March 2016FEILDING GOLF CLUB NEWSLETTER

THE DRIVERP O Box 267

FEILDING 4740

Ph 06 323 4553

Special Interest Article

P1 Waitangi Day

Tournament, Club

Captains

P2 Coming Events,

New Members,

Sponsors, Hole in

One, Tee Sponsors,

Newest Addition

P3 Presidents Note

P4 9 Hole Captain,

General Opening Day,

Golf Plus Professional

Results, Ed’s Note

P5 Junior News

P4

1487 Waughs Road

Feilding

P O Box 267

Feilding 4740

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06 3234553

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E-MAIL:secretary@feildinggolfclub.co.nz

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1.30pm - 4.00pm

FEILDING GOLF CLUB

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MenNett – Terry Urquhart 62, Guido Beijersbergen 65.Stableford – Michael Nidd 41 points.WomenNett – Margaret MacLeod 65.Stableford – Dale Bain 44 points.

Nearest the Pins: 9th Ross Pratt, 11th Liam Finlayson, 17th Andrea Sutherland

Twos: Bill Riordan (2), Ross Pratt (2), Kyle Russell (2), Paul Early, Terry Urquhart,Dennis McKenzie, Peter McCaughan, Mark Pinny, James Humphrey, Wayne White,Andrea Sutherland, Von Walker .

Waitangi Day Tournament

Results

Congratulations to our 2016 winners of theSeymour Salvers, Margaret MacLeod andTerry Urquhart

2016 Club CaptainsMy husband John and Ishifted from Auckland toFeilding in 2004 (after thefloods). I joined the BridgeClub later that year, andwhilst playing I wasencouraged to have a gameof golf at Feilding. I hadplayed socially in Aucklandbut had no time to take itup. In 2005 I started as a 9Holer, joining 18 Holes in2006. Since then I havebeen Women’s CommitteeSecretary for 5 years from2008-2013. This year asWomen's Club Captain Ihope to encourage morewomen to play and alsointroduce a few new ideas.

Dale Bain

Tony & Dale

This year will be my secondyear in the role of Mens ClubCaptain and I’m lookingforward to representing youagain. With the assistance ofthe Mens Match CommitteeMike, Dave, Damien, Peter andWayne, I will keep you all up todate on upcoming club events /competitions, developmentsaround the course and ourPennant teams. 2016 looks likebeing another exciting one. Iwelcome any members new orexisting to get in touch at anytime if you need anything orhave any questions.Good golfing all and I lookforward to seeing you out onthe course.

Tony Boxall

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New MembersFull:

Jeff Dickins &

Peter Thompson

9 Holes: Alister Kirkpatrick

Junior: Jonty Ward

Coming EventsMarch 2016

Friday 4th - Barter Card Tournament – now postponed

Sunday 13th – Men – Handicap Pennants at Feilding

Monday 14th – 9 Holers Open Day at Feilding teeing off from 10am

Tuesday 15th – Golden Coast Veterans at Feilding 9am – Course closed

Wednesday 23rd – Twilight Final Night

Friday 25th – Good Friday – Clubhouse Closed

Sunday 27th – Easter Sunday – Golf Plus Men & Women Open Tournament

Monday 28th – Easter Monday

Members are reminded

that Membership cards

are required to be carried

when the bar is open, and

that all visitors who are

not reciprocal golf club

members are required to

be signed in by a club

member.

Tee Sponsor

AllanMcNeill

TRC Toyota

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Hole in One!Congratulations to two lucky

people who achieved their Aces!

Ian Blunden aced on the 11th

on Thursday 4th February, and

Alison Weld aced on the 9th

on Wednesday 10th February.

Well done both of you!

Our Newest FUTURE Member!

Mike & Alexandra Atkins would like to introduce Feilding Golf Club’s newestFUTURE member, Harrison Atkins! He was born on New Year’s Eve, and wasa huge surprise to everyone, as he was 12 weeks premature. Harrison isgrowing very quickly and at the time of writing this, is in the NeoNatal Wardat Palmerston North Hospital. Signs are looking good, he will be home in notime.Congratulations Mike & Alex, and we can’t wait to see him walking thefairways!

Alison contemplates her Ace!

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President’s Update

Firstly, welcome back to another golfing year at the Feilding Golf Club, we hope you have an enjoyable season

and every shot flies true and straight. Time to let you all know of where we are at with the upgrades going on

around the course.

Course Renovation

It’s a waiting game on the completion and the introduction of the new 18th Green in to play. As you will all

have seen the strike on the fairway and fringe with the grass seed was very successful, but with the Green

being built out of 300mm of straight sand it has been a struggle to keep the water up to it with maintenance

on the pump and computerised watering issues. This has meant that the Green has continually had to be

reseeded as we have noticed the patches.

We have been extremely lucky to have had Glen and Daniel especially here to do manual watering to get it to

where it currently is, your work after hours especially is greatly appreciated and we are all looking forward to

seeing the completion of this job. There is still no definite date as after waiting this amount of time we believe

it is best in the long run to wait and not damage it. There haven’t been any complaints about the amount of

birdies and eagles scored on the alternate 18th……

Keeping this in mind, there will be a tournament based around the opening of the Green and there will be a

raffle run shortly for the opportunity to be the first in a group of four players to play it so please watch this

space and buy a ticket, everyone has the same chance once you’re in. Please keep in mind anyone caught

playing on the area will face serious consequences until it has been given the all clear. We appreciate your

patience during this process.

