preparations for the NZ Women's Interprovincial which are...
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The Canterbury Men's Team has finished third with strong competition at the South Island Interprovincial played at St Clair Golf Club.
The event provides a great opportunity for provinces to test their teams against one another ahead of the NZ Men's Interprovincial.
Canterbury got off to a solid start on Saturday beating Aorangi and Tasman, both by the same margin of 6-2 games.
Canterbury had a tight tussle with host team Otago finishing in a 4 all draw with four of the eight matches going down the 18th hole.
Southland got the better of the Canterbury winning 5.5-2.5 games to win the overall title....
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The Final round of Blank Cup was played at Weedons Country Club yesterday in fine, calm conditions and the course in great order. Teams were competing for Semi-Final spots and the B O'Malley Salver was also at stake and hotly contested for the best performed player over the past nine rounds.
Clearwater will play Coringa and Russley will play Christchurch in the Semi-Finals on Finals Day, 8 November at Waitikiri Golf Club. Waimairi Beach finished a very close fifth after Coringa won the fourth Semi-Final spot on a countback of number of individual games won.
The B O'Malley Salver was jointly won...
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It is with pleasure that we announce the co-option of Debbie Scott (Harewood) and Dion Kerr (Clearwater) onto the Canterbury Golf Executive Committee through to the 2021 AGM.
Debbie Scott
Since 1988 Debbie has been heavily involved in golf administration, particularly with her club Harewood including roles as Club Captain, President, and on the Board. She still plays golf regularly and is a Life Member at Harewood. Debbie is also involved with Canterbury Golf as the current Women’s Masters Team Manager, and is on the Women’s Committee.
Dion Kerr
Dion brings to Canterbury Golf a significant business and sporting background. Owner of many successful...
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The final two rounds of Woodward Cup were played at Harewood Golf Club yesterday and there were some interesting results as teams jockeyed for semi-final positions.
Round 8
Templeton kept their slim sem-final hopes alive and celebrated Dan Laughton's 100th Woodward Cup game with a 4.5-3.5 upset win over front runners Russley. Laughton beat Russley's Robbie Blount 3/1, to go with wins for Jordon Latter, Tom Wilson, Ryan Bellamy, and a half to Josh Simpson. For Russley Reid Hilton, Owen Burgess, and Andrew Dufton won, and Regan Kilpatrick got the half.
Harewood and Bottle Lake fought out a 4-4 draw with Ben Burgess...
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Pollock Cup visited picturesque Hororata yesterday for the final round where the weather was warm and the course in great condition.
Clearwater faced Harewood in the first match of the round comfortably winning 4-2 with convincing wins to Amelia Garvey, Rachel Eder, Di Kay and Julie Battersby while Anne Dick and Pam McTaggart had wins for Harewood.
In the match up of the round unbeaten Pegasus played last year's Champions Russley with Russley needing to win and results to go their way to make the final. With Momoka Kobori away Yoyo Fu playing at No. 1 halved with Maddie May while Russley's...
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The Final round of Simon Cup was played at Christchurch Golf Club yesterday in warm, windy conditions and the course in great order. Teams were vying for Semi-Final spots on 1 November at Coringa Golf Club, and the Roy Mitchell Salver was also on the line for the best performed player over the past nine rounds.
Christchurch will play Avondale and Russley will play Waitikiri to decide who will meet in the Simon Cup Final on Finals Day, 8 November at Waitikiri Golf Club.
Avondale's Allen Goodman, pictured right with Simon Cup Convenor David Silk was the winner of the Roy Mitchell...
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The following players have been selected to represent Canterbury at the NZ Men’s Freyberg Masters to be played at Hamilton Golf Club 2-6 November.
Canterbury Men’s Masters Team
Aaron Forsyth - WaitikiriAndrew Dufton - RussleyJason Sincock - AmuriBrett Turner - WaitikiriJonathan Stieller - WeedonsAntony Dale – Waitikiri (Reserve/Manager)
Congratulations to these players selected and we wish them all the best for the upcoming tournament. Results will be posted on the Canterbury Golf website and Facebook page during the event.
Click here to view the draw.
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The Annual Millennium Trophy Match between Canterbury and Aorangi Women was played at Tinwald Golf Club yesterday in warm, calm conditions and the course in great order.
Aorangi again proved too strong for Canterbury winning the match 719 - 660. Aorangi averaged 35.95 stableford points per player compared with Canterbury's 33. There were some great individual scores in both teams ... next year will be Canterbury's year!
Click here for full results.
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