Our mixed 9 holer’s hosted their annual 9+9 Golf Tournament on the 10th & 11th April in it’s fourth successful year!
We had 53 in the field representing 14 clubs, coming from as far afield as Walton Golf club in Matamata and Mount Maunganui!
The format for the 9+9 Challenge is 9 holes on Wednesday afternoon followed by a delicious dinner – a big thanks to Aaron and Nicky – our Eatery 1487 team who looked after everyone so well! Thanks also to Dan, Trevor, Jonty and the Band for the entertainment!
The 2nd 9 holes is played on Thursday morning followed by lunch and prizegiving. A really fun format, and we had fantastic conditions this year!
Congratulations to Feilding’s Graham Pedley who has won the 9+9 Trophy for the second year in a row! Well done Graham!
WOMEN DIVISION ONE
NET
WOMEN DIVISION TWO
NET
MEN’S DIVISION
NET
Vicky Bradley
68
Justine Crabb
65
Graham Pedley
62
Diane Corbett
69
Sherryl Howie
69
Trevor Fergus
63
Kelly Pollard
70
Carol Kupa
70
Garry Marshall
66
Cheryl Harper
72
Erina Bell
72
Dan Flanagan
68
Tarnea Leslie
73
Karen Harvey
72
Darryl Warren
70
Barb Flanagan
73
Pauline Ross
72
Chris Bell
70
Best Gross
Best Gross
Diane Corbett
90
Trevor Fergus
83
Two’s
Two’s
Christine Alexander
4th
Gordon Piets
9th & 11th
Jan Mullane
11th
Thanks to our committee for all their efforts in organising the tournament, and to our sponsors who provided a lot of the raffle prizes. Big shout out to Turners Gifts and Luggage who always go above and beyond!
Thanks again everyone for coming along and good golfing!
We’ve had a busy and successful Business House season this year, with our Finals Night being played on the 28th March. The winners had been decided the week before – finals night was a fun Ambrose event.
We had 18 teams vying for top honours this year – thanks to all of our teams for getting involved!
Here’s how the teams stacked up looked after 18 rounds:
1st
Tricklebanks
2nd
Higgins Concrete
3rd
Happy Hookers
4th
Shanksalot
5th
Hackers
6th
Honkihori
7th
Rough Cuts
8th
Up the Pars
9th
Bogey Boys
10th
Hawaiaan Slicers
11th
Amigos
12th
Brandt Equipment
13th
Misfits
14th equal
CBS
14th equal
Crushers
16th
Birdie Burglars
17th
Who’s Your Caddy
18th
Courtesy Ford
Congratulations to Tricklebanks who took out the overall win this year! The shop will hook you up with some awesome credit 🙂
Our wooden spooners this year was Courtesy Ford, but it was awesome to see them getting involved with the majority of the team new golfers. They win a group lesson!
Worst score of the season went to Jorja Henderson and she scores herself a free golf lesson!
The only team to use the same 4 players every week were HACKERS! They’ve secured themselves a round of golf at Paraparaumu Beach Club.
The final round on the 28th March was a fun ambrose event.
Congratulations to Higgins who took out the win on the Front 9 and Amigos for taking the win on the back 9. They took home a box of Tiger Balls. 2nd on the Front 9 were Hacker, and 2nd on the Back 9 were Rough Cuts – they took home a box of Bridgestone e12 balls.
NTP on the 9th went to Tony Boxall and NTP on 17th was Diego Rosson.
Thanks everyone for a great season, and we look forward to seeing you all back later in the year for the 2024 / 2025 installment!
Our annual women’s pairs two day Premier Challenge tournament is a highlight on our calendar and our Women’s committee have been working hard behind the scenes to pull everything together.
Rebecca had ordered fine weather, and Day One at Rangatira Golf Club on Thursday 21st March was a stunner! With 44 pairs in the field we had almost a full field with players representing 16 clubs from around the North Island.
Dinner at Feilding Golf Club on Thursday evening, with some entertainment provided by Jonty Ward.
