Club Captain's Messages
Hi All
The year is winding down.
Thursday November 25-A combined trip with 9 / 18 holers to Waimate golf course followed by lunch at the Barn Please put your names up on the list so Catherine knows numbers for lunch. Organize your own car pools, golf kicks off at 10.00am. .XMAS is the theme of the day so who can be in the most exciting in colours of green and red. Lunch 1p.m.
Whoop whoop another exciting day out.
Cleaners Lois King / Carol Rodden
Im away for a wee while now so you are playing a stableford this Saturday / Tuesday. Jude is going to have her first go at doing the results. Morna / Claire  will be in the wings. The following Saturday and Tuesday the Barbara Angus Summer Trophy starts. Pay your money as usual and results will be done at the end of the season ( three rounds before Xmas and three after Xmas ).Just manually enter your cards after your round as usual.
Sixes A great turn out last week. Putting comp for those who have progressed with 10-15 minutes chipping first. Others coaching at 5.30p.m followed by some holes if desired .Im away but Morna with Lois and Carol will be there as well as Peter Hayes. Great golfing. Good to see our mens group growing.
18 November 9 holers closing day . 18 holers welcome( hopefully some of you can go .Sharon my apology I am away)
3 December Club closing day.Men’s pairs,women’s pairs,mixed pairs.Organiz
e. Partner and. Do tee boooking.
Sunday 19 December Parent / Grandparent / Child Tournament and coaching included for the novice players or first time up players.
whoop whoop whoop 
Not long until Santa comes down our chimneys.
cheers Cath

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The date for the Annual General Meeting is:
 
Wednesday 1 December 2021 at 7:30pm
 
The meeting will be held at the club, 87 Lynch Road, Levels, Timaru  
 
Proxy forms are attached to this email, and are available in the clubhouse
Nomination Forms are also be available in the Clubhouse 
 
Any items for the Agenda to be submitted by Friday 26 November via timarugc@xtra.co.nz
 
Agendas will be posted on Sat 27 November on the club noticeboards, and available on the day
 
Thank you 

Wednesday Xmas Stableford Comp
A reminder that this will be held on Wednesday 1 December - further details to follow

Electric Trundler Help Please
We have had a request from one of the ladies attending the Interprovincial Tournament from the 6th to the 11th December, for the loan or hire of an electric trundler
 
If anyone can help, please get in touch with me either via email timarugc@xtra.co.nz or by phone 027 492 1660
 
Thanks 
 
Steve 

The Week Ahead

Mon

5:15pm – Sixes

Tue

9:30am Ladies 9 Hole

Ladies 18 Hole

Wed

18 Holes Stableford – All welcome

Thurs

9:30 am Ladies 9 Hole
5pm Ambrose

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

Sun 
 
Orbell Cup - Christchurch Golf Club, Shirley 

Results - Top Tens & Ties
Week Commencing 8 Nov
Summer Golf - Stableford (Ladies - 9 Hole)
 
Div 1 (0.0-20.4)
18 N Brown
11 L King
 
Div 2 (20.5 - 54.4)
25 S Thompson
20 R Rennie
19 V Parker
18 T Dovestone, C Walton
17 J Blackler
16 G Gregor
15 A Scott, B Maglis
14 C Darvell 
 
Tues 9 Nov
American Foursomes - Net (Ladies 18) 
 
73 J Brown & K Karton; A Pavletich & M Jones; S Smith & C Turnbull
75 S Brown & C Walton
78 J McKenzie & L Beattie
79 K McCreanor & C Darvell 
 
Weds 10 Nov - Stableford
 
41 J Wilson, B Walsh
40 D Loomes, M Mayman, P Collins
39 F Hazlett, H Smith
38 D Switalla, N Beatson
37 A Robert, B McCully
 
Twos:
 
4th Hole: Barrie Walsh, Allan Robert
12th Hole: Murray Williamson
15th Hole: Ferg Hazlett, Peter Rodden

...and finally
Yesterday, I found myself in the peculiar paradoxical position of writing this retrospectively in advance.
 
