Club member Will Owen operates a golfing tour company known as Playing Around New Zealand and he was instrumental in bringing a group of 16 Kingston Heath members, known as the Bushrangers - we now know why-, to Shirley for the opening round of their tour prior to departing for parts further south.
Matched against a team of Christchurch members the competition was four ball best ball Stableford. Unfortunately the visitors proved slightly too strong winning 4.5 to 3.5 in an extremely even contest. Leading the Christchurch team home were President Ken Fergus and club stalwart Grant Mitchell who recorded the best score of the day with 45 points (they only just beat their opponents who had 43) to finish in front of Dave Robinson and Barry Fletcher with a creditable 44.
Closest to the pin was Paddy Helmore while Mark Thompson won nearest to the pin for 2 on 18. Given the great individual performances an inquiry is being conducted into how we managed to lose overall!! As always a pleasant social function followed the golf and a number of new networks were established.
Kingston Heath is rated by Golf Magazine as the top Australian course and it was interesting to compare thoughts on matters of common golfing interest. Of particular note was the view that mid week and corporate golf seem to have a prevalence over weekend play, in particular a very strong group were involved in FLAGS - Friday Lunch and Golf. Hopefully we will be in a position to strengthen our relationship with Kingston Heath as a result of this encounter.
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