Sky TV's Melodie Robinson will headline the Canterbury Golf Annual Awards Dinner to be held at Russley Golf Club on 15 June. Click here for ticket information.
"Mel" is best known as a former New Zealand Black Fern being part of two winning World Cup teams, and a commentator/presenter of various sports on Sky TV. These days she has moved on to be the Corporate Communications Manager at Sky TV, and has recently started the 'W-Group" that advocates for women in the media.
Mel started out attending Papanui High School in Christchurch, and then while playing rugby at the elite level she...
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The Canterbury 9 Hole Interclub Final was played at Kaiapoi yesterday in mild, calm conditions with the course in great order.
The Avondale team of Kathryn Ferris, Linda Neilson, Rayleen Williams and Liz Newman with a combined Stableford score of 58 points defeated Russley’s Eleanor Smart, Kaye Radford, Claire Ballantyne and Pauline McGeorge with 47 points.
The win was just reward for the very same four Avondale players who were narrowly beaten in last year’s Interclub final by Bottle Lake.
The victorious Avondale squad are pictured below, from left Josie Laing, Kath Ferris, Linda Neilson, Rayleen Williams, Ariel Linklater and Liz Newman.
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Part of Canterbury Golf's strategy to grow the game has a focus on attracting young people and families to learn and play golf. The Family TEAM Golf Ambrose was launched with 52 players made up of a family pairing of a child and adult participating in a 9 hole ambrose event. "It was great to see families out playing in this fun event" said Canterbury Golf Development Manager Rachel Thow. "The format worked well with a focus on the kids but still allowing the adults to have an involvement with the team event. Our focus will be to continue to...
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News article courtesty of NZ Golf
New Zealand has selected an exciting young squad of golfers to compete in both the men’s and women’s Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in June 10-15 this year. Juliana Hung (Canterbury), Carmen Lim (Auckland) and Rose Zheng (Auckland) show a nice mix of international experience and youth as they look to compete against the world’s best at the Chukyo Golf Club Ishino Course, Japan.
With the current New Zealand Stroke Play and recent South Island U19 champion, Hung leading the way, it will be interesting to see how she goes on the world stage as she continues her...
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Greendale Golf Club put on a great day for the annual representative fixture between North and Central Canterbury. The match was made up of 56 players with senior, intermediate, masters and junior sections.
Central Canterbury (which are pictured) won three of the four sections with wins to the senior, junior and intermediate teams.
Kaiapoi's Rodney Downes had a great start to the day scoring a hole in one during the mornings foursomes round on the 17th hole.
Results
Senior - Central Canterbury 12-6Masters - North Canterbury 6-3Juniors - Central Canterbury 5-1Intermediate - Central Canterbury6-3
Click here to view the full results.
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