Pairs Best Ball Stableford is the format on Day One. Congratulations to our Day One prizewinners, receiving Mitre 10 vouchers:
Division One
Division Two
1st Jo McAlley and Karen Fallaver 48pts 2nd Aven Shroder and Delwyn King 46 pts 3rd Rachel Williams and Bron Bielby 44pts 4th Carolyn Koch and Pauline Corbett 43 pts 5th Celina Turner and Rachel Rowe 41 pts 6th Dale BAin and Mary Smith 41pts 7th Rosemary and LIz Signal 40pts 8th Sharon Atkins and Jenny McKelvie 40pts
1st Barbara Stuckey and Mary Campbell 47 pts 2nd Marina Gopperth and Brenda Duffy 45pts 3rd Kuia Byford and Joan Griffiths 45 pts 4th Joy Greenless and Kim Woodward 44pts 5th Trisha Crawford and Nicole Mancer 44pts 6th Jane Bolton Riley and Jenny Stewart 43pts 7th Ann Schnell and Catherine Templeton 40pts 8th Sue Whiting and Norrey Simmons 40 pts
Friday morning also dawned bright and shiny with the format being individual stableford – some impressive scoring made for a tightly contested competition!
Overall 1st prize with 125 points (on countback) went to Rosemary and Liz Signal collecting $300 each travel vouchers and travel vouchers kindly sponsored by Ros Chapman from You Travel Feilding.
Overall 2nd prize also with 125 points (on countback) was Marina Gopperth and Brenda Duffy – each winning Merigolf Vouchers and hats, kindly sponsored by Amanda Lupton of Merigolf NZ.
Division One Jenny Stewart 41 pts Sue Green 39 pts Mary Smith 38 pts Rebecca Ward 37 pts Carolyn Koch 36 pts Gaynor Ruawai 36 pts Aven Schroder 35 pts Mary Wilson 35 pts Rachel Williams 35 pts Bronwyn Beilby 34 pts
Division Two Delwyn King 44 pts Anne Schnell 42 pts Kathy Henderson 41pts Virginia Gibbs 40 pts Judy Farquharson 40 pts Gillian Martin 39 pts Jan cooper 39 pts Louisa Gordon 37 pts Marilyn Hall 37 pts Lindy Williamson 37 pts
Division Three Janis Wedd 42 pts Helen Donald 42 pts Marie Hope 41 pts Norrey Simmons 40 pts Wendy Foster 40 pts aggie Werder 39 pts Kuia Byford 38 pts Jane Bolton Riley 38 pts Ann Marie Jackson 38 pts Judy Mccrae 37 pts
Thanks to the team at Eatery 1487 for providing wonderful meals and to all our Women’s committee for putting on a fab tournament! Thanks to our volunteers who helped with supplying cheese and biccies on course at Rangatira and at Feilding. Thanks to Rangatira Golf Club for hosting us all on Thursday!
And thanks to all of you who came along to support the Premier Challenge!
A fantastic week for Feilding Golf Club hosting the 37th National Left Handers tournament!
We had 84 players representing 50 Clubs (including 3 from Australia) vying for Open, Senior, Women & Super Senior titles.
In the Men’s Open Division, it was anyone’s trophy with Ethan Ward from Feilding holding a 1 shot lead over Ken Shea from Raglan heading into the final day. Feilding’s Roddy McCabe had a cracking round on Thursday shooting 70 to secure the win by 2 shots over Ethan, and winning the Bruce Poole Trophy – the second time Roddy has won this trophy, after last winning it when he was 17 – 36 years ago!! Roddy had a gross score of 302 for the 4 rounds, with Ethan runner up with a score of 304. Full results can be found here.
Steven Hitchman from Awatere Golf Club won the Mens Open Net and the Bob Charles Trophy with a 4 round net score of 286. Richard Hodge from Eketahuna was runner up. Net results can be found here.
In the Men’s Senior Gross competition, Warren Herbert from Manawatu was the recipient of the Rei Thompson trophy with a 4 round score of 322. Runner up was Tony Stowes from Te Aroha. Full results can be found here.
In the Men’s Senior Net competition and winning the Barry Turner trophy, with a net score of 289 was Bob Denton from Waiuku. Runner up was Ian Mackay from Rangitikei. Full results can be found here.
In the Women’s competition, and winning the overall gross for the 18th time and with a 77 shot lead was Lisa Herbert 🙂 Lisa wins the Keith Plier Trophy. Winning the Bob Harrington Trophy for best net, was Annette Purves. The Askew trophy for best stableford was won by Janelle Lewis. All women’s results can be found here.
Winning the Life members Trophy for the Super Seniors competition, which was 2 rounds played Tuesday and Thursday, was Judy Jensen from Wanganui. Judy also won the best 1 net round – the John Barbour Trophy with a net round of 66 on Thursday!
In other prizes, Richard Hodge from Eketahuna won the Lionel Kelly Trophy for the Men’s Open best net, last 2 rounds (68, 69). Bob Denton from Waiuku won the Tom Armstrong Trophy for the Men’s Senior best net, last 2 rounds (69, 71). Roddy McCabe from Feilding won the Nigel Osborne Trophy for the best gross round (70).
