What's on this week 30/10/2020?

Bryan Burt - Club Scribe • October 29, 2020

Coring update; The wet week has made coring difficult. Moving wet sand around on the greens is not easy, so the greens will be difficult on Saturday. Understanding by members is required please.

Thanks Gail for the bacon & egg pie. Much appreciated

 

Saturday 31st; Reminder St Joseph's School Fundraiser 3 Ball Ambrose Golf Tournament. 10.30am Tee off:

One of two days per year when our Club donates the use of our course to a local school for fundraising purposes. Entry fee $20 per head

 

Sunday 1st November; Cape Turnagain 18 hole Mixed Foursomes; Cup of tea 11.15am tee Off 12 noon Entry fee $30.00 per couple, includes two's, approaches and light meal afterwards. Entries and enquires to Gavin Cook 06 3743828 or email sgcook@inspire.net.nz

 

Saturday 7th November; Fielding Inter club at Dannevirke 11am Morning tea, 11.30am tee off

 

Sunday 8th November  Southern Hawkes Bay 36 Hole Mixed foursomes;  8am Tee off

 

Black Beauty Tour; A group of 16 who pay into the Black Beauty fund for each discretion are off on tour playing Temarua Saturday, and Otaki Sunday. Have a great weekend guys

 

Sattrup & Branigan (Four ball best ball) The final was played last weekend, with the victors being Tony Peeti & Peter Drummond, beating Vaughan Hales & Warren Ridge. Believe it or not, all four players shot 84 on Saturday. Tony on a 19 handicap, Drummy on 12, Vaughan on 11 and Ridgy on 15. Subsequent to say Tony and his net 65 or 41 points was what did the damage. Congratulations. TP & Drum

 

HB Eagles Golfing Society; Halberg Fundraising Tournament; Last Thursday along with fellow Eagles Stephen Prenter, Max Charmley, Warren Ridge, Rod Henricksen and Robin Dailey (positioned on a drinks and raffle hole) plus Gill & Joy Charmley and Ian Mckenzie, we played the annual Halberg Foundation fundraising tournament at Napier Golf Club. A booked full field of 144 minus the odd late scratching, scoring was not all that flash with both the men's groups top scoring with 38 points, ladies I believe was 37. At the dinner following the tournament a cheque was presented to the Halberg Foundation for $20,000, taking the fundraising total for the past 41 years to just over $400,000. With an Application going to Pub Charity and using those funds to purchase prizes from Waipukurau Mitre 10, there was an excellent prize table. The Cape Kidnappers Raffle also generates a substantial amount for this event with Honorary Member Julian Robertson donating four rounds plus carts at the the Cape. Added to this another 20 odd Club from HB and the extended Lower North Island also donated rounds for four. Three of those prizes came to Dannevirke. Stephen Prenter has the vouchers and will present them to the winners in due course. To our members, thankyou for your support with this raffle. We can all be proud of the amount donated to the Hallberg Foundation

 

Coronation Cup Finals. Saturday 28th Sunday 29th November. This years final was delayed because of Covid 19. Golf HB thanks Dannevirke for making their course available for the finals. There is input required from our Club, so please assist Captain Mike with this. Full support from both the match and House committee is requested. Catering and the bar are our only sources of income, so lets make the most of it. Further details and requests to follow.

 

Number 7 Tee garden; Thanks to the four ladies who spread the bark around this week. Apparently looks very good. Once the new shrubs get established, it will be a really nice corner to our course. Thanks to everyone who either worked on this project or sponsored plants etc.

 

From Caleb Shuker & Chris Stuart. Longest day Golf Challenger

 

We are taking on the Longest Day Golf Challenge for New Zealanders with cancer and would love your help.


Playing as part of a team, we are Caleb Shuker and Chris Stuart


We’re taking on the toughest challenge in golf and attempting to play four rounds in one day to raise money for the Cancer Society. We’ll be spreading the word about our challenge, and of course giving a huge thank you and word of mouth advertisement to the course we have chosen to play the 72 holes on. We would really love to play on your golf course, so we are hoping you will help us get tee times across the day on Saturday the 19th of December


We are personally attempting to do four rounds in one day because we have both lost family members to cancer and it affects most New Zealanders in one way or another.


How can you help?

  1. Kindly let us know you’re happy for us to take on the challenge at Dannevirke golf club. It would really help if you would consider waiving green fees, and opening a little earlier (first light)
  2. Promote the event – we can provide a poster to pin up to let people know that you are making our fundraising for Cancer Society possible. You could also consider writing about the event in any newsletter or on your social media if you have them.


Our fundraising will help the Cancer Society to ensure no New Zealander goes through cancer alone. They provide specialist nurse visits to patients in their home to offer advice on every aspect of life after a cancer diagnosis. They help patients get to their medical treatments and provide accommodation for those undergoing treatment who live far away from their health provider. They also fund world-class research to prevent and treat the symptoms of cancer and the side effects of cancer treatments and medicine.


We want to help support the Cancer Society to do this vital work, so will you be our club when we take on this epic challenge? Please let us know on calebshuker@gmail.com


Thank you and best wishes,

Caleb and Chris


What a brilliant idea, from two of our youngest members. Caleb & Chris played in the Kitt, Kerr, Hape Simpson Foursomes this year, and are both members of our club. You have our full support, so please send me any updates or requests and I will publish them in our weekly What's On


Good Golfing my friends.


