The Aorangi Women's Open, Silver and Veterans Pennant Finals were played at Timaru Golf Club yesterday with the following results:
Silver Pennants - North Otago 4, Geraldine 2Open Pennants - North Otago (2) 5.5, Fairlie .5 Veterans Pennants - Pleasant Point 3.5, Tinwald 2.5
Silver Pennant Winners North Otago, from left Kath Radcliff, Karen Devlin,...
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The 2018 Mid versus South Canterbury Challenge was held at the Ashburton Golf Club on Sunday 19 August.
Thanks you to the Ashburton Golf Club for hosting this annual event which was organised by the Aorangi selection team and acts as a trial for the 2018 Interprovincial teams and NZ Golf Freyberg Masters teams.
37 players contested this event.
The Ashburton Golf Club was presented in excellent condition . The players were met with a fine but frosty day which made the first hour or so challenging.
As well as the core of Aorangi’s Senior and Masters players present there were also a good group...
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The Stylemaster Tournament was played on Thursday at Geraldine Golf Club in sunny conditions
Winning team Tokarahi on 149: Margaret Hore, Carolynn Rowlands, Sandra Gibson and Raelene Sutherland
Runners up Pleasant Point on 152: Julie Allen, Rosa Westgarth, Ali Barrett, Heather McKerchar
Methven Jug (best nett not in winning team) 74 Jane Helmore and Heather Santy of Methven
Twos: Lois Beattie/Jacqui Fisher (St Andrews)
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The Aorangi Women's National Teams' District Final was held at Gleniti Golf Club yesterday with the home team of, from left Trish Knight, Kate Elliott, Carole Brand and Barbara O’Connell winning in convincing fashion by a massive 11 shots.
To summarise the day:
Gleniti 1st (B O’Connell, T Knight, C Brand, K Elliott)130Lower Waitaki 2nd on 141 (D Plew, L Brooker, I Bond, M Kerr) on c/b fromPleasant Point 3rd (M Heckler, L Roy, J Shearer, J Rees) on c/b fromRakaia (T Booker, J Burrowes, M Wederell, S Martin)
Two: J Knight (North Otago)Nearest the Pin Senior: B O’Connell (Gleniti)Junior: H. Santy (Methven)
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Our team of Hamish Scarsbrook, Alex Kelliher, Joshua Ackerley, George Gallichan and Callum Patrick played in the 2018 South Island Under 19 interprovincials at Templeton Golf Club from 24 to 27 April.
All performed well, playing around their individual handicaps. Best individual was Hamish Scarsbrook.
The team overall were placed in the final position but with 4 of the teams on relatively high handicaps in comparison to other teams ( Otago,Canterbury, Southland and Tasman).
It was a great team of boys and Aorangi Golf can be very proud of not only their on course attitude but their determination to play as well as...
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The Aorangi Men's and Women's Selectors are looking to hear from all players interested in representing our region this year.
The 2018 year sees the Men's and Women's Toro being held in Christchurch and the Men's South Island Interprovincials at Methven.
Also required are managers for the two Toro teams and caddies for the Interprovincials.
Please if you are at all interested in being part of the trial process please email ginnyrichards@icloud.com or email our convenor of selectors gordyk@xtra.co.nz
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The team to represent Aorangi in the NZ Golf Women's Masters at the Inglewood Golf Club in Taranaki has been named.
With 7 of our best over 40 year old players competing for the 4 spots, selector Anne Seed had a difficult job deciding on the team.
The team is:
Catherine Knight, AshburtonGinny Bolderston, GeraldineSharon Bradford, AshburtonPauline Bell, Ashburton.
Thank you to all those trialling.
Lets hope the team will perform as well, and if not better than 2017 when they came a close 4th.Another year in the medals would be an exciting prospect for Aorangi Women's Golf.
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The Aorangi Strokeplay was held at the Methven Golf Club on Sunday in fine weather and the course in great condition.
Hiroki Miya (Russley) continued his great recent form winning the Men's Open section with Juliana Hung (Russley) winning the Women's Open section.
Results are as follows:
MenAorangi Strokeplay Champion: Hiroki Miya (Russley) 142Senior Gross: Reid Hilton (Russley) 147Senior Net: Jake Roberts (Russley) 149
Div 2 Gross: Logan Middlemass (Methven) 156Div 2 Net: Jeremey Duckmanton (Rakaia) 148
Masters Gross: Michael Bailey (Clearwater) 149Masters Net: Lin Wang (Coringa) 142
WomenAorangi Strokeplay Champion: Juliana Hung (Russley) 139Senior Gross: Hillary O’Connor (Pegasus) 143
Masters Gross: Catherine Knight (Ashburton) 152
Net over...
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The Aorangi Golf Waitangi Day Tournament was played at Geraldine yesterday and the results are as follows:
Geraldine 214, Rakaia 212, St Andrews 209
The winning Geraldine team from left are Steve Crook, Howard Chellew, Sue Dwyer, Rod Holling, Denise Kenny and Ros Hobbs.
Presidents Cup: Graham Cadigan (St Andrews) by lot from Rod Holling
Captains Cup: David Irvine (Timaru)
Committee Cup: Chris Calder (Pl Pt) by lot from Ross Breach (Methven)
Nearest pins: Women #9 Susan Brown (Timaru) #17 Sandra Quinn (Board)
Men #6 Ross Breach (Methven) #12 Phil Mackay (Fairlie)
Twos: Mark Hutchins, Charles Scarsbrook, Michael Kemp, Sue Dwyer, Susan Brown, Phil Mackay, Graham Cadigan, Mike...
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Over 120 caddies will be required for the 2018 ISPS HANDA New Zealand Open being held in Queenstown from the 1st - 4th of March, 2018 at Millbrook and The Hills Golf Clubs. At the 2017 event, we had several caddies needed on the Sunday either caddying for Professionals or assisting some of the amateur players with one of our young caddies on the bag of the runner up, Brad Kennedy. In 2015, one of our volunteer caddies, Jaimes Wood from the Royal Wellington Golf Club, had the experience of carrying the bag for the eventual winner, Jason Zunic. Jaimes described it as an...
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