The Final of the Women's Weekend Interclub competition between Pegasus and Rangiora 1 was held at Russley Golf Club on Sunday in cool conditions and the course in good order considering the previous 24 hours of rain. The day started out quite heavy underfoot, a few light showers with relief required from water on occasions, but by the fourth hole the day improved and lightened up finishing in sunshine, albeit with a cold southerly wind.The result was in the balance with the final two matches going down to the penultimate hole before the Rangiora 1 team of from left, Sue McFarlane, Karen Craigie,...
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The Final round of Men's Canterbury Central Brownie Cup Interclub was played at Greendale yesterday in cool conditions and the course in good order considering the amount of overnight rain.It was the Tai Tapu team of, from left Ben Coffin, Stu Berryman, Tony Pye, Scott Ward, Will Tutton, James Ting and Gary Welsh. (Absent: Dave Crosbie, Ryan Ford, Ben Harding, Mark Tentori, Derek Ngu and Brent Earnshaw) who won their final match comfortably, as they have for most of the season, defeating Weedons Red 6-3.Gary Welsh also took out the Barkle Cup for the best individual performance, remaining unbeaten in...
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The Kaikoura Cup / Gardner Cup Final Round and Templeton Cup Final were played on Sunday. Players made their way to Waimakariri Gorge and were meant with a cool, crisp day and a few drops of rain prior to tee off threatened, but nothing came of it. The course was beautifully presented with the greens running very true at a good speed.
In the Kaikoura Cup a change of format from previous years saw the number of clubs and players rise from 4 clubs and 24 players to 7 clubs, 9 teams and 36 players playing each week. After leading from...
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The Final of the Women's Weekend Team Ball Interclub competition between Avondale and Russley was played at Bottle Lake yesterday in wintery weather and the autumn conditions making matches challenging for both players and rules officials.It was the Russley team of, from left Di Stayt, Carolyn Bleach, Chris Erikson, Bridget Hoffman and Sandra Gover who upset the top seed and prevailed 4.5-1.5 over Avondale's Jaimee Leach, Rhonda Hira, Pip Lloyd and Kara Campbell.
The Semi-Finals of the Women's Weekend competition were also played at Bottle Lake yesterday with Pegasus Blue defeating McLeans Island 3-1 and Rangiora 1 defeating Clearwater 2.5-1.5 to set...
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The Final of the Women's 18 Hole Silver Interclub competition was played at Harewood Golf Club yesterday in cool, misty conditions for the best part of the round with the course in great order.It was always going to be a tight contest between the top seeds from round-robin play, only separated by 3.5 games over the 9 round competition. With Russley defeating Clearwater in round-robin play early in the competition, both teams would have had contrasting motivation leading into the final. As expected the result went down to the wire with all four matches going down the 18th before the...
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The 2022/2023 Order of Merit (OOM) concluded yesterday with the annual Tour Championship Event being played at Clearwater Golf Club. With the course in great condition as normal and the weather playing its part conditions were ideal for the final event of the tour. With several OOM categories in the balance, it was all to play for in many of the divisions with several being decided on the day's performances.
More information about how the OOM works can be read below:
CGI Tour - Order of Merit
CGI Tour - Junior Order of Merit
Standout rounds of the day included Dominic Brettkelly's round of...
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The Women's National Club Teams District Final was played at Weedons Country Club on Friday where 22 Canterbury clubs were represented in the annual Four Ball Stroke Play event.The weather played it's part being sunny but cool and the Weedons course was in great condition.
As expected the scoring was again very close with ten shots covering the top ten teams before the Harewood team of, from left Liz Warren, Yu Lan Liu, Marie Bell and Kathryn Maloney took out the Canterbury Club Teams District Final with a total of 131.Two shots further back were Kaiapoi's Sharon Worrall, Diane Wood, Jo Taylor and...
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Canterbury Golf is currently inviting Expressions of Interest for new golfers wishing to be considered for the Canterbury Golf TDP 2023/24 Cycle as well as any coaches who may like to be involved. To read all about the TDP programme and complete an Expression of Interest please click - HERE.
EOI are due by the 26th of May, 2023.
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Canterbury Golf is now seeking expressions of interest for the Manager positions for the 2023 Canterbury Representative Teams. These are rewarding roles that contribute to the ongoing success of Canterbury Golf.
The purpose of these positions is to assist players to ensure they are supported and managed to perform at their best while representing Canterbury. The available roles and their job descriptions can be found below:
Men’s Representative Team Manager
Men’s Representative Team Assistant Manager
Women’s Representative Team Manager
Women’s Representative Team Assistant Manager
Men’s Masters Representative Team Manager
Each position's term is 15 May – 31 December 2023.
Applications in writing, outlining relevant skills and experience can...
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The 2023 Canterbury Selector panels for both the men’s and women’s teams have now been appointed, these are as follows:
We are excited to welcome to the men’s panel Gary Gillard who will join John Rademakers and Matt McLean who will continue in their positions from the previous year. Gary who is familiar with the local men's Canterbury golfing scene as a previous interclub player and Canterbury trialist will bring to the position a good background in representative sports involvement through his background as both an NZ Snooker player, coach, and selector. Alongside John and Matt, the panel will oversee the...
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