Simon Cup – from Guy Chambers
Well, after a postponed start we got the Simon season away. We played the McLeans Island top team at a very well presented Waimairi Beach Golf Club. The weather was 100% better than Saturday with blue skies and sunshine. It wasn’t the start I was looking for going down 7-1 with halves to Ross Fowler and Matt Capill. Next week we take on Christchurch at Waitikiri.
Blank Cup – from Neville Bamford
With Round 1 washed-out we were all looking forward to getting season underway at Avondale GC vs Coringa GC. Good wins for Colin Posa (2&1), Brad Edmonston (2&1), Cameron Giddens (2&1) and Jason Strachan (2&1) plus a hard-fought ½ from yours truly saw the team start with a 4 ½ to 3 ½ win. We are scheduled to play Waimairi Beach at Clearwater this Sunday but expect this won’t be played with Alert level restrictions to be announced later today.
Woodward Cup - from Gavin O’Hara
After last week’s postponement at Russley GC due to the bad weather, we had a glorious day at Clearwater GC against Waitikiri for our Round 2 match. The team were in positive mood and were keen to perform. Great to see Patron Dave Shipley come and support the team as always – Thank you for your continued support Dave, and it’s always a pleasure seeing you out there supporting the team – really appreciated by the whole team.
Match 8 saw hard working Ryan Barham play against former Harewood member Antony Dale, Barham battelled hard, but unfortunately come out on the wrong side losing 3&2,
Match 7 saw Kerry Branson up against Chris Bond and Kerry’s consistent recent play edged out Chris with a solid 3&2 win.
Match 6 saw Player / Manager Gavin O’Hara up against the big hitting Jin Sung Kim. O’Hara was 2 down after 4 holes but battled and played solid golf through the middle of the round to turn the deficit into dormy 4up, and finally getting over the line 2&1.
Match 5 saw Harry Weeds up against the lowest handicapper in their team Woo Bong Kim. Weeds didn’t have his A game with him on the day but battled hard and unfortunately losing 3&2 after Woo made back-to-back birdies on 7 & 8 to close the match out.
Match 4 saw Sam Watkinson up against Simon Marshall and after losing his golf gear in the river behind the back of the 14th green, Watkinson dried his gear off and overpowered Simon to come out on top with a great 3&2 win.
Match 3 saw Josh Smith up against stalwart BT (Brett Turner) Josh playing with a wrist injury showed his power and great talent and rolling the Canterbury Masters stalwart 4&3.
Match 2 saw Scott Manyweathers take on the experienced Aaron Forsyth. Manyweathers battled hard but was not at his usual level and run out losing 2 down.
Match 1 saw Matt McLean play Kris O’Neil. Matt, who has been in good form recently showed his all-round high-level game rolling their number one with a comfortable 5&3 victory.
Harewood won 5 / 3 and sit 4th after round 1 with 5 plus games.
Full results can be found at Canterbury Golf or the following link –
http://www.canterburygolf.co.nz/interclub/mens/woodward-cup/
Next week the team are Avondale GC against a very strong Pegasus team – 11:30am start and the team would greatly appreciate your support.