Club Captains Message
Next Week. Stableford. Results. Steve Doyle

Also could I please have all Club Championship & Strokeplay Trophies returned ASAP so they can be engraved. The club pays for these & singles & pairs match play. All other trophies the winner is responsible for engraving
 
Thanks
 
Dave 
Ladies Club Captain's Message

Hi Everyone

Sadies- Jude McKenzie / Lynne Stark

Pennant-Silver-A convincing win against ASHB .Well done team

Vets .A loss against Tinwald.

Championships-These will be played in May and the finals Saturday May 29 th.List for entries are up. Please enter as the more the meerier. Draws for the 18,9 holers and sixes will go up on Friday April 30th

Kerr Cup – 7th May. We are hosting this but at the same time enter Timaru teams though we can not win it. There will be results and prize for the Timaru Teams. List will be up at the clubhouse. Please enter as we like to have a representative in each four.

9 Hole Tournament 13 May .-Timaru. Put your names up.

National Teams 14 th May We again are hosting this.Our team representing us is Janet Rae, Wendy Smith, Nicola Scott and Kathy Williams. Reserve Claire Spiers.

Sixes- This finishes this Monday after playing Bingo Bango Bongo and celebrating at Saikou.Look out for a lot of these new players coming to play on Saturday and the odd one on Thursday.Please make them welcome as we can be scary !!!!!

Caterer-Heather House and I met with Lara Wood. She will start on Tuesday 6th April ,Thursday 8th April and for Saturday players she will be there at 11.30.Please support her if out playing .All her food is fresh, she is a home baker and will accommodate any dietary requirements. No more bringing your lunches and not necessary to go off somewhere else. Please support.
Tournaments-Thursday 8 April Raelene / Miranda Woodall

Waitoa Park- Monday 12 April-Kathy / Carol

Gleniti Thursday 15 April Nicola Hayman / ? ( I was going but now unavailable ) Who is free ????

9 Holers Waimate 9 April.Put your name up on the board.

9 Holers

This week competition is 2nd LGU & Sue Bunt (tee 10)

Next week 2rd LGU & 3rd Putting (tee 1)

Cheers Cath

PS - Foursomes These are underway with Morna / Carol having a wee win over Kathy / Christine 2/1. Holidays are fast approaching so please get out and play. 

RESULTS 9 Holers

1st Par

25.3.21

Div 1: Lois King 3, Sharon Smith 2, May Brown 0, Natasha Brown -1

Div 2: Verna Parker 1, Trish Dovestone 0, Anna Pavletich 0, Julie Brown -1
Committee Meeting Minutes
Apparently some people have requested that the minutes from the monthly committee meeting be made available to the club members
 
We are in the process of getting these added to the Members section of the website, but in the meantime, if anyone would like a copy of the minutes, please just let me know and I will happily supply them to you
Results

Tues 23 Mar

BRENDALL GREENALL JILL SHORE BREMFORD GROSS; r2 Grant cup; & R2 LGU - 18 Hole Ladies

Division 1

77 L Brown, S Brown

79 M Hogan

Division 2

71 W Smith
73 K Williams
75 C Rodden
76 M Burnside, C Preen
79 L Beattie
80 J Rae
81 J Durcan

Division 3

74 C Turnbull
76 R Bleeker
78 K McCreanor, M Woodall

 PAR - 9 Hole Ladies (& Thu 25 Mar)

Division 1

3 L King
2 S Smith
0 M Brown
-1 N Brown
-2 D Surridge
-2 W Parkes
-4 G Barratt
-5 D Rapley, R Beatson

Division 2

1 V Parker
0 T Dovestone, A Pavletich
-1 J Brown
-3 R Rennie, J Fentiman, S Harris
-4 C Walton
-6 C Darvell

Wed 24 Mar

Stableford

42 S Compton
39 M Kerse
38 N Newburn
37 M Hogan, R Walton, P Rodden, B McCully
36 S Keen, J McGlashan, L Hewitson, G Emond, M Corfield, S Chapman
35 R Hobbs, F Hazlett, N Beatson, S Doyle, T Underdown, G Morton, J Rae
34 R Lawson, I Blakemore, G Gilbert, J Yellowlees
33 D Sparks, E Megaw, H King, P Buckley
32 G Zandbergen, F Ng
31 T Shaw, T Hayman, B Walsh, D Allan
30 J Annett, N McKinnon, J McFarlane, K Kerse, P Rae, R Yee
29 R Du Plessis, D Bennett, R Crossan, M Denton
28 R Johnson, L Leonard, P Duffield, A MackaY

Sat 27 Mar

Nancy Latimer Trophy - Stableford 18 Holes Ladies

Division 2

36 J Rae

Sue Bunt Qualifier; TLGC/HONDA TROPHY; LGU – 9 Hole Ladies

38 S Smith

Club Championships Qualifying R2 (Gross) & Strokeplay Championships R2 (Gross)

Senior (+5.0 -8.7)

70 D Perham
71 D Rodgers
72 T Leonard
73 T Cook
76 T Croskery
77 B Greeff, M Tessier
79 C Miller
80 R Grant
85 B Leonard
87 S Crook, S Keen

Intermediate (8.8-14.0)

78 K Leary
79 D McEwing
81 A Lincoln, M Keen
82 J Norton
83 L Jones
84 B Walsh, P Collins
85 D Sparks
86 S Doyle, D Schrader, P Shaw, C Dawson
89 H King
91 J Yellowlees, S Chapman

