What a fantastic night last Friday! We were treated to some great entertainment from Two’s Company and friends (Peter, Jackie, Jenna and our very own Bruce Lauchlan and Partrick Hawkins). Everything from Pavarotti to Michael Jackson – and plenty in between. Check out some photos on www.facebook.com/Omokoroagolf

Hopefully we can arrange another one for later in the year.

Twilight (Hot news)

I have now also secured a PaRnz Golfing Holiday as part of the sponsorship for Twilight. They will be sponsoring entries to one of their Tournaments in NZ as part of the end of season prize table. This is in addition to very generous sponsorship from The Clubroom and Bethlehem Butchery. I have posted the Twilight Flyer and Competition sheet details by the Ladies and Men’s Cloak Room. Email me on omokcaptain@gmail.com if you are available to help run the Twilight event.

Do you know….

...You can search for a member telephone number on Omokoroa Golf website? All you need to do is login with your membership no. on www.omokoroagolf.co.nz

Click on Members and select Member Directory

If you prefer NOT to share your contact details, you can make changes under My Profile and click/unlick on Hide Phone numbers from other members option.

Blocked Drains
Some of the drains around the golf course are blocked up with tree roots and sediment so over the next month there will be work being done to un block them so please be understanding of any mess while we work on these issues.

Cart Use during Winter
I have been impressed with the members who use carts as you all seem to be sticking to the cart paths and the rough, keep it up please. I have been allowing cart use for the members only until the course is dryer but there will be days through the winter where it will be too wet to allow carts on the course at all.

Par 3 Sand bins
On all our par 3 tees and on the practice tee there are green sand bins full of sand to fill your divots in. Me and the team have noticed that not many golfers are actually utilising the sand after taking a divot. The Benefit of replacing your divot with sand is to give the grass a chance to grow back into the sand instead of growing back into a divot hole and the sand also speeds the process up for the turf to grow back, so please take the time to fill your divots with the sand available.

New Greens Team Member
I would like to welcome Mike Harding who has been employed as the assistant superintendent green keeper.

Mike comes with a wealth of knowledge as he has been in the turf industry for over 25 years so when you see him out on the course please give him a warm Omokoroa welcome.

Annan Law Saturday Men’s Club Day

This Saturday we have the first round of the Club Strokeplay Championships. It will be 4 rounds over consecutive Saturdays and there are four divisions; Division I(up to 8.9), Div II(9.0-15.6), Div III(15.7-23.4) and Div IV( 23.5 and over). A chance for you all to get your name on the honours board beckons!

Senior/Junior competition

After being reduced to a one rounded event our winners this year were Jean-marc Colomar and Dale Courtney who pipped James Graham and Marty Jordan on a count back. Jean-marc had a superb round nett 64 and unfortunately was not at prize giving when his name was drawn out to win the lucky $250 member draw. Gordy Wingate won the prize with the re-draw.

Laing Cup Handicap Pennants

On Sunday Our team lost 3.5 -5.5 to the Tauranga Club at Fairview. Ben Van Den Borst, James Graham and Jordy Shaw won their matches and Sonny Tay retained his undefeated run with a halved match.

Matchplay Championships

The Ladies’ Matchplay Championships Finals were held last Sunday in rather unpleasant weather conditions. Congratulations to winners and indeed to all who participated. This year’s field was the largest we’ve had in some years. Special thanks to unplaying members who braved the elements to support the players, also to the inteprid caddies and markers. Our awards presenter this year was Jessie Savage whose name appears many times on several of the trophies over the 40 years she has played at Omokoroa. Thank you, Jessie.

Results:

Silver: Champion: Anya Apanui Runner Up: Sue Thomson

Bronze 1: Champion: Chrissie Anderson Runner Up: Jenny Shirley

Bronze 2: Champion: Diana Price Runner Up: Janice Bell

Bronze 3: Champion: Janice Murray Runner Up: Mary Findlay

Silver Plate: Cherry Reehal df Dawn Day

Bronze 1 Plate: Dee McCrea df Christine Millward

Bronze 2 Plate: Judy Lewer df Diane Hughes

Bronze 3 Plate: Deborah Rose df Gail Broomhall

Pennants:

A great win for our Saturday Pennants team at Omanu last Sunday. Dawn Rumney, Liz Woods, Celia Crawshaw and Debbie Clark all scored well to elevate the team to first overall. The third and final round is at Waihi on 1 August.

Barometer Day:

Best wishes to our team of 8 playing at Tauranga on Friday – Pink Leow, Cherry Reehal, Dee McCrea, Janice Bell, Barbara Ellingford, Christine Millward, Bev Hansen and Robyn King.

Woman's 9 Holers v 18 Holers Event: 

The steam will be rising when this event takes place next Thursday. With the exquisite Ellingford Trophy up for grabs, it’s bound to become the competition of the year. Be warned, 9 hole ladies, here we come!

Waihi winners
Beating out 28 other teams at Waihi Golf course last Friday in the ladies teams best 3 of 4 Stableford competition was a team that included 3 of our ladies. Congratulations to the winning team: Zoe Baguley-Skayman, Liz Woods, Deborah Rose (Omokoroa) and Billie-Jo Simmons (Waihi) winning with 118 points.

Carts Team Thanks 
Massive thanks to our wonderful team of cart cleaning volunteers. The carts are once again looking fabulous and we are extremely grateful to you all for putting you hand up to help out.

Compressor
Thanks to everyone who has reported in on the compressor being faulty. Turns out what it needs is a new handle and this is being arranged.

Hedge to 10th
The piecemeal hedge running down to the 10^th green is being removed. It will be replaced with Camelia hedging which is being put around the course to start creating a more cohesive look to our plantings. Volunteers are taking care of this project. Kevin Donald is the man to see if you have expertise and want to be part of the team working on this project.

Produce Stand
Thanks to all the generous suppliers of Avocados, kiwifruit, lemons and limes. I am wondering if we might have someone who has a relatively small unused produce stand they would gift the club?

Or perhaps one of you handy people could build us a nice one? Preferably with wheels so the office can move it in when windy. I think it would be nice to get these items up off the ground and when spring/summer rolls around we might even start to get from some of you smart gardeners, a nice overflow of vegetables/tomato’s coming in as well. Let’s see.

If you have one you don’t use perhaps you might think about donating it? Or if one of the players groups would like to help with this then please speak to me.

Successful social event
Well done Pink and her team and Jarrod in the kitchen for a very enjoyable roast and boogie event last Friday night. You are to be very highly commended. It is great to see members enjoying a fun social night out. That dance floor was HOT!

Operation 36 – Junior Coaching
This coming week The Clubroom Academy and Juniors kick off again with Hayden Beard. The lessons this term are for 1 hour on a Thursday afternoon over 8 weeks, with a beginners (3.30pm) and advanced program (4.30pm).  $145

The week that was:

We had a great turnout for golf yesterday. Lovely warm sunny day made for happy golfers.

Winners of net comp:  Yvonne Hoskins 36
                                    Rohanne Hancock 37
                                    Jacqui Kerr 37

Putting winners: Pauline Thurston, Jacqui Crossfield, Shirley Johnston.

Week that was

Apart from some initial fog the course conditions were as predicted. Dan Corbett got it mostly right!

The Haggle prize money went to: