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Last Tuesday the Grumpies were joined by the Wairarapa Vets, making the group around 40 players. The Stableford competition placed Brenda Blatchford 1^st with 40 points. There were three players on 39 points – Larry Ashmore (Mstn), Tony Capes (Eke), Meki Lauvi (Mahunga). The weather was great, and only a few were caught out with the one off earlier start time of 10am.

Thursday Club saw a field of 54 players. A Stableford round, 1^st on 41 points Matt Thomas, 2^nd on a countback with 40 points Andrew Sim, 3^rd Felicity Warren 40 points. Twos – Matt Thomas had Triple Twos! on #6 #8 #16, Lloyd Warren on #6, Bob Lindberg #8, Doug Clark #9 (that’s an Eagle!), Warwick McKee #12, and Andrew Tuck #16. Nearest the Pin went to Doug Clark.

Coming up:

Wed 14 May – Martinborough Women’s Golf Open

Sat & Sun 17 & 18 May – Weekend Comp – Stableford

Sun 18 May – Marquis Shield @ Mahunga

Sun 18 May – Tilson Salver Final @ Castlepoint vs Mahunga

Mon 2 Jun – Martinborough Kindergarten Fundraiser

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at – Bruce Lee

Happy golfing 🙂

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Beef & Burgundy results – 29 teams enjoyed a cool but clear day on Sunday with the following Net scores – 1^st 56 Doug Clark, Olivia Clark, Brian Russo, Mike Charteris, 2^nd 56.25 Anna Possenniskie, Debbie Donaldson, Amy Linton, Pip Mackie, 3^rd 57.12 Michael Bing, Lisa-Marie Ireland, Tiawharangi Aranui, Ayden Lambert, 4^th 57.12 Shane Hartnell, Nigel Malneek, Craig Colton, Scott Reid, 5^th 58.87 David Stevenson, Ben Stevenson, Geoff Smart, Peter Cottier, 6^th 59.5 John Warner, Julie Warner, Tim Richards, Marie Scrimshaw, 7^th 59.5 Trevor Petersen, Sandra Petersen, Alastair Petersen, Kelly Taylor, 8^th 59.62 Johnson Williams, Takarangi Williams, Wero Williams, Steve Harley, 9^th 59.75 Carol Parkinson, Lyall Callaghan, David Lewis, Robert Gladwell, 10^th 60.25 Robbie Walters, Karen Shaw, Vern Anton, Shane Hislop. Nearest the Pins – #6 & #8 Kingi Kawhai, #12 Shane Hartnell, #16 Paul McKenzie. Longest drive #13 – Ladies Amy Linton, Mens Jason Shaw, Longest drive #18 – Ladies Amy Linton, Mens David Lewis.

Coming up:

Sat & Sun 10 & 11 May – Weekend Comp – Medal/Putting, Shootout Round 7 & 8

Sat 10 May – Men’s Interclub – Div 2 @ Mornington vs Mornington

                        Div 9 @ Trentham vs Trentham

                        Div 12 @ Martinborough vs Manor Park

Sun 11 May – Tilson Salver @ Riversdale vs Riversdale

Mon 12 May – Ladies Interclub – Silver hosting Miramar vs PBGC, and RWGC vs Shandon

Wed 14 May – Martinborough Women’s Golf Open, Womens open day 2025 1.pdf

Mon 2 Jun – Martinborough Kindergarten Fundraiser, flyer attached

Happy golfing 🙂

Please update your contact details for the golf club to our new email address – office@mgcgolf.nz 

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Grand Day of Golf – Results from Sunday 27 April. Fantastic weather and a wonderful turnout. Thank you to everyone that came along to enjoy the day, and to Greytown Orchards Retirement Village for their sponsorship. Winner of the Men’s Ngahau Trophy Tim Loe with 41 Stableford points, Women’s Ngahau Trophy winner Jo-Anne Loe 40 Stableford points, Grandpas winner was Barry Johnson 48 Stableford points, and the Grandmas winner was Lorraine Little 50 Stableford points. Non-Grandpas winner Brett Abercrombie 42 points, Non-Grandmas winner Julie Warner 44 points. The Bill Jones ‘Shoot Your Age’ winner Ro Griffiths. Best Junior was Hunter Smith, Best Intergenerational pair Hunter Smith & Andrew Smith. Great to see a Nearest to the Pin going to a Junior, our own Freddie Gloag.

