Editor: Wendy Grindlay 0274 400575
Email: [email protected]
Deadline Tuesday lunchtime.
On website by Wednesday p.m.
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:
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