General Managers Message
Allan Botha

Clubhouse Progress 
It’s fantastic to see the rapid progress on our new clubhouse. On Monday, I had the privilege of walking through the build with our Club Project Manager, Fintan Downes, and Project Manager Glenn Temple. The outlook is absolutely stunning, and the overall feel of the new clubhouse is something we can all be genuinely excited about. 

Here are a few photos to wet your appetite and give you a glimpse of what’s coming. 

View from the Cafe across the building towards the Bar in the distance. 

View from the Golfers entrance toward the Cafe, with the course in the background. 

Course Update — 10th Fairway 
Thanks to the rain we’ve had recently, the 10th fairway now has enough coverage and growth that we can return to placing the ball within a club length, no nearer the hole. Great news—no more needing to tee it up on the fairway! 

Hole in one

Congratulations to Paul Hodson who got a hole in one on the 11th, on Thursday.  

Upcoming Event — Vets Pairs 54-Hole Tournament 
Next week we welcome the ever-popular Vets Pairs 54-Hole Event, superbly run by Ian and Ian. The field was fully subscribed weeks ago—well done, gents. Now we just need the weather to play its part. 

Health & Safety Reminder — Driving Range 
A reminder to all members and visitors: 

• Golfers playing the 9th or 18th have right of way when retrieving balls from the range area. 
• Range users must wait until players have cleared the area before continuing to hit. 
• We also remind everyone that the range has a maximum safe hitting distance of 180 metres. 
  If you’re having an off day and sending the driver onto the 9th or 18th fairways, please switch to a shorter club and keep the balls in play. 
  And if you need a little help straightening things out, Coach Andrew or Stacey will be more than happy to assist. 

Please note that we are looking at solutions to help golfers keep their tee shots on the course by improving tee shot angles off the tee.

Thanks everyone, and enjoy your golf! 

Weekly Member Drop-In Session 

In an effort to ensure accurate information is shared and to keep communication open, I will be making myself available on Monday, 16 February 2026 in the Marquee from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. 

Feel free to grab a coffee and join me to discuss any issues, concerns, or ideas you may have. If I don’t have an immediate answer for you, I will make sure to follow up as soon as possible. 

Your feedback and questions are always welcome—let’s keep the conversation going! 

Message from the Omokoroa Golf Club Board:

The Board has now released the Draft Constitution and the resulting draft Club Operating By Laws and Rules. If you haven’t received them, please contact the office or see attached.

These documents are the result of NZ Golf's Constitution Template, discussions with various Clubs from around New Zealand and your own Board.  Finally, we had a review by Cooney Lees Morgan Specialist Constitution Team.

We urge you to read them and any suggestions or changes you have, bring them to your next Player Group meeting at which Board Representatives will attend, or alternatively drop them into Allan at the golf office. 

As a Club we need to get this right before our SGM to ensure an acceptance of our new Constitution.

Click on a link below to view documents

 Draft Constitution - Omokoroa Golf Club (updated 5_2_26)(7218257.1) Clean .pdf 

OGC Policy_Procedures_0.6.pdf

 Membership Subscriptions 2026.pdf

Your input is important and valued.
If you have any feedback, please email:

Allan Botha – manager@omokoroagolf.co.nz

Fuel Up at the Caddie Shack – Because Golf Is Hard Enough 

You spoke, and we listened. 
Since we started, a number of members have shared feedback about our pies and whether we could improve the quality. While we don’t have access to a commercial kitchen to produce homemade pies, we have carefully reviewed our options and decided to change suppliers. 

We’re pleased to now be offering Oven Door pies, which are well known for their quality and consistency. As with most things, better quality does come at a slightly higher cost, and for this reason we’ve had to make a small increase to the price of our pies. 

We’ve kept this increase as modest as possible and remain committed to offering good value for money. We believe the improvement in quality will be worth it and hope you enjoy the change. Thank you, as always, for your continued support. 

 And a shout-out to our PaR n.z. Twilight Series golfers—the pre-order food option went brilliantly. Twilight players, give it a try! Your food will be ready exactly when you are… even if your swing isn’t. 

Support your on-course Caddie Shack and we’ll keep the cravings (and the golf-hanger) far, far away. 

PaR n.z. Twilight Series – Update 

What a stunning evening we had for Round 14 of the PaR n.z. Twilight Series! 

Congratulations to our winners:

Remember to take the night off cooking and support the Caddie Shack by grabbing your dinner there after golf. Great food, great atmosphere—it’s part of what makes Twilight such a fun weekly event. 

Please click here to view the season leaderboard: 

See you next week! 

The Word Around The Greens

Nathan Kerr, Head Green Keeper

As I mentioned in last week’s newsletter, we have had some mechanical issues with both the fairway mowers.

We now have the John Deere fairway mower back and the Toro fairway mower is expected back on Monday. We have managed to mow most of the fairways, so if you notice more grass clipping’s on the fairways than there usually would be, that is because they didn’t get mowed for over a week, and with this humid, wet, hot weather conditions we are getting it doesn’t take long for the grass to grow, very rapid growth at the moment.

With the humidity, comes fungal disease pressure on the greens and tee surfaces.

You may have noticed some dark black patches on some of the greens and approach’s and also some of the tees have a similar look.

These dark patches are a summer fungal disease called Melting Out.

It only occurs during high summer temperatures with humidity.

Also we have spot sprayed some of the flat weed growing in the greens with a selective herbicide which has caused some yellowing which is a normal reaction in the first week after applying this herbicide.

We are applying quality turf specific fungicides  every 2 weeks to keep the Melting Out disease under control, also we will be Virti draining the greens and tees surfaces which is punching little needle holes deep into the profile which is also a very effective practice to help eliminate fungal disease damage as the air flow into the profile and into the root zone helps a lot.

I have talked to some other green keepers around the area and have asked them if they are suffering with the same fungal disease and they all said they are battling it on there golf courses too so it’s not just our golf course with this particular disease.

We have some blocked drains around the golf course and have exposed them so you will see a few holes that have been dug up around the course at the moment.

Next week we will be fixing these drainage issues so all the holes that have been dug up will be filled in and cleaned up.

Enjoy your golf and when the sun is out I would make the most of playing as you never know what the weather will throw at us for the remaining of the summer.

9 Hole Ladies
Yvonne Hoskins

This week in perfect golfing weather we started the first of our championships with Round 1 of the Stableford Cup.  Some very good golf was played with our ladies getting in the low 20's for their stableford points.  Chris Kelly had a brilliant '2' on hole number 11.  Winners today were - Dianne Mahony, Libby Hobson, Daisy Harrison, Margaret Findsen and Jacqui Crossfield.  Maggie Seavill and Chris Kelly both received a ball.  Well done ladies.  Next week we will be having an 'away' game.

9 Hole Men
Fred Hartley

Men’s Nine Hole Golf - Thursday 12^th February

Round No 1 of the Stableford Cup

Front Nine                                    
1    Tom Martin         21                
2    Jim Avis                20                
3    Trevor Smith       19                
4    Colin Griffiths     19                

Back Nine
1    Ian Trott              23
2    Lynton Holmes   22
3    Jorg Burgi            21
4    Brett Dixon          21

You Travel Friday Haggle
Terry Golder

No Friday Haggle due to the rain Today

20th Feb no Haggle due to Vets pairs

Next haggle 27th Feb

Rental Property Required Summer 2027

We are joining Omokoroa Golf Club and looking for a private one bedroom place to rent from December 15 to March 15tih but our dates could be flexible.

Cheers,

Frances Kirkpatrick and Nik Maissen

fjknik@gmail.com