Club Captain's Message
Reminder. Names for 4Ball Knockout & Singles Knockout need to be up by This Saturday.
 
Saturday 26th. Tee times will be slightly different. Men’s Senior Championship final will be played from 9am. Players will tee off number 1 after they have gone through

Dave
 
 

Ladies Captain's Message

Hi All

Very little golfing news this week apart from

Carol/Morna and Lois/Claire are representing us in the Aorangi Stylemaster Foursomes at Pleasant Point this Friday.

Also if you are coming to drinks next Wednesday 5.30p.m at 335 Church for Gobblers and to toast Nancye make sure that you text Rosie. 0274356808 by this Wednesday.

Sadies-Lynda/Lois

9 holers:
 
All Plate matches are to be played with final by end of June
This weeks competition is 5th Putting
 
Cheers Cath

Membership Cards
Second call out for those wanting Membership ca6tds - please email Wayne if you would like one of these collector's items:
 
waynesidaway@xtra.co.nz
 
Many thanks 

Golf Media
Please copy and paste the links below for the latest in golf reporting from the region:
 
Fri 18 Jun
Pacific Golfer
https://www.golferpacific.co.nz/ 
 
Competition for package at Terrace Downs:
 
Thu 17 Jun
NZ Golf Update
https://nzgolfmagazine.co.nz/?na=v&nk=4242-cc26352de0&id=78 
 

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


Results - Top Tens & Ties

Ladies 9 Holers Results

Closest to Pin: Anna Pavletich (Hole 18) - Gobbler

Div 1

2 N Brown
-2 L King
-5 V McKenzie

Div 2

2 J Brown
-2 S Smith
-3 A Pavletich

Tue 15 Jun
 
Marj Morton - Ladies 18 Holers - Par
 
0 J McKenzie, M Burnside
-1 S Brown
-2 M Woodall, M Hogan, K Williams
-5 J Rae, L Beatiie, K McCreanor
-6 W Smith
 
Weds 16 Jun
 
Stableford - All Welcome
 
42 R Crossan
40 J McGlashan, R Porter
39 D Bennett
38 G Morton
36 B Walsh, D Switalla, K Kerse
35 A MacKay, T Hayman
 
Twos: 
 
12th Hole: F Hazlett, M Hervey
15th Hole: K Kerse
 
Sat 19 Jun
 
Snowed in Trophy, Stableford - All Welcome
 
40 N McKinnon
37 J Gilbert, T Hayman, M Keen J McGlashan
36 L Jones, M Sewell, R Du Plessis
35 M Corfield, R Hepburn, R Grant, D Perham
 
Twos:
 
5th Hole(!!!): Riegardt Du Plessis (Driver, Driver apparently)
12th Hole: Riegardt Du Plessis (I assume not using his Driver this time), Michael Ussher (Pleasnt Point), Alex Kelliher (Pleasant Point)
15th Hole: Neil McKinnon

...and finally
It's my own fault.
 
Last week I might have made a snide remark about New Zealand golfers being inclined to avoid inclement weather (sometimes referred to as "shower-dodgers" in the UK).
 
I should have known this was going to come back and bite me, and today it did.
 
Today, I and 3 club stalwarts woke up praying for the forecast to be wrong (usually a fair chance of that happening, honestly, I used to think the UK met service was bad until I came here).
 
Wrong in any direction would have suited us.  If the rain was early, then the match would have been postponed. Late, and we could have got in before the worst of it.
 
Instead, our rounds started off with a bunch of already damp diehards standing around under the eaves of the clubhouse at Denfield looking all the world like a line of dogs that really, really didn't want to go for a walk - but the owner had committed to the enterprise; they had put on the wet weather gear, and "Fido" was going to get his exercise, it  will be good for both of them darn it. 
 
And so it was for us,  We had made the effort to be there, and while our levels of optimism had peaked at the coffee shop on the drive up, we were going to sally forth regardless.
 
 The driver was making his excuses before I had even sat down (and to be fair, he was spot on in his assessment of his odds, although he came right in the last couple of holes - there it is again, just when you think you have had enough, something snags you and drags you back in).  While, the skipper was making his excuses before he even got in the car, and then later complained about how tough it was for him as he was having to play left handed while teeing the ball up right handed (we didn't get it either) - as someone pointed out, this was possibly the most first world problem ever to be voiced in all of history (I might have added that bit).
 
Battle against the elements was thus engaged, in the sort of weather that makes me quite homesick for the sheer miserable greyness of it all, and we subsequently performed as you would expect.
 
All of us hit some remarkably good shots, and also some remarkably bad ones - honestly, I don't thin I have ever hooked a ball quite as badly. Our equipment got very wet, and I mean all of it. My grips were outright lying about their true nature, and my glove by the end of the round looked like a prop from the movie of Roald Dahls "The Witches".
 
At one point, I suffered the ignominy of having the club slip in my hands as I made contact with the ball (not the first time today), and thus watching the subsequent chip rebound off the tree in front of me only for the ball to end up behind me.
 
I strongly suspect that my golf gear won't be dry this time next week, but despite all that, it was still a good day.  Our playing competitors were suffering just as much as we were, and we all just decided to make the most of it and try to enjoy ourselves (I use the term loosely).
 
And enjoy ourselves we did.
 
Eventually.
 
In the bar.
 
The nice warm, dry bar with beer and toasted sarnies.
I think I might be converting into a native - sod golf in the rain for a game of soldiers, next time I'll prop up the bar with my mates - sounds like a much better plan
 
Stay safe, stay warm and dry, and play well
 
Steve
 
PS - Congrats to Doop on his two on the 5th hole.  No doubt he will say that he was lucky, and yes he was, but it takes an awful lot of talent to get the ball in the right place to have a chance of being lucky. Rest assured though that I will be contacting the guy who did the wildlife count recently to let him know that we just had an albatross on the course.
 
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