Club & Tournament Results

Despite the drizzly morning, there was a strong turn out of 31 for the second round of LGU and the Captain’s Trophy.

Evelyn Heale returned in great form to win the day with a nett score of 70. Anne Hawkins was 2nd with 73, on a count back from Wallis Jones and Sue Rennie, who also had 73. Robyn Gower was next with 74, and Daphne Ferguson, Linda Smith, and Christine Jilesen all had 75.

The LGU winners were – Silver: Wallis Jones, Bronze 1: Evelyn Heale, Bronze 2: Sue Rennie, and Bronze 3, Chris Jilesen. Well done ladies.

Sarah Leilua won the nine hole stableford haggle with 18 points, congratulations Sarah.

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)

Congratulations to Anne-Maree Harland who won the Araroa Cup last week with a combined stableford score over the two rounds of 80 points. This is particularly impressive when you consider that Anne-Maree is such a low handicapper. Harriet Byelich was runner-up with a combined score of 76 points, on a count back from Sara Porritt who also had 76. Well done ladies.

The lovely autumn weather obviously contributed to another high scoring week. Our stableford haggle winner was Jenny Allen with a whopping 43 points. Anne-Maree Harland and Wallis Jones were 2nd equal with 42 points, and Barb Corney was 3rd with 40. Dianne Cameron was close behind on 39, Eileen Kay had a lovely score with 38, and Vicki Kimberley, Harriet Byelich and Jenny Tibby all had 37.

Robyn Faire won the nine-hole stableford haggle with 16 points. Congratulations Robyn. Congratulations also to Marie Cadogan who won the lucky draw sponsored by Katie Walker from Property Brokers.

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)

Absolutely perfect golfing weather was on offer for the 31 starters in the first round of the Araroa Cup on Wednesday.

Sara Porritt had a brilliant round to win the competition, with 41 stableford points. There were plenty of other high scores on the day as well, including Pauline Mills and Harriet Byelich on 39 points, and Ann Percy, Sue Virtue, and Anne-Maree Harland on 38 points. Next week’s scores will be added to this week’s to find the overall winner of the cup.

There were 2 twos, both on number 4. Congratulations to Jenny Tibby and Barbara Corney for these.

The nine-holers, meanwhile, had a fun ambrose competition, and this was won by Julie Owen and Robyn Faire.

This week we had our first Lucky Draw for the year, kindly sponsored by Katie Walker of Property Brokers. It was not struck so jackpots to $40 next week.

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)

Despite a wet looking forecast last week for our first 36 hole competition, the Nancy MacCormick Foursomes, we barely got a sprinkle and the 20 starters enjoyed perfect golfing conditions for most of the day.

There were 10 pairs entered into the foursomes competition, as well as a few out and about enjoying 18 holes, and the 9 hole groups.

The winners of the competition were Sue Rennie and Merle Munro with a combined nett score over the two rounds of 149. Congratulations Sue and Merle. Second were Karyn Prestage and Robyn Gower with a nett total of 152, and 3rd were Anne Hawkins and Sara Porritt with 153, on a countback from Sue Virtue and Ann Percy, who also had 153. Jane Fraser an Wallis were close behind on 156.

There were two groups who got a two, both on number 4, and these were Wallis Jones and Jane Fraser, and Sue Rennie and Merle Munro. Nicely done ladies.

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)

We had 40 turn up for ladies club day last Wednesday. Forty!! And that’s not counting the 9-holers. They must have all known something because as soon as the frosty chill lifted it turned into an absolute stunner of a day.

The competition was the first round of LGU as well as the National Teams Event Qualifier.

The winner of the nett haggle was Robyn Gower with nett 64, followed by Vicki Kimberley with 68, and Sara Porritt with 70. Linda Smith and Jane Fraser both had 71, Daph Ferguson and Eileen Kay had 72, and Margaret Neilson and Jenny Allen both had 73.

There were two 2’s, both on number 4. Well done to Chris Edkins and Barbara Corney for those.

The winner of the nine hole stableford haggle was Judy Wadsworth with 17 points.

The National Teams Event is at Walton on Friday May 3rd and the team going is Anne-Maree Harland, Jenny Allen, Robyn Gower, and Vicki Kimberley.

LGU winners were Chris Edkins for Silver, Sara Porritt for Bronze 1, Robyn Gower for Bronze 2, and Eileen Kay for Bronze 3.

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

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)

It was an unexpectedly drizzly start for our first competition round last week. Thankfully the sun didn’t take too long to make an appearance and the 28 participants soon dried out and enjoyed the warm conditions.

The competition was the first round of the Stableford Cup. The winner of the 18 hole haggle was Marion Johnston with 36 points. This was on a count back from Chris Edkins, who also had 36.

There were 4 players with 34 points and these were Pauline Mills, Sue Rennie, Karyn Prestage, and Anne-Marie Harland. With 33 points were Chris Ferris, Merle Munro, Robyn Gower, and Glenda Wright.

The nine hole group have been very happy to welcome some new players into their midst and the winner of their stableford competition this week was Julie Owen.

Our Wills Cup team of Karen Kingan, Karyn Prestage, Anne Hawkins, Jenny Allen, Sue Rennie, and Wallis Jones will be playing in the first round at PioPio Aria on Friday 22nd and we wish them all the best for this.

(Contributed by Robyn Gower)

Today was Opening Day at Ladies Golf. We started off the season with a beautiful day, weather-wise, so hopefully this continues for the rest of the year!

We began the day with a lovely morning tea as everyone caught up after the summer break. A good field of 32 players, both 9 and 18 hole, turned up to play the 9 hole competition, which involved playing off the white tees. It was great to see there weren’t many groans when this was announced. The goal was for it to be a fun day. Groups headed off to the 1st and 10th tees to start their rounds. Some groups jumped ahead a couple of holes to avoid the congestion, which was a clever thing to do. Not so clever was the group, who shall remain nameless, who played 12 to 18, but then instead of going back to play 10 and 11, continued on and played 1 and 2!! Luckily this didn’t really matter because the prizes were just lucky draw, not scorecard results. I’m sure the greens staff must have known what we were doing, because most of the white tee markers seemed to be a long way back on the tees. It meant many of the ladies ended up in places on the course they hadn’t been before, especially if their tee shot was a bit wayward. It was also difficult for some of us to remember to hit off the white tees and not the yellow ones! Many ladies commented that they enjoyed playing off the white tees, so we will have to try it again sometime, but 18 holes.

The round was followed by a delicious, shared lunch which was brightened by the presence of six past members and one visiting ex member. They all looked to be enjoying being back and catching up with everyone. Thank you to them for supporting us still.

The winners on the front were Linda Willis, Glenys Wheeler and Pauline Mills. The winners on the back were Glenda Street, Paulo Bhullar and Sue Virtue.

(Contributed by Sue Rennie)