Rob Nicholl was the toast of Charteris Bay on Saturday afternoon when he was awarded The Elmwood Trading Co. Canterbury Golf Volunteer of the Year in front of a packed clubhouse.
Rob was rewarded and recognised for an incredible contribution to the club in the last year - over 570 hours of volunteer labour. This included:
375 hours spent maintaining and servicing machinery.
140 hours spent on a project to expand their workshop inlcuding helping raise funds and building the extension.
50 hours spent on installing a new bridge between the 18th and 1st holes.
attendance at the club's quarterly course maintenance working bees.
After a...
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Rounds 1 & 3 were played at Avondale Golf Club yesterday to complete round-robin for the 2021 Woodward Cup and find the semi-finalists to compete on Finals Day Sunday 21 November at Christchurch Golf Club.
Round 1
Harewood kept their slim semi-final hopes alive with a comprehensive 7-1 win over bottom-placed Weedons. Matt McLean, Scott Manyweathers, Harry Weeds, Gavin O'Hara, Dan Lundt, Sam Watkinson, and Kerry Branson won for Harewood, while Keith Mills got the sole win for Weedons.
Semi-final contenders Templeton and Clearwater squared off and Templeton came through 6-2. Clearwater had a couple of good results at the top with Archie...
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The following players have been selected to represent Canterbury at the Women’s South Island Interprovincial being played at the Timaru Golf Club 30-31 October.
Flexi Lease Canterbury Women’s Team
Team named in alphabetical order
Amy Weng (Pegasus)Catherine Bell (Christchurch)Deanna Matthews (Weedons)Jasmine Clancy (Russley)Maddie May (Clearwater)Melissa Newburn (Coringa)Olive Tapu (Christchurch)Rachel Eder (Clearwater)Managers: Debbie Scott and Jocelyn Blackmore-HoltenReserve – Alisia Ren (Russley)
The following players have been selected to represent Canterbury at the Men’s South Island Interprovincial fixture being played at the Ashburton Golf Club 30-31 October.
Canterbury Men’s TeamTeam named in alphabetical order
Andrew Green (Bottle Lake)Dan Laughton (Templeton)Dominic Brettkelly (Hororata)Kazuma Kobori (Rangiora)Matt McLean (Harewood)Mike Toeke (Templeton)Reid...
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With the unpredictable weather last week we were lucky to run both Canterbury Golf Future Opens.
The first event was held at Kaiapoi Golf Course on Monday 11th Oct. There was some impressive scoring! It was a great day and turnout. Thank you to all the friendly staff and volunteers at Kaiapoi Golf course on the day.
Alisa Ren - 1st Girls Gross - 83Yana Yee - 1st Girls Stableford - 44 ptsEthan Lam - 1st Boys U13 Gross - 71Alex Kimber - 1st Boys Stab. U13 - 37 ptsPhong Nguyen - 1st Boys Div 1 Gross- 71Cooper Moore -1st Boys Net...
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It was a special occasion at Waitikiri Golf Club yesterday when Pam Ellis received her Canterbury Golf Life Membership in front of an appreciative gathering of women club members who had come especially to honour Pam.
Pam received her plaque from fellow Life Member Sue McFarlane and a nice bunch of flowers from Canterbury Golf Executive Commitee Member Kate Johnstone.
Pam's service began in 2009 managing the womens masters team for six years and also being a team selector for that time. She has also been on the womens course rating committee since that time and continues to contribute today. In 2010...
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2021 Boys and Girls Interprovincial Summary
Last week saw our Boys and Girls age group teams travel away to their annual Interprovincial tournaments held at Cambridge Golf Club and Rotorua Golf Club respectively. Amongst the backdrop of some uncertain travel restrictions in the build-up to the events, both tournaments got the initial green light to proceed with both teams traveling out as planned.
Boys Interprovincial – Cambridge Golf Club
Canterbury named a strong team to attend this year’s event with depth from 1-4 in the U19 playing order and likewise 1-2 in the U16 category boding well for the future. Managed by Percy...
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Former Canterbury Golf President and Hawarden Golf Club stalwart Max Walker received his Canterbury Golf Life Membership on Saturday when Canterbury Golf President Mike Rondel and General Manager Grant Lewis visited the club. After being soundly beaten in the haggle against Max and his long time friend Keith Yorston, Max was presented with his Life Membership by Mike Rondel in front of an appreciative gathering of club members.
Max served Canterbury Golf over a long period of time. Amongst his contributions were:
North Canterbury Committee 2004-2010
President of North Canterbury Golf Association 2005-2006
Canterbury Golf Executive Committee 2012-2019
Canterbury Golf President 2012-2014
Canterbury Golf Mens Events...
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Rounds 8 and 9 of the 2021 Woodward Cup were played yesterday in fine warm conditions at Pegasus Golf Club.
Round 8
The match of the round was the title contender clash between Russley and Pegasus. On their home course Pegasus were too strong winning 6-2. There were some great match-ups. Kazuma Kobori beat Reid Hilton on the last 2up. Zach May beat Ben Baker 3/2, and Shaun Allan beat Dom Brettkelly 2up. Phil Stephens, Marcus Mariu, and Peter Brinsdon got the other wins for Pegasus. Hayato Miya and Andrew Dufton got the two wins for Russley, with Andrew also achieving a...
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The final round of Pollock Cup was played yesterday at Clearwater Golf Club in fine, sunny conditions and the course in excellent order.
Christchurch cemented their place in the final with another 6-0 win, this time over Pegasus. In a very dominant performance Catherine Bell, Olive Tapu, Monica Tulisi, Nicky Webb, Mel Newburn and Marg-Mary Coughlan all had convincing wins.
Waitikiri kept their best for the last by defeating Russley 3.5- 2.5 for their first team win of the round robin. Kim Moggach, Ginny Bolderston and Chris Marple had wins and Nicky Muir contributed the team half to defeat youngster Zaria Bourne...
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Last night at The Elmwood Trading Co. in Wairakei Road Neville Bamford (Harewood) and Giles Beal (Russley) were presented as joint winners of the Canterbury Golf Administrator of the Year award. They are pictured here with sponsor and owner/operator of The Elmwood Trading Co. Marty Fuller.
The judges were unable to separate the pair with both making valuable contributions to their clubs over the last year. Giles, in his role as General Manager, was an integral part of the success of Russley's achievement as the 2021 Golf New Zealand Club of the Year. For Neville, this is the third year in...
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