The 2024 Canterbury Golf Awards Dinner was held on Friday evening at the Christchurch Golf Club which is a special event on the calendar where we celebrate our people from all areas of the game here in Canterbury.
With 116 people in attendance, it was a big occasion with players, club volunteers, administrators, and greenkeepers alike all being celebrated. The audience was entertained by several special segments including guest speaker, Golf NZ National Coach Jay Carter, and the awarding of several service awards including a new Life Membership.
To watch the highlights video of the evening, click below:
Eagles Promising Junior Girl of the Year - Zaria Bourne (Waimairi Beach)
Eagles Promising Junior Boy of the Year - Mitchell Redmayne (Bottle Lake)
Girls Junior Golfer of the Year - Aroha Minhinnick (Waimairi Beach)
Boys Junior Golfer of the Year - Yuki Miya (Pegasus)
Greenkeeper Trainee of the Year - Nic Dobbs (Russley)
Services to Greenkeeping - Bruce Lowe (Prebble Seeds)
Services to Greenkeeping - Peter Calder (Drummond & Etheridge)
Vardon Trophy - Dominic Brettkelly (Clearwater)
Liz Douglas Trophy - Alisia Ren (Russley)
Administrator of the Year - Malcolm Wratt (Coringa)
Volunteer of the Year - Mike Steed and Ray Anderson (Ellesmere)
Women’s Golfer of the Year - Sora Kishida (Rangiora)
Men’s Golfer of the Year - Cooper Moore.(Clearwater)
Olive Tapu (Golfing Achievement) (Christchurch)
Mike Rondel (Hanmer Springs)
Wayne Hallinan (Weedons)
Noel Stewart ((Waimairi Beach)
Ann Glading (Waimairi Beach)
Claire Ballantyne (Russley)
Lyn Robertson (Distinguished Service Award) (Amberley)
Kate Johnstone - Life Member (Christchurch)
To read each recipient's award citation click - HERE.
To view all the photos from the evening click - HERE.
Another special feature segment of the evening was when we recognised our past Canterbury Representative players. While celebrating our people’s current achievements is important as was done at the Awards Dinner, Canterbury Golf also appreciate the importance of respecting our past players too. As such a decision was made to identify all of our past Canterbury Men’s and Women’s players who have represented our region at NZ Interprovincial level throughout our history. Accordingly, over the last month or so Canterbury Golf having been going through our past records and in some cases past pictures and newspapers articles to put together our list of past players and recognise them all with their own unique “Canterbury rep Number” in the order that they were first selected for an Interprovincial team. For the men this dates back to the first team selected in 1951 for the NZ Interprovincial tournament played at Christchurch Golf Club. In the ladies, this dates back further still all the way to 1949 for their first tournament played in Invercargill. A presentation was then displayed showcasing all these players and their respective numbers. Moving forward, every new player to gain selection for a Canterbury NZ Interprovincial team will too be awarded an official rep number, and will receive a yet-to-be determined specialised item with their number on this.
To see the full list of Canterbury Representative Numbers click below:
