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2021 Canterbury Golf Annual Awards Dinner
Preparations are well underway for the Canterbury Golf Annual Awards Dinner to be held at the Christchurch Golf Club on Friday 20 August. We look forward to bringing the golfing community together for a celebration after last year’s awards function had to be cancelled due to COVID.
Golf NZ Chief Executive Dean Murphy has just been announced as guest speaker. Dean will tell the story of how Golf NZ led the sector through COVID in 2020 through to 2021, and what he thinks clubs need to do to be sustainable and lock in the gains made in the last 12 months. He will also entertain with some great golf stories and his background leading into working in golf.
As well as the golfer-of-the-year awards, there is also an interview with Canterbury’s leading women golfer Amelia Garvey, a chat with our champion men’s Interprovincial team, and the awarding of two Canterbury Golf Life Memberships. All led throughout the evening by MC Extraordinaire Phil McGoldrick.
If you want to join the celebrations grab a seat through your club!
Premier Interclub about to get Underway
Canterbury’s top flight interclub will get underway on Sunday 8 August with the men’s Woodward, Blank, and Simon Cups. First rounds are at Russley (Woodward Cup), Christchurch (Blank Cup), and Templeton (Simon Cup).
Go to this link to see a comprehensive preview of the Woodward Cup: http://www.canterburygolf.co.nz/news/2021-woodward-cup-preview/
Pollock Cup will get underway the following week with the first round at Pegasus on Sunday 15 August.
Canterbury Golf Tour Championship Order of Merit Winners
The Canterbury Golf Tour Championship Order of Merit wrapped up recently and the winners were presented with their trophies, plaques and prizes for the 2020/21 season.
Order of Merit Winners are as follows and are pictured below:
Under 16 Girl's - Alisia Ren (Russley) & Jasmine Clancy
(Russley)
Women's Masters - Rachel Eder (Clearwater)
Women's Open - Amy Weng (Pegasus) & Maddie May (Clearwater)
Under 13 Boy's - Cooper Moore (Russley)
Under 16 Boy's - Cooper Moore
Under 19 Men's - Hayato Miya (Russley)
Men's Masters - Jonathan Stieller (Weedons)
Men's Open - Kazuma Kobori (Rangiora)
Junior and Futures Golf
Two major events were completed in July for our young golfers.
The Junior Interclub Match Play Final between Avondale Gold and Russley Blue was played at Waimairi Beach on Sunday 18 July in fine, cool conditions and the course in great order. The outcome of the game was not clear until the final hole with two of the matches going down to the wire before Avondale Gold edged out Russley Blue 3-1 to become Junior Interclub Champions for 2021.
The Champion Avondale Gold team from left, Etienne Collier, Tim Graham, Donella Collier (Manager), Louis Edwards and Aidan Cheng are pictured above. The runners-up were the Russley Blue team of James Walker, Michael Visser, Salesh Naicker (Manager), Yash Naicker and Rahil Krishna.
Canterbury Junior Futures Open
A Canterbury Golf Futures Open was held at Templeton Golf Course on Monday 19 July. The weather conditions made for a tough morning on the course but all-in-all an excellent turnout and some great results! Read More
Canterbury Central vs Canterbury North
The Annual Canterbury Central vs Canterbury North Representative fixture was held at the Waimakariri Gorge Golf Club on Sunday 18 July. The morning foursomes matches were played in fine, warm conditions with the course in great order, before a cool southerly change and drizzle arrived to greet golfers for the afternoon single matches Read More
Ashby Bergh Trophy & McGuire Hendon Cup
The Ashby Bergh Trophy and McGuire Hendon Cup matches were played at Amberley Golf Club on Sunday 11 July in fine, cool conditions with the course in great order.
The Ashby Bergh Trophy match was between Tai Tapu Green (Canterbury Central Patterson Cup Winner) and Kaiapoi White (Canterbury North Templeton Cup Winner) with the Tai Tapu Green team of Sean Spencer, David Burt, Jason Blair, Derek Watson, Bevin Ryan and Don Le Page defeating Kaiapoi White's Jason Miles, Paul Hughes, Graham Moore, Kevin Clarke, Andrew Hegarty and Allan Ives 4-2.
The McGuire Hendon Cup match was between Hororata (Canterbury Central Patterson Cup Runner-up) and Waimakariri Gorge Black (Canterbury North Templeton Cup Runner-up). Waimak Gorge's Lindsay Croy, Bryan Te Awa, Graeme Tallot, Mike Frisby, Ross Gilmour and Gibb Johnston defeated Hororata’s Shane Prendergast, James Perkins, Martin Wills, David Mansbridge, Graeme Marsh and Tony Edwards 4.5-1.5.
