Division 3 Championship Pennant team led by Aaron Vander poel are assured a place in the final of their respective division with 1 round robin match to go.  The team has put out some amazing performances and are the team to beat.   ” We can’t get ahead of ourselves and get complacent neither” Vanderpoel said. ” Our boys are on fire at the moment and it is because of our foursomes starts in the morning”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The last two outings were:

Tirau Golf Club @ Tirau  7.5 to 1.5 (win)

PutaruruGolf Club @ Te Aroha  7 to 2 (win )

Next match vs Cambridge Golf Club @ Tahuna Golf  Club.

Division 4 Championship Pennant team led by Phil Lambert have slipped on the banana skin and find them selves sitting in 3rd place out side the top two.  They need to win against Waikare at home and hope another match goes their way to stand a chance to play finals golf. Thanks to Grant Easton & Karl Meizenbeek who filled in for the team at the last minute in the last match.  Grant had to fill in at no.2 and gave away 10 shots to his opponent who was batting off a 6.8 handicap!!

As they say matchplay and strokeplay are very different and with the assistance of Mel Brown, Grant played scintillating golf and won his match 2 up, well done Grunta!!

The last two outings were:

Coromandel Golf Club @ Matamata 3.5 to 5.5 (Loss)

Morrinsville Golf Club @ Walton 5.5 to 3.5 (won)

Next Match vs Waikare Golf Club @  Waikare.

Ladies Weekend Pennant team led by Sue Pollock have had a cracker start at their representative campaign.  3 debutantes making their first outing for Stewart Alexander did exceedingly well.  Leigh Gryls, Cheryl Forster, Sue Pollock, Adele Ashford  are coming 2nd so far behind Walton and are a head of Riverside  by 6 points.  A great score by Adele Ashford (71) who shot the teams lowest nett that day well done.  In the words of Michael Herbert ” Shayne used to be the best player in the club,  now he’s not even the best player in his house” 🙂  Well done ladies keep it up.

Prebble Cup team led by Jason Krayvaanger  had their Tolich Trophy quarter finals match vs Cambridge at Te Aroha on Sunday after having a bye in the first around.

The lads had a positive start with winning 3 out of 4 foursome matches in the morning. With the biggest win going to Nick and Matthew winning 6/5. Hayden and Grant winning 4/3 And Jason and Carl winning 1up. Keith and Bobby couldn’t quite clench the win in their match losing 1 down.

The afternoon single matches started off very even and after Matthew Jackson losing his match 7/6 it was all but in the bag.Fortunately, the rest of the team grinned it out winning 6 of the 8 single matches.

The Juniors had no loses in their single matches with Bobby Rollinson winning 4/3, Keith Mitchell squaring his match, Hayden Parkes winning 2/1 and Grant Easton winning 3/2. The seniors winning 2 of 4 matches with a great come back from Nick Heffer winning 4/2 after being down a few shots early in his match.  Jason Kraayvanger never let his opponent in the lead winning 3/2. Carl Miezenbeek had the hardest match of the day after his opponent went eagle, bride, eagle in a straight run resulting in Carl going 4 down, but with 7 holes to go Carl managed to pull it back to 1 down with 3 holes to play but couldn’t grab the win losing 2/1.

Final score Stewart Alexander winning 8 ½ to 3 ½

Next match 24th April vs Riverside Golf Club @ Cambridge.

Handicap Pennant team led by B.J Clarke played at Taumaranui for their 2nd outing and improved 10 shots in nett as a team but went back 3 positions in the overall points ladder.  The team needs to have a big day this Sunday hopefully (Linc) can have another 49 pts this weekend that might help!!  The team needs to finish inside the top 6 to proceed into the next round or as Arnie would put it ‘ Hasta la vista’.  Lets go guys you can do it!!