Saturday 16th February Quarter finals for the Summer Cup. Matches to be played S Poole v T Bell, N Evans v R Munn, A Prasad v C Peck, B Poole v B Burt. All other players Card draw at 11.30am

Marae tournament

The annual marae tournament is being held on Saturday 23 February details are on the board and those interested can put their names up or contact Stephen.Paewai

Club Championships: The Match Committee confirmed at their meeting on tuesday, that we will proceed with the Autumn / Early winter Champs this year, commencing on March 9th. Groups will be confirmed following the handicap change on 20th February. From here Stephen paewai will make the groups of 16, and on Thursday 7th March a Tee draw will be made available through Whats On. A reminder, if you are not participating this year, please advise the starters office on Saturday, or send me an email. To date I have received 2 replies from David Speedy and Jamie Arrandale. Please assist here, as nothing worse than making up a draw, then finding people give the matches, because they didn't want to be in the draw. Remember all full playing members will be in the draw unless we hear otherwise.

Pennants 2019. Below is a bit of cut and paste from a message we received today from Wayne Mudgway Acting Administrator GOLF HB & PBW Inc

We have had a number of withdrawals from last year (we had 50 teams last year, currently we have at best 46). The casualty is C4, three teams withdrew and I had to fill a spot in C3 so Karamu went up, leaving OngaOnga and Hawkes Bay. I have spoken to both clubs and while disappointed, they are accepting/understanding of the situation (I thank them for that).

Championship division is exactly that, championship, so in putting that competition together I have been mindful of keeping the teams in finishing order as per last year.

Waipukurau pulled out of Championship altogether (all levels of Championship) so with Dannevirke being the highest finishing team in C2 (apart from clubs already represented in C1) so I have put them into C1.

Handicap: I have endeavored to have some resemblance of H1 to H5 but in doing so have shuffled teams about to try and re-counter some of the travel clubs have to endure. It is the biggest issue/grizzle I get but funnily enough Wairoa and Dannevirke are not fazed by it. Both Clubs have 3 teams in handicap division so I have put them together. The idea is they will all play on the same day at the one venue. So this year it will be Dannevirke and next year it will be Wairoa.

H2 is almost a southern zone with 2 Hastings clubs and 4 southern clubs.

The rest I have placed as well as I can bearing in mind trying to accommodate everyone.

What we need is three more teams!!

I have attached a spreadsheet with I have it looking at the moment. If we get no more teams then we will reshuffle the handicap division but the plea is at this point, is please re-check if you can field another team. (“New Option” is the tag at the bottom of the spread sheet)

I only have one from Waipukurau and none from Puketitiri (who have had teams before), so maybe these clubs can re-look at it. It sure would be appreciated.

I want/need/have to have a draw ready by Monday and propose to send it out on Monday working with what we have got. Time ticks by and I have run out of solutions.

Please don’t be critical of how the team structure is the moment, I believe it is as “common sense” as I can get it. There may be something that doesn’t quite suit your club, email and let me know and if it works I’ll look at it.

Good Golfing

Bryan Burt

Club Scribe