Grumpies – early start on Tuesday 6 May – 10am.  Clubhouse/Bar closed for private function 4-6pm.

Thursday Club results 24 April – Stableford – 1^st Mike Charteris 43 points, 2^nd Craig Oldfield 42 points, 3^rd Martin Napier 42 points. Two twos for Bevan Sweeney and Shane Hislop both on #6 and #8.  David Weir on #6, Derek Stephens, Chris Ranish, Malcolm Wood, and Brent McKinlay on #8, and on #12 Sarah Monaghan. Nearest to the Pin was Bevan Sweeney.

Grumpies results 22 April – Stableford – 1^st Malcolm Wood 44 points, 2^nd Carol Parkinson 41 points, 3^rd Pete Halstead 40 points. A Two for Malcolm Wood on #6, and Rob Coy on #8.

Found at the Martinborough Hotel – blue denim jacket PJ Jeans & Co. It belongs to one of our ladies club members. Please collect from MGC Office.

Coming up:

Sat 3 May – Weekend Comp – Par

Sat 3 May – Men’s Interclub – Div 2 @ home vs Masterton

            Div 9 @ home vs Boulcotts Farm

            Div 12 @ Karori vs Karori

Sun 4 May – Beef & Burgundy Ambrose – Course Closed

Mon 5 May – Ladies Interclub – Silver @ Shandon vs Miramar

Bronze @ Paraparaumu Beach vs Kapiti

Champions keep playing until they get it right – Billie Jean King

Happy golfing 🙂

Hello Golfers.

9-hole Ladies update – Wednesday 2 April we travelled to Masterton for the annual Southey Honda.  1st – Jan Thompson, Masterton on 32, 2nd – Alison  Russell, Martinborough Golf Club on 34, 3rd – Gill Neal, Masterton on 35. We did clean up Closest to the Pin – Lorraine Little and longest drive Helen Williams. Well done you two. Next year- The Cup!!!

Wednesday 9 April – Putting – always polarising…Ist equal Sue Wilson & Jenny Joblin on 17 putts, 2nd equal Sarah Harvey & Gaylene Selby Neale on 18. PGG Wrightsons Nearest The Pin No 16 Alison Russell, No 8 Leonie Wilde.

Also Wednesday 9 April – Fabulous two days at Feilding playing in the 9+9 tournament, (now it’s 5th year). Tingay Davidson won Nearest the Pin and Longest Drive in Division Two. Well done Tingay.

Wednesday 16 April – This week we had a fantastic turnout and played a Par round part of the Sue Bunt competition  in cool conditions. Results – Ist Tania Williamson +6, 2nd Tingay Davidson +5, 3rd equal Alison Russell and Jenny Joblin on +4. Closest to the Pin No 16 Jo Guscott, No 8 Kay Harvey.  We all enjoyed a lovely lunch in the warm and cosy clubhouse.

18-hole Ladies update – Wednesday 16 April.  A field of 19 players – 1^st Wow Angela Busby 44 stableford points, 2^nd Nicola Warren with 42 points (Personal Best), 3^rd Karen Delehanty (Personal Best) with 41 points on a count back from Marie Scrimshaw, 5^th Sarah Monaghan who scored the only Two of the day and scored 40 points.

Closest to the Pin was Georgie Wadey on #6 and Sandra Petersen on #8.

