Editor: Wendy Grindlay 0274 400575

Email: wendygrindlay@gmail.com

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Week ending 26th June 2020

News from the women

The postponed Grandmothers Tournament will be held on Thursday 23rd July. We would appreciate baking for our

raffles. Please put names down on the flyer.

Colquhoun Cup will be held Saturday 27th June.

Results for the stableford round on Saturday 20th June: A Lucas 31, D Ellis 31, N Reed 30, R O’Connor 29,

H Bryant 28 & M Crins 28.

Results for the stableford round on Tuesday 23rd June: Division 1: J Wast 34, M Crins 32, M Williams 32.

Division 2: S Lambert 34, M Hill 33, & J Marwick 33. Division 3: F Winchester 32, S Thwaites 31 N Thornalley

31. Twos: M Crins.

Closest To the Pin No 17: H Whinney who won the $10 voucher from Ultimate Golf Fashion.

Marie Blackmore, Club Captain

VETS CONVENOR

I’ll keep putting this into Snippets until someone has a ‘lightbulb’ moment and thinks they will be able to volunteer for this very simple task, so if there is

anyone out there who would be willing to take over the convenor’s job, please have a word with me. It mainly

involves the starting, results and sorting out the prizes once a month, so it is in no way onerous or time consuming and I am happy to provide training.

Give me a call on 027 4400 575 if you are interested in taking over this task.

Thanks—Wendy

BOARD UPDATE

The Board wish to thank you all again for being so supportive over the last months and for paying your subs on time.

We are aware there were some grumblings when the Café and Bar did not open in Level 2. The Board took this option based on a financial decision, which ended in a significant financial

gain for the Club.

We wish to thank Ian Kain for standing in as Temporary Manager. Please be patient with him as he works through

everything. If he isn’t sure about something, he will get back to you once he has the answers. We are about to re-advertise the

Managers position. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please get them to send their CV to:

president@greenacresgolfclub.co.nz.

The Land Sale is very close. The purchaser’s lawyers failed to notice a slight easement issue that LINZ picked up. New

documents were signed last week, so settlement is very close. The sale proceeds as outlined in the Special General Meeting

dated 24th April 2018, states that the proceeds will be ring fenced so that they are not used on operational matters, but invested and used for projects with long term club benefits.

Chris Webb has done a wonderful job with the sale of sand buckets. We wish to thank all the members who have supported this. Due to Chris’s efforts, our Club will have a good supply of

sand buckets. Very much appreciated Chris—thank you.

Good Golfing from the Board

Club Captains Comments

Last Saturday saw the completion of round 2 of the Stroke

Play Champs off the white tees and the days best scores

were:

Gross: 76 Ben Crawford, 77 Stephen Binnie, 79 Jackson

Vickery; Nett: 70 Peter Crins, 71 Josh Newport, 72 Gary

Webb. The overall leaders after 2 rounds: Gross 148 Ben

Crawford, 153 Jackson Vickery and Shaun Smith, Nett 145

Justin Smith, 146 Paul Hurst, 147 Gavin Levick.

Next Saturday is the final round off the Blue Tees—it looks

like a close finish, in particular for the nett, as there are

others not far off the current leaders.

JULY 4th M FOWLER Memorial Cup: Four Ball Best Ball Par,

choose own partners. PLEASE Enter your pairings online as

usual and also fill in sheet in Pro Shop. Competition Tee

Times, for those that want to tee off later e.g around 12.00

that is OK as long as you enter via Normal booking in Pro

Shop.

"If you think golf is relaxing, you are not playing it right"

Men’s Club Captain. Chris O’Connor

CONDOLENCES

Our heartfelt condolences go to Kathy Simpson, whose

daughter passed away this morning. Our thoughts are with

Kathy, Ian and their families at this incredibly sad time.

Tee Positions There is always talk at this time of year about putting the tees forward in winter to compensate for the lack of ball

roll. From our perspective the reason that we move blocks on

the tees is to spread the wear from golfers. This is why it is ideal to have large tees on par 3’s as they tend to get

chewed up worse. In winter the problem of wear on tees is worse as there is no growth to heal the scarring. This is the main reason why it is impractical to use only half the

teeing surface. The system we use when moving the tee markers is to

move them back from the position they are 500mm or so until you are past the worn area, once you reach the back

of the tee then they get moved to the front where it has hopefully healed.

We have moved the positions of the concrete distance marker on the tee blocks to the middle of the tees so that on average the course will be playing to the length on the card. (Before we moved the blocks on average with the tee distance blocks being nearer to the back the course

was on average playing shorter than the card). It should also be noted that in Summer the ground is hard and you enjoy good roll, in Winter the ground is soft and

you don't get the good roll. Funnily enough, we never get asked in Summer to put the

tees further back. Cheers, Andy

DISTRICT MIXED VETS

The District Mixed Vets fixture which was scheduled for May at

Greenacres is now to be held on Monday 13 July 10am report

for 10.30 start . The sheet for names is on notice board on left

of Pro shop door.

Trump’s Parade

An assistant to Donald Trump told him she had a fantastic dream last night. There was a huge parade down Pennsylvania

Avenue celebrating Trump.

Millions lined the parade route, cheering when the President when past. Bands were playing; children were throwing confetti into the air; there were balloons everywhere.

It was absolutely the BIGGEST CELEBRATION WASHINGTON HAD EVER SEEN!!!

Trump was very impressed and said, “That’s really great! By the way, how did I look in your dream? Was my hair okay?”

His assistant said’ ……… “I couldn’t tell—the casket was closed.”

RETURN OF GREENACRES VETS

The monthly Vets fixture will return to Greenacres on Monday

next, 29th June. Just in case you’ve forgotten the format,

please register by 10 am at the latest so that we can do the

draw ready for a 10.30 am shotgun start.

I’m sure you’re all looking forward to catching up with old

friends again after the enforced lockdown, so I look forward to

seeing you all out there raring to go on Monday.

Cheers—Wendy Grindlay, Vets Convenor