Clubhouse Painting

We have now come to the end of the $30k funding for the external painting that was generously provided by

Pub Charity for the exterior painting of the Clubhouse. In accordance with what we previously decided we

have stopped work until we can find further funding or voluntary work to complete the road facing side.

It is estimated that we need a further $16k to complete this job, so we have a grant application pending for

this which we can hopefully secure and proceed and finish. The quality of work and finish are second to none

and much of this maintenance has been well overdue. Thanks to Craig Bismark as he has replaced the large

panels of glass with safety glass and again thanks to Duncan Webb for his on-going help in all things building

around the place, replacing timbers as required.

It is still a plan to replace much of the balcony balustrade with glass during the late summer as funds provide

so we’re not quite finished yet…..

We appreciate your enthusiasm and patience and thank you.

Trev Ward

Club President.

General Opening Day ResultsRoss l’Anson & Liam Finlayson - 46 PtsMark & Stephen Watchorn - 43PtsFiona Hunter & Michael Atkins - 42 PtsNearest the Pin – 2nd Kaye Burney, 4th Judy McPherson, 9th Brandon Perry, 17th Peter ThompsonTwos – Mark & Stephen Watchorn, Paul Rooney & Peter Thompson, Ross l’Anson & Liam Finlayson, Ross Pratt & Margot Lupton.

Golf Plus Professional Trophy 2015/16

Men - 1st Ryan Rooney, 2nd Terry Bird, 3rd Kevin Pawson

Women 1st Pauline Huxford, 2nd Sharon Howe, 3rd Jennie McKelvie

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9 Hole Captain 2016BMW Raffle Winner

The winner of the BMW NZ Open to beheld at the Hills and Millbrook was KevinPawson. Congratulations Kevin onwinning 2 entry tickets.

Stu Atkins was the winner of the load offirewood. Congratulations Stu.

Ed’s NoteA few things have been brought to my notice over the past few weeks, so I just thought I’d comment

that as I’ve been your Editor for over 12 months now, it is great to get your feedback on the

Newsletter. Without our members news, achievements, reports, etc., we wouldn’t have one! I look

forward to your input each month, and sometimes it is hard to gather enough for you to read. Please

keep them coming. My email is gilly.gordy@clear.net.nz Gillian. Martin

I started 9 hole golf in the middle of 2001 whenI moved to Feilding after farming in the hills ofApiti. Up until then I had played bowls inKimbolton. I still play bowls over Summer.Both sport are very enjoyable and I find 9 Holegroup a great social side of the Club. I also playTwilight Golf on Wednesday evenings.In 2008, I managed to get my first ‘Hole in One’.

Heather Haswell

Pauline Huxford receives theWomen’s 2015/16 Trophy fromDon Finlayson for hiscompetition, which is playedover the season.

Paul Rooney receiving theMen’s Trophy on behalf ofhis son, Ryan Rooney.

Zilah Walker Salver

Dale Bain presenting theZilah Walker SummerSalver to Moira Bell .

Junior Golf News2016 has started off fabulously for our Junior Group. For our Tuesday Junior Group we have 24 enthusiastic children registered, so if anybody is interested in helping from 4 – 5pm please let Rebecca or Colleen know, it would be much appreciated!

Junior Age Group ChampionshipsOn Sunday 21st February, Feilding Golf Club hosted the Manawatu/Wanganui Junior Age Group Championships. All the Feilding Juniors who entered had a great day and all won a prize. Congratulations must go to...36 Holes:Under 19 – Liam Finlayson 1st Gross, Jayden Hunter 3rd GrossUnder 16 – Ethan Ward 2nd Gross, Mitchell Floyd-Naylor 1st Nett OverallUnder 13 – Ryan Rooney 1st Gross9 Hole Long Section:Remy Early 1st Gross, Jack Kuiti 1st Nett, Monty Brown 7th Nett9 Hole Short SectionJonty Ward 1st Gross, Tyrese Thomas 3rd Gross

Fantastic effort boys! It’s great to get the Feilding name out there with a bunch of promising young players!

Junior Golf SessionsFRIDAYS – 4pm to 5pm – coaching with Don for juniors who have handicaps.

SUNDAYS – 9.30am (as per schedule) - 18 Hole competition for Juniors who have handicaps.- 10.30am to 11.30am (as per schedule) - coaching with Don for Juniors who do not have handicaps.

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Bar NewsThe time to renew the Club License has again come around. With the new changes to the Sale &Supply of Alcohol Act 2012, new policies have to be implemented, please read them on the wallabove the telephone area. The Feilding Golf Club bar is for members and those who are members ofothers Clubs’ who have reciprocal visiting rights with Feilding. Any Club that does not have a bar,cannot have reciprocal rights. Members are welcome to bring guest’s to the Club but they must besigned in at the Bar.A reminder of a couple of Rules:*No alcohol can be brought into the Clubhouse while the Bar is open.*No alcohol purchased at the bar is to leave the Clubhouse.The penalties for not following the Act are stringent, the Bar being closed down for 7 days a warning.As we have new staff, please do not be offended if you asked to present your Member Card, likewisemembers who are under 25 years of age. Please remember – you are required to carry your membercard if using the Bar facility.