The fixture between Canterbury North and Marlborough was a closely fought affair. The match was played at the Kaikoura Golf Club with the course in excellent condition.
Seniors - Canterbury North won 9-6Juniors - Draw 3-3Intermediates - Marlborough won 7.5-4.5
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The Richards Trophy and Cresswell Cup matches were played at Hororata yesterday in cool, sunny conditions and the course in great order.
The Richards Trophy match was between Harewood (Winner of Metropolitan A) and Amberley Red (Winner of Templeton Cup) with the Amberley Red team of Shaun Heslop, Steve Thomas, Karl Rattray, Rowan Turnbull, Glen Smith, Dean Walker, Mark Neale and Graham Demmocks defeating Harewood's Ramon Coleman, Terry Coleman, Barry Coleman, Guy Chambers, Colin Posa, Peter Coleman, John Hamilton and Marcus Wyatt 7-1 at the end of some very close matches, with five of the eight matches decided on the 17th...
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Following on from the success of hubs for young people in other regions, Canterbury Golf in partnership with New Zealand Golf and participating golf clubs has formed the Futures Canterbury Selwyn Hub to provide quality golf experiences for young people and families.
Four months on from the launch of the Selwyn Hub, we sat down with Rachel Thow, Golf Development Manager for Canterbury Golf, to discuss the role of Futures Canterbury in growing participation in the Selwyn region and future plans for this project.
Click here to read the case study written by New Zealand Golf Regional Support Manager Richard Hudson.
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Courtesy of NZ Golf
New Zealand Golf has named a mix of youth and experience to play for the Astor Trophy in Canada in August.
Auckland is well represented with Wenyung Keh and Carmen Lim making the team. Wellington’s Julianne Alvarez makes her third Astor Trophy appearance and Canterbury’s Amelia Garvey is selected for her first.
This year’s Astor Trophy will take place at Royal Colwood Golf Club, Victoria, British Columbia, August 26th – September 1st.
Formerly known as the Commonwealth Tournament, the Astor Trophy is contested every four years between teams of top women amateur golfers from Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, Canada,...
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The 2019 Canterbury Golf Annual Awards Dinner was hosted for the first time at Christchurch Golf Club last Friday evening. 140 club members, sponsors, invited guests, and Canterbury Golf personnel and stakeholders sat in the recently rebuilt club house and enjoyed an evening of awards, interviews and entertainment.
MC Phil McGoldrick again did a fantastic job keeping the evening flowing and punctuating the formalities with golfing anecdotes and humour. It was announced early that guest speaker Israel Dagg was not able to make the awards due to commitments with the Super 15 quarter-final between the Crusaders and Highlanders. However as it...
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It was a fine but cool day at the 2019 Riccarton Park Golf Complex Canterbury 4BBB Championship at Russley Golf Club. With no wind there was some good scoring but the challenging Russley layout still played tough for many players.
The men's championship was won by the Templeton pairing of Sam Purdon and Ryan Bellamy who combined for a seven under par 65. They beat the pairings of Nic Kay and Nick Franzmann, and Josh Roche and Reid Hilton by one shot. Roche and Hilton were hot early and were six under through eight holes, but could not add to their...
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The Canterbury Golf Men's Champion of Champions Tournament was played at Waitikiri Golf Club yesterday in initially foggy conditions before clearing later to a fine day. The course was in great order for the day, in particular the greens receiving players approval.
67 current club champions competed in the event with the following results:
Team Gross Stableford1st - Christchurch 82 pts, pictured right (Niven Boyle, Nic Kay, Peter Neylon absent)2nd - Waitikiri 74 pts (Aaron Forsyth, Mike Bowden, Bill Blair)
Team Net Stableford1st - Russley 103 pts (Taylor Hosking, Peter MacDonald, David Knowles pictured below)2nd - Hagley 100 pts (Phil Potter, Peter Allsop,...
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The annual fixture between North Canterbury and Central Canterbury teams was played at the Waimakariri Golf Club. With 48 players competing across senior, intermediate and masters teams it was a tight battle throughout the day, with very windy conditions adding to the challenge. North Canterbury took the overall win 21-15 games with foursomes in the morning and singles matches in the afternoon. Thanks to the Waimakariri Golf Club for providing their course for this event.
Senior - North Canterbury won 12 - 6 gamesMasters - Central Canterbury won 5 - 4 gamesIntermediate - North Canterbury won 5 - 4 games
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The Junior Interclub Matchplay Final was played at Templeton yesterday between Christchurch and Russley Blue in fine cool conditions, with the course in great order.
After a delay due to a heavy frost, all matches got underway and were played in great spirit. All matches were very tight with the last two being decided on the 17th & 18th holes and the final could have gone either way. In the end the Christchurch team of, from left Maadi Kirikiri, Anika Park, Mika MacDonald and Korban Turnbull prevailed after a great display of power hitting by Mika MacDonald with Anika Park continuing...
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The Canterbury Central Patterson Cup Final was played at Weedons Golf Club on Sunday in an all Weedons affair with Weedons Red playing Weedons Black.
The Weedons Red team of, from left Dave Stubbs, Richard Poulsen, Glenn Hames, Mike Methven, Chris Hay and Dave Butts won the Patterson Cup 4-2 yesterday making it the third successive year and Weedons Black won the Smart Cup for runner-up. The match was extremely close and a bit tense with five of the six matches being decided on the 18th green.In what is believed to be a first in Canterbury Central Golf, two teams from the...
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