Waikanae Golf Club

Women’s Golf – News Update July 2010

Rob — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:24:41 +0000

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 playing in the National Teams Event played at Shandon came second. It is an honour to be selected for these matches and it does make you appreciate your own course.

As a club we responded to WGI questionnaire and all pennant players were in favour of playing the matches in the first half of the season. We noted we are not so keen on travelling to the Wairarapa as frequently as we did this year and are hopeful that the WGI can come to a more equitable arrangement for the draw in 2011. We also sent a separate letter to this matter to the WGI Match committee.

The President’s Trophy was won by Francine Callis with Kate Pope the runner up, and the Captain’s Trophy was won by Nedra Shand with Jill Bolland the runner up. The winner of the Stroke Championship was Jeanette Futter and the Winter Plate winner was Ann Hadfield. The weekend women are up to round 2 of their Handicap Match play competition. Participation in the Tuakana competition has been ‘interesting’ with a struggle to get players for some days and not helped by some very bad weather. For both sections the recent weather conditions has seen stableford scores dropping despite the very good condition the course and greens are in. And after all if this is the winter season spring can’t be far behind.

Seven of our women members have completed the rules evenings conducted by the Wellington Referees Ass. And it is pleasing to note that 5 have gained passes with Heather Peters gaining honours. The awareness of ‘rules’ during this term has set us all on the path to knowing the ‘rules’ as we have set out minor questions for each club day. We are all learning but the questions do need to be read carefully!

Good golfing to everyone and may our handicaps soon improve or at least remain stable!

Gaynor Nairn

Women’s Captain

Local Clubs Agree Special Discount

David — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:36:03 +0000

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 and current membership status. We hope members will take full advantage of this arrangement as it adds a new benefit to your membership.

Golfing Trifecta at Waikanae

David — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:46:25 +0000

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 the Dunlop Cup but have also won promotion to Division 3 next year. The number 1 player in this team, Rod Peters, won all his ten games. The Divsion 7 team, capatained by Dave Barrow, have also won promotion to Division 6 next year as a result of winning their division and the Wairarapa Salver.

“This is an outstanding achievement and a first in our club’s 41 year history,” said Stu McLaren, Men’s Interclub Convenor.

AGM AGENDA PAPERS

Rob — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:22:45 +0000

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 file is large. Click this link: AGM-2010.pdf

Shoot-Out Finals

David — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:25:41 +0000

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 Wilson

Runner-up: Jenny Heggie

Men’s Interclub Success

David — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:22:31 +0000

After 9 rounds of the Men’s 2010 interclub season, the Div 7 team is in 1^st 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 1^st position, just 1 point ahead of Boulcott. Both teams are playing their final round at home on 12 June so come along and support them as they look to gain promotion and vie for the Wairarapa Salver (Div 7) and the Dunlop Cup (Div 4).

Congratulations has to go out to the men’s 36 hole Div 3 interclub team for winning the Andy Shaw Trophy this month. A fantastic result and good luck in round 2 for promotion to Div 2.

Annual General Meeting

David — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:17:28 +0000

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.

Board Appoints Treasurer

David — Sun, 09 May 2010 05:24:04 +0000

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 one time Board member of Spicer & Oppenheim and Chairman of the Financial Planning Association of NZ, overseeing its merger with the Insurance Association of NZ in the 90s.

Denys has been a member of our club for many years and is now permanently resident with his wife, Helen, in Waikanae.

We are most fortunate to have someone of Denys’s experience to fill this vitally important role.

Denys intends to make himself available for election to the Board at our AGM later next month.

Coring of Greens

David — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:06:31 +0000

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, Wednesday 14 April, women can join the Otaki Women’s draw on the same basis. Tee off time on both days is 10am with a reporting time of 9.30am.

Work on the Greens

David — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:18:56 +0000

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, treated by a process called “scarifying”, was undertaken last year but it removed only 40% of the thatch that needed to be removed.

The process will, therefore, need to be repeated at the same time as the coring takes place next month in order to restore the greens to their optimal condition.

This will mean that our greens will inevitably be adversely affected for some time following this process as it will take longer for them to fully recover than would be the case with coring alone.

We very much regret this inconvenience and ask for your forbearance during this period. We will, however, endeavour to come to an arrangement with neighbouring clubs to see if some sort of reciprocal rights and/or discounted green fees could apply to our members during this period of disruption. We will advise you closer to the time.

Golf Committee