The Annual Presidents and Secretaries Day was held at Russley Golf Club on Friday with the course in great condition, providing plenty of challenges for players.
12 current and past Presidents competed for the G.W.A Green Presidents Cup this year with Kaiapoi's President Mike Cross winning the Presidents Cup with 34 stableford points from Tai Tapu's John Bowden on 33 points who was runner-up on countback from Russley's Chris Le Cren. Mike is pictured right with Canterbury Golf President Steve Kilpatrick.
6 Secretary/Managers competed for the G.W.A Green Salver which was won by Bottle Lake's Clare Pitt with 36 points from Tai...
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The Canterbury Men’s Team have finished sixth at the NZ Interprovincial. The team got off to the start that was needed with a 3-2 win over Bay of Plenty following their first round bye. On day two the team were unlucky not to come away with two wins against North Harbour and Hawkes Bay but continued their unbeaten record halving both matches.
Like Canterbury, Manawatu-Wanganui were also looking to gain valuable points to elevate their position on the leaderboard to move into the top two positions in their section. It came down to the wire with Manawatu-Wanganui having the edge 4-1.
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The Women's Ringers Tournament sponsored by CRYSTALP Jewellery was played at Weedons Country Club yesterday in fine warm weather and the course in great order.
In the 18 Hole Competition Tai Tapu's Di Stalker and Carol Bates (pictured right), were too strong with 81 stableford points winning by seven points from Ellesmere's Heather McKimmie and Tracey Houston on 74 points with Harewood's Hyeza Kim and Marguerite Leitch third on 71 points. Di Stalker together with Greendale's Crisie Banks had the best individual scores of the day with 44 points.
In the 9 Hole Competition things were much closer with Christchurch's Wendy Hollyer...
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The NZ Men's Interprovincial is underway at the Hastings Golf Club.
Live scoring will be available on the NZ Golf website, click here to view.
Results
Canterbury beat Bay of Plenty 3-2Matt McLean lost to 2/1 Mitchell KaleReid Hilton beat Joshua Morris 6/5Andrew Green beat James Tauariki 1 upKazuma Kobori beat William Newman 3/2Mike Toeke lost to James Golding 2/1Canterbury halved with North Harbour Matt McLean halved with James HydesReid Hilton beat Kevin Koong 4/2Andrew Green lost to Kit Bittle 3/2Kazuma Kobori lost to Sung Jin Yeo 2/1Mike Toeke beat Natham Mayes 4/3
Canterbury halved with Hawkes BayMatt McLean lost to Mako Thompson 4/3Reid Hilton beat Adam Winter 1 upAndrew Green...
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The NZ Men's Interprovincial gets underway today at the Hastings Golf Club with the countries best six golfers from each province set to play head-to head matchplay to find out who the best province in the country is this year. The Canterbury Men's Team are looking to build on their third place finish from last years NZ Men's Interprovincial played at Clearwater Golf Club.
The Canterbury Men's Team has an experienced line up which includes two current NZ Representative players Matt McLean and Kazuma Kobori. Reid Hilton will have added experience to offer the team this week having played the Bridge Pa...
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The 2019 Canterbury Women's Champion of Champions and the district final for the NZ Gross Stableford Rosebowl was held yesterday at Coringa. The course was presented in excellent condition with some short but challenging rough that caught the offline shots. Morning conditions were calm and warm, producing many good scores, but the afternoon wind, heat and difficult gross stableford format caused some form reversals.At the end of the Champions event, Anika Park of Russley and Olive Tapu of Christchurch were all tied up with 154 gross total for the 36 holes. In a sudden death play-off on the first hole Anika won the Champions title...
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The final round of Canterbury Central Master's Interclub was played at Ellesmere Golf Club yesterday in very warm conditions and the course in great order.
Charteris Bay who had been in good form all competition, just dropping one match to Lincoln, defeated Tai Tapu 5-4 in their final match to win the competition. They were three points clear of their nearest rival Weedons Black who finished second, edging Lincoln on games won.
The Charteris Bay team from left are Paul Sullivan, Rob Phillips, Warren Sheddan, John Bickley, Wayne Roden and Ric Hyden.
Honours and the trophy for the best individual performance in the competition...
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Canterbury's top junior players had the opportunity to test themselves against the China Junior Team that made the trip to Christchurch to compete at the the second New Zealand-China Junior Golf Competition played at the Pegasus Golf & Sports Club.
The Canterbury team are pictured from left Amy Weng, Yoyo Fu, Deanna Matthews, Jasmine Clancy, Maddie May, Estelle Lin, Cooper Moore, Yuki Miya, Hayato Miya, Seb May, Lachie Mackay, Zach May and Jayden Moore (Manager).
Following the first event, which was held in China in March 2019, Pegasus Golf Club was scheduled to host the return fixture which allowed a team of...
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Courtesy of NZ Golf
New Zealand Golf have named an exciting team to compete in the Asia-Pacific Seniors Championship held at Sungai Long Golf and Country Club in Malaysia.
Two-time defending champion Brent Paterson (Royal Auckland Grange) spearheads the team who wll compete in the event from November 20th – 22nd. He will be joined by John Batley (Titirangi), Peter Brinsdon (Pegasus), Stu Duff (Hastings), and debutants Craig Newman (Nelson), and Tony Chettleburgh (Feilding).
New Zealand have come runner-up by the narrowest of margins for the last two years straight. Japan beat the Kiwis by a single stroke last year whilst Australia got them...
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