The new 8^th green project is coming along very nicely. I had a sneak peek last Friday and a chat to the hardworking team. It’s going to be a beautiful 2 tier green with some challenges on the left of the green (a new bunker), and a drop off to the right.

Course Matters

The 11^th Fairway is now in full playing condition. Please continue to tee up golf balls on the 16^th Fairway until further notice.

Triangular Trophy @ Whangamata Golf course (21^st March)

More than 30 Omokoroa members will be heading up to Whangamata for this yearly golf event held between Whangamata, Waihi and Omokoroa. Anyone wanting to join in this fun day please call me on 02108195531 before 17^thMarch.

Twilight 24^th March with a Twist

To help celebrate the end of the current Twilight Season, we would like to organise a BBQ to help celebrate a successful and fun event. Rather than the usual rolling start, it wlll be a SHOT GUN start from 5:30pm. Cards in by 5:15pm. There will be some spot prizes, on-top of the lucky draw prizes !

This week both Saturday and Tuesday ladies played Round 2 of the Bev Caithness and Association Stableford event. Best Saturday score was Sue Thomson on 37.

Round 1 of our Stableford Cup and Putting Trophy Competitions were carefully dovetailed in between thunderstorms (almost, some of us did get wet!!)

On a beautiful, clear day 31 Intrepids set out with a singular focus on getting ourselves on the scoreboard. Not every one succeeded.

All were mindful of the darkening clouds advancing from the Kaimais! Being intrepid we all played on regardless!!

Division 1 Intrepids in the Stableford Competition who took home the money were:

• Roy Kerr 19
• Ken Hartley 19
• Steve Crossfield 19
• Malcolm Cartwright 19

Division 2 Intrepids for the Stableford Competition who took home the money were:

• Frank Baggenstos 20
• Spencer Tankard 19
• Jerry Walker 19
• Alan Poore 19

Best of the Intrepid Putters were:

• Alan Poore 15
• Colin Griffiths 15
• Roy Kerr 15

Raffle Prizes went to:

• Horton Schofield Wine
• Tony Welch $10
• Colin Griffiths Chocolates

Next Thursday is Round 1 of our Nett Trophy Competition.

And again the same rules apply, play 6 rounds and drop your worst two.

To be in contention players must play at least 4 rounds and be 9 Hole members.

Annan Law Saturday Men’s Club Day

The Matchplay Semi- Finals will be played this Saturday with the tee times as follows;

#1 White Tees

11.00 a.m. J. Marsh v M. Yalden and N. Andrews v B. Chapman

11.07 a.m. J. Graham v M. Browne and T. Robinson v G. Scantlebury

#1 Blue Tees

11.14 a.m. B. Dingle v R. Turner and E. Davies v R. Shearman

11.21 a.m. M. Craig v A. Pratt and S. Wallace v B. Pirani

Good luck to all the semi- finalists and for everyone else there will be the usual haggle.

Interclub Pennants

We had 2 teams that played on Sunday. The Intermediates lost to Omanu 3-6 with the only singles winner being Brett Dingle who hung tough for a win on the 18th. The Juniors had their first loss of the year to Tauranga by 3.5-5.5. Gordy Wingate and Al Nicholls won both their singles and four all matches. Great to see Al playing some good golf again.

A reminder to everyone that if you want to make a tee booking in the Clubhouse to use the computers yourself and not do it through the office. Deb and Sandra are busy enough without having to do your bookings online.

CART TRAIL

For those who have been waiting patiently the new Cart trail display tickets will be available for collection from Monday at the office. They are a new colour so will stand out for the new year. Cart trail memberships will also be lining up with our annual renewal date of the 1 April and prorated accordingly.

NEW MEMBERS

Welcome to all our new members:

Sage Ahomiro, Andrew Hoogeveen, Chris Lynch, Jill Lynch, Francois Richter-Visser, Rohan Shearman, Ian Walker and Brooke Wanoa

FACEBOOK PAGE

Don’t forget to like and share our Omokoroa Golf facebook page. Regular posts going out on there for you all to enjoy. We have just over 100 members so I know there must be about 4-500 of you still to like us. Link here : https://www.facebook.com/Omokoroagolf

Another busy week on the course with the contractor putting the finishing touches to the bund and walkway. Hydroseeding took place Monday and Tuesday so we will start to see some green tinges in a fortnight or so. The contractor forming the green is well on the way to dressing the area with topsoil and informs me that he could be finished by the end of the week. The green itself and the tee are coming along nicely but it will be a few months before they come into play. The 9th and 18th tees will move back to their normal places within the next day or two.

There seems to be a few members that think that the staff are allowing volunteers to perform more duties than themselves. Do these members realize that the staff have done half a days work before members get to the course!!! We do not have a resident mechanic therefore all the maintenance servicing and sharpening of machinery falls into their hands. They have to deal with paperwork company reps and new product education and a thousand other things. So if you see a volunteer pitching in doing something why not give him or her a hand, (the staff are busy doing something else)

Just a reminder that coring week starts on the 12th of April. Your help would be much appreciated.

Fabulous day here Monday with the Omokoroa Number 1 school. Here is the correspondence we received from the Principal...

Thanks again to the Omokoroa Golf Club and your team for letting us use the course for our first dads Golf day. We all had a great time and are definitely keen to make it an annual event on our fundraising calendar.

Hilton Gardiner is the one who hit the hole in one.

Glenn Meikle is the owner of 'Mount Brewing Company' and Riki Walls (red shirt) is the owner of 'The Flying Mullet'. They both donated the prize of 50 Dozen Big Bottles (crates) to the winner. They have sponsored approximately 30 Golf Tournaments over the past 4 years and this is the first time that someone has hit a hole in one.