As part of Canterbury Golf’s effort to grow the number of young people engaged in events, 9 and 18 hole events were added to the Canterbury Age Group Championships which are played over 36 holes. The added sections saw 55 children involved in the day held at Waitikiri Golf Club.
Waitikiri Golf Club was in excellent condition following on from the NZ Women's Interprovincial held early December.
The U19 Girls Championship was won by Maddie May (Russley) who came from two shots back after the morning round to win the title for the first time by eight shots after posting a three...
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The Canterbury Golf 9 Hole Christmas Tournament was played at Pegasus Golf Club yesterday in overcast conditions with the course in great order. A field of 63 players enjoyed the day with the following results:
Grade 1 Women1st Gross - Johanna Moore, Bottle Lake - 461st Net - Chris Whiteside, Templeton - 341st Stableford - Jenny Yates, Amberley - 19 pts CB
Grade 2 Women1st Gross - Anne Traquair, Bottle Lake - 541st Net - Tessa Molloy, Russley - 35 CB1st Stableford - Linda Neilson, Avondale - 18 pts
Men1st Gross - Des Moore, Rangiora - 491st Net - Ted Kikstra, Greendale -...
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The Woodward Cup Promotion / Relegation match was played yesterday at Templeton Golf Club in very warm weather and the course in great condition.
This year's event matched the highest placed teams in Blank Cup (Clearwater) and Canterbury Central Shield (Hororata), that do not already have a team in Woodward Cup with the tenth placed team in this year's Woodward Cup (Avondale) for their place in the 2019 Woodward Cup competition. The format was gross stableford.
Hororata earned the honour of promotion to the 2019 Woodward Cup proving too strong for Clearwater and Avondale with consistency being the key, having seven out of...
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The Canterbury Golf Women's Christmas Tournament was held at Kaiapoi Golf Club on Friday in warm, sunny weather with the course in great order.
The tournament was well supported with 69 entries and a highlight of the day was Elaine Rae from Rangiora scoring a hole in one on No.5.
Results were:
Grade 1: 1st Gross, Heather Harvey Salver - Jill Davison, Rangiora - 81Grade 2: 1st Gross, CDLGA Salver - Leslie Hart, Waimairi Beach - 91 CB
Grade 1: 1st Net - Sharon Worrall, Kaiapoi - 72 CBGrade 1: 1st Stableford - Lorry Ellis, Pegasus - 35 pointsGrade 2: 1st Net - Kathy Sutherland,...
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After having confirmed their semi final position at the NZ Women's Interprovincials yesterday Canterbury didn't slow down today in the final round robin match beating Bay of Plenty 4-1 to ensure they remained unbeaten and at the top of the table.
Canterbury's Maddie May led from the front to get an early win on the board for the team. After making the turn through 9 holes 4 up she continued to push ahead to secure the first win 7/6. Hillary O'Connor, Catherine Bell and Juliana Hung also came in with great wins to post a 4-1 victory over Bay of Plenty.
Canterbury...
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Courtesy of NZ Golf
Canterbury have completed a stunning comeback at the Women’s Toro Interprovincial to secure a semi-finals berth at Waitikiri Golf Club alongside Auckland and North Harbour.
Playing in the feature match against an unbeaten Wellington side in the morning, they found themselves down in four of five matches through nine holes, however they turned things around to win by a narrow 3-2 margin.
With all five matches finishing with 2&1 winning margins it came down to the wire, but the biggest comeback of all was Catherine Bell who was three-down early in the day to fight back and earn her...
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It was a strong performance on day 2 of the NZ Women's Interprovincial being played this week at Waitikiri Golf Club with Canterbury remaining unbeaten through their first three matches.
In round 3 Canterbury had a tight tussle against Manawatu-Wanganui who were also unbeaten. Down the home stretch the Canterbury Women's Team took control with Amy Weng securing the first point with a 4/3 win. Olive Tapu fought back strongly with a birdie on the 8th hole (her 17th hole) and get back to square before winning the par 3 9th to win her match against Lisa Herbert 1 up. Canterbury's...
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The Flexi Lease Canterbury Women's Team have started off with a strong performance at the Waitikiri Golf Club for the NZ Toro Women's Interprovincials. The team have had a successful three years, after winning in 2015 at the Ashburton Golf Club, the team finished third in 2016 and runners up in 2017. After a bye in round one the team got underway against Southland this afternoon and led from the front early in most of the matches. Amy Weng got out to an early 5 up led through the turn and secured the first win for the team 6/5 with...
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The Annual Canterbury Golf Presidents and Secretaries Day was held at Russley Golf Club on Friday with the course in excellent condition, providing a real challenge for all players.
19 current and past Presidents competed for the G.W.A Green Presidents Cup this year with Canterbury Golf's President Steve Kilpatrick making it back-to-back wins on his home course and retaining the Presidents Cup with 38 stableford points on a countback from Templeton's Shawn Fibbes.
11 Secretary/Managers competed for the G.W.A Green Salver which was won by Rangiora's Sue McFarlane with 37 points with Bottle Lake's Clare Pitt second on 35 points. Steve and Sue...
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The 2019 Women’s Toro Interprovincial is set to start with a new-look Auckland side aiming to continue their dominance, this time in Canterbury’s back yard at Waitikiri Golf Club.
Auckland have won six of the last seven women’s Interprovincial titles, but travel to Christchurch having lost a large amount of experience. This week’s side led by Carmen Lim and New Zealand Amateur champion Vivian Lu have an astonishing average age of just 13.8-years-old. Miree Jung, Grace Jung, Fiona Xu and Kelly Wu round out their Auckland side and will be looking to fill the successful shoes of Brittney Dryland, Caryn Khoo,...
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