The Final round of Presidents Grade Interclub was played at Avondale Golf Club on Sunday, with all teams playing at the same venue for the finale of the season. Avondale was in great order to host the event and the weather conditions fine and sunny.
At the end of the penultimate round Templeton and Coringa were both on top of the table on points with Templeton slightly ahead on games and Harewood a point behind in third.
With the top two teams playing each other in the final round, it was always going to be a tough match and so it proved...
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The Final of the 9 Hole Interclub competition was played this morning at McLeans Island Golf Club in calm, cool conditions and the course in great order.
The all North Canterbury Final between Rangiora 2 and Amberley was always going to provide the winner bragging rights North of the Waimak, and it was Rangiora's Coleen White, Ross McQueen, Diane Sinclair and Rita Moore who prevailed over Amberley's all man line up of Garry Reid, Mike Carpenter, Ron Kemp and John Evans by 75-65 stableford points.
The winning Rangiora 2 team from left, Pam Holland, Ross McQueen, Coleen White, Diane Sinclair, Rita Moore...
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The PowerTurf Canterbury Club Golf Forum " Managing Your Club's Future" was held at Clearwater Golf Club yesterday with 80 participants from local clubs and guests from throughout New Zealand attending. This included staff and volunteer leaders from 28 Canterbury Golf Clubs, the Canterbury Golf Executive Committee, New Zealand Golf staff, Tasman and Aorangi Golf reps, the entire Golf Managers Association of NZ Board, guest speaker Todd Heller, and our own Sir Bob Charles.
Master MC Stephen Gee kept proceedings fun and interactive as well as informative as the meaty issues of maximising club profitability, effective governance relationships, using technology to...
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The 2019 Women’s National Club Teams District Championship was played on Friday with 26 Clubs represented in a great field of 104 competitors. Waimairi Beach Golf Club was in great order and the weather also played its part with a calm, sunny Autumn day, making ideal scoring conditions.
The results were very close with just eight shots separating the top ten teams. First place was even closer with Lincoln's Jan Latham, Judy Campbell, Lois Anderson and Liz Birdling and Russley's Robyn Cruse, Mihee Woo, Shera Kant and Denise Forbes finishing locked together on a combined team best ball net of 125...
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We are pleased to announce the following representative appointments. We are grateful to have the experience of these volunteers in these key representative roles.
Women’s Selectors & Management
We are fortunate to have the continued experience of Mel Brew (Convenor) and Robyn Gillespie from the Christchurch Golf Club to form the Women’s Selection panel. Both Mel and Robyn show a great passion for the Women’s representative programme and we are grateful to have their continued involvement for their sixth year in the role.
Kate Turner (Waimairi Beach) will continue as Manager of the Canterbury Women’s Team where the Women’s Team have finished as runners...
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The article below was written by Thomas L Friedman (a columnist for the New York Times) soon after Tiger's win at the Masters.
Although my day job is writing the foreign affairs column for The New York Times — more Persian Gulf than fairway golf — thinking about golf and playing as often as I can is my all-consuming hobby. So like millions of others, I was awed by Tiger Woods’s comeback for the ages by his winning the Masters at 43 years old. What can be learned from it?
It’s hard for non-golfers to appreciate the scope of Tiger’s physical and...
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Canterbury Golf Sponsors and Vounteer Management enjoyed the opportunity to partner with our leading Order of Merit players for the Tour Championship held at Clearwater Golf Club. The Tour Championship is the final event on the Canterbury Order of Merit schedule, which sees players accumulate points over the season based on their tournament placing.
The Sponsors Am-Am event was won by the pairing of Murray Brown (Golf Warehouse) and Zach May. The leading overall Am-Am team was the pairing of Steve Kilpatrick (Canterbury Golf President) and Hiroki Miya with net score of 59 from Kerry Chuck (Canterbury Men’s Selector) and Anton...
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The Canterbury Golf April Junior Tournaments were played on 23-24 April at Bottle Lake and Weedons Golf Clubs, with the courses in great condition and attracting 44 junior golfers to compete.
- Boys Grade 1 Aggregate Gross was won by Hiroki Miya (Russley) on 140- Boys Grade 2 Aggregate Net by Ethan Ellis (Waitikiri) on 143- U13 Boys Aggregate Gross by Phong Nguyen (Lincoln) on 154- Girls Aggregate Gross by Maddie May (Russley) on 148
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Hiroki Miya made the most of his last South Island U19 Championship by winning the overall title by five shots from Jayden Ford. Hiroki finished the tournament with three sub par rounds of 66, 65 and 70 to cap off a great week where he also captained the Canterbury U19 Team to win the South Island U19 Age Group Interprovincial. Lachie Mackay finished runner up in the U17 section and was also part of the Canterbury U19 Team. Canterbury U16 representative Cooper Moore won the U13 net while his fellow team mate Seb May finished runner up in the overall...
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The Finals of Christchurch Metro A & B Interclub were played at Waitikiri Golf Club on Sunday in cool conditions and the course in great order.
In the Metro A Final the Harewood team of, from back left, Guy Chambers, Terry Coleman, Peter Coleman, Marcus Wyatt, Barry Coleman and front row, John Hamilton, Colin Posa, Ray Coleman were too strong for top seed Waimairi Beach winning 5.5-2.5
In the Metro B Final, Harewood were attempting to do the Metro A & B double, but after being locked up at 4-4 at the end of 18 holes, Russley spoiled their party winning in...
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