Junior A (14.1-19.3)

85 J Wilson
86 R Hepburn
87 R Walton, F Ng
88 R Duncan, T Underdown
91 D McLean, R Crossan, D Allan
92 A Booth
93 A Mackay, J McGlashan
98 P Rodden

Junior B (19.4-54.0)

87 R Hobbs
94 G Zandbergen
95 N Beatson
96 M Corfield
101 J Small, R Miller
102 P Rae, E Megaw
109 J Annett
111 N McKinnnon

Net Medal

67 R Hobbs
68 M Sandri
69 J Wilson
70 B Greeff, K Leary, G Zandbergen
71 R Walton, T Croskery, D Rodgers, J Norton, D McEwing, L Jones
72 T Underdown, N Jones, A Lincoln, R Hepburn, R Crossan, D Sparks
73 D Perham, M Keen, C Miller, D Allan
74 F Ng, C Dawson
75 R Grant, T Leonard, T Cook, B Walsh, P Rae, D McLean, P Collins
76 R Duncan, A Booth, J McGlashan, M Tessier
77 N Beatson, A Mackay, S Doyle, D Schrader, P Shaw
78 M Corfield
79 B Leonard, J Yellowlees, P Rodden, R Miller, H King
80 T Shaw, S Crook
81 J Small, S Keen, E Megaw
82 G Emond
83 R Tregenza, N McKinnon
86 S Chapman
88 J Annett
The Week Ahead

Mon

6pm: “Six For a Fix”

Tue

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole

Ladies 18 Hole 

Wed

18 Holes Stableford – All welcome

Thurs

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole

9 hole Ambrose (Summertime only)

Fri

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

Sat

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole

18 Holes Competition – All Welcome
Golf Media
For the latest in Golf Media for the region, please copy and paste the links below:
 
Thu 25 Mar 
NZ Golf 
https://nzgolfmagazine.co.nz/?na=v&nk=4242-cc26352de0&id=56 
 
Wed 24 Mar
Pacific Golfer
https://webmail.xtra.co.nz/appsuite/api/mail?action=get&view=document&forceImages=true&folder=default0%2FINBOX&id=70459&session=ff89934a35594aef90b1cf24a0a4769c 
...and finally
So, it is with an extremely heavy heart that I have to acknowledge, and indeed apologise, for a spelling error in last week's column.  It has been pointed out to me (with a an uncharitable amount of glee, it must be said) that I missed the auto-correction of "sight" to "site".
 
It is safe to say, that I am mortified.
 
Not only have I missed this glaring error, but to have it pointed out by, of all people, a Scotsman, well...embarrassing doesn't begin to cover it.
 
I was going to take the opportunity this week to talk about a rather interesting recent study into how we actually read.  It was discovered that we tend to read the first and last letters of longer words and that is generally enough to understand the intended message even if the rest of the letters are mixed up.
 
For example: "Tehre is a mmeber of the culb, who is an anonynig Soctitsh pdenat"
 
There is no excuse, however, for the error and I am sorry - I will attempt to drink less wine when writing these witterings in future (no promises though).
 
What I wanted to talk about this week, was not the golfing world, which has been less that exciting so far (ignoring Sergio's hole-in-one knock-out blow to Lee Westwood in the WGC Matchplay sudden death play-off), and instead I wanted to focus on the big news of the week which is the apparent inability of a certain ship to travel in a straight line.
 
The Merchant vessel, "Ever Green" is quite the remarkable feat of human endeavour.  She is 400 metres long, and 60 metres wide, displacing over 200,000 tons - which is impressive to say the least, but a bit of context is required
 
400 metres is the length from the front of the men's tee to the front of the green on the 11th hole. 
 
60 metres is twice the length of the 16th green
 
200,00 tonnes.....well, it's a lot. It's the equivalent of 400,000 golf buggies
 
Now it would seem that the crew of this behemoth fell foul of a 40 knot wind that pushed the ship sideways, while a sandstorm reduced the visibility along the 200 metre (about the length of the 6th hole from the men's tee) wide canal, and once an object of this size gains sufficient momentum in any direction, it's going to be a bugger to stop.
 
The result is the kind of blockage normally only found when one member of the 4 ball in front of you finally accept the reality that they have, really, driven it out of bounds and that they have to, abjectly, return to the tee that you are patiently waiting on, in order to replay their tee shot.  It goes without saying that said player will all the while be muttering that it was never out of bounds, further complaining that their playing partners, slash friends, were clearly more interested in getting them to buy the beer, rather than finding their ball (it is a well known rule of golf that the subsequent tee shot will immediately head towards the out of bounds fence like some sort of homing missile).
 
I believe, therefore, that as golfers we should all have a certain amount of sympathy for the Captain and crew of the good ship, Ever Green, as we too are used to being unable to go in a straight line down a clearly defined pathway, and we too are more than happy to blame the wind for any massive slice off the tee - "The wind's got that one"
 
Of course, if any of the stuff I ordered online happens to be delayed because of this, then I might well ask what the hell the idiot who was "steering" was actually doing, but then again, there are times when holding the pose at the end of a swing when I have often wondered the exact same thing.
 
Stay safe and play well (but watch out for that wind)
 
Steve 
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