Captains Corner
Daryl Muir

The Vets held their 3 Day Tournament last week and with the weather assisting it was a great week, no less than 23 Clubs represented and great to see the Clubhouse full.

The Drop Zone on the 13^th worked well.  The Captains Group will review this.

The new local rule is certainly resulting in less time spent on the practice fairway retrieving and looking for balls.  We will continue to monitor this.

Don’t forget the Christmas Tournament, the afternoon start sheet has only a few slots left and the morning start sheet still has slots available.

Start sheets are in the office.  Be in quick as these will go.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

9 Hole Ladies
Astrid Martin

Today was the first day of the Summer Cup and stablefords.

Our winner today was Rohanne Hancock with 21 points.  Judith Eaton, Colleen Blair and Daisy Harrison had 20 points.  Great golf ladies.

Our group was saddened today to learn that our convenor and all round awesome leader Lyn Harrison was taken away in an ambulance after becoming unwell on the course.

I am very happy to report that Lyn is home, and recuperating well and from all of us Lyn, we wish you a speedy recovery.

Look forward to seeing you back next week.

9 Hole Men
Fred Hartley

Men’s Nine Hole Golf, Thursday 23rd November

Competition was Ambrose (Net). The winnings went to:
Spencer Tankard, Ian Trott, Kevin Bowick, Phil Stanbury                    30.52
Bruce Baggenstos, Trevor Smyth, Barry Weir, Bob Duckworth          31.40
Alan Poore, Frank Brown, Colin Griffiths, Jim Avis                               31.62

Twilight
Pink Leow

We were very lucky on Wednesday evening with the forecast heavy showers passing us by and it was a warm and calm evening - perfect for golf. This was the first of the “Sponsor Evenings” and our featured sponsor was Mike Deane Motors. Joann and Mike took time to update everyone on upcoming changes at their business; they also provided a great array of additional prizes - Hidden Holes, Longest Drives and “Hard Luck”. These were all in addition to the regular prizes for Closest to Pin from Par NZ Golfing Holidays and Longest Putt from One Staff Recruitment Agency.

The competition format this week was “Three Tees” with the men playing 3 holes off Blue Tees, White Tees and Yellow Tees; and the Ladies playing 3 holes off White Tees, Yellow Tees and Red Tees. The scoring was really very good (with a couple of exceptions!) and the clear winners on the night with a combined total of 44 stableford points were Dee McCrea and Murray Wharton. They were followed by Jan Annabell and Celia Crawshaw on 41 points.

The season long leaderboard can be found here. Last year champion, Jeff and Jamie Warren still top of the lead but early days. 

Another excellent turnout keeping Stephanie and Patrick (remember Patrick?) busy in the bar and Brittany and Ana busy in the kitchen - the roast beef just melted in your mouth and the salads were fantastic. Dawn Rumney is the lucky winner (and birthday girl) for the free meal, courtesy of Brittany and Ana. 

Vets Vibes
Scott Gwynne

Captains Corner

Thanks to all the players, volunteers, office staff, catering staff and course staff who made our tournament last week a huge success.  Feedback from players has been mostly extremely positive.  We made some mistakes but will learn from those and make improvements for future tournaments. It was great to have Ilma Shergold back among us to present the Shergold trophy to locals Wendy Harris and Rob Mitford-Burgess. I believe that this years tournament was the thirtieth time the event has been held.

Vet’s Christmas Hamper – 13 December

A further reminder to keep this day free and to enjoy a little fun and frivolity alongside some serious golf. The Committee has decided that there will be an increased prize budget, there will be two’s competitions for each division on holes 4 and 11, a longest putt prize on the 9th,  prizes for the best men’s and ladies playing outfit with a Christmas theme and haggle prizes for one and all.  Several raffles will also be run throughout the day.

Dates to keep in mind.

29 November – Vets Haggle (Stableford and Twos)
13 December – Vet’s Christmas Hamper
20 December – Closing Day / Cross Country

Results – Wednesday 1 November  

A good sized field turned out on Wednesday – 70 in all. 
Stableford Comp: Division 1
1^st David Ashton       41pts
2^nd John Aldridge     37
3^rd Michael Hewitt   37

Division 2
1^st Robyn Alabaster   39pts
2^nd Tony Forder          38    
3^rd Jan Gill                   38

Vet’s  Pairs Tournament 12 -14 February.
Entries into the Vet’s February 3 day tournament are now being received.  This is a popular tournament with a different format each day with sperate Men’s and Women’s competitions.  Entries can be made on line on the New Zealand Vet’s Website. This website address will take you to the website     www.nzvga.co.nz    Then click on the link to Entry Forms.

New Members

Welcome to our new members. If you are a new member of our Golf Club reading this newsletter – Welcome. If you want to play Vet’s Golf and haven’t done so yet, or you want to receive the occasional email I send to Vet’s players about upcoming events and the like, give me a call or text me on 02102242799 or email Scott at scott.j.gwynne@gmail.com

President's Report
John 'Swampy' Marsh

• A big shout out to John Crawshaw for helping to complete the Tee signs, and to Santa’s helper Hugh Moleta. Just boxing up and pouring the concrete to do.
• Congratulations to Shane Fisher, our new qualified Greenkeeper. A great work ethic and a pleasure to work alongside.  A small presentation was held Thursday to present him with a gift from the club. Well done Shane, you are now fully qualified in turf management.
• The members Christmas raffle is filling up. Don’t forget to buy your tickets. $5 each, 10 legs of lamb, 10 bottles of wine.
• A great honour to present the trophies at the ladies prizegiving. We are blessed with lovely people who care about the club. Congratulations to all the winners. Another well organised event.