Tauranga has recorded the coldest night of the year so far with 1.7 °C, and a heavy frost on the golf course this morning. At least the polar blast wind on Monday and Tuesday is now gone and the weekend weather is looking great. Wrap up warm and enjoy your round of golf.

I’Anson Trophy (11th July)

This annual event is hosted at Omokoroa Golf club on 11th July from 10am. We are expecting a field of 120 players from Tauranga, Mount Maunganui, Omanu, Otumoetai, Te Puke and Omokoroa. Hopefully the weather God is good to us to showcase our beautiful golf course to the visitors.

Twilight Golf Fans

To all the Twilight Golf fans, I am still working on the format for the upcoming season from October to March 2022. It is perhaps a good time to start thinking about choosing your playing partner (Team of 2). We will try to introduce some fun each week with different playing formats. If you are happy to help or to sponsor this event, email me on omokcaptain@gmail.com

This Week’s Results:

Saturday ladies haggle – Pink Leow, Deborah Rose, Lynda Smith

Tuesday ladies haggle – Jan Gyenge, Donna Dyer, Janice Bell

All ladies who finished the round on Tuesday are to be congratulated as the weather was foul. All consequently received a prize.

Pennants:

Tuesday ladies played the final round of BOP Matchplay Pennants on Monday, this time at Tauranga Golf Club. We were ably represented by Liz Clark, Pink Leow and Cherry Reehal in the Silver division and Christine Millward, Dee McCrea and Diana Price in the Bronze. All six ladies won their match making Omokoroa equal winners on the day! Over the four matchplay rounds in the BOP competition, Omokoroa finished 5th overall in Silver and 4th overall in Bronze. Well done everyone, a great effort.

Ilma Shergold:

On Wednesday after Vets’ golf we farewelled foundation member Ilma Shergold in the company of current members and several of Ilma’s former golfing buddies. It was a super afternoon of catching up and reminiscing. Ilma may have retired from golf but she’ll will be back to present the Shergold Trophy and to join the ladies on social occasions.

Annan Law Saturday Men’s Club Day

We play the 1/4 Finals of the Handicaps Matchplay this week. The tee off times have been sent out and are on the Clubhouse window with the draw. Competitors can play their matches in their own time if both players are agreeable.

Handicap Pennants Interclub

Our team were narrowly beaten by the Mount Club. Unfortunately, two of our team had carts booked and had to default when the Tauranga Club closed the course to carts on Sunday morning. With so many players involved in the Eagles Tournament at our course, we were unable to get any replacements and defaulted the two matches. Ben Van Den Borst, Tyler King and Jonathan Lewis had wins while Neil Howard halved his match. The Team play against the Fairview Side at Otumoetai this Sunday in the Plate Event.

Fundraiser Event for Caitlan Maurice

A large number of Omokoroa Players are participating in an Ambrose Tournament at Te Puke on Sunday to help Caitlan on her journey to University in USA.

Eagles Foursomes Event

Unfortunately, a wet and windy day meant there were a lot of withdrawals on Sunday in the annual Eagles Tournament. We had 57 pairs lined up, but ended up with only 38 playing on the day. It was still a fun format and the visitors certainly enjoyed our Course.

Kiwi All Stars

Stableford points were used to determine this weeks winning team with the Kiwis scoring an average of 13.5 to the ROTW 12.89.

The Kiwi All Stars are therefore worthy winners of the trophy and the final match next week is a dead rubber. However the ROTW team will no doubt be eager to avoid a whitewash.

Winners of the Stableford Haggle were:

Division 1

Frank Baggenstos 18

Ken Hartley 17

Alan Winter 17

Bob Duckworth 16

Division 2

Denis Douglas 18

Kevin Crossman 17

Jerry Walker 16

Francis Jackson 15

2’s

Congratulations to Horton Schofield for scoring a 2 on Hole #4

Raffle prizes went to Barry O’Brien, Ted Parker and Tom Hansen.

9H Ladies Haggle 

visitor to our haggle from Orewa. It was a stunning day for golf

although maybe not all scores reflected this.

Nett haggle: Trish Frecklington and Daisy Harrison took out the win with

34, Robyn Lusby 35, Jacqui Crossfield and Gail Latham 36. Well done ladies

Interclub 

Hoskins and Dianne Mahony playing at Tauranga on Monday.

Medical events
We had another ambulance to the course this week. A reminder if you have not already to please register any medical conditions with the office so we have info on hand should an ambulance be called for you.