Amelia Garvey has produced a dominant display down the stretch to claim an authoritative victory in the New Zealand Women’s Stroke Play Championship at the Hastings Golf Club. The 16-year-old showed an old head on her young shoulders when the pressure went on to etch her name into the Mellsop Cup. Despite finishing with a comfortable six shot victory over Chantelle Cassidy (Riverside Golf Club) it was anything but clear cut with four holes to play. Starting the back nine Garvey had a four-shot lead which Cassidy immediately started to eat into with a birdie on the 10th and after...
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A former Scottish junior representative and a current Canterbury selector have claimed the 81st New Zealand Womens Autumn Foursomes Cup at Harewood Golf Club yesterday.
It was an exciting finish for the host club with Harewood members Debbie Scott, partnered with Jill Balloch, winning on the 18th hole after a closely fought battle.
Matching against Julie Livesey (Tai Tapu) and Sharon Screen (Charteris Bay), the favoured pair didn’t have the best of starts, being 2-down after 4 holes. Par’s on the 5th and 6th got them back to all-square which they held till the 10th hole. A bogey on the opening back...
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Congratulations to the following players that have been selected to represent North Canterbury at the upcoming fixture against Nelson being played at Hanmer Springs 1-2 April.
Seniors
Oscar Cadenhead (Amuri)Andrew Green (Pegasus)Peter Brinsdon (Pegasus)Philip Stephens (Pegasus)Kazuma Kobori (Rangiora)Richard Sinclair (Pegasus)Jason Sincock (Amuri)Mathew Burns (Pegasus)
Masters
Marcus Mariu (Rangiora)Alisdair Reid (Rangiora)Michael Taylor (Pegasus)Ross Forbes (Amuri)
Juniors
James Metzger (Amuri)Mitchell Berry (Kaiapoi)Edward Dickinson (Rangiora)Taylor Willis (Kaiapoi)
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We are pleased to announce the following representative appointments.
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 fourth year in the role.
New appointments have been made to manage the Canterbury Women’s Team. Kate Turner (Waimairi Beach) has been appointed as the Team Manager taking over from Kate Johnstone, special mention to Kate who retired after five...
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The following players have been selected to represent Canterbury to play in the South Island Age Group Interprovincial at the Cromwell Golf Club 27-29 April.
Teams are named below in alphabetical order.Canterbury U16 Team
Hayato Miya (Russley)Kansuke Shin (Russley)Kazuma Kobori (Rangiora)Tiaki Ogilvie (Russley)Zach May (Russley)
Canterbury U19 Team
Ben Baker (Russley)Dominic Brettkelly (Hororata)Hiroki Miya (Russley)Jack Ryder (Weedons)Tom Parker (Christchurch)
Managers: Tim May & Percy Reihana
Congratulations to all those players selected and we wish them all the best for their upcoming Interprovincial Tournament. Results from this event...
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For Kaiapoi Golf Club’s Amelia Garvey and Cambridge Golf Club’s Jordan Woodall it was a case of what might have been after both claimed second place in their respective age grades at the Nick Faldo Asia Series final in Vietnam.
Amelia, who was named in the New Zealand Queen Sirikit Cup team on the morning of the final round in Vietnam, was proud to be in serious contention of claiming both the U16 Girls and the Overall Girls titles with just a few holes to go. A series of uncharacteristic mistakes, coupled with a lost ball penalty (from which she made...
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Gaining selection to represent New Zealand in the Queen Sirikit Cup Team is yet another milestone to add to the golfing CV of Amelia Garvey. The golfing schedule is continuing to grow especially with more international travel for the 16 year old Canterbury representative. Garvey will make her New Zealand senior debut at the 39th edition of the Queen Sirikit Cup to be played in China from 10-12 May where she will be joined by teammates Alanna Campbell (BOP) and Rose Zheng (Auckland).
"This has been a big goal for me to make the New Zealand senior team, to be able...
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Current Boyle Cup holders Rawhiti have confirmed the six successful challenges for 2017 after a ballot was conducted from 21 club challenges received. After six successful defences in 2016 Rawhiti will be looking to start on a high against Russley in their first challenge and a date for this match will be set in due course.
2017 Challenges:
RussleyHororataBottle LakeWaimairi BeachGreendaleEverglades
You can follow the results of matches and dates of challenges once confirmed by clicking on the following link http://www.canterburygolf.co.nz/events/boyle-cup/
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The following players have been selected to represent Canterbury at the New Zealand Women’s Masters to be played at the Ngaruawahia Golf Club 31 March – 2 April.
Canterbury Women’s Masters TeamTeam named in alphabetical order
Cheryl Kemp (Waitikiri)Di Kay (Weedons)Kate Turner (Waimairi Beach)Nicky Muir (Hororata)Manager: Pam Ellis (Waitikiri)
Congratulations to these players selected and we wish them all the best for the upcoming tournament.
Result updates will be posted on both the Canterbury Golf website and Facebook page.
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The six par 3's at Bottle Lake are usually not as easy as they would seem, but the calm conditions provided players with the opportunity to score well. Not only did 53 players record two's over the tournament there was also a rare feat with two hole in ones achieved on the day. Catherine Bell played the perfect shot to 9th green landing just short of the pin and then bouncing in for her hole in one while in the men's field Jacob Roberts had a hole in one on the sixth hole. Both Catherine and Jacob finished runners up...
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