Captains Corner
Gail Nicholls

ROSIE TRAY
Tuesday 25 April
Cards in by 1130am, for 12pm start
$10 entry, 2's included
Mixed combined stableford
Plus individual menas and ladies prizes

Enter in the office.

9 Hole Men
Fred Hartley

Thursday 30th March
A good turnout of 18 made their way to Fairview on a cool but sunny morning for a stableford round on the Front Nine.

Results        Allan Winter                  20 points
                     Spencer Tankard            20
                     Bruce Blair                    19

The Nine Hole Group was pleased to donate an amount of $250.00 to the New Zealand Golf  "Golfing to Gabrielle" initiative, the proceeds to be split between the NZ Red Cross Disaster Fund and the multitude of golf clubs that suffered major damage from the two flooding events.

Men's World
John 'Swampy' Marsh

Strokeplay
Senior
Zabe Orchard   231
Hayden Nganeko   231
Brian Pirani   236

Intermediate
Roy Hyland    234
Don Howard   260
Barry Mason   264

Junior
Dale Courtney    277
Alan Thompson    278
Vinny Stanaway    279

C Grade
Dave Popham     289
Shaun Lenny      295
Jeff Beanland       296

Final round of strokeplay tomorrow.  Hopefully nature will shine on us

Coring and Concrete
Huge thanks to those members who turned out.  All completed in 1 day and 4 hours is a record.  Well done to Jo Jory for all your hard work.  Thank you to the ladies team for the yummy smoko for the volunteers.  If anyone has picked up a blues Estwing hammer – I miss it terribly, so please let me know.
Well done to Rod & Beryl Brown for trimming those trees down the first pathway
To Ian & Jo Jory for finding the red markers
Shirley Richardson has been working on the clubhouse garden – thanks Shirl for your hard work.

A big thank you for Marcus for his forum meeting on Wednesday.  A great idea to bring the sections into a more closer relationship, thus bringing our club members into better communication.  Times are changing and to keep up we need to look at our operation.  Marcus has settled in over the year and is bringing ideas to us.  Its not an easy job, lets all get on board and help him out to improve the club.

With the absence of KD it was great to see Hugh and Coop taking up the slack on the tractors

Pennants
Our Championship Pennant team pulled off a truly remarkable performance on Sunday at Te Puke Golf Club. Knowing that only a 6-0 win over Opotiki and needing other results to go their way the team had a slight chance of qualifying for the semi-finals. The team really needed  everyone to play their best golf on Sunday morning at Te Puke. Captain Neil Howard and Zabe Orchard got the team off to a great start with solid 3&1 and 5&4 wins over their big hitting Opotiki opponents. Bryan Pirani with a new driver in the bag took down his opponent in a spectacular 7&6 win meaning suddenly the dream was well and truly alive.  News filtered through that Whakatane had only secured one point against Mt Maunganui and the possibility of making the semi finals was within reach. Enter Denne Stewart who after 9 holes was 3 down against a quality opponent. Denne went into full Joel Dahmen mode on the back nine, highlighted by an eagle on the 16th and a superlative up and down on the 17th hole to win 3&1. It now meant that it was down to Richard Apanui and Hayden Nganeko to complete this amazing team performance with Hayden delivering the coup de gras on the 17th green to take his match 2&1` completing the remarkable 6-0 win for the team after Ritchie Apanui had beaten the Opotiki Number one 4&2 in another quality performance from him.

This means that the Championship team has qualified for the semi-finals this weekend, a tough task ahead as they have to play Omanu at their home course, but as proven already this season great things can happen. The match starts at 8.24 this Sunday morning at Omanu, all the best to our championship golfers.

Senior Pennant Team
Our senior pennant team finished their season with a good win over Whakatane 4-2. Gutsy 1 up wins to Ben Van den Borst and Ravi Shearman on the 18th hole were countered by a heartbreaking horseshoe for Andrew Pratt to lose one down after he had fought back very well from being down early in his match. Marcus Niles and Jason Lochhead had dominant displays to win their matches. The result left the team in 3rd place in their division and just missing out on the semi finals. This is  a great result for the team as Omokoroa has not had a team in this division for many years. This year we had players Ash Pennell, Jordan Shaw,  Jake Buskirk, John Crawshaw and Richard Turner all have their first crack at competitive golf,  and with lots more interest in senior pennants from other senior players in the club we hope to start building more depth in our senior golf teams. 

The Intermediate Team are through to the Semifinals after beating Opotiki 3.5-2.5. Darren Tumai, Don Howard and Dave Hughes had wins and Brett Dingle had a vital half to secure the tie. They also play at Omanu Club on Sunday against Fairview.

Our Juniors just missed out on the Semifinals, when they were pipped 3.5-2.5 by Te Teko. Mick Charlton and Vince Stanaway, both won.

Women's World
Debbie Clark

Haggle Winners
Saturday 25^h March
1^st            Jo Jory                   39pts
2^nd          Pixie Lochhead     38pts
3^rd           Sue Reese              37pts

Tuesday 28^th  March
No play due to coring.

Weekend Pennants
After one round of match play our Omokoroa team is leading the competition with 78.5 pts. Wendy Harris had a win and a draw, Debbie Clark had a win and a loss, and Dawn Rumney had a win and a draw. The star of the day was Liz Woods, with 2 wins and a great round of 91, which included a birdie on the second hole!

Allan Scott Marlborough Ladies Tournament
Five of our ladies travelled to Marlborough for this annual tournament. Barbara Ellingford had a great week, finishing 4^th in the Division 3 Medal Gross round, 5^th in the Division 3 Net Medal round and then topping it off by winning a major raffle prize, of new golf shoes.

Vets Vibes
Ross Milne

No results this week for obvious reasons but instead couple “house keeping” items.

CORING & PATHS
Any one walking or cycling around the course this week could have been forgiven if they thought there was a new production of the BBC programme DADS ARMY being filmed. Armed with scrapers and shovels and trowels and spades a large collection of members took part in this week’s episode. Original cast has long been pensioned off but worthy replacements spotted:

Captain Mainwaring                        Colin Gee
Sgt Wilson                                         Frank Cable
L.Corp Jones                                    Steve Ellingford
Private Frazer                                  John Keats

And special acknowledgement to our WAAF group who kept the troops fed and watered.

A top effort and thanks to everyone involved for what was achieved.

SMELLY SHRUB
It is recognised that females have a keener sense of smell than males. Thus I was approached last week by some of our lady members about the pungent smell emanating alongside the pathway leading to the cart sheds. There was some discussion on whether this was “man made”  (drainage/waste water or worse) or maybe vegetation.

I have since checked with a local professional horticulturalist on likely causes. His view was that it is likely to be from the shrub Viburnum. This gives off a bad smell caused by Butyric acid as leaves break down and given the recent pruning this could well be the case.

However it’s something to keep an eye (in this case, a nose) on.

Friday Haggle
Terry Golder

From Friday 7 April (Easter Egg Day) Winter starting will be at 10.00am, cards in by 9.30am, all welcome.

Results for 24 March:
Div 1.   Colin Gee         43
Allan Winter     39
John Varta         38

Div 2.   Peter Kilpatrick 40
Mark Sharrock  38
Brian Taylor       36