Manager's Message
Marcus Niles

I've been away this week working at the NZ Open and Men's World Teams Squash Tournament and its been really good. Ive meet some pretty incredible people and enjoying so great networking. I am still away next week and will be back on the 18th. 

Omokoroa Open 

We still have some spots available for the Open next year 14th - 15th January. Make sure you have got your name in at the office. Individual and Team entries.

NYE Tournament 

We are now taking registrations in the office for the New Years Eve Tournament. Shotgun Start at 10am. Foresomes with a twist so grab a partner and pop your name down. 18 hole members $25, 9 Hole members $35 and visitors $45

9 Hole Men
Fred Hartley

Men's Nine Hole Golf, Thursday 7th December.

Stableford points scored only for the ODD Ball hit new levels today.

 Top scores:       

Barry Moss, Vic Sterling, Bruce Baggenstos- 24pts  Ted Parker, Frank Baggenstos, Ken Hartley, Denis Douglas  - 22pts, Horton Scofield, Alan Poore, Bruce Hickman, Barry Weir 20pts

Next Thursday:   Christmas Tournament,   Individual Stableford.

9 Hole Ladies

Astrid Martin

Festive day today, foursomes golf followed by our AGM, prizegiving , a skit about the perils of public toilets for females ( a real Hoot!), and of course, a delicious lunch provided by Brittany and Anna, and credit to Barbara from the office for being a jack of all trades on the day!!

Winners today were Rohanne Hancock and Betty Murray and second place, Astrid Martin and Molly Dean.

Thanks to our oncourse fairies for the xmas tarts and accompanying celebratory drink and to Dianne, Margaret, Astrid, Chris and Yvonne for setting up the tables so beautifully and everyone received a gift! Special thanks to our formattable Jaqui Kerr for running today and taking over from Lyn Harrison in her absence. You did a wonderful job Jaqui!!

Appreciation in spades to our outgoing conveyor, Lyn Harrison. Give  yourself a hearty pat on the back Lyn, the 9 hole ladies section is one to be proud of. Happy ladies, fun golf and post match bater, and all that starts from the top! Awesome job, now relax and enjoy your own golf.

Yvonne Hoskins will be our new convenor and we all know she will be just as amazing as her predecessor, so all the very best for 2024 Yvonne.

Saying good bye to 3 of our crew as they head to play 18 holes next year.

Robyn King, Mary Jane Luech and Astrid Martin. You will be missed, but we know you will come back and join us for games when you can, so good luck ladies!

Remember ladies, the best gift at xmas time is ....................YOU! so, be yourself, you'll adjust.

Thats it from me for 2023, thankyou for welcoming me into Omokoroa golf club, I truely am very happy here , thanks to all of you.

VETS VIBES

By Scott Gwynne

Dates to keep in mind.

13 December – Vet’s Christmas Hamper

20 December – Closing Day / Cross Country

Christmas Hamper – 13 December 2023

Yes that is next Wednesday!!  We have a prize pool exceeding $4,000.00 in value and everyone will receive a prize.

Entry is $10.00 per player.  All Vet’s can play, but if you haven’t been a regular Wednesday Vet’s player throughout the year you will only qualify for a lesser prize.

You can make up your own playing groups but please hand in all four cards together. Please don’t ask the Starters to put you with certain players. 

As a first in my time as a member of the club the Green Staff will be joining us for the day’s festivities … please make them feel welcome.

Results – Wednesday 1 November 

Fifty players played on Monday.  They started in drizzly benign conditions and finished in glorious sunshine A smallish field on Wednesday but great golfing conditions and good scores. 

Stableford Comp – Division 1    1^st Colin Gee 44 pts, 2^nd  Alan Thomson 40, 3^rd  Fintan Downes 40.

                                  Twos –  Colin Gee and Rob Mitford Burgess.

Best Gross – He has hit form!!!  Congrat’s to Colin Gee for an outstanding gross score of 74.  Colin’s round included 5 birdies.  You must be due some new golf clothing Colin. Well down mate.

‘Outta the Blue Hidden Holes (4,9,15) – Winner Terry Golder

Nearest the Pin – Terry Golder

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.  Just in case you are sitting back and waiting … it is nearly half full !!

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

1st December 2023 (61 entries) 

Div.1 Edward coop 40, Robin Francks 39, Allan Winter 38

Div.2 Judy Lewer 43, Ian Ltham 42, Jan Gill 41

Friday 15th December Christmas Special Haggle, Usual time.

Twilight
Pink Leow

This week competition was the famous (infamous!) “Coloured Ball” format. This always provides a lot of laughs and quite a few hard luck stories. No fewer than 12 teams managed to lose their Coloured Ball - 2 teams lost the ball on the very first hole, with the first shot even! Equally sad was the team who were doing pretty well when they lost the ball on the very last hole. 

Winners on the night were Joann and Mike Deane who won the 2 x $30 petrol vouchers, courtesy of Mike Deane Motors; quite a coincidence. Interesting to note that Joann and Mike lost their coloured ball on the very first hole when we played this format last year, but no such problem this time. Joann and Mike very generously passed over this prize and chose instead the 2 sets of club covers, courtesy of PaR n.z. Golfing Holidays. In second place were Nathan Lewis and Ben Bell closely followed by Dee and Peter McCrea. The season long leader board can be found here. 

The winner of the complementary meal courtesy of Brittany and Ana was Brian Taylor, who also very generously gifted this back to the caterers. A very busy night for Brittany and Ana and Vivienne who served up over 90 meals.

A big Congratulations to Jamie Warren who had a Hole in One on the 11th hole during practice before the Twilight competition started. As he described it, 1 bounce and in. Jamie has not been playing golf for very long so this was a great effort. Unfortunately, he could not repeat this during the main event when he put his tee shot on the 11th straight into the trees on the left.