Manawatu Golf Club

From Feb 14th all Manawatu Golf Club news, photos, and information will be posted on The Manawatu Golf Club page and on MGC Insta which is

The big focus now is to migrate our 2000+ followers from the old page across to the new ‘The Manawatu Golf Club’ page - please note the 'The ...'. To encourage members and guest to come across, we will be running a weekly competition for all ‘followers’ with a Dinner for 2 at MGC to the value of $100 given away every week in February and March. All you need to do is find and follow ‘The Manawatu Golf Club’ page.

The old MGC page is still viewable but all new posts and engagement will be on ‘The Manawatu Golf Club’ page.

Congratulations to Hastings Golf Club, Bridge Pa member Mike Trass for winning the NZ Seniors Championship at home! 🏆👏

Read more: https://www.golf.co.nz/news-detail?newsarticleid=32041

Friday 9 February – Rotorua Golf Club
NZ Women's Senior Champs
Match Play - Gole Two-Peat!
Disappointment for the left hander from Manawatu, when Lisa Herbert lost to the defending champion, Nadene Gole (Australia). In one of those epic matches – the opening holes belonged to Herbert who was 4 up through 8 holes after birdies on the 3rd, 6th, 7th, and an opening par on the 1st when Gole bogeyed. In came the birdie run from Gole; the 8th, 10th, 11th, 13th to come back square. All square to the 16th when sadly for Herbert a solid drive got one of ‘those bounces’ and into the Arikikapakapa Lake. The match was won on the 18th by Gole who will now lead Australia into next weeks Trans-Tasman Cup.
More to come....

NZ Senior Men's Tournament

A few members travelled to Hawkes Bay last week to play in the NZ Seniors (over 50s) at Hastings (Bridge Pa) and Hawkes Bay Golf Clubs. With several days in the 29-32°C range, this event was a good test of your golf game. A record field of 240 senior golfers representing 75 golf clubs and seven countries teed it up in the 54-hole championship. While the results weren’t great, a good time was definitely had by the MGC members.

A great day for the Wade Cup, proudly sponsored by Robertson Prestige.

Lisa has started the NZ Womens Senior Championship in Rotorua well.
https://tournaments.parnz.co.nz/Leaderboard?competitionid=1026044&fbclid=IwAR3cVLykZlp4yilED56yvpFRSehqNmzC6L5cIVgiDb0nK9M6-HQDt6SulJw
On Thursday the Mens Senior Championship starts in Hawkes Bay with around 7-8 members competing.
https://www.golf.co.nz/tournament-tee-times?competitionid=1016762
Good luck to all.

The 2024 NZ Women's Masters is being played over the period 5-7 April at the Waiuku Golf Club. If you are interested in playing for the Manawatu Wanganui District representative team then this is the last opportunity to be selected for the team.

For further details the visit https://www.golf.co.nz/manawatu-wanganui-rep-golf or contact Ben James on [email protected] 🏌️‍♂️

Some more good performances by our members at the Jo Kells event at Palmerston North on Saturday. The 36 hole event was reduced to just one disjointed round due the heavy rain on Saturday. In the Men's "Jo Kells" event Junhwan (73) one of our Korean visitors came second to Ryan Rooney (71), Daehyun Kim (75) came 6th while Brett Doolan and Mitchell Proctor came 7th equal with 76. Shane Walker played the conditions well to win the nett competition with 66 (81).
In the Women's "PN Classic" Manawatu Golf Club golf club members took the first 5 places, 1st Juhui Kim (70), 2nd Seunghui Ha (75), 3rd equal Lisa Herbert (77) and Casey Chettleburgh (77) and 5th Hyunmi Kwak (80). Rebecca Hopper came 3rd on Net with 72 (87).

Great start to the Pennant season with the Women’s Weekend pennant team beating Castlecliff at Marton 3 games to 0. Grace Manson won her singles match 3 & 2 while Rhea Hazners won 6 & 5. They won their 4BBB 7 & 5.