Pennants next game is 28 May. The Bronze team @ Judgeford

The Silver team is @ Royal Wellington

Tilson next game 11 May at Riversdale Beach

Riverside next game is 30 May @ Masterton

A reminder to get your entries in for the Greytown Orchard Grand Golf Day this Sunday (27th) with the new category for Juniors this year, and also for best Inter-generational pair – so grab an older/younger partner and get entered for a grand day of golf.

Coming up:

Fri 25 April – ANZAC day

Sat 26 April – Weekend Comp – Stableford

Sun 27 April – Grand Golf Day, flyer attached

Sun 4 May – Beef & Burgundy Ambrose, flyer to come

Happy golfing 🙂

Hello Golfers.

St Johns results – Wow, Net 54.87 for the top two winning teams, with Byron Karaitiana, Tyrone Ewington, Lucas Grant, and Justin Karaitiana winning the day on a countback, 2^nd Doug Clark, Stu Taplin, Bevan Sweeney, and Carl Petersen. 3^rd Josh Hawkins, Daniel Hawkins, Julie Gray, and Mark Gray. A total of 28 teams entered, thank you on behalf of St Johns for a wonderful turnout 🙂

Mark your diaries for the Grandest Day of Golf – Sunday 27 April. It’s the last day of the school holidays and our traditional Grandma/Grandpa day has been elevated across all generations.
Yes, you can still compete for the Grandma, Grandpa (members only), and Ngahau trophies (committee and staff only) – but we’ve added so much more:
*non Grandma and Grandpas (the rest of us!)
*Best Inter-generational pair
*New Juniors division
*Longest drive in all divisions including Juniors
*Longest putt
*Nearest the Pins
*The Bill Jones challenge to “shoot your age” – a trophy to the closest
*and you go in a prize draw just for turning up!

This is all made possible by our new sponsors for the annual event Greytown Orchards Lifestyle Retirement who are all about living well in retirement. We welcome them to our family.

So wrangle your family members, all generations, and come out for a great day of inter-generational golf.
entries@mgcgolf.nz 

And please give a warm welcome to Molly Bonne, who’ll be running the Office from Tuesday to Saturday. Welcome Molly.

There are a couple of busy weeks/weekends ahead with the School Holidays, Easter, and Anzac weekend. Book your tee times either online or give us a call in the Office, and book any carts required too.

Lost property – we have plenty of it and the boxes are overflowing. Collect any lost property before it goes to the Salvation Army in a couple of weeks’ time.

Coming up:

Sat & Sun 19 & 20 April – Weekend Comp – Medal/Putting & Shootout Round 5

18 – 21 April – Easter

25 April – ANZAC day

27 April – Grandest Day of Golf, details above

4 May – Beef & Burgundy Ambrose

Hello Golfers.

Men’s Interclub takes a break now for the School Holidays, Easter, and Anzac weekend. After 8 rounds Div 2 sit at 2^nd following Masterton GC, Div 9 lead their division, and Div 12 are in 5th. Round 9 is 3 May.

The Ladies have a two week break from Interclub. 

18-hole Ladies – Nancy McCormack was played in pretty good golf weather. Angela Busby did an outstanding job as the organiser of the day. She also produced more wonderful raffles. The current holders of the trophy, Julie Dondertman/Jaquee Reid won again with a net 129 after two rounds, 2^nd Sarah Monaghan/Netia Morison with 133, 3^rd Sherry Weatherstone/Adele Cairns with 135, and 4^th Carol Parkinson/Angela Busby with 136.

The PAR weekend competition had 31 entries on Sunday 6 April with Alec Dondertman well ahead of the pack with +9, followed by Julie Warner +5 , and Seamus O’Sullivan +3 on a countback. Alec also scored the only Two of the day of #8.

Coming up:

Fri 11 April – St John Wairarapa Charity Golf Tournament (flyer attached)

Sat & Sun 12 & 13 April – Weekend Comp – Stableford

18 – 21 April – Easter

25 April – ANZAC day

Christina & Molly’s Quote of the Day – No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot – Chi Chi Rodriguez

Happy golfing 🙂

Hello Golfers.

