Club Captain's New Year Message

Welcome to the 2021 year of golf.

Saturday playing times

7.30am to 9.30am - 9 or 18 Hole Play

9.30am to 10.40am - 9 Hole play only

11.28am to 12.30pm - 18 Hole play Men & Women

2.30pm onwards - Anyone can play.

Using a 2 tee start this allows for as many as possible playing on Saturdays without interrupting anyone's start time.

Times will be adjusted slightly depending on numbers.

Shoot-Out; entries close for this on 13 March. $25 registration to be paid by this date. Rules on Club noticeboard & attached to Club Newsletter.

There are some changes to the club program this year.

The main one is Club Championships . With the final in September being the same time as a lot of other golf events we have decided to bring them forward.

The 1st qualifying round will be played on the 27th February with 2nd on 27th March & 3rd 10th April.

The finals will be played on Saturday 29th May.

The Strokeplay Championships will be played along side qualifying rounds with it changed this year to be the total of all 3 rounds played.

I would like to welcome new members to the match committee this year, Steve Doyle, Dave Schrader & Daniel Sparks. Existing Myself, Craig Miller, George Emond, Stu Chapman & Damian Rodgers. Thank you to David Hall & Lindsay Hewitson for there help over the past years.

I would like to wish everyone an enjoyable golfing year.

Any issues please contact

Dave McEwing
Club Captain
027 282 6892
Group Tee Bookings
From now on, all Group Bookings need to be referred to the proshop via the email:
 
timaruproshop@gmail.com
Results
Tue 19 Jan 2021 - Ladies 9 Holes Net Medal

32 V McKenzie
33 H King
34 B Maglis
36 T Dovestone, N Curr
38 A Crane
39 G Cowan
40 L King, S Smith
43 M Brown
44 J Brown, S Harris
45 J Fentiman 

Weds 20 Jan 2021 - 18 Hole Stableford (All Welcome) 

40 J McGlashan
37 E Megaw, D Sparks
34 P Rae, B Walsh, M Kerse, Mike Hogan, R Logan
33 D Allan, K Kerse
32 P Collins, J Norton, J Weir, T Hayman
31 R Yee, F Hazlett, Morna Hogan, N McKinnon, B McCully, P Stringer, J Annett, G Wilson, D Loomes
30 S Chapman, A Booth
29 M Williamson, S Keen, N Beatson, G Zandbergen, J Rae
28 S Doyle, R Hobbs, E Barratt, P Duffield, N Newburn
27 G Gilbert, R Lawson, L Leonard, F Ng, M Ussher
26 R McDonald, T Underdown, P Rodden
25 R Crossan, J McFarlane, M Corfield
23 T Mills 

Thu 21 Jan 2021 - Ladies 9 Hole Results for 21st January
 
32 Vickie McKenzie
33 Heather King
34 Beryl Maglis
36 Trish Dovestone
36 Nicola Curr
 
Sat 23 Jan 2021 - Stableford

39 K Leary
37 B Walsh, F Ng
36 L Jones, T Hayman
35 P Rae, J Spurdle
34 T Moir, M Williamson, J Wilson, J Small, J McFarlane
33 J Weir, M Flynn, E Megaw, M Sewell, P Shaw
32 N Beatson, C Miller, R Walton, H King, B Greeff
31 D McEwing, D Rodgers, D Sparks
30 M Hogan, J Rae, S Doyle, R McDonald, D Loomes
29 J McGlashan, M Keen, R Crossan, J Annett, T Underdown, M Corfield, N McKinnon, J Gilbert
28 D Bennett, G Brown, P Rodden, R Hobbs
27 C Dawson, D Switalla
26 S Keen
25 D McLean
23 D Allan

Twos:
4th Hole - Kevin Leary
12th Hole - Peter Shaw
 
Nearest the Pin:
Senior (17th Hole): Tony Moir
Junior (18th Hole):  Merv Corfield
Willie Moore (15th Hole): Daniel Sparks
 
Jackpot Hole: 17th - Tony Moir 
Speight's Ale House Shoot Out 2021

Rules

Entries Close & $ 25 Registration Fee to be paid by 13th March

$ 3 per each round played
$3 for each missed round to be collected on Final day

Total Price for Year $76.00

Once entered into competition you are in for the year

Winner of each round gets $20 Speights Ale House Voucher

19 Players to qualify for for finals
Best 2 scores combined count

If qualified players unavailable reserves will be used in qualifying order.

Prizes

1st Overall Free Sub for following Year
2nd, 3rd, & 4th Money prizes depending on funds

Players that progress to the 10th hole played in final will get free registration the following year.

Dave McEwing
Club Captain
The Week Ahead

Mon 25 Jan 2021

6pm: “Six For a Fix”

Tue 26 Jan 2021

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole: LGU vs Par (& Summer Trophy)

Ladies 18 Hole Stableford

Wed 27 Jan 2021

18 Holes Stableford – All welcome

Thu 28 Jan 2021

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole: LGU vs Par (& Summer Trophy)

9 hole Ambrose

Fri 29 Jan 2021

Mens’ and Womens’ 9 Hole 9:30am.
Stableford/Par/Medal, teeing off on 1st or 10th Holes

Sat 30 Jan 2021

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole: LGU vs Par (& Summer Trophy)

18 Holes Competition – All Welcome
Golf Media Links
For the latest online articles, please copy and pate the links below:
 
NZ Golf Update (Thu 21 Jan)
 
https://nzgolfmagazine.co.nz/?na=v&nk=4242-cc26352de0&id=43 
...and finally
Well January 2021 continues to drag on interminably. It already feels like 2020 is a speck in the rear-view mirror, even though it only ended just over 3 weeks ago
 
Still 2021 feels more hopeful, the Tangerine Tantrum Machine has gone, vaccines are being distributed globally, and we get to play golf on a regular basis, so here's to reality fulfilling that ambition.
 
The major golf story this week was a threatening tweet from Iran with an aerial picture of the Tangerine Tantrum Machine at the top of his backswing in the shadow of a drone or or bomber. To be fair, the club looks pretty parallel to the ground, and is pointing in line with his feet, so all that practice when he was supposed to be presiding over the pandemic has obviously paid off.
 
On a more personal note, my Mother received the first dose of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine this week, she's 79 years old and suffered no ill effects. 
 
While this is very re-assuring for me, it did remind me about one of the anti-vaxer conspiracy theories that was doing the rounds (let's face it, it probably started in the States). The upshot of it was that Covid was a hoax (obviously), and it had been started by Bill Gates in order for him to get microchips injected (via the vaccine) into everyone.  The world's nerdiest philanthropist would then be able to control the world's population via said microchips (presumably not using Windows 10 - one for the IT crowd out there).
 
Now, no-one seems to be sure why he would want to do this, but it did make me think.
 
The roll out of the vaccine has typically started with the most vulnerable members of society, the elderly.
 
Taking the conspiracy theory through to it's logical conclusion, therefore, would mean that Bill Gates now has remote control over an army of pensioners.  I can just imagine legions of them forming up into parade order, the armored division on their mobility scooters, with the rest marching (slowly, very very slowly) down their local streets brandishing their walking sticks, admonishing the young whippersnappers who don't know just how lucky they are.
 
The question would be whether or not Bill's programming skills would be up to allowing time for tea breaks?  Would it be flexible enough to allow for frequent toilet breaks/catheter changes? Most importantly, would it be able to help them remember where they were going and why they were there in the first place?
 
If it did, I reckon I know a few people who might be up for that.
 
Enough nonsense for this week, I wish you all the best for 2021 and look forward to seeing you all out there soon.
 
Stay safe and play well
 
Steve
 
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