After a months break following the Vet's three day tournament Vet's Vibes is back. The weather has been mostly kind for Wednesday competition in the last few weeks but not entirely. I hear there was one day when only a few hardy souls turned up for the Wednesday Haggle and went out to brave the elements.

Congratulations to those players who scored well in the first round of the Sunvue Strokeplay Championship last Wednesday. There were some pretty amazing scores out there. Well done Sandra Gee, Colin Gee, Ross Milne and Larry Neilson.

Although written in advance, by the time you read this, the qualifying round of the Western Tray Match Play for both Men and Ladies will have been played. If you qualify in the top 32 then it is important that you note the dates of the subsequent rounds to ensure that you can complete your match.

It is early days in the Naked Meats Shootout but I see that Donna Dyer and Colin Gee are the early leaders, albeit narrowly. It is still not too late to enter. The competitions run through to November with a players 5 best nett scores counting toward the final qualifying result.

Dates to keep in mind are; Next Wednesday is a Mixed Pairs Stableford event and 12 April - BOP Vet's at Kawerau, 19 April - Men's Quads at Mt Maunganui,

Happy golfing folks.

Triangular Trophy @ Whangamata

Many thanks to the 31 members who made the trip to Whangamata to represent the club in the Triangular Trophy tournament on 21^st March. Congratulations to both Robin Clark and Ayna Apanui as our top Stableford scorers, wining big meat packs.

Whangamata made good use of the home course advantage, winning all three trophies up for grabs. Hopefully we will win our trophy back when we host it next year in Omokoroa.

Twilight Golf (Wednesday)

SHOT GUN Start to help celebrate the end of the season. Card in by 5:15pm for 5:30pm SHOT GUN start. BBQ, Spot prizes and Lucky Draw! Make sure you bring along your sweater as it is getting cooler in the evening.

Gentle Reminder

The Ladies will be hosting their Easter Tournament on 29^th March. Please check Tee Booking sheet for causal play Tee booking time.

Call up Holes

The Players committee has agreed to trial run Call Up holes on the Par 3 during the Ladies Easter Tournament. Hopefully to speed up play to avoid groups waiting on the Par 3 Tees.

This Week

LGU this week with a nett haggle and the start of Birdie Trees and Eclectics. LGU buttons over the last two months were awarded almost exclusively to Tuesday players however Lynda Smith came to the party for the Saturday players. Winners were Robyn Alabaster, Barbara Aitken, Brenda Arnesen (2), Mary Findlay, Lynda Smith and Gail Broomhall.

Penants

Good luck and good golfing to our Pennants Team playing at Waihi on Friday. This is the final of the Association Pennants Competition and our 18 hole girls are currently lying in 3^rd position. Our fabulous 9 holers are leading their competition so keep it up you clever ladies. The teams are:-

18 holers – Dawn Day, Barbara Aitken, Cherry Reehal, Pink Leow, Cathy Berry and Dee McCrea.

9 holers – Rohanne Hancock, Robyn King, Yvonne Hoskins and Diane Mahoney.

Easter Open Tournament

Less than a week now until our Easter Open Tournament on Monday 29^th and you have until Thursday to enter, the draw being done on Thursday mid-afternoon and no late entries accepted. This will be a fun day with prizes in gross, nett, stableford, novelty prizes, spot prizes and raffles so don’t miss out.

Round 1 of our Nett Trophy competition was completed last Thursday with 34 contenders making for a good opening to this trophy contest.

Another perfect autumn day saw some good scores in both divisions. Those of you who didn’t have such a good day still have another 5 rounds to make amends!

Division 1
Money Winners were:

• Lynton Holmes 32
• Kevin Bowick 33
• Allan Hoskins 33
• Jim Avis 34
• Ted Parker 35

Division 2
Money Winners were:

• Ernest Taylor 30
• Bruce Baggenstos 34
• Steve Crossfield 35
• David Bennett 35
• Spencer Tankard 36

Raffle
Prizes went to:

• Bruce Baggenstos Chocolates
• Ted Parker Wine
• Malcolm Cartwright $10

Congratulations to all our winners.

Next Thursday 25th we will play Hidden Partners and the format will be Stableford

Happy Golfing...

Annan Law Saturday Men’s Club Day

This week the Finals of the Matchplay Championships are played. The seniors, Intermediates and Junior finalists will play their matches over 36 holes. They will tee off in the morning, have a meal break after 18 holes and then tee off after the 11 a.m. haggle competitors and Presidents Grade Finalists have all started.

Matchplay Finals

# 1 Blue Tee

8.00 a.m. Junior Final : Murray Browne v Tracey Robinson plus another pair

8.07 a.m. Intermediate Final: Brett Dingle v Ravi Shearman and

Senior Final: Andrew Pratt v Stephen Wallace

# 1 White Tee

11.00 a.m. Presidents Grade Final: Mark Yalden v Bruce Chapman

Well done to all the players on reaching the Finals and may you all have a great match.

The haggle players will be off both the blue and white tees.

This Saturday we are having a lucky member draw for a player who is attendance at prize giving of $250.

The Reehals clean up.

I play in a business house competition over the summer at the Mount Club and after the round on Monday was impressed to find the winner and third places were our own Cherry and Tim Reehal. As BMW were the sponsors Cherry thought she might have won a car with her outstanding 42 points. They did come away with generous vouchers.

Hugh Clark