Ladies Captain's Message

Hi All

Not much news this week with Temuka and Mayfield tournaments cancelled/postponed.

Championships.

Silver: Well done, Ginny;  Plate: C Preen

Bronze 1: Well done, Lois B; Plate: C Turnbull

Bronze 2: Awaiting Result (Spiers vs Woodall);  Plate: R Bleeker

Sixes: Well done, Gundy;  Runner-Up: C Gould

9 Holers - Good work Lois K.

All other matches to be completed by June. Great work with all those who took part in the championships. A lot of matches and certainly great to have the plate matches. All winners etc will be recognised at our end of year dinner.

Tournaments

Coming up:
Monday 21 June: Ashburton Open
Thursday 22 July: Geraldine Teams
Monday 26 July: Pleasant Point Teams 

Pennants

Finals of the vets and Open are to be held at Timaru on Monday

Next Sunday Timaru Weekenders play Fairlie at Gleniti. Good luck.

Tuesday Golf .As the Saturday players played off the other tee on hole 15 we will do the same. Should be fun.

Sadies-Morna / Ange

Club Competitions. Please organise and play foursome and fourball Best ball matches.. Knockout Draw (play using your handicap) will go up this week.

Cheers Cath


Membership Cards
The Club are doing another run of membership cards (also known as "collectible items" or "clutter", depending on your point of view)
 
If anyone would like one, please email Wayne directly: waynesidaway@xtra.co.nz
 
Many thanks 

Golf Media
For the latest in golf journalism, please copy and paste the links below
 
Thu 10 Jun 2021
NZ Golf Magazine 
https://nzgolfmagazine.co.nz/?na=v&nk=4242-cc26352de0&id=77 

Results - Top Tens & Ties

9 Holers Results.

5th LGU

Div 1:
38 L King
42 N Brown

Div 2:
38 
J Brown
40 S Smith
41 C Walton 41

Twos:

6th Hole: Raggy Rennie

This week 2nd PAR

Tue 8 June
 
Ladies 18 Holers
 
Brendall Greenall Jill Shore Bremford (Gross)
 
Div 1:
92 S Brown
94 K Karton, M Hogan
 
Div 2:
99 C Preen, L Beattie
105 J Rae 
106 C Turnbull
108 R Carruthers
111 M Burnside
 
Div 3:
102 C Spiers
119 K McCreanor
 
Grant Cup (Net)
 
68 C Spiers
75 C Turnbull
76 S Brown
78 K McCreanor
79 C Preen, L Beattie, M Hogan
80 K Karton, R Carruthers, J Rae
 
LGU (R4 Net)
 
Div 1:
76 S Brown
79 M Hogan
80 K Karton
 
Div 2:
75 C Turnbull
79 C Preen, L Beattie
80 R Carruthers, J Rae
82 M Burnside
 
Div 3: 
68 C Spiers
78 K McCreanor
 
Twos:
 
4th Hole: Susan Brown
 
Wed 9 June
 
Stableford (18 Holes)
 
36 J McGlashan
35 M Mayman, R Du Plessis, L Leonard (Gleniti)
34 R Crossan, R Hobbs, B Walsh, F Hazlett
33 L Hewitson, G Emond, S Compton, M Ussher (Pleasant Point)
 
Twos:
 
4th Hole: Richard Walton
6th Hole: George Emond
12th Hole: Dave Switalla
15th Hole:  Harvey King, Riegardt Du Plessis
 
Sat 12 June 
 
Marj Morton PAR (Ladies 18 Holers)
 
-5 J Rae 
 
PAR - Yellow Tees (All Welcome)
 
2  D McLean
1 D Switalla, G Morton, M Mayman, L Brown, R Miller, A Mackay
-1 S Crook, A Booth, R Washington, T Underdown, S Keen, M Goodhew
 
Twos:
 
