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Firstly, a huge welcome to Brooke - our new Clubhouse staff member starting next week. Brooke has just finished Y13 at Wellington Girls College and up until recently worked for several years at the Makara Beach Cafe. She lives across the road from the Club, so like Nic, can walk to work! Brooke is taking a gap year - so has joined our casual staff roster and will initially work Thursday's and weekends. Please give Brooke a warm KGC welcome when you see her.

FINAL CALL for our KGC Opening Day this Sunday. Entries close at 5pm today so teams can be sorted. We have a field of approx 60 already and some great prizes to be won. Further details below. Also, best of luck to our Inter Club teams in thier season opener tomorrow. We host Divs 2 & 12 from 8:30am.

Other key points/highlights to note for this week are:

Cart Service - Wed 11 Feb (morning) our carts are being serviced by EZGO. Limited cart availability. Wed Club will have booking priority.
Film Crew Onsite - over the period 1 - 5 Feb we will have a film crew utilising space in our carpark. On 23 Feb they will also be sharing our Clubhouse. They are filming on a property near KGC.
New Members - A huge welcome to our 4 new members who have joined over the last week:
- Wendy Thompson (Full Intro)
- Harry Johnstone (18U)
- Edan Currie (18U)
- Jonathan George (18U)

FINAL CALL....

KGC Opening Day - Sunday 25 Jan 2026

Get your entries in by 5pm today. Approx 60 entries so far. Enter online via -

Event calendar - Karori Golf Club

Event Details:

Format: Ambrose (teams are drawn)
Tee-off: Shotgun Start @ 10am
Tee Markers: All available
Entry Fee: Donation on the day to cover prizes
Raffles & Prizes: Vouchers & golf gear
Hit the Boat: Buy tickets at registration
Teams of Four: Ideally, every team has 1 x woman and 1 x junior member. (Juniors may elect to play with a parent).

There will be a free sausage sizzle on the 15th and the chance to try hit the boat on the lake & win a $50 Mitre10 voucher (four vouchers up for grabs).

Wednesday Club

Great weather on Wednesday enjoyed by 13 golfers in a Par competition. Bob Cavana (+1) finished first, ahead of Nobby (visiting from Otaki) and Victor Diem, both all square. Balls down to -2. Saint was NTP (red/yellow tees) and nobody playing the white tees got on the green (prize jackpots to next week). No twos. Playing companions, Fergus McLean and Christopher Pearce, drew each others numbers to take out first and second in the raffle respectively. (Cheers Patrick)

Wednesday Twilight

Twenty seven golfers turned up for Twilight this week. There was no wind and conditions allowed some great scoring! This week Brigitte Boenisch-Brednich took out first place with an outstanding 24 stableford points, closely followed by Tim Brosnahan and Simon Conway (from Hutt Park) with 22 points. Three Twilighters chasing the prize, took out third place on 20 points: David Eley, Richard Reith and Fergus McDougall.

Fergus won the NTP, with John Stubbe and Simon Conway getting the ‘twos’ this week.

A highlight for Adrian Porter this week was to be putting for an eagle from just off the green on the eighth hole (picture below)!!!

A big thanks to Sam Julian and Ben Morris on the BBQ this week, and to Karen Simcox for another lovely salad. See you all next week for another evening of social/fun golf and dinner. (Cheers Gail)

Update - Term 1 Junior Coaching Programme

Stephen’s Term 1 Junior Programme has had 65+ registrations to date and is full except for the 9 Hole Group. This group is perfect for juniors on 18-36 handicaps and includes 4 fortnightly coaching sessions (Wednesdays at 6pm) and weekly play on Sundays from 12.45pm. Total cost is $50! Contact Stephen via wood_golfpro@yahoo.co.nz or 021 384424.

Firewood Fundraiser - Can you Help?

We have a bunch of firewood to sell and we need weekend volunteers to help with this. Firewood is available to purchase from the golf club (mixture of pine and macrocarpa) for:

Boot Load: $50
Ute/Small Trailer Load: $100
Large Trailer: $150

Volunteers on the weekend will merely need show buyers where to pick-up their wood and collect the cash. We already have three volunteers and a few more will mean that rostered duties will not be onerous.

Please let me know by email (president@karorigolf.co.nz) and the roster will be made. Shifts will be for one weekend day for no more than three hours.

We really appreciate all and any help we can get, and thank you very much for those who have already put their hands up.

Mark Peck
President

Annual Subscription Payments

Please, please, please help the club administrators keep our membership database accurate and ensure we pay the correct levies to NZ & Wellington Golf. You can help by remembering two things:

It's a members responsibility to keep contact details updated in their NZ Golf account, and if they don’t, they risk being resigned in error as they will miss communication from us.
Members will be automatically renewed at the end of their term on the same membership basis unless they advise otherwise.

Regular Weekly Events

Mon & Wed - Resumes 02 & 04 Feb - 5pm - Junior Interclub Golf Coaching. This group has practice range and/or putting area priority.

Ladies Day (Tuesday) - Resumes 27 Jan 2026 - 18H Tee-off 9:00am; 9H Tee-off 10:00am.

Wednesday Club - 18H - Draw 10:15am, Tee-off 10:30am.

Wednesday Twilight - 9H - Tee-off between 4:30 - 5:15pm

Friday 9H Allcomers - Tee-off 9:00am.

Sunday Club Day - Shirties Tee-off 7:30am; Goats Tee-off 8:00am; Gaskies Tee-off 9:00am; Juniors 18H 11:00am (Club Comps may mean occasional timing changes).

Summer Junior Programme - Resumes on 15 Feb - Sunday's from noon.