Bryan Burt

Club Scribe

What's On 12 December 2025?

By Bryan Burt - club scribe • December 12, 2025
Saturday 13th December; Shires Fruit & Vege market sponsored Christmas Cheer. 12 noon Shotgun Start. A draw will be posted on our Facebook page on Friday. As we already have 120 in the field and tees allocated, no further entries will be accepted. Please present early at the office to pay your entry fee of $30 and be at your starting tee ready to go at 12 noon. House Committee; Duty Tony Neilson Bar roster 4 pm Tony, Baz and Scott, 4.45 pm Gillian, Angela and Norm, 5.30 pm Tony and Drum, 6.15 pm Stephen and Depak We’re expecting a full field on Saturday, and committee members will be playing and would like to enjoy the evening with their fellow members so we would like your assistance, please. Ask if you can help, for example, if you are heading downstairs,s take a box of empties and put in the recycling, ask if the chiller needs restocking, pick up empty bottles. These little things would be really appreciated, and we can all enjoy the occasion. With large numbers, we quickly run out of $2 coins, so if you have a pocket full of coins, go to the bar and exchange them for notes. Ma pango ma whero ka oti ai te mahi – many hands make light work! Thanks, Stephen. Annual General Meeting; Last Monday saw a muster of around 40 members attend our AGM. A sign of the times, perhaps, but members don't appear to see the significance of this once-a-year meeting. Decisions are made that carry the Club forward and report on the previous year. The committee nominations all went through, and Bernie Williams has been nominated as a Vice President, following Vaughan Hales' resignation earlier in the year. An increase in Subscriptions was approved, and I will report next week for those paying monthly, fortnightly, and weekly, what changes need to be made to keep you up to date. Carts: The last two of our replacement carts arrived on course today. That gives us a fleet now of 8 new and one older cart. These carts are part of our business growth strategy, as a great deal of visiting green fee players request carts at the same time as they book to play, especially group bookings. This forms part of the package we can offer travelling players. Secondly, for various reasons, younger members who have joined clubs since Covid prefer to play in carts. Greenfees & carts this year brought 87k into our club, compared to 62k the previous year. Having Patrick (Harold Golf) on course potentially captures more green fees and cart hire. Cart for Sale; We have one of our original carts for Sale at $500. Batteries may need replacing. Call Captain Zane or ask Patrick for an inspection when he is on course. Next week's What's On will be the last for the year. Looking forward to Christmas Cheer! Good Golfing'👍 Bryan Burt Club Scribe

What's On 4 December 2025?

By Bryan Burt - club scribe • December 4, 2025
Saturday 6th December; Club day 11.30 am. Card draw at 11.15 am, Match committee on duty, House committee, anyone available?, as your roster expired on 29th November. Monday 8th December; Annual General Meeting; 7.30 pm at the Clubhouse. The booklet was emailed to you all by Bailey last Monday evening. Saturday 13th December; Shires Fruit & Vege Market sponsored Christmas Cheer Tournament. Our biggest event of the year. If you haven't done so already, please enter your fours on the Entry sheet in the foyer, so a draw can be produced and sent out next Thursday night. Sorry folks, all of our carts have been booked, so no more carts are available. Result : Interclub with Feilding Golf Club last Saturday. For the 7th year in a row, Feilding were the winners on the day. Thank you to the 19 players from Dannevirke who participated. Congratulations to Jacob Stephenson, 75 off the stick and 45 stablefords. Even Jacobs score couldn't lift our average! The rain over the past two days has possibly taken the sting out of the ground, so we may miss the run for a couple of days. Never mind it will be back. Have a great weekend, and see you all on Monday at the AGM. Bryan Burt Club Scribe

What's On 28 November 2025?

By Bryan Burt - club scribe • November 27, 2025
Saturday 29th November; Feilding interclub at Feilding. 11.30 am tee off. Tony Peeti & Eru Hauiti are both taking vans, so there may be rides available. Contact these gentlemen directly, please. Tony's van leaves the golf club at 9.50 am. Saturday 29th November; Club day, 11.30 am card draw. Duty Richie House Basil Sunday 30th November; Pongaroa are hosting their Prize Giving and Christmas Cheer Tournament. I believe it is a 12 noon start for anyone interested in attending Saturday 13th December : Shires Fruit & Vege Market sponsored Christmas Cheer. 12 noon shotgun start, entry sheet in the foyer at the Clubhouse. All carts are booked. Once again, our haggle hole (no. 14) will be manned by the formidable team of Glen McClelland & Marcus Ransom. This team of two has given up their time for the past 7 or 8 years to man the haggle hole and donate their proceeds to worthy causes around our community or club. Thanks also to the ham sponsors for the haggle hole. Originally, Vet Services and PGG Wrightson. Vet Services have continued, and I took over the PGG Wrightson sponsorship some years ago. Maybe a bit damp tomorrow, but the forecast for the weekend is good. We are bearing down on 100 years of inter-club fixtures with Feilding (next couple of years I believe). Maybe we can turn the clock back 100 years and go to Feilding by train or horseback and stay for a week!, Watch this space. Happy 40th for yesterday Captain Zane. Good Golfing👍 Bryan Burt Club Scribe

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