Men’s Pennants This Sunday

Good luck to all of our teams playing in The Hawkes Bay Golf Pennants Final this Sunday at Maraenui. We have 6 teams taking part and I’m sure all of them will appreciate your support on Sunday.

Good Luck gents – May your drives be straight and your putts be on line!

Recent results

HB Veterans Women’s Tournament 2024

Last month our Women’s Committee ran a very successful HB Veterans tournament here at the club. Congratulations to the committee and the following winners:

Masters Monday

Last month we also ran our inaugural Masters Monday which was a great success. Full English breakfast and coffee while watching The Masters on the big screen before playing some golf and competing for our very own green jacket!

Congratulations to Will Wilson who was our inaugural champion. His nett 66 combined with Tom Kim’s 66 at The Masters was easily good enough to take out the win and slide on the green jacket.

Our other winners were Richard Phillips in Division 1 and Peter Pinfold in Division 2.

Hole-in-One

Congrats to Jono Patten who aced the 7th hole on April 13. Great shot!

Course Update

We have now seeded the 16^th and 17^th holes following the recent discing and power harrow work completed last week. These areas are being watered manually at the moment to ensure germination. We plan on seeding the other prepared areas around the practice pitching green, and the Links Road driving range soon. Further discing and power harrowing will be done on the areas around the 2^nd tee, the 9^th hole and around the 8^th green. This contracted work will take place tomorrow morning, as such, we have delayed the start sheet and everyone will be teeing off from the 10^th hole. Thank you for your understanding and flexibility with this change.

On-Course Etiquette 

We are getting a few reports that members are not looking after the course as well as they could. After opening the green on the 8^th hole for the first time last weekend, members noticed a substantial amount of pitch marks on the green after only a few groups had played the hole.

Please, please do your part to look after our course. Pretend that you’re camping in one of our pristine National Parks. When you depart, no one should know that you were there. That means, repairing your pitch marks, and those of others you see on the greens, replacing your divots, raking bunkers, keeping your trundlers off the greens and tee blocks, and putting your rubbish in the bin.

Please also give way to our green keepers. Please be careful of our staff when out on course, the green keepers have the right of way, so please be patient and allow them to finish their task before hitting your shot toward them. Thank you.

For those who are a little unfamiliar with some of the etiquette of golf, here are a couple of quick videos that outlines a few key rules and explain how to repair pitch marks.

Golf Etiquette

Repairing a Pitch Mark

The Two-Ball Rule

If you are out on the course by yourself, you are welcome to play two balls to get a bit of extra play in. But, please don’t treat the course as your private practice facility. Play your two balls, but please do not drop multiple balls in the middle of the fairway and pitch into the greens. We don’t want to see groups of divots like this…

Our course needs looking after, it is on all of us to do our part to look after it. Thank you.

Welcome to Our New Members

A warm NGC welcome to the following members who joined our club family in April.

it is great to see so many new, and returning faces at the club.

Our Member-Guest Deal Is Ending

The recent member-guest green fee deal is coming to an end. Your last opportunity to invite a friend along to enjoy our course at a discounted green fee rate is this weekend. 

Upcoming Events at Napier Golf Club This Month

Monday, May 13 – HB Women’s 9-Hole Pennants from 9.30 am

Friday, May 17 – Hawkes Bay Fruit Growers Association Ambrose Tournament – Midday Shotgun Start

Wednesday, May 29 – Round One of The Quiz Night Series – Register your team here - REGISTER

Food & Beverage Update

John is excited to release his brunch menu starting this Sunday. Be sure to give it a try!

Do you want to give something new a try? If so, then you have to try the new Jalapeno and Cream Cheese Sausage Roll. Its gooood! And don’t worry, its not too spicy.

Bar Raffles – Supported by Porky’s Butchery

Be sure to enter the bar raffle this weekend for your chance to win a premium meat pack from our local butcher - Porky’s Butchery in Taradale. Porky’s has come on board as a club sponsor and will be supplying meat packs for the club and weekly approach prizes.

Porky’s is butchery at its best, be sure to visit next time you are in Taradale - Shop 3, 2 White Street, Taradale

Proceeds from the bar raffles go towards supporting our club representative teams at events such as HB Pennants and Greenwood Cup.

Happy Golfing everyone.

Scott