We have only the one new 1st year bowler joining us this year ,who is Jodie Cottier. Welcome, your challenge is to try and master the game of bowls, good luck to you in that endeavour.
The following players move out of 1–5 year players and into 6-8 year players – Jim Center, Flora Macdonald, Stuart Mackay, Rosemary Nicol, Glenda Rountree and Glyn Taylor.
The following players leave the 6-8 year bowlers and officially become Seniors – Joy Watkinson and Allan Langley.
A special shout-out to a number of our people:
We have a new greenkeeper, Brendon Kelly and his assistant Kyler, who started on September 1st, so they are very new to our club. Brendon is also working on a number of greens at other clubs and he has an excellent reputation. He is very happy with the current condition of our greens.
The intention is to have at least one grass green available for the Avida tournament on October 1st.
Our club captains – We have a new Women’s club captain this year, Jo Baxter along with our men’s captain Barry McCrystal. You can talk to them at any time if you have any questions or concerns. Many thanks to our previous Women’s captain Phyl Humphries.
Our fully qualified coaches – Ian Coombe and Theresa Rogers.
Our Match committee teams Elaine McClintock, Sheryl Wellington and Gerd Hutcheson, Alan Daniels, Allan Langley and Leon Wech.
Our Umpires – Sheryl Wellington, Lorna Donald and Gerd Hutcheson.
Our Selectors – Alan Daniels (Convenor), Leon Wech, Colleen Rice, Sheryl Wellington, Elaine McClintock and Allan Langley.
You will need to impress these selectors (or pay them) to make our selected teams 😊.
The new season officially started last Monday, unfortunately we have not organized an official opening due to all the road and carpark closures.
The dress code for summer is whites and club colours.
Copies of the handbook will be available this week. The handbook has all details of all events for the year. This is your bowls bible, no excuse to say you did not know an event was happening, highlight the events you are keen to play and enter online. We will advise on the website if there is any change to the programme.
You should have paid your subscription fee by now, if not please arrange to do this, you need to be fully paid up to play in our club championships.
For club uniforms contact Sandra Coombe – Sandra@coombe.net.nz.
For all first-year bowlers, the club provides use of our club bowls for three months and after that you will need to purchase your own set of bowls. This also applies to any full membership bowler using club bowls.
We are a volunteer organisation, so if you are keen in helping out in some way, just let a member of the board know.
Events coming up are:
Avida monthly triples starting Tuesday October 1st, if you are not in a team let Therese Rogers know and she will try and get you in a team.
Men and Women Handicap singles Sat/Sun 5/6 October and Men and Women Handicap pairs Sat/Sun 12/13 October.
Updated Handicaps will be up on the board in the clubrooms over the weekend. Newer bowlers begin with a 10 handicap start and then they are graded down on experience and ability.
I encourage you to enter these tournaments for experience and a bit of fun.
The Bays cup is our own Mairangi Bay tournament for 1-5 year bowlers on Labour Day Monday 28th October. This is a 2x4x2 any combination pairs tournament. It is a popular tournament with bowlers from other clubs so set up your team and enter online.
Have a great 2024/2025 bowling season, here`s hoping we will have a great summer this season and the rain and wind stays away.
May your bowls go where you expect them to!!!
Wrong biases are a gold coin donation to Hospice.
Any questions do not hesitate to contact me.
Alan Daniels
1-5 Convenor.