What's on 27 January 2022?

Saturday 29th January; Summer Cup Round 1 Matches, card draw 11.30am. Please advise the starter, if you and your opponent are present and playing Summer Cup.  I appreciate some matches have already been played, but here is the full draw again from last weeks edition of What's On. 

Draw, J Edwards v S Paewai, T Dela Harpe v D Maken, C Evans v G Freeman, J Clarke v B Dippie, B Williams v A Prasad, R Henricksen v W K Newland, W Petera v B Burt, R Olsen v D Hurrell, D Stewart v T Peeti, S Hikawai v G Stringer, M Filer v P Gregory, W Ridge v V Hales, N Evans v C Mason, J Bassett v L Hurrell, Z Gregory v R Te Ture, L Paewai v S Evans.

Saturday 5th February;  We have a wedding reception at the Golf Club on Saturday 5 February. Therefore the upstairs lounge will be closed from Thursday. Can players please use the new downstairs bar. Thanks Stephen. 

Events Coming Up; On Monday 7th February Dannevirke will host the third round of the Tararua Open, Motor Home Association Tournament. Players will have already played Eketahuna and Pahiatua, so the camping area, and car park will have plenty of motor homes parked up. Captain Mike advises, we will be providing a roast meal for all players on the Monday evening. Mike is looking for members or partners who can assist during the afternoon to prepare, serve and clean up after the meal. If we have to break up into cooks servers and washing up duties, then so be it. Please indicate to Mike if you can and will assist. Captain Mike has other duties with this event, so please members lend him a hand, so that he and his good wife Barbara are not lumbered with doing the lot.

Sisters Club; The 50th playing of the Sisters Club Quadrangular Tournament will be played in Patea on 4 and 5 June this year. One of the original Clubs Greymouth, have been invited to attend. As accommodation will be at a premium I’m keen to get definite numbers for the tournament so our booking can be confirmed. Please contact me if you are keen to come to Patea. A commemorative shirt has been designed and I enclose a picture, the cost is $40.00 I need numbers and sizes by the 20th of February. (Hmm how do I attach that) Stephen Paewai <steveandmoira@xtra.co.nz>

Championships; These are due to get started in early March. For any new members in the past year, please advise Stephen Paewai <steveandmoira@xtra.co.nz> if you Do Not wish to be included in the draw.

Secondly there has been discussion recently regarding the Senior Championship being an Open Championship. If you wish to qualify for the Open Championship there will be a qualifying round on Saturday February 19th. Note; if you play in this round and do not qualify, you are not eligible to then be included in your usual grade. Please advise Captain Mike in the next week or so if you wish to play the qualifying round.

Coronation Cup; On Tuesday at the GHB Association Mens Committee Meeting, date for this years Coronation Cup were finalized.  Our zone play will be at Norsewood April 2nd and 3rd, with finals week end in Zone three on May 21/22. Fact. Interesting that the Association has 17 clubs, and they all participate in Coronation Cup. For nearly fifty years the zone play has been in May, finals June. There was a definite call to move play from the shortest day, to earlier in the season, and to move zone play away from Duck Shooting. Unfortunately the draft programme went too far, and had zone play in March before some of the nine hole clubs opened.  Discussions were frank but calm, and a resolution was found. In future years I beleive a finals date in mid to late May will be set, and the zones will be left to discuss and set their own zone play date.

GHB Pennants;  Confirmed dates are Round one 27th February, Round two 13th March, Round three 10th April, Round four 23/24 April (Anzac Week end), Round five May 1st, and Finals May 15.  April 23rd Karamu hosts Champ 2 and Handicap 1 grades, all other grades play Sunday 24th . April this year is difficult to programme, with two long week ends two weeks apart. 

I think I've covered everything I was asked to tonight, If not there's always next week, or the reply to all button.

Good Golfing

Bryan Burt

Club Scribe