The following players have been selected to represent Canterbury to play in the Boys Interprovincial at the Cambridge Golf Club 1-5 October.
Fenix Canterbury U19 Men's Team
U19 PlayersHiroki Miya (Russley)Ben Baker (Russley)Josh Roche (Christchurch)Zach May (Russley)U16 PlayersHayato Miya (Russley)Lachie Mackay (Waimairi Beach)Managers: Craig Vining & Percy Reihana
The following players have been selected to represent Canterbury to play in the Girls Interprovincial at the Rotorua Golf Club 8-12 October.
Flexi Lease Canterbury U19 Women’s Team
Amy Weng (Russley)Maddie May (Russley)Deanna Matthews (Weedons)Estelle Lin (Russley)Jasmine Clancy (Russley)Jana Beneke (Kaiapoi)Manager: Hillary O’Connor (Pegasus)
Congratulations to all those players selected and we wish them all the best for...
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Stuff Sports News Director Kevin Norquay has written a very interesting article on the Stuff website today about the state of golf clubs in New Zealand.
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A calm sunny day greeted players at Clearwater yesterday for round 5 of Pollock Cup.
Waimairi Beach got off the mark with a team win over Waitikiri 3.5 to 2.5 with Kate Turner, Lyn Robertson and Allison Doell registering wins for Waimairi Beach while Georgia Wayman and Kim Moggach who were both presented with their badges for 50 Pollock games played, made it even more special in that they played each other and halved their match. Naomi Wallace and Chris Marple had wins for Waitikiri.
Christchurch went to top of the table with a 4-2 win over Russley. Catherine Bell and Juliana Hung had...
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Christchurch Golf Club hosted the seventh round of Woodward Cup in near perfect conditions at the business end of the season. Christchurch continued their dominant run, remaining unbeaten after topping second placed Pegasus 5.5-2.5. Christchurch’s top three Mike Toeke, Richard Reed and Marcel Boet all had big wins, with Boet now making his move back to America for College Golf at Oregon State. They were ably supported by Josh Roche, who also achieved a hole in one on No. 7 and new member Todd Gantley. For Pegasus, Phil Stevens and Rodney Van Steenis got the wins along with Peter Brinsdon...
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Click the PDF above to download a copy of the 2017-2018 Canterbury Golf Annual Report.
The Canterbury Golf AGM is on Wednesday 5 September at Russley Golf Club at 7.30pm. The agenda will be sent to clubs on Monday 27 August.
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A fine sunny day greeted players at Russley yesterday and after a short frost delay provided ideal conditions for the fourth round of Pollock Cup.
Both Christchurch and Pegasus continued their superior form with convincing 6-0 wins over Waimairi Beach and Weedons respectively. For Christchurch, Catherine Bell, Olive Tapu, Melissa Newburn, Margaret-Mary Coughlan, Mel Brew and Robyn Gillespie had wins while Hillary O'Connor, Danielle Price, Rion Ishizawa, Jessica Crosbie, Karen De Latour and Bobbi Oliver registered wins for Pegasus.
Waitikiri posted its first point on the table to halve with Harewood in a very close match. On the seventeenth hole of the crucial match between number...
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Waitikiri Golf Club was the host for the sixth round of Woodward Cup where sunny, calm conditions greeted players. The hosts found themselves in a tight tussle with Avondale with six games going down the last hole. Waitikiri had wins to Antony Dale, Chris Bond and Geoff Rudduck whilst Avondale's wins came from Haupai Puha and Nathan Andrews, along with Hayden Burns who turned in a dramatic win at number one to ensure the teams would share points at four a piece. This was the eighth half of the competition so far. Close neighbours Bottle Lake continued their good...
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Canterbury’s Juliana Hung and Auckland’s Jimmy Zheng have been selected to represent New Zealand at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.
The pair have been selected for their great form and are the highest ranked juniors in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.
They will be 16-years-old at the time of the games and now get the opportunity to compete against some of the world’s best young golfers where the small bracket of young athletes aged from 15 to 18 years old will strive for gold.
There are two divisions at the event with the Men/Women Individual championships being held from 9 –...
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The Annual Town vs Country event was played at Coringa yesterday in cool, windy conditions with the course in great order.
In the Men's Seniors, Country overcame a 4-2 foursomes deficit in the morning to win the afternoon singles 7.5-4.5, with some very close matches going down to the wire, before defeating Town 9.5-8.5.The Men's Masters ended in a convincing win for Country, winning the foursomes 3-1 and their singles matches 6-2 for a 9-3 win.In the Men's Juniors Country also overcame a 3-1 morning foursomes loss winning their singles 5-3 to square their match with Town 6-6.The Women's Masters were...
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Congratulations to Jason Sincock who broke the record for Woodward Cup appearances. Murray Brown had held the remarkable record with 233 games played. Murray has held this record since 2006 with his playing record spanning from 1974 to 2012 playing for Waitikiri, Christchurch and Russley winning 125 games and halving 26.
Jason Sincock notched up the record breaking appearance with a win at his 234th game of Woodward Cup against Templeton on Sunday. Jason's Woodward Cup debut came in 1985 when he played for Avondale, he has since gone on to play for Waitikiri, North Canterbury, Kaiapoi, Coringa and Christchurch teams....
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