Saturday 9 Hole Ladies Golf

Saturday 9 hole ladies golf continued to thrive in 2011 with a large group of eager players enjoying the challenges and rewards which golf brings to one's life.
Over the year we averaged 17 players on the course on a Saturday morning, with our best turnout a staggering 24 players!
While eligible for many of the Tuesday 9 hole competitions we also ran a number of alternative "challenges", providing a variety of competitions throughout the year. Special note has been the introduction of the Hazel Casey Trophy awarded to the player with the most stableford points on the last Saturday of each month.
Hazel's continued support and interest in our group is appreciated by us all -Hazel is out on the course with us most weeks, sharing her love of golf and encouraging us to greater heights.
Hazel epitomises all of the values which draw us to golf; camaraderie, fun and laughter, exercise and a love of this wonderful game and the social gathering at the end of each round and we do enjoy her company.

We ran our first ever "Shoot-out" at the end of the year - the qualifiers were the ten players who had the best top-ten stableford total over the year.
The winner was Gail van der Merwe, who beat Julie Eagle on the final hole, with Anne Gamman finishing third. A lot of fun and, for many, the first taste of the pressures of serious competition golf.
Our thanks go to Alison Holdem for her invaluable assistance with this competition and also to Gail Dumbleton for her help on the day.

At the end of the year we organised a Christmas Hamper day - another first for our group - followed by a luncheon to celebrate another enjoyable year's golf.

2012 promises to be just as much fun and we are working to find a variety of ways to keep our Saturday golf interesting and rewarding.
In keeping with a number of other sporting codes we have plans to incorporate a "Power Play" option as a creative alternative on 2 or 3 Saturdays this year!

Our thanks to Realty Group (Eves and Bayleys) for their support throughout the year and also to Pak 'n Save Tauranga for their contribution to our hamper day.

Also to the Golf Fusion team who are always friendly and helpful(and check that we have our priorities sorted with the beds made and the potatoes peeled before we tee off - no prizes for guessing who that comes from, thanks Jack!)
and everyone else who has assisted us during the year. We are privileged and appreciative that we are able to enjoy the benefits of the Tauranga Golf Cub and our beautiful course.

At the end of the year we organised a Christmas Hamper day - another first for our group - everyone received a prize and our thanks go to Anne Urquhart for her work to provide such a lovely array of beautiful goodies. Hamper prize giving was followed by a luncheon to celebrate another enjoyable year's golf.