The playing of the Silver and Bronze Pennant matches have been completed. Congratulations to Karori who topped the Bronze competition and RWG who won the overall Silver competition. Our teams did not distinguish themselves by reaching the finals this year but there were some hard fought battles played in good spirit. Our team of four [...]
8. July 2010
Local Clubs Agree Special Discount
Waikanae has just signed a memorandum of understanding with our two neighbours, Otaki and Levin, which enables members of all 3 clubs to play on each other’s course at a special discounted fee of $15 ($10 for 9 holes). This will apply on all days when the courses are available subject to proof of identity [...]
15. June 2010
Golfing Trifecta at Waikanae
The three Waiakanae men’s teams have just achieved an historic first in the Wellington District interclub competition, each winning its division.
The 36 hole Division 3 team, captained by Rob Cooper, topped their division, winning the Andy Shaw Trophy. The Division 4 team (18 holes), captained by Paul Keno, have not only won their division and [...]
4. June 2010
AGM AGENDA PAPERS
All the relevant documents for the Annual General Meeting to be held in the clubhouse at 7.30pm on Thursday 24 June can be downloaded from this site. Hard copies of these documents are also available from Marg in the office. Note that you need a broadband internet connection to download the papers as the document [...]
31. May 2010
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Shoot-Out Finals
Our men and women shoot-out contestants braved a very cold southerly yesterday to determine this year’s winners.
Congratulations to all who took part, who organised the event and helped on the day, including the Saturday night ‘calcutta’, and the sponsors.
Men’s winner: Ron Olivecrona
Runner-up: Brent Buckler
Women’s winner: Ilene [...]
25. May 2010
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Men’s Interclub Success
After 9 rounds of the Men’s 2010 interclub season, the Div 7 team is in 1st position, leading Mahunga by 7 points. A superb 15-0 win in round 8 at home against Featherston was a fantastic result. Div 4 with one round to go is also in 1st position, just 1 point [...]
25. May 2010
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Annual General Meeting
The notice of meeting for our AGM is posted on the Club’s main Notice Board for the information of members. The meeting is to be held in our clubrooms on Thursday, 24 June at 7.30pm. Please make a note of this date and come along and support our club.
9. May 2010
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Board Appoints Treasurer
The Board last week co-opted Denys Wright to take up the position of Treasurer following the recent resignation of David Ward.
A qualified chartered accountant with a Diploma in Business Studies and Financial Planning, Denys brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the role.
Self-employed over the past 11 years, Denys was formerly a partner and [...]
8. April 2010
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Coring of Greens
Otaki Golf Club has kindly offered our members a very generous concession next week while our course is out of action due to coring and scarifying of the greens. On Tuesday, 13 April, Waikanae men can participate in the men’s draw for only $10 green fee + the normal competition fee. On the following day, [...]
15. March 2010
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Work on the Greens
Members will note from our Programme Booklet that the coring of all our greens is scheduled for 12-14 April.
The NZ Turf Institute (based at Massey University) have advised us that our thatch density is still at an unacceptable level and needs to be reduced from its current 11.3% to no more than 5%. This problem, [...]
Club Sponsors
27. July 2010