President's Report
Swampy Marsh

The Tee Markers are now all in ready for boxing up for concrete.

A big thank you to our ladies’ garden committee for keeping the gardens weeded and maintained.  Watch this space.

KD has been spreading soil on new cart path surrounds ready for seeding. Cheers KD.

The Greenkeepers are working on tee blocks at the moment, spiking and sanding. Your patience is appreciated.

John Holloway has been maintaining boundary pegs. Thanks John.

Big shout to the Ladies Thursday sewing bee, making changing rooms fresher and brighter.

Kudos to Rod Murray, who is retiring his mowing spot. We say a big thanks for his voluntary work.

Christmas Raffle is nearly full – drawn when full.

Manager's Message
Marcus Niles

Squash Festival
I am helping run the NZ Open and Men’s World Teams squash events starting next week.  We are lucky to have some of the worlds best players on our doorstep.  It will be an amazing event so I suggest you get along to have a look.  Details can be found at https://www.festivalofsquash.co.nz/

Friday Haggle
Each Friday we have a very popular Haggle that is open to all members and visitors.  If you are keen to join in, you simply roll up and have your card into the starters by 9am.  Its only $5 for the haggle, plus an applicable green fees. 

Christmas Cookies
If anyone is purchasing the cookie time buckets this year, we would welcome any donations of empty buckets to use for our range balls.  Drop them in to the office once you have scoffed them all!

Captains Corner
Daryl Muir

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow for the Christmas Tournament.  The weather looks cool but clear.  177 in the field, it will be a great day, good golfing everyone.

9 Hole Ladies
Astrid Martin

It was great to see our convenor Lyn Harrison back in our midst today, still smiling and managed to finish her round today. Good to see you again Lyn and we hope your good health continues to improve.

Today was the second round of the summer cup, stablefords.

Again we saw some amazing scores, proving that there is some awesome run on the fairways right now.

1st - Bev Hansen/Sue Waller  23
2nd - Brenda Anson                 22
3rd- Trish Fecklington               21

And on 20 we had Rohanne Hancock, Molly Dean. Mary McCardle, Astrid Martin, Jan Annabel and Jacqui Crossfield. Well done ladies.

"If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game would be played better than it is!" 

So true, happy golfing everyone.

9 Hole Men
Fred Hartley

Men's Nine Hole Golf, Thursday 30th November.
Interesting game, individual Stableford Powerplay- three selected holes have the score on each doubled. Prize winners were:- 

Front Nine   Frank Baggenstos              28   points
                     Ian Trott                             26       "              (countback)
                     Brett Dixon                        26       "
                     Colin Griffiths                    22       " 

Back Nine    Steve Crossfield                29   points
                     Wayne Butler                     28       "
                     Ken Hartley                       26       "                   (countback)
                     Francois Richter-Visser      26       " 

Next week:   The risky game of Odd Ball.

Vets Vibes
Scott Gwynne

Dates to keep in mind.
6 December  – Vets Haggle (Stableford and Twos & ‘Outta The Blue’ Hidden Holes).
13 December – Vet’s Christmas Hamper
20 December – Closing Day / Cross Country 

Results – Wednesday 1 November 
A smallish field on Wednesday but great golfing conditions and good scores. 

Stableford Comp – Division 1    1st Jim McCrone 41pts, 2nd  Geoff Gripton 40, 3rd Rod Murray 39.
                                  Division 2     1st Bob Duckworth 40pts, 2nd Terry Golder 39, 3rd Larry Mahony 38.

Twos –  Mark Dodd and Larry Mahony.

Best Gross – Congrat’s to Rob Mitford- Burgess and Rod Murray and Maxine Cotter for best gross rounds of the day.  Rod and Rob both scored 80 and Maxine 95.

Vet’s  Pairs Tournament 12 -14 February.
Entries into the Vet’s February 3 day tournament are now being received.  This is a popular tournament with a different format each day with sperate Men’s and Women’s competitions.  Entries can be made on line on the New Zealand Vet’s Website.  This website address will take you to the website     www.nzvga.co.nz       Then click on the link to Entry Forms

New Members.
Welcome to our new members. If you are a new member of our Golf Club reading this newsletter – Welcome. If you want to play Vet’s Golf and haven’t done so yet, or you want to receive the occasional email I send to Vet’s players about upcoming events and the like, give me a call or text me on 02102242799 or email Scott at scott.j.gwynne@gmail.com

Friday Haggle
Terry Golder

24 November 2023  (65 Entries)                                                

Div. 1     Clyde Roach        37
                Ross Capill           37
                Gus Gaskin          37                               

Div.2      Terry Golder        38
               Barbara Aitken   37
                Carol Downes    37                               

Note: Christmas The Christmas special Friday Haggle will be on 15 December.       

Twlight
Pink Leow

Another sunny evening enjoyed by a full field playing “Special Threes” format. Three holes with Stableford points added together, three holes multiplied together and three holes best points score only. Some good scoring with the winners, Jeff and Jamie Warren, amassing a total of 41 points. Jeff and Jamie have now opened up an early 4 point lead at the top of the season long leader board. They took home a $30 petrol voucher each, courtesy of Mike Deane Motors. An excellent performance also from Alison and Howard North who came in with a total of 40 points closely followed by Peter Cooke and Jacqui Pittendreigh with 39 points. The latest season long leaderboard can be found here.

Brittany and Ana were busy again in the kitchen and Jenny Davies was the lucky winner of the complimentary meal.

Sleeves of Titleist golf balls were won for nearest the pin - thanks to PaR n.z. Golfing Holidays, who also supplied a selection of Titleist golf caps for the lucky draw prizes. Winners of the longest putt prizes each received a cooler bag (ready for summer) courtesy of OneStaff Recruitment. As always the meat packs from Bethlehem Butchery were very popular prizes. It was great to see the club room full of a happy bunch of players.