Club Captain's Message

I just want to wish good luck to our teams travelling to Chch this Sunday for the Orbell Cup and Centennial Salver.  Players representing us are:

Orbell Cup

T Cook 
J Marett
C Miller 
Greenie
D Switalla
S Keen

Centennial Salver

M Keen
P Collins
K Leary
M Hervey
A Booth
T Preen

It's a great occasion and a few are experiencing it for the first time so enjoy your day. 

Also, a reminder to keep playing your 4 Ball & Singles Knockout matches, I know the weather hasn't been helping so keep at it.

Remember to get your entry in for our annual tournament on Sept 10th & 11th. 

And lastly, following on from the success of our Holmes/Hayes pennants team our Redpath team has also comfortably qualified for the semi finals so good luck to both grades.

Craig


WOMENS SECTION

Hello

This coming week is a busy one with the ladies playing for the Low Cup in North Otago Monday good luck to Barbara Morna Lois Janet Miranda Raelene

Thursday is our 2BBB tournament and at this stage we have 40 teams entered.. dont forget to drop off Raffles at the club please 

I have done the Lyndsay medal singles knockout draw and we have 20 members entered

Orbell Cup is on Sunday 

Cleaners this week are Sue R and Jude Mc

Cath and Lois in charge month of August

Fingers crossed everyone for fine weather over the next week

Lynda


Welcome to Ken
Our new Green-keeper, Ken, starts this week, if you seem him be sure to say hello, and we all look forward to working with him going forwards

Spring Tournament 2022
Another reminder that the Spring Tournamet takes place on the 10/11 September and entries to be made via email to:
 
timarugc@xtra.co.nz
 
Many thanks

LVA Tournament
19 - 21 September

Hi All

We are hosting the LVA golf tournament from the 19 to 21 September are we require a number of volunteers to help out the event.

We require 2 courtsey van drivers each day pick up at 8.00am probably making 2 trips and then picking up from the golf club around 5.30.

Mimium 4 people each day to cook BBQ and pour drinks in the 2 tents on the course.

2 people to run the bar in the club house( no taking of cash involved) and 2 people to run the target green on number 15

This is a good fundraiser for the club but we need your help so if you can assist (even if it is only for half a day) with any of these tasks can you please let Mike Hogan know by email to:

thehogans@xtra.co.nz:

or message Mike on: 027 204 4440

Thanks

Lindsay


Club shirts

The committee would encourage everyone to get a club shirt from the pro shop, and represent your club with pride


Results - Top Tens & Ties

Sat 13 Aug - Thu 18 Aug

LGU R7 (Net Medal) - Ladies 9 Hole


Div 1 (0.0 - 22.0)
39 S Smith, J Brown
45 N Brown

Div 2 (22.1 - 54.0)

34 K Murphy
41 T Dovestone, A Pavletich

TLGC Trophy/Honda Trophy R8 (Net Medal) - Ladies 9 Hole

Div 1 (0.0 - 24.0)

39 S Smith, J Brown
41 T Dovestone
45 N Brown

Div 2 (24.1 - 54.0)
34 K Murphy
41 A Pavletich

Wed 17 Aug - Stableford
41 S Compton, P Rae
39 D Bennett
38 T Underdown, G Phillips (Ben Ohau), P Collins
37 J McFarlane, R Slater (Geraldine District), M Ussher (Pleasant Point)
36 R Hobbs, B Williams

Nearest the Pin (15): Rodger Slater

Longest Putt (18): S Keen

Twos: 

6th hole: Jimmy Wilson
12th hole: Merv Corfield, Sid Keen, Brent Williams, Brian Leonard
15th Hole: Rodger Slater

Fri 19 Aug 22 (Stableford) - 9 Hole Men

21 D Newbigging
20 J Weir
13  R Yee
13  B McCully

Nearest The Pin: D Stewart

Sat 20 Aug 22 - Net Medal

69 A Booth, J McGlashan, M Hogan
70 B McCully, T Croskery
71 R Hobbs
72 R Grant, D Hall, J Maffrey, P Collins, F Ng

Twos:

6th Hole: Sid Keen
12th Hole: Greenie Grant, Mike Hogan, Don Deeks
15th Hole: Mark Sewell, Chris Diederiks


...and finally

I think it is a bit rich for any golfer to ascertain that life is, to paraphrase, "sh!t".

After all, we spend our free time hitting and then following a small ball around a large field, full of obstacles of our own devising, and refer to it as a leisure activity.

Anyone with the time and inclination to even attempt to enjoy this, while they may not enjoy a particular round/hole/shot, can't be having the sort of life that would be need to encapsulated in a one word expletive.

I would, however, argue that life might just have a really sh!tty sense of humour.

For over two and a half years, the pandemic has raged around the globe, we have had multiple lockdowns, and the disease is now rife in the country, and so it is with an unerring sense of the comedic, that I and my family have all been struck down, the day before we were due to fly to the UK.

Two and a half years.

One day before.

The good news is that as we have all been stabbed and pricked the appropriate number of times, the effects of the disease have been, fonrtunately, muted, and we will be travelling next weekend instead.  The bad news is that this concientiousness means that the insurance companies can wriggle out of thier responsibilities (a rant for another time), and it is going to cost us significantly more to fly thatn we originally envisaged, but again, life can't be too bad if we're still going can it?

No, the worst part of all of this, is that one of the symptoms of Covid can be insomnia.

Which basically means that you feel like you are jet-lagged, at a point in time when I should be jet-lagged, but then I shouldn't be as I'm not, but am feeling like I am all the same

Life, does indeed have a truly sh!tty sense of humour

Stay safe, play well, and I look forward to seeing you all soon

Steve

PS - No newsletter next week as I will be on a plane (I probably shouldn't be tempting fate like that, should I?)

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