Round two of Pollock Cup was played at Christchurch Golf Club yesterday in cool fine conditions with the course in great order.
Weedons registered their first win for the season with a tight 3.5-2.5 win over Waimairi Beach. Joanne Kent, Deanna Matthews and Virginia Faass had wins for Weedons while Waimairi Beach's wins came from Lynda Brown and Lyn Roberston. Teenager Jana Beneke halved her first Pollock match with Weedon's Jenny Clarke.
Watikiri and Harewood had a very tight battle with their match tied up at 3-3 with three of the five matches going down to the final hole. Waitikiri's wins came...
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The 2019 Woodward Cup teed off at Waitikiri Golf Club yesterday in fine but damp conditions. There were some interesting results as teams brushed off the cobwebs for what is set to be a close-run competition.
There were two draws. Russley drew with Bottle Lake 4-4. For Bottle Lake No.1 Cameron Grant won along with Kris O'Neill, Lachie MacKay, and Steve Dellow. For Russley it was the "older" players that came through with wins to Regan Kilpatrick, Michael McAuley, Owen Burgess, and Andrew Dufton. Weedons also drew with Templeton with Jonathan Stieller beating Sam Purdon 2 up at the top of...
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With a forecast for rain and possible snow, it was an almost pleasant surprise to have a fine but cold day at Waimairi for the first round of Pollock Cup on Sunday and the Waimairi Beach course was in excellent condition after the heavy rain in the preceding days.
A talented line-up and last year's winners Russley made their mark on the competition with a 6-0 win over Waitikiri who were without two of their lower handicap players. At the top of the order, Maddie May and Naomi Wallace battled it out to the 17th hole where Maddie halved the hole to take...
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The 2019 Woodward Cup competition starts this Sunday at Waitikiri at the new time of 12.00pm and a month later than previous years to try and take advantage of the better weather conditions. With the extra daylight hours this will also allow for the final four rounds being double rounds on 30 September and 13 October.
Indications from all the Team Managers is that their teams are all well prepared and ready to roll.
Hosts Waitikiri have retained a similar squad to last year with Canterbury Masters Rep Aaron Forsyth, Brett Turner, Simon Marshall and Geoff Rudduck. They will also have the...
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Pollock Cup starts this Sunday at Waimairi Beach Golf Club at 9.30am, the competition will again have seven teams competing after the successful introduction of the new competition format in 2018 which has seen a significant increase in the number of players involved.
Waimairi Beach have the first round bye and will be looking forward to getting underway in round two against Weedons. Waimairi Beach will have a similar team to 2018 with Kate Turner, Lyn Robertson and Allison Doell along with Timaru based players Angela Gerkin and Lynda Brown. New to the team for 2019 is Jana Beneke who will...
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McLeans Island Golf Club 50th Jubilee - September 27th, 28th & 29thPlease keep these dates in mind
Help us make this a weekend to remember.
We want to get this information out to as many members both past and present, so if any-one knows of past members who you think may be interested in attending please let them know.
Please contact the office at McLeans Island on 03 359 9768 or email mcleansislandgolf@xtra.co.nz
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The Ashby Bergh Trophy and McGuire Hendon Cup matches were played at Rangiora Golf Club on Sunday in fine, cool conditions with the course in great order.
The Ashby Bergh Trophy match was between Weedons Red (Canterbury Central Patterson Cup Winner) and Amberley Red (Canterbury North Templeton Cup Winner) with Amberley Red’s team of, from left Steve Thomas, Glen Smith, Dean Walker, Sean Heslop, Rowan Turnbull, Steve Hartley, Mark Neale, Gavin Burrows and Phil Cumming defeating Weedons Red's Chris Hay, Mike Methven, David White, Dave Stubbs, Steve Johnson and Terry Sullivan 4-2. There were some great matches with Amberley Red’s No....
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A field of 45 junior golfers competed in the Canterbury Junior Tournament played at the Rangiora Golf Club. Two events were held with both 18 holes and 9 holes on offer to cater for the various stages of development. Rangiora provided a great course with the juniors all enjoying the challenge.
The grade 1 boys section was won by Hayato Miya on 74 one shot clear of his brother Yuki Miya (both Russley) with Lachie MacKay (Waimairi Beach) and Mika MacDonald (Christchurch) taking out the net prizes.
Kaiapoi's Retief Beneke won the grade 2 net on a countback from Joseph Hall (Weedons)...
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The Final Round of the Canterbury Central Brownie Cup Interclub Competition was played at Burnham Golf Club on Sunday.
The Weedons Black team of, from left Keith Mills, Shane Chatterton, Stephen Harrison, Shane Lacey, Darryl Campbell, Barrie Matthews and Gary Dixon defeated Tai Tapu 6.5-2.5 in their final match to remain unbeaten throughout the competition with a record of eight wins and one half from their nine games, to be crowned Brownie Cup Champions. Runner up was Burnham, with Charteris Bay finishing third.
Shane Chatterton pictured left, also won the Barkle Cup for the best individual performance, remaining unbeaten with five wins and two...
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