Club members draw — This draw is now being held on the last Friday of each Month. We had 52 members attend the May draw and 42 meals served. This month the date is Friday 25th and we will be having our normal menu plus a roast meal. All roasts will need to be ordered by Thursday 24th so the team can organise the correct number of dinners. The roast dinner will consist of Roast Chicken with Herb stuffing, gravy, roast potatoes, honey carrots, minted peas and roast pumpkin for $10.00. (Menu attached)
Trademe -- The auction for the cabin and the driving end this Sunday, so if you would like to bid please go to trademe and have a look. These will be sold this Sunday to the highest bidder. If you are interested in either contact the office on 437-0775 and ask for Edward
Club Working Bee– We need volunteers to help for 2-3 hours on Tuesday mornings over the next two month period. We are also having a huge working bee around the club house and have had Tikipunga High school offer twenty kids for the day as well as a qualified builder to do small maintenance jobs. We will be hiring a large chipper to break up the trees being trimmed. (Free, thanks to’ 2 degrees’)A definit date has still to be decided.
So please see Daniel or Barbara and give them your name if you can help. We would like to complete the forest areas down the back nine. A big thank you to the volunteers who are already doing weekly work here on a Tuesday.
Pathways— Daniel has given an overview of work completed on the 8th pathway and the excellent work being carried out on the 15th pathway to the left of the lake. This is starting to look just great. We need volunteers to go down there and start clearing between the wooden walkway and the lake. Let’s get it back to the way it used to be.
Men’s Morrison Cup —- This has been postponed from Saturday 11th June due to the expected weather forecast and also because of the Buck Cup programmed for the following Saturday 18th June 2011. ( poster attached)
Fact or Fiction ????? —
There have only been eleven ‘holes in one’ recorded at this course since 2007 and Rodney Chang has recorded 2 x holes in one —- 15th hole in 2009 and 2nd Hole in 2007.
Only 2 Ladies are included in the eleven and they are both 9 hole Players
Alan Morgan made his first recorded hole in one in 1969 and then recorded his next in 2005. That is nearly 36 years of ‘near misses’ and Gerry Beazley recorded his first hole in one in 1988 and then his 2nd in 1993 and that took only 5 years of ‘near misses’
Sale of Liquor from Pro shop— It is a condition of the Proshop that if the Club house bar is open , then the Pro shop is not to sell Beer during the hours that the Club house Bar is open. Please do not ask the Pro shop to serve you when the Club house bar is open as sometimes a refusal can offend.
Board presentation — The Board of Management are making a presentation on Wednesday 29th June 2011 at 6pm. Please find information attached, RSVP the office before Monday 27th June to confirm your attendance. It is important as a member of this club that you attend, so any decions made are made with your input.
18 Hole Womens Pairs —
This fixture was held on Thursday 2nd June with 36 teams attending. Feedback was very positive from all the players about our course, catering ,organisational skills and club house. A big thanks to all who helped in some way.
Facts about Golfers ??? — Stand proud you noble swingers of clubs and losers of balls, A recent study found that the average golfer walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found that golfers drink, on average 22 gallons of alcohol a year. This means that on average golfers get about 41 miles to the gallon.
Kind of makes you proud, Almost makes you feel like a hybrid (thanks to John Sandford)
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Golf Poem (Thanks to John Sandford)
In My Hand I Hold A Ball,
White And Dimpled, And Rather Small.
Oh, How Bland It Does Appear,
This Harmless Looking Little Sphere.
By Its Size I Could Not Guess
The Awesome Strength It Does Possess.
But Since I Fell beneath Its Spell,
I’ve Wandered through the Fires of Hell.
My Life Has Not Been Quite The Same
Since I Chose To Play This Stupid Game.
It Rules My Mind For Hours On End;
A Fortune It Has Made Me Spend.
It Has Made Me Curse And Made Me Cry,
And Hate Myself And Want To Die.
It Promises Me A Thing Called Par,
If I Hit It Straight And Far.
To Master Such A Tiny Ball
Should Not Be Very Hard At All.
But My Desires The Ball Refuses,
And Does Exactly As It Chooses.
It Hooks and Slices, Dribbles and Dies,
and Disappears Before My Eyes.
Often It Will Have A Whim,
To Hit A Tree Or Take A Swim.
With Miles Of Grass On Which To Land,
It Finds A Tiny Patch Of Sand.
Then Has Me Offering Up My Soul,
If Only It Would Find The Hole.
It’s Made Me Whimper Like A Pup,
And Swear That I Will Give It Up.
And Take To Drink To Ease My Sorrow,
But the Ball Knows … I’ll Be Back Tomorrow.
