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Hole 1

Hole Name Mountain View

From The Tee This hole lives up to its name though the growing trees are quietly limiting the view of the mountains. When Tom Bell drove the first ball from Tee 1 the hole was a Par 4 hole of 420 yards. However, the club had a large number of inexperienced golfers who O-Bjected to scoring regularly no stableford points on the first hole. So it became a slightly longer, but less difficult, Par 5. Bunkers to the

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On The Green

Hole 2

Hole Name RERE ATU

From The Tee originally sponsored by Guthrey’s Travel Centre. RERE means FLY and ATU means AWAY so FLY AWAY is a thoroughly suitable name for a long hole.

From The Fairway

On The Green Again, the mountains are in view and again one bunker to the left and another to the right ensure that a golfer must be accurate. (this was one of the holes which had two greens) This was one of the holes with a double green in the earlier days(to the left of the present on.) Wide open spaces was the name of the game in the early days.

Hole 3

Hole Name GLASWEGIAN

From The Tee originally sponsored by Gordon Greig who later became a President of the Club. He called the hole ‘Glaswegian’ for the apt reason that he was born in Glasgow. Now just where did that ball go? Or is he looking at that unspoilt view? Or perhaps the sun is in his eyes?

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On The Green

Hole 4

Hole Name RANGATIRA

From The Tee originally sponsored by Barry Holmes. Rangatira may be translated as CHIEF or CHIEFTAIN.

From The Fairway Certainly this was a lordly hole ranked as No.1 in difficulty for about 20 years and still is the longest fairway from the black tees. The green has both a bunker and a

On The Green

Hole 5

Hole Name PUTNEY HEATH

From The Tee originally sponsored by Neville and Phyllis TheO-Bald. Neville was a Londoner who was evacuated to New Zealand in 1940. His childhood area in London was, as you have guessed,

From The Fairway Putney Heath.This hole may be short with bunkers both left and right, with a gully in front and long grass at the the back, any indiscretions had to be paid for.

On The Green I bet there are a lot of golfers in the club would like to see No. 5 looking wide open like

Hole 6

Hole Name THE PEAKS

From The Tee Like Mountain View, The Peaks once allowed glorious sights of distant mountains for those willing to lift their heads (at the right time of course).

From The Fairway

On The Green The Peaks is the longest hole from the blue, white, and yellow tees but shorter that Rangatira from the black tees. At the time of designing the course it

Hole 7

Hole Name PRECISION

From The Tee originally sponsored by BO-B Wilkinson. The name ‘Precision’ was chosen as BO-B sold Bernina Sewing machines which he maintained were ‘precision’ machines.

From The Fairway

On The Green The tee shot does need precision as there is a gully in front of the green, a bunker to the left on a downward slope and trees to the right. This hole is another that once had two greens. The second green was situated on the flat

Hole 8

Hole Name ALTAIR

From The Tee originally sponsored by a local motel, (which has since changed ownership and now has a different name.) The sponsor knew that Altair had the advantage of appearing early in the alphabet and he

From The Fairway

On The Green

Hole 9

Hole Name TASMAN

From The Tee originally sponsored by C.K.Ritchie of the Tasman Art Gallery. The hole has a bend with a hillock and trees on the right and some more trees on the left.

From The Fairway This hillock or mound as most call it has been lowered and a second mound has been developed. In the early years No. 9 looked a most uninteresting hole from the tee with most of the trees being under two club lengths in height and the club house clearly visible from the tee. With the trees reaching maturity No.9 hole now requires the tee shot to be positioned in the centre of the fairway or the se

On The Green

Hole 10

Hole Name HARVIN

From The Tee originally sponsored by I.T. Harding who with Harvin made up the firm called Harvin who supplied irrigation equipment. Harding and Vincent were responsible for installing the irrigation system on Coringa. The hole is nearly straight forward, there being a slight dog leg to the left.

From The Fairway

On The Green

Hole 11

Hole Name LOMBARDY

From The Tee originally sponsored by Mr.G.G. Monopoli (father of Peter Monopoli). The Monopoli family came from the Northern Italy. Lombardy is a lovely name for the 11 th . with the Italian connection coming from the plains of Northern Italy and the old poplars are “Lombardy Poplars”. More views of snow clad mountains in the distance in 1975 and very few or small trees

From The Fairway

On The Green

Hole 12

Hole Name DIBBINSDALE

From The Tee originally sponsored by T. Devlin Associates Terry chose this name because when he was courting in England , he often went down the Dibbinsdale Road. He was also responsible for initiating the system of hole sponsorship, and had first chance of naming a hole and, not surprisingly, he called No.12 Dibbinsdale

From The Fairway

On The Green The hole begins with a gully (often called Ted’s Gully, after Ted Day) then becomes a reasonably straight forward hole until it ends with a large green with hungry bunkers to the left and right. From the tee you can see the early stages of the pine hedge with the large poplar on the left.

Hole 13

Hole Name THE PINES

From The Tee

From The Fairway Pines lined both sides of the fairway and have become the home of territorial magpies, vicious at

On The Green green to fend off the ‘Dive bombers’! I can’t make out if Ted Day and Neil Penlington are thinking about their shot or discussing what should be done to the hole. A large willow tree to the left with bunkers to the left and right and a gully across the front of the green makes it that little bit more dangerous to attack. Around the trees and wild flowers to the left are the remains of another aban

Hole 14

Hole Name DOWN FAULLS

From The Tee This name acknowledges the work of Reg Faulls who was a long time member and at one time or another held the office of both the President and Club Captain of Coringa

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On The Green

Hole 15

Hole Name TARGET

From The Tee originally sponsored by R.H. Burgess, recorded elsewhere as “Chairman of the Interim Committee” that was so keen to get a new club underway.

From The Fairway

On The Green The idea of not having bunkers is acceptable to those off target as the raised green always made approach shots difficult..

Hole 16

Hole Name THE ELBOW

From The Tee originally sponsored by G. and A. Harris. A sheet metal firm that made metal elbows, John Banks, another stalwart of the club, later became closely associated with that firm.

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Hole 17

Hole Name NEMESIS

From The Tee originally sponsored by Noel Coulter whose business at the time was making springs.

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Hole 18

Hole Name ROYDEN

From The Tee was originally sponsored by Norm and Dorothy Gardiner. They lived in RoYards St. and their house is

From The Fairway called ‘RoYardsen’ The 18 th .hole has always been a challenge to golfers of all abilities and is a great

On The Green