Central Canterbury stalwart Barry Brownie passed away last Sunday aged 88 years. He contributed significantly to golf in the Canterbury Central region, with the Brownie Cup still played for today in Canterbury Central interclub.
A service to celebrate Barry's wonderful life, will be held at the Akaroa Golf Club, Pawsons Road, Duvauchelle, on Friday, June 17, 2022, at 12.30pm, interment thereafter at The Akaroa Anglican Cemetery, Akaroa.
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The Canterbury Men's Champion of Champions Tournament was held at Waimairi Beach Golf Club yesterday in strong winds and wintery conditions with the course in great order.25 clubs were represented at the event where Senior, Intermediate and Junior Champions from their respective clubs compete in an individual and team gross and net stableford competition.
The results were as follows:
Team Gross Stableford Champions - Coringa (John Rademakers, Albert Yee, Chris Choie), 90 ptsRunner Up - Templeton (Tom Wilson, Desmond Gong, Martin Kinsella), 85 ptsTeam Net Stableford Champions - Waimairi Beach (Ron Seel, Fraser Mearns, Mike Irving), 107 pts (Pictured left to right)Runner...
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Yuki Miya (Russley) and Cooper Moore (Clearwater) have recently accepted an invitation to Golf New Zealand’s National Junior Training camp that falls under Phase 2 of the National Talent Development Programme.
The camp will take place from the 10th to the 13th of July at St Peters Golf Academy, Cambridge. The goal for each camp is for Golf NZ to get to know the players a little bit more while helping to grow their skills. This year the focus of the camp will be on tournament preparation, play and review. Players will be taken through the resources and systems Golf New...
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The Finals of Women’s 18 Hole 4’s and 6’s Interclub were hosted at the Hororata Golf course yesterday in fine, cool conditions which players and officials would have welcomed after early morning rain was persistent elsewhere in Canterbury.
The 4’s Final between Bottle Lake and Christchurch was always going to be a tight match after the teams couldn’t be separated in their round robin match in April. Bottle Lake's team of, from left Erin Hensley, Kathleen Thomson, Sarah Sherwood and Anna Webster were unbeaten in round robin play and extended that form into the final, winning some key matches and defeating...
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The Final of the Canterbury Junior Interclub Matchplay was played at the well presented Russley Golf Club, after a frost delay the matches begun between both finalists who the previous week had triumphed in extra holes after the semi finals were tied 2-2. Russley Red against Russley Black so any true Canterbury supporter cheering for Russley was always going to be winner. After 9 holes the momentum was with the Russley Black team, #4 Ryan Mordaunt (2 birdies) playing Ethan Parkes square, #3 Vanessa Lim after shooting 38 on the front nine 3 up against Eva Yin, #2 Rahil Krishna...
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The final round of Canterbury Central Brownie Cup interclub was played at Ellesmere Golf Club on Sunday in fine, sunny conditions and the course in great order.
Lincoln were on top of the table leading into the final round with their opposition Akaroa two points behind.
Akaroa gave themselves a fighting chance of taking the title by defeating Lincoln 5-4 but Lincoln's team of, from left David Gugich, Graham Allan, Wayne Gugich, Scott Saunders, Darryl Moore and Josh Thomson. (Absent Kerry Klemick, Hugo Rycroft, Scott Paterson) had a superior games total winning the Brownie Cup by two games.
Josh Thomson also won the...
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The Canterbury Central Patterson Cup interclub Final was played at Ellesmere yesterday in fine, sunny conditions with the course and greens in particular in great order.
The Final was between the two top teams in the Patterson Cup North Zone, hosts Ellesmere against Tai Tapu. Ellesmere had taken the honours in their round robin fixture however Tai Tapu were in no mood for a repeat and their team of Derek Watson, Jason Blair, Jeffrey Cairns, Rod Frewen, Scott Ward and Sean Spencer defeated the home team 8-1.
Tai Tapu players Jason Blair and Sean Spencer shared the Keith Vogan Trophy for best...
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The Final of 9 Hole Interclub between Templeton and Rangiora 1 was played at Russley Golf Club yesterday in very drizzly, cold conditions. While it was touch and go as to whether the 9 Hole Finals Day would proceed due to the wet condition of the course, they received the green light and all the teams supporting the Finalists braved the wintery conditions.
It was Templeton who made hstory for the club winning the 9 Hole Interclub for the first time handling the challenging conditions best, with Viv O'Dea, Chris Whiteside, Pam Menzies and Gaye Harry combining well to score 55...
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The Kaikoura Cup and Templeton Cup Finals were held at Rangiora on Sunday in cold, drizzly conditions and the course in great order, considering the amount of rain that fell over the previous 24 hours.
The Kaikoura Cup Final was always going to be a tight affair after two close matches between the two finalists Amberley and Amuri in round robin play and it didn’t disappoint.
After tight matches right across the draw the teams were locked together at 4.5 all at the completion of the foursomes and singles, before Archie Gothard won the first sudden death play-off hole against Andrew Green...
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The Women’s Weekend Interclub Final was played yesterday at Pegasus Golf Club in cold conditions with light drizzle most of the round making playing conditions challenging.The competition had already had it’s share of upsets, with the third and fourth seeds after round robin play Russley and McLeans Island winning their Semi-Finals to progress to the Final.
The McLeans Island team of Sue Collins, Jeanette Allen, Haley Evans and Marise Wason rose to the occasion with a 3-1 win over Russley’s Carolyn Bleach, Julianne Chung, Chris Erikson and Bridget Hoffman who had a big win to register Russley’s only point. The result was hanging in the...
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