What's On 24 May 2024?
Saturday 25th May; Club day with card draw at 11.30am. Match Committee Duty, anyone who is around please. Wiffin Cup matches if your opponent is around. House Committee Bazil Mott.
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th May; Coronation Cup finals at Onga Onga. The four Clubs contesting the finals are Wairoa, Puketiritiri, Dannevirke and Pongaroa. The Dannevirke team in playing order is TeWai hauiti, Zane Gregory, Shane Evans, Tama Petera, Mike Matthews, Tony Neslon, Richie Gray, Eru Hauiti, Bryan Burt, Sean Edwards, Norm Evans, Gillis Te Ture, with the Reserves being, Timmy Bell and Raniera Hauiti. Unfortunately Mark Arnold had to with draw as he tested positive with Covid yesterday. Any members willing to assist as caddies? I know we start 7.30am Saturday with 2 rounds, and a slightly later start Sunday with one round to be played. Any assistance appreciated.
Championships; Congratulations to all the winners last weekend. Played in great autumn conditions, with the course still providing some summer run. Ladies Senior, Margaret Stephenson, Ladies Intermediate Margaret Treacy, Ladies Junior Rainier Arnold. Men Senior ( to be played 8th June) Intermediate men Amrit Prasad, Intermediate B, Max Charmley, Junior Ronnie Turner, Junior B Jim Bassett. We done winners, and well done runners up.
Sisters Club; Thanks to all those who have offered to help. If anyone else would like to help let me know I’ll certainly be able to find you a job.
Members please note the course will be closed on Saturday 1 June and Sunday 2 June for the Sister Club Tournament. Regards Stephen
Greens Staff; Given we have had 60 mils of rain in the past couple of days, things have changed at our course. The bare patches may or may not recover before winter (subject to growth) so the staff have asked for some assistance from members to protect what we have. In the short term, if there is a track, please use it, If there is a bare patch of ground, please refrain from driving carts, pulling trundlers, or simply walking on it. Treat the course like you would a newly sown lawn at home. We don't know what the winter has ahead for us, so the better we protect it now, the better our chances at keeping it open all the time. As members we are all guardians of our course, not just Mike and the match committee. If you see visitors, or green fee players treating our fairways etc badly, speak to them politely. If they don't know they are doing wrong they won't change their behaviour. The is simply no use telling everyone upstairs what you observed two weeks later. If need be, temporary fencing will be erected, but our first request is for common sense to prevail. And yes, the tee blocks will be widened slightly to assist.
Driveway; Management committee, met, discussed and agreed. The speed hump stays, as is where is. If you have been into the course since sealing, you know where it is, so keep your speed down, and you won't hit it, and hit the roof of your car. Paint will be added, but when our busy committee members are free to do so, not because any individual member thinks it has to be done yesterday. Part two, regarding the surplus chip. There was a plan than has been interrupted. The chip was swept to the middle, and a road sweep truck was going to pick it all up. Unfortunately the truck is broken down presently. Early next week, it will be swept again, and the chip will be picked up by shovel and broom. Sweeping it off the side of the road wasn't an option, as the chip would then be a problem for the mowers.
Big weekend for the Coronation Cup team. Good luck and play well.
Good Golfing👍
Bryan Burt
Club Scribe