Last week, work and the Spring Tournament combined to put me a week behind, while today I was supposed to be playing in the Orbell Cup, which due to the ridiculous amount of rain we got, was cancelled due to concerns about more senior members rusting (I'm guessing that last bit).
 
Anyway, moving along in chronological order, I must firstly offer my congratulations again to all of the winners at last weeks Spring Tournament, which took place in glorious sunshine and light breezes that still did plenty to disrupt a lot of golfers, myself included.
 
The course was in great condition (my thanks to all the volunteers) with tough rough that penalised the slightest wayward shot (any chance of a first cut of semi-rough please?), and hard greens that are getting that little bit faster.
 
Other notable points of interest - Mr Schrader clearly escaped the not-so-watchful eye of Mrs Schrader and came out in his lime green white/brown checked shorts combo again, an outfit that I fear may now be being seen as some sort of source of pride.  To be fair, the loudest shirt award goes to Mike Flynn for his muted Hawaiian number on Sunday - I am slightly concerned that I thought it was a nice shirt.
 
There were a lot of tired golfers on Sunday, and that was reflected in a lot of the high scores.  My group was behind the overnight leaders, Dup and Garrick, who struggled, and even managed to challenge Jimmy's score on no 15 (sorry, Jimmy, he was unsuccessful).  Watching from behind, it was the type of round we have all had where just nothing went right and our hearts went out to him in sympathy.
 
A special mention to Barry on Wednesday shooting below his age (again), Barrie's current run of form couldn't rescue us last Sunday, but to be fair, that was probably more down to me
 
So yesterday, I was sitting at my desk looking out at the pouring rain, that prior to the confirmation phone call, was proving that the golfing gods have a cruel sense of humour.
 
I have been looking forward to playing at Christchurch Golf Club for a while now, and I was looking forward to playing back in September before bl*#*y Covid intervened, and then last weekends glorious weather promised much as did yesterday with one of the hottest days of the year.  Yet, the weather here has all the consistency of your average politician, and the forecast had been stubbornly stuck on rain, with a side of more rain.
 
I was mentally preparing myself for another round walking stooped under my golf umbrella (the handle is just that little bit too low), desperately trying to keep my golf bag, kit, spare gloves etcetera, all dry while attempting to swing clubs in full waterproofs in the vain attempt to stay dry/warm enough to function in some semblance of normality.
 
Instead, I found myself disappointed yet again at missing out on the opportunity to play the course I keep being told is one I would love.
 
Instead, my big "take" from the weekend (apparently this is the sort of term the kids are using - but then if I have heard of it, it's probably already passe) was the result of a deeply unpleasant experience on my way to the theatre (which sounds very grand, but in reality my son was in the Drama League production on Church Street, not exactly London's West End).
 
Being a polite sort of chap, I decided that having had some cheesy garlic pizza before setting off (homemade, naturally), it would be considerate of me to pop a mint in my gob so as not to inflict garlicy breathe on my fellow theatre patrons. 
 
I forgot about Covid
 
As I got out of the car, I put on the obligatory face mask, and promptly was on the receiving end of someone apparently trying to freeze-boil the top layer of my eyeballs off.  Minty breath it turns out, should be re-packaged and used as paint stripper. 
 
Being be-spectacled did not help as this seemed to channel the flow of supercooled fire with much greater efficiency over my eyeballs.  Honestly about two breaths in and my eyes were streaming, another breath and the glasses were off and I was avoiding bumping into blurred shapes in front of me.
 
Of course, being a man's-man type of guy (no sniggering, please), not for me any weak or pathetic mints.  Oh no, I go for the super strong versions as anything less would clearly be a challenge to my manhood.  Unfortunately, such bravado apparently comes at a cost, little did I know.
 
Which brings me to the question of why the hell hasn't there been some kind of public health warning issued about this? 
 
I am, however, taking on the mantle on behalf of all sensible people everywhere, and ask that you let my example be heeded by all - while you are wearing a mask, no-one gives a damn about your breath, and your eyeballs will thank me for this valuable lesson.
 
I'm off to buy a set of goggles, and look forward to seeing you all out there when the weather improves
 
Stay safe, and play well
 
Steve 
 
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