9-hole Ladies update– After 2 weeks off due to weather and coring of the greens, it was great to see some sun on the course last week! The greens were tricky to read after the coring work! But looking great.

Wednesday 19th March saw us play the first round of our Thurlow 4BBB with some impressive pairs. This competition is played over another 2 rounds. And the individual winners Stableford round were – 1st Sarah Harvey 25 points, 2nd – Jo Guscott 22 points, 3rd equal – Tingay Davidson, Sherryl Howie, and Lizzy Thompson all on 21 points.
This coming Wednesday will see us travel to Masterton for the Southey Honda competition. We look forward to a strong contingent representing Martinborough Golf Club.

Thursday Club Stableford results from 27 March – 1^st Graham Wilson 44 points, 2^nd Mariana McDermott 43 points, on a countback from 3^rd David Kershaw. Mariana scored a Two on #6, and Twos on #8 for Bob Schofield, Brian Russo, Kris Mason, Johnson Williams, and Jason Shaw. Nearest the Pin was Kris Mason.

Coming up:

Wed 2 April – 9-hole Southey Honda @ Masterton

Sat & Sun 5 & 6 April – Weekend Comp – Par

Sat 5 April    - Men’s Interclub Div 2 @ home vs Judgeford

            - Men’s Interclub Div 9 @ Karori vs Karori

            - Men’s Interclub Div 12 @ home vs Titahi Bay

Sun 6 April – Daylight Saving ends, as do Summer memberships

Sun 6 April – Tilson Salver @ Masterton vs Carterton

Mon 7 April – Interclub Silver hosting Miramar vs Shandon, RWGC vs PBGC

• Bronze vs Shandon @ Boulcott’s Farm

Fri 11 April – St John Wairarapa Charity Golf Tournament (flyer attached)

Happy golfing 🙂

Hello Golfers.

Dick Bennett Memorial – Stableford winners on 51 points Kelly & Mark Taylor, 2^nd Bevan Sweeney & Stuart Taplin on a countback 50 points, 3^rd also on 50 points Lizzy Thomson & Felicity Warren. Hole #6 was popular for Twos for Mary Isaac, Luke Woodcock, Trevor Petersen, and John Taylor, #8 for Stuart Taplin, and #16 for Arthur Warren.

An update from the busy 18 hole Ladies – Pennants 3 March – the Bronze team played Otaki @ Masterton and had a 6:3 win. Honor Clark, Kelly Taylor, and Nicola Warren won their singles, and Honor/Angela Busby, Julie Dondertman/Nicola, Kelly/Felicity Warren all won their 4BBL.

Also on 3 March, Silvers played Miramar on the challenging Royal Wellington course. Carol Parkinson had a half, Emily Loughnan and Jenny Wilkie both had wins. Emily/Jenny won their 4BBL. On March 17 the Silvers played Shandon at another challenging course, Paraparaumu. Sandra Petersen, Nicky T (Riversdale) and Jenny won their singles and all the 4BBL matches were played to the wire. That’s a great effort driving those distances and then playing.

Tilson – Round 2 was played at home and all the players were impressed with the Clubhouse and the offerings. They weren’t so excited about the cored greens which made for some interesting putting! We played those wily girls from Castlepoint and managed a very exciting win. Carol/Nicola had a win and Emily a tough half. In the 4BBL Sandra/Carol had a win. This puts Martinborough first equal with Castlepoint on 8.5 points closely followed by Riversdale on 8.

Coming up:

Fri 28 March – Riverside Cup @ Eketahuna vs Masterton

Sat & Sun 29 & 30 March – Weekend Comp – Stableford

Sat 29 March – Men’s Interclub Div 2 @ Trentham vs Trentham

            - Men’s Interclub Div 9 @ home vs Waikanae

            - Men’s Interclub Div 12 @ home vs Otaki

Sun 30 March – The official Clubhouse Opening 5.30pm

Mon 31 March – Ladies Interclub @ PBGC vs Shandon

Happy golfing.

