Canterbury Golf is excited to share our refreshed Young People in Golf Plan and Talent Development Plan. Our role at Canterbury Golf is to lead the development and promotion of golf in Canterbury with our goal being to foster golf as a sport of choice for young people.
We aim to help young people fall in love with the game and this refreshed Young People Plan creates a clear pathway for their engagement – from beginner to performance golf, focussed on creating positive experiences that meet the diverse needs of the young people within our region.
Within this plan, we have created a Young People Development Framework table that visually shows...
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The Annual Captains Day Tournament was played at Bottle Lake Golf Club on Friday with 18 clubs represented from around the Canterbury region.
It was the McLeans Island pairing of Warren Davis (33 pts) and Sue Collins (36 pts) who handled the testing conditions best to win the Captains Day trophy with a combined 69 stableford points. We were fortunate to hold the event after rain earlier in the week and heavy rain again immediately after the event.
Rangiora's Eric Crawford (35 pts) and Elaine Rae (32 pts) were second on 67 points, with Avondale's Tawhi Taite (28 pts) and Clare Hodges...
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Due to heavy rain overnight and this morning, today's scheduled Canterbury Junior Futures Open at Waimakariri Gorge Golf Club has unfortunately been cancelled.
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Due to heavy rain Waitikiri Golf course is closed and accordingly Women's 18 Hole 4's Interclub is postponed on Monday.
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Due to heavy rain Clearwater golf course is closed and accordingly Women's 18 Hole Silver Interclub is postponed on Monday.
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Round 1 of Women's Weekend Interclub at Rangiora has been postponed due to heavy rain.
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Canterbury No.1 and New Zealand Rep Kazuma Kobori held off all challengers in the final round of the 2022 Lamb & Hayward Canterbury Stroke Play at Russley Golf Club over Waitangi weekend to win the title by three shots over Otago's Tom Lee and Russley's Zach May.
The field had endured miserable conditions on Saturday to put themselves in position for the final round on Sunday and it was a credit to both the players and Russley's green-keeping staff that they managed to get through the 36 holes. Only three or four courses in Canterbury would've have been able to stand...
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The Lamb & Hayward Canterbury Strokeplay to be held at Russley Golf Club this weekend has seen an unprecedented 140 entries for the 96 spots available in the field, Unfortunately there will be some disappoiinted players when the draw is posted this afternoon.
COVID has meant limited playing opporturnities for our top golfers and they have come from far and wide to play in Canterbury's premier amateur tournament.
In the Men's Open section the handicap index cut-off is around 2, and there are 23 players with a scratch handicap or better. Visitors of note are led by Tyler Wood (Ngahinepouri), Cameron Harlock...
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Golf Matters 2022 New Zealand Golf Conference & Expo Announce Christchurch as host city for August 2022
The New Zealand Golf Industry Council (NZGIC) is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with ChristchurchNZ and Te Pae to host Golf Matters 2022, New Zealand Golf Conference & Expo.
Christchurch, New Zealand’s ‘Garden City’ is an excellent and exciting destination with the choice of venue supported by the collective arms of ChristchurchNZ and Tourism NZ, who were very proactive in seeking agreement, reached at the end of 2021.
Timing of this agreement coincided with the opening of the $475million new convention centre,...
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Courtesy of Golf NZ:
New Zealand’s greatest golfer, Sir Bob Charles, will host the inaugural Golf Warehouse New Zealand Hickory Open Golf Tournament at the Christchurch Golf Club’s Shirley Links, his home club.
On 13 March 2022, players will use 100-year-old wooden-shafted hickory clubs in an event that is the first of its kind to be held in this country since the 1930s when hickories were in common use.
“I’m really proud and excited to be hosting this national tournament,” said the octogenarian Sir Bob, “which is taking me back to my earliest playing days. It’s a significant milestone in the history of...
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