The Canterbury Golf Captains Day Tournament was held at Hororata Golf Club on Friday in warm, sunny weather and the course in great order considering the current dry weather conditions.
17 Clubs from the Canterbury area were represented by their Club Captains at this Annual event with Bottle Lake's Craig Bilton and Sandra Fowler winning with a combined stableford score of 80 points. They were five points clear of Burnham's Aaron Tallott and Karen Wilson in second place on 75 points with Waitikiri's Tony Thomas and Danae Goosman third on 70 points.
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We have pleasure in announcing that Lamb & Hayward have added to their already impressive support for Canterbury Golf by taking on the corporate partner role for the new Futures Canterbury project.
The Futures Canterbury Selwyn Hub will provide fun golf events and learning opportunities for young people and families. It aims to capture the imagination of young people of all skill levels and backgrounds to be active for life, meet new friends, develop valuable life skills and provide opportunities for families to learn and play together. Young people and their parents can join and play at seven clubs. The participating clubs...
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McLeans Island member Peter Davidson and a group of friends were a bit bored one day and hatched a plan to play 18 holes on 18 diffrerent golf courses in one day in the Canterbury region.
The plan came to fruition on Monday 29 January when six of them set out to conquer the challenge. The format was to play in a sequence where the first hole played would be No 1 on that course, and at the second course visited they would play No 2, until finally they would be playing No 18 at the eighteenth course of the day....
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Rangiora's Kazuma Kobori doubled up at the 2019 Lamb & Hayward Canterbury Strokeplay yesterday at Pegasus Golf Club when he won the men's title to go with his recent Southland Strokeplay victory. He is odds-on favourite to complete the trifecta when he plays in the Otago Strokeplay this weekend, and will collect the major spoils from the House of Travel Tour Championship than runs across all three tournaments.
Kazuma really won the championship on Saturday when he had fine rounds of 67 and 68 to give himself a five shot lead. The afternoon round in a stiff nor-wester was particularly impressive...
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New Zealand Golf have named an exciting young team to contest the 41st Queen Sirikit Cup to be played from 6-8 March at Glenelg Golf Club in Adelaide, South Australia.
Canterbury’s Juliana Hung will be joined by Auckland’s Carmen Lim and Vivian Lu who will take on some of the world’s best at the prestigious Asia-Pacific Amateur Ladies Golf Team Championship.
This trio includes the current holders of our two biggest trophies in the country’s amateur golf ranks with Hung winning the New Zealand Stroke Play Championship at Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club before Lu claimed the New Zealand Amateur Championship at Wairakei Golf...
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The field is all but confirmed for the 2019 Lamb & Hayward Canterbury Strokeplay to be held at Pegasus Golf Club this weekend. It should be an interesting tournament with many new faces in the capacity field from throughout the South Island. Most are attracted by the House of Travel Tour prizes on offer across the Canterbury, Otago and Southland Strokeplays.
The Men's Open field is full of provincial reps. The Canterbury contingent is lead by Hiroki Miya, Kazuma Kobori, Reid Hilton and Richard Reed. Ex Pro Jordan Latter is also an interesting addition. There is a strong contingent from Otago...
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Below is a brief summary of the main changes.
Drop from knee height (NOT shoulder height)
Measure the area to drop in with the longest club in your bag (except a putter)
Drop in and play from the relief area
When dropping back-on-the-line, your ball cannot be played from nearer the hole than your chosen reference point
Time to search – 3 minutes (NOT 5 minutes)
If you accidentally move your ball when searching for it, replace it without penalty
No penalty for a double hit – it only counts as one stroke
No penalty if your ball hits you or your equipment accidentally after a stroke
No penalty...
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Canterbury Golf Past President and Life Member Peter Mott passed away on Thursday 3 January.
Peter was President of Canterbury Golf from 2001-2002 and also Canterbury Golf Men’s Convener of Selectors. His involvement with Canterbury Golf was officially acknowledged when he was inducted as a Canterbury Golf Life Member in 2012.
Our thoughts are with Leone and all the family.
Messages may be addressed to The Family of the late Peter Mott, c/- PO Box 39001, Christchurch 8545. In lieu of flowers, donations to Nurse Maude Association and may be made at the service. The Service to Celebrate Peter's life will be held...
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The National Gross Stableford Rosebowl competition results have now been finalised and Canterbury District Champion Russley's team of Juliana Hung, Coral Brander and Kath Kirk have finished third, which is a great result. Russley were just 2.4 points behind the winning team Omanu from Bay of Plenty. with Boulcott's Farm Heritage from Wellington second.
Unfortunately inclement weather affected Northland’s event and players were unable to complete the 36 holes.Tasman holds its Champion of Champions over two days, therefore is not eligible to compete in the one-day 36-hole GSR.
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