The Kakapo Trophy for the best District team of 4 was won by Auckland – Barry Matthews, Bob Denton & Greg Limond. The Schweppes trophy for the best Club team was won by Rangitikei #2 – Geoff Ingram, Ian Mackay & Wallace Miller. The Australia vs New Zealand Fenemor Trophy which was contested by John Hills & Barry Patton for NZ and Peter Robson & Cec Bailey for Australia was won by New Zealand!
A big thank you to our Major Sponsor Ros Chapman from You Travel in Feilding – Ros donated a Hole in One Prize for the 9th Hole – as it was not struck, the $1000 has been donated to Mercy Ships NZ who do fantastic work off the coast of Africa deploying hospital ships to low-income countries – improving the quality of life for people living with the multi-dimensional impact of poverty, disfigurement, and disability.
City Honda in Palmerston North donated a $200 voucher for anyone who had a Hole in One during the tournament – as this also was not stuck, we did a lucky draw and the recipient was Nigel Messenger.
We’d also like to thank all of our sponsors, to the team at Eatery 1487 who kept everyone very well fed and watered, to the NALGNZ committee and all the staff at Feilding Golf Club for a very successful tournament.
We look forward to seeing you at next year’s tournament being held on the 7th – 10th April at Napier Golf Club!
Please download your copy of the 2023 Annual Report here.
If you have any questions, please email gm@feildinggolfclub.co.nz.
If you are coming to the AGM on the 4th December and you have general business to raise, please also email gm@feildinggolfclub.co.nz so the Board can have answers prepared.
A bit of a mixed bag weather wise for our Club Champs Finals Day on Sunday 15th October, but some great golf was played! Congratulations to everyone who made the final and thanks to everyone who came out on the day to play, support, caddy and referee.
Your winners for 2023.
Senior Mens Championship – JS Tingey Cup
Roddy McCabe – runner up, Anton Hughes
Senior Women’s Championship
Lisa Herbert – runner up Von Walker
Intermediate Men’s Championship – Moffitt, Stitchbury, Little Cup
Tony Boxall – runner up Sam Hitchman
Intermediate Women’s Championship
Gaynor Ruawai – runner up Janis Jeffers
Junior Men’s Championship
Paul Wolland – runner up Ray Morris
Senior Flight – Hegarty Cup
Seb Baker – runner up Damian Walker
Intermediate Flight – Morgan Cup
Bob Gillespie – runner up Theo Gambitsis
Junior Flight – Hutana Cup
Tim Woodward – runner up Lee Welsh
Senior Women’s Plate
Sharon Boxall – runner up Rebecca Ward
Intermediate Women’s Plate
Rosemary Blunden – runner up Rosemary Signal
Junior Women’s Championship
Virginia Ryan – runner up Cindy Gordon
Junior Women’s Plate – Paddy Ofsoski, runner up Ricelle Ebert
Junior B Men’s – Gonville Saunders – Rudi Otto, runner up Paul Blakeley
Junior Men’s 2nd 16 – AC Wilson Trophy
Keith Edmonds – runner up Sam Jones
Intermediate Men’s 2nd 16 – Dick Trophy – Ray Moore-Feu’u, runner up Maurice Jackson
Senior Men’s 2nd 16 – EM Hare Trophy – Shaun Sloan, runner up Kevin Smith
9 Hole Senior Men – Alistair Swan, runner up Phil Wahanui
The countdown is on and we wish to thank all who have entered the Manawatu-Wanganui Open & Feilding Open so far.
We’ve almost reached capacity so if you haven’t entered yet, please do so ASAP. You can enter via this link.
There will be limited opportunity to pay on the day, so if you’ve not yet submitted payment, please pay online.
Please pay your entry fee ($85.00) into Feilding Golf Club bank account and reference your name and club ID. Account number 02 0628 0187042 00
Those who have asked to be billeted will be contacted today/tomorrow with details.
The draw will be done on Friday morning and will be available Friday afternoon on both the website and Facebook. Those who have their phone numbers registered through DotGolf will be notified of their tee times via text message.
Saturday will be a shotgun start:
Round 1 – 7:30AM
Round 2 – 12:30PM
Sunday will be a two tee seeded start:
Round 3 – 8:30AM
Prize giving will follow at approx. 2:30PM.
There will be a cut after 36 holes. The top 60 players and ties will make the cut. There are prizes for the best 36 hole nett on the Saturday and we have added an additional category of prizes for the best 18 hole nett scores on the Sunday following the cut.Just to recap – prizegiving will be held on Sunday afternoon at approximately 2:30pm.