9 Hole Open –
This fixture was held on Thursday 9th June with 85 players attending and as above feedback was very postive. Thanks to all who helped with that event also.All we need do now is convert the players who love playing on our course into Whangar5ei Golf Club members
Buck Cup — This Saturday 18th June, grab a partner and get along. Tee off 12pm see Pro shop for more details ( Posters have been sent to all Men, please notify the office if for some reason this has not come to your email address)
Sponsorship —
This is always hard to obtain and in these economic times even harder; so a big thank you must go to Hot-Printz, XF Net, Aussie Butcher, Radio Network, Donovan Group, Artprintz, Intec interiors and Pak’n Save who have sponsored our most recent 3 Tournments at the club.
18 Hole ladies report—
- Congratulations to Janis Webster— A hole in one on the 17th hole on Saturday 21st May. Janis played a 6 Iron shot which she felt okay with but unfortunately did not see the ball go in the hole. Congratulations also to Mary Sorenson, winning the best Net (69) at the Wellsford Open on May 19th. Our 18 Hole members are to be commended for being prepared to travel and support tournments at other clubs throughout the year.
The WGC team selected to play in a Home-link net series at Waitangi on 14th May (Mary Sorensen, Janis Webtser, Cheryll Voullaire, Barbar Lee) were placed euql 4th on 144 points along with Northland . A very good result out of a field of 12 teams, with only 12 points seperating the winners, Waitangi on 140 and the twelth team on 152.Hikurangi wre second on 141 and Whangaroa third on143 .
Events and Functions in Club house — Please note the events happening here over the month of July
- Friday 1st July —-Northland Hockey 200 guests (to be confirmed) 6pm-12am
- Monday 4th July —- 9 Hole South Zone Pennanats
- Saturday 9th July —- Birthday 60—80- guests 5pm–11pm
- Tuesday 12th July —- 50’s forward club — 70 guests ( day event) 11am-3pm
- Friday 15th July —- Birthday 150 guests 5pm– 12am
- Tuesday 19th July —- Top of the harbour Juniors ( Golf)
- Saturday 30th July —- Birthday 120 Guests 5pm —11pm
The Guiness Book of World records — Did you know that the world record for the greatest number of walking golfers to complete a full round on the same course within 24 hours is 632 and was achieved by the First Tee of Ireland in 2009.? How is that for a marketing tool.? 632 potential members, green fee players, bar sales , food sales.
- Most golf balls hit in 2 minutes by 1 person is 139 balls.
- Most holes played walking in 12 hours by 1 perosn is 221 Holes ( 12 x 18 hole rds or 24 x 9 hole rds)
- The longest putt was 114.3 metres
- Most Holes in 24 hours in a cart was 851 Holes ( 47 x 18 hole rounds or 94 x 9 hole rounds)
Happy Golfing
Whangarei Golf Club Newsletter
June. 2011
June 2011 It has been a while since my last report on all things happening around the course, their has been a lot going on with the by-pass workings and the new 14th tee… I will try and cover all.
The new 14th tees have now taken shape and have been seeded… although it was disappointing to see them covered in straw even before the seed had germinated but it seems to be coming through slowly but surely… the fence will start going up in the next few weeks and this will enclose us down below quite nicely and should protect us from damage and stolen flags in the future,
A decision was made to fill in the grass bunkers besides the 11th green, this will enable us to run the rough mower over it and take away the time consuming weed eating which was done to maintain the area before that. Overall it is starting to look decent down their and has taken away around half an hours mowing time which is a big plus.
The working bee’s have started again and have made a big impact with two projects done being the 8th path area and the first pathway beside the green being re-done, what a great result and I am especially glad to see the 8th path area tidied up as it has been a problem for many years and will now be playable with the grass seed growing , it was seeded with rye and fescue mix which does well in the shade and won’t grow to high as it’s tight area for us to maintain, there is a project being undertaken as we speak with the pine tress down below being cleared of all tobacco weed and scrub in between, there is a small working bee that has formed, so if you are interested in helping see Barbara Lee or my self., we intend to chip all the piles back into the pines to suffocate the weeds coming through, we just don’t want the piles hanging around for as long as the last lot did , so please offer some of your time to get this project completed.
The putting green now has a fence around it to protect it from golfers using it as a walkway to the proshop, around 3 months ago the final straw came when a golfer had walked across the green and back with some substance on the bottom of their shoes which the green did not like, the barrier will also help keep stones ,etc of the green which causes damage to our greens mower, I ask members to respect the rope and not jump over it because you can’t be bothered to walk around it, it is their to protect your practise green.
The programme for the next few weeks includes vertidraining tees and greens, verticutting greens and sand top dressing them. The whole course has been sprayed for weeds last Tuesday, this hasn’t been done for 3 years and I can not wait to see the results, we will apply some fertiliser to the 1st fairway to help grass come through as the fairway is the worst for weed infestation.
As we come to the winter months keep carts away from greens and off tees and trek carefully as it gets more slippery around the place
Before I sign off I want to Thank and praise all the volunteers here at the club that help out, a lot has been achieved of late for minimal cost to the club so keep up the good work.
Happy Golfing— Daniel, Bruce, Marty and Dave