Hello Golfers.

The Dick Bennett Memorial is quickly approaching this Sunday and there are only two teams entered!

In 2024 there were 28 teams, so please get yourselves organised and email entries@mgcgolf.nz to Register asap.

The flyer is attached for your information, and please bring cash for your entry fee. Many thanks 🙂

Our weekend comps were Stableford, and as usual Saturday entries were low. 1^st Robbie Walters 37 points, 2^nd Chris Brooks 33 points, 3^rd Brent McKinlay 32 points. Only three entries and congratulations to all, in particular to Robbie Walters who also won the Birds Nest with Twos on #6 and #12.

On Sunday, the ladies took out the top spots – 1^st Marie Scrimshaw 40 points, 2^nd Rosie Collins 38 points, and 3^rd on a countback Alison Tipler. The men were the Twos winners with Chris Ranish on #6, Trevor Petersen and John Warner scoring a Two on #16.

There’s plenty happening this week with Featherborough on Thursday, two Interclub teams playing at home on Saturday along with various group bookings, Dick Bennett on Sunday, and we’re hosting the Ladies Interclub on Monday.

Coming up:

Thu 20 March – Featherborough Golf Thursday Open

Sat 22 March – Weekend Comp – Par

Sat 22 March – Men’s Interclub Div 2 @ home vs Karori

            - Men’s Interclub Div 9 @ home vs Trentham

            - Men’s Interclub Div 12 @ Judgeford vs Judgeford

Sun 23 March – Dick Bennett 4BBB Memorial

Mon 24 March – Interclub Silver @ RWGC vs Miramar

Mon 24 March – Interclub Bronze hosting @ home

Sun 30 March – The official Clubhouse Opening

Happy golfing 🙂

Hello Golfers.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

For many of our members, 1 March is the annual rollover date for your subscriptions. These renewals are being attended to over the next couple of weeks. You will be receiving invoices and/or statements to show what amounts are owing.

As the subscription rates have changed over the last couple of years, if you have been paying by monthly (or other) Automatic Payments, some of you have not changed your AP at your bank to keep up with the changed subs amounts. It would be appreciated that when you receive your new invoice/statement, that you actually open them, check the balance outstanding and see if you need to update your AP to ensure the balance is paid off by the following 28Feb26. 

There are too many invoices to give each person an individual note regarding what you need to change your APs to. Depending on when in the month you make your payments, please do your calculation and make changes for your next AP date.

Sincere thanks from the Finance Dept!  

Results from the Medal/Putting competition at the weekend – on Saturday 8 March – 1^st Bob Reid Net 66, 2^nd Felicity Warren Net 71, 3^rd Arthur Warren Net 78. The Putting winner was Bob with 31 putts.

Sunday 9 March – 1^st Mike Charteris Net 68, 2^nd Steve Croft Net 69, 3^rd Davis Lester Clarke Net 70 on a countback. A Two on #6 for Malcolm Bridge, #8 for Brent McKinlay and Mike Charteris, Doug Clark on #12, and Steve Croft on #16. Lyall Callaghan was the Putting winner with 27 putts.

Coming up:

Sat 15 & Sun 16 March – Weekend Comps – Stableford

Sun 16 March – Tilson Salver vs Castlepoint @ Martinborough

Mon 17 March – Interclub Silver vs Shandon @ Paraparaumu Beach

Mon 17 March – Interclub Bronze vs Kapiti @ Shandon

Sun 23 March – Dick Bennett Memorial, flyer attached

Sun 30 March – The official Clubhouse Opening, flyer attached

Fri 11 April – St Johns Wairarapa Charity Golf Tournament, flyer attached

Happy golfing 🙂