The Final of Women's Weekend Interclub between Pegasus and Bottle Lake 2 was played in a cold southerly wind at Christchurch on Sunday, with the course in geat order.
Pegasus fought out the matches to the last green to narrowly defeat Bottle Lake 2, 2.5 to 1.5.
Pegasus number four, Lynn Younger had a tough challenge giving 12 shots to Anne Brown of Bottle Lake. After an early four hole deficit Anne came back to tie their match at the sixteenth and went on to win 1 up. Pegasus' Kahlia Sutherland played an exceptional game showing no mercy in defeating Angela Poole 7/6. Philippa Robertson gave Pegasus...
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The Women’s 36 Hole Silver, 36 Hole Open and 18 Hole Interclub Finals were played at Templeton Golf Club yesterday.
With dire weather forecasts and an overnight wind storm, players were delighted to enjoy a fine day at Templeton for the Finals. Templeton provided a good challenge with some fast greens and lush lies off the fairways. All games were played in good spirits and friendship.
In the 18 Hole Final Russley’s Jane Kim, Anne O'Keefe, Agatha Sim, Anne MacGregor, Lesley Martin and Ann Collingwood (pictured below l-r) made it back-to-back wins for the club in the competition, but not before Clearwater’s Philippa Cooke,...
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News Story courtesy of NZ Golf
New Zealand Golf’s 2019 National Academy has now been named with a number of players gaining reselection along with some of New Zealand’s rising young talents being included.
The incumbent members who have been reselected include Daniel Hillier (Manor Park), Luke Brown (The Pines), Matt Mclean (Harewood), Kerry Mountcastle (Masterton), Caryn Khoo (Pakuranga), Juliana Hung (Russley) and Brittney Dryland (Titirangi).
The newly selected members include some familiar names with Kazuma Kobori (Rangiora), Carmen Lim (Windross Farm) and Vivian Lu (Royal Auckland and Grange) making the step up after a superb 12 months.
There are two distinct tiers within...
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The final round of round-robin Junior Interclub Matchplay was held at Christchurch Golf Club yesterday in fine weather and the course in excellent condition.
It was the last chance for players to push their case for individual honours as the best performed over the round-robin part of the competition.
With one round left it was still wide open with several players in contention, but it was Russley White's Jack Collie pictured left, who continued his great form through out the competition winning his final match and remaining undefeated, winning four from four over the five rounds to win the coveted Maori Wahaika...
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North Canterbury players enjoyed their annual match against Nelson played at Hanmer Springs Golf Club with the course in superb condition.
The seniors and intermediate teams enjoyed the match played over three rounds which included Foursomes, Singles and Reverse Singles. Unfortunately Nelson were unable to field junior or masters teams for this fixture.
The North Canterbury Seniors were very strong winning 14.5 of the possible 16 points.
Nelson took the bragging rights in the Intermediate section winning 16-6 games.
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The Final round of Presidents Grade Interclub was played at Avondale Golf Club on Sunday, with all teams playing at the same venue for the finale of the season. Avondale was in great order to host the event and the weather conditions fine and sunny.
At the end of the penultimate round Templeton and Coringa were both on top of the table on points with Templeton slightly ahead on games and Harewood a point behind in third.
With the top two teams playing each other in the final round, it was always going to be a tough match and so it proved...
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The Final of the 9 Hole Interclub competition was played this morning at McLeans Island Golf Club in calm, cool conditions and the course in great order.
The all North Canterbury Final between Rangiora 2 and Amberley was always going to provide the winner bragging rights North of the Waimak, and it was Rangiora's Coleen White, Ross McQueen, Diane Sinclair and Rita Moore who prevailed over Amberley's all man line up of Garry Reid, Mike Carpenter, Ron Kemp and John Evans by 75-65 stableford points.
The winning Rangiora 2 team from left, Pam Holland, Ross McQueen, Coleen White, Diane Sinclair, Rita Moore...
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The PowerTurf Canterbury Club Golf Forum " Managing Your Club's Future" was held at Clearwater Golf Club yesterday with 80 participants from local clubs and guests from throughout New Zealand attending. This included staff and volunteer leaders from 28 Canterbury Golf Clubs, the Canterbury Golf Executive Committee, New Zealand Golf staff, Tasman and Aorangi Golf reps, the entire Golf Managers Association of NZ Board, guest speaker Todd Heller, and our own Sir Bob Charles.
Master MC Stephen Gee kept proceedings fun and interactive as well as informative as the meaty issues of maximising club profitability, effective governance relationships, using technology to...
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The 2019 Women’s National Club Teams District Championship was played on Friday with 26 Clubs represented in a great field of 104 competitors. Waimairi Beach Golf Club was in great order and the weather also played its part with a calm, sunny Autumn day, making ideal scoring conditions.
The results were very close with just eight shots separating the top ten teams. First place was even closer with Lincoln's Jan Latham, Judy Campbell, Lois Anderson and Liz Birdling and Russley's Robyn Cruse, Mihee Woo, Shera Kant and Denise Forbes finishing locked together on a combined team best ball net of 125...
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We are pleased to announce the following representative appointments. We are grateful to have the experience of these volunteers in these key representative roles.
Women’s Selectors & Management
We are fortunate to have the continued experience of Mel Brew (Convenor) and Robyn Gillespie from the Christchurch Golf Club to form the Women’s Selection panel. Both Mel and Robyn show a great passion for the Women’s representative programme and we are grateful to have their continued involvement for their sixth year in the role.
Kate Turner (Waimairi Beach) will continue as Manager of the Canterbury Women’s Team where the Women’s Team have finished as runners...
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