Whangarei Golf Course

2011 Whangarei Junior Open Day – Sunday 13^th February

Great weather provided a great beginning for the Whangarei Junior Open Day which saw 20 junior players and 10 parents turn up for a fun 9 hole Ambrose game.  The main focus was based on wearing a hat during hot days. Member contacts details were collected, junior golf development programmes, and groups were developed for coaching purposes.  The day ended up with a sausage sizzle and prizes for players who wore fun hats and had fun.  Thanks to Dave Nash and John Gordon for the help with supervising the teams.  A big thanks to Brent and Sharon for the hats they gave for prizes, and last of all to our club for their support with the sausage sizzle.

Firstly, I would like to farewell our junior players who have turned 19 years old there is a new sub which is $155.00, so we hope to see you still playing this game of golf.

To all our junior members, pennant players, social players and parents who turned up on Sundays, I would like to thank you all for the patience you have shown my family as we had bad news about a family member. To the parents and John Gordon thank you very much for the help you have given on Junior Sundays, I would not be able to cope. Thanks to all the senior members who have given the juniors, golf clubs, bags etc, and to Dave Nash for the few hundred practice balls.

On a happier note we would like to welcome all the new junior members to our golf club. We hope that you will benefit from our Junior Development Programme and the friends that you meet in our club.

As the year comes to an end so does the recognition of the outstanding junior players of our club.

Julian Fowler                       2010 Intermediate Match-Play Champion

2010 Golf Northland U13 Junior Strokeplay Runner-up

Kadin Neho                        2010 Golf Northland Junior Boys Player of the Year

2010 Golf Northland U16 Junior Strokeplay Runner-up

2010 Northland Men’s Toro Interprovincial Team

Renee Adams                    2010 Golf Northland Junior Girls Player of the Year

2010 Golf Northland U16 Junior Strokeplay Champion

Shanice Croft                     2010 Golf Northland U13 Junior Strokeplay Champion

David Collins                       2010 Golf Northland U16 Junior Nett Winner

Whangarei Junior Pennants Team           6^th place

Summer in here and it is hot, so please bring lots of water and a hat when you are out on the course.

Merry Christmas to you and your whanau, enjoy the holidays and have a happy new year.