Club & Tournament Results

Absolutely perfect golfing weather was on offer for the 27 starters in the first round of the Araroa Cup on Wednesday. Marion Johnston had a great round to win the day’s competition with 38 points. Glenda Wright was close behind with 37 points, and Barb Corney took out 3rd place (on a countback) with 36. Sara Porritt also scored 36 points and came in 4th. Pauline Mason was 5th with 35 points, and Hazel Hamm followed just behind on 34 points. Congratulations to you all.
There were no two’s this week.

Next week’s scores will be added to this week’s to find the overall winner of the Araroa cup.

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)

We had 24 turn up for ladies club day last Wednesday, a good turn out considering there was rain forecast. They must have all known something though because apart from a little sprinkle it turned into another perfect autumn golf day.

The competition was the first round of LGU and Captain’s Trophy, as well as the National Teams Event Qualifier. The winner of the nett haggle was Dianne Cameron with 66, followed by Chris Edkins with 67, and Eileen Kay (on a countback) with 69. Anne-Marie Westcott, Robyn Gower, Glenda Wright, and Barb Corney also all had 69, and Ann Percy and Karyn Prestage were next with 71. Plenty of early names on the shoot out board in that lot. Marion Johnston had the only 2 of the day, on number 4. Nice one Marion.

LGU winners were Chris Edkins for Silver, Ann Percy for Bronze 1, Dianne Cameron for Bronze 2, and Eileen Kay for Bronze 3.

Well done to everyone, phenomenal scoring to start the season with.

The National Teams Event is being held at Putaruru on Friday May 2nd and the team going this year is Wallis Jones, Evelyn Heale, Robyn Gower, and Karyn Prestage. Our team scored third overall out of 14 teams at this event last year so fingers crossed we can equal or better that result this time round.

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)

We had an absolutely beautiful autumn day last Wednesday, which drew a strong starting field of 21. The field was split into nine players playing 18 holes and competing in a stableford haggle, and seven pairs playing 36 holes in the Nancy McCormick accumulative nett event.

In the Nancy McCormick Foursomes competition teams play alternate shots and add the morning and afternoon rounds to get their accumulative nett total score.
Wallis Jones and Dianne Cameron played superb golf all day, scoring nett 68 in the morning and nett 70 in the afternoon (a total of 138), and were the competition winners. Karyn Prestage and Robyn Gower came in second with an accumulative nett total of 143, and Vicki Kimberley and Barb Corney were 3rd with a total of 149.

The haggle winner was Jenny Tibby with an excellent score of 40 points. Second was GlendaWright with 37, 3rd was Suzanne Carter with 36, and 4th was Christine Jileson with 35.

The 2nd round of the Wills Cup is being played in Pio Pio this Friday, good luck to our team.

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)

We had a fine starting line-up of 29 last week for the first round of our Stableford Trophy competition. The fine weather provided the course with plenty of run and that led to some spectacular scoring.

First in the field was Evelyn Heale with a sensational score of 43 points! Second (on a count-back), with 41 points, was Barb Corney, and 3rd was Carol Plowman, also with 41 points. Just behind was Linda Smith, with 40 points, and sharing 5th equal, with an impressive score of 39, were Sue Rennie, Eileen Kay, Anne Maree Harland, and Imelda Woolston. Dianne Cameron and Chris Edkins both had 38 points, and Chris also had a two on number 4.

Congratulations all of you, there will be certainly be some handicaps coming down.

Good luck to the Wills Cup team of Hazel Hamm, Karyn Prestage, Anne Maree Harland, Sue Rennie, Robyn Gower, and Merle Munro who are playing in the first round of the Wills Cup at Waitomo this Friday.

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)

Well finally it’s official golf season and we got off to a roaring start last Wednesday with a wonderful turn out of 35 ladies, playing in a fun 9-hole teams event and enjoying a delicious shared lunch together. So nice to see a couple of new faces and also the very welcome return of some who have taken a break.

The format was Irish Stableford where the first 3 holes are scored with normal stableford points, the 2nd 3 holes the points are doubled, and the 3rd 3 holes the scores are tripled. Then the best 3 of 4 scores in the team are chosen for each hole and added at the end to give the total.

The field was split into two groups with half teeing off the front 9 and half teeing off number 10. The winners of the first nine group, with 124 points, were Hazel Hamm, Pauline Mills, Marie Cadogan, and Harriet Byelich. Second in that group, with 116 points, were Jane Fraser, Paul Bhullar, Anne Hawkins, and Suzanne
Carter. Third, with 111 points, were Jose Heale, Anne Maree Harland, Linda Smith, and Dianne Cameron.

In the back nine group, with 126 points, the winners were Pauline Mason, Barb Corney, Marion Johnson, and Robyn Gower. Second, with 121 points, were Jill Burton, Chris Edkins, Glenda Wright, and Sue Virtue, and third, with 114 points, were Eileen Kay, Jenny Tibby, Glenys Wheeler, and Ann Hay.

Well done everyone, happy days and good golfing for next week.

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)