4th Hole: Donald McLean, Alex Kelliher (Pleasant Point), Jeffrey Marett
6th Hole: Steve Crook, Sid Keen, Michael Mayman, Graham Pooke (Temuka), Richard Walton
12th Hole: Steve Crook, Tony Moir, Tim Leonard, Tony Preen
15th Hole: Stuart Chapman, Alistair Mackay, Robert Rankin (Highfield)
 
Nearest the Pin:
 
Senior (12th hole): Tony Moir
Junior (15th Hole): Alistair Mackay
 
Jackpot Hole (8th): Tim Leonard, John Norton 
 
 
 
 

The Week Ahead

Tue

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole

Ladies 18 Hole

Wed

18 Holes Stableford – All welcome

Thurs

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole

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


...and finally
A relatively quiet golfing week this week in Timaru, no biblical weather events of note, good sized fields (78 players on Saturday) but some fairly average scoring if we are being honest.  On Wednesday, the winning score was 36 points and that was on a beautiful sunny day with barely a zephyr of a breeze to affect the ball, and less than 10% of the players on Saturday registering a positive Par score off the yellow tees - so I thought I should have a little look into what might be behind this seemingly poor performance.
 
Of course, the time of year does have an impact - playing in the meteorological equivalent of a semi-functioning fridge results in all of us wearing extra layers of clothing that does naturally restrict movement.  The reduced temperature does also have an impact on our golfing equipment as well.
 
As an aside, I have learnt through a recent, slightly embarrassing, episode to be very careful how I phrase this: I might have mentioned how my "cold balls" weren't going as far as they do in the summer; and I instantly became the target of various lewd comments from my fellow players (quite right too).
 
Going back to ball temperature - it is a fact that warmer golf balls go further, a rough estimate is about 2 yards (90% of a metre, for the metric-philes out there) per 10 degrees (Fahrenheit, not Centigrade/Celsius).
 
The average min/max temperatures in Winter are between 32 and 52 degrees Fahrenheit
The average min/max temperatures in Summer are between 68 and 72 degrees Fahrenheit
 
Therefore, if you take the two extremes, then your ball will potentially carry approximately 8 yards less in the Winter versus the Summer.  The reason for this is that colder air is denser than warm air, and as we play practically at sea-level, this means that the air is as dense as it can possibly be. We don't really notice it, but then we don't get smacked through it in quite the same way as we attempt to send our cold balls through it (darn it!).
 
The gap between clubs for an average golfer is usually considered to be around 10 yards (for professionals it's more like 15), so at this time of year you really do need to take that extra club, or you won't clear that hazard, or reach the part of the green that you were aiming for.
 
And that's just the carry.  Another element to take into account is the lack of run when the ball does land in the soft fairways, which can take an 30 yards plus off a drive. 
 
Then there is the wind that can howl across the course, seemingly mightily miffed at the audacity of us disrespectful golfers daring to take it on.  The wind a week or so ago meant that I was using a 1-iron into the green on the 8th and 9th holes, desperate to keep the ball as low as possible (my putter would never have got there, and as it turns out, neither did my 1-iron).
 
A further influence would be the rain, but as everyone seems to be fair weather golfers over here, it's not really relevant.
 
So, to sum up, if you take all the contributing factors into account:
 
1. Dressing like Antarctic Explorers with corresponding restriction of movement
2. Air that is just that little bit more resistant to letting the ball through
3. Cold equipment that acts like a sulky teenager, moving slower than expected and generally being half-a**ed
4. Inclement weather that relish the opportunity to take up the gauntlet of our foolish challenge
5. Ground conditions that apparently have an overly possessive attitude to the (cold) ball
 
Given the underlying factors, therefore, I have come to the conclusion that the recent scoring has actually been rather excellent, so well done us!
 
Stay safe, stay warm and continue to play well
 
Steve 
 
PS - For those of you concerned that I am taking away excuses for poor Summer rounds, please do not be concerned, I am on it
 
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