Gore RSA Bowling Club Inc

Today was our annual RSA Blue v Gold game, which was won by the Gold team 13-10.

But the more important feature of the day was that long time and deserving member Barry Harvey was presented with a Life Membership. His contributions to the club for 20+ years has been incredible, and it was great to have his family here as he was presented the Life Membership. Congratulations Barry 🎉🍻 oh and he was on the winning team 😆🌟

Congratulations to Donna and Pania 🎉🍾🥂🍻

Merry Christmas to all, stay safe and enjoy the holidays 🎅🏼🎄🌟🎉

We drew our annual Christmas hamper raffle on Sunday. Congratulations to the following people who’s numbers were drawn:

106 - Webby
81 - Sam Creighton
163 - Steve Waddell
117 - Shona K
212 - Wendy Thwaites

And a huge thank you to those who kindly contributed to these hampers, we really appreciate your support🌟

Players on Sunday kindly helping out with photography during the prizegiving 🤦‍♀️😂

Sunday we held our annual Silver Fern Farms Christmas tournament, a great day had by all, the weather a bit iffy but we managed to get through the day. A massive thank you to them for their fantastic sponsorship each year 🌟 🦃🐑

Congratulations to the winning team, Mark Kubala, Noel Ryan, Steve Brinsdon and Tony Holland having a very successful day 🥇

Second place went to Tony Cooney and and his composite team.

Third place went to Robbie Heads and his RSA team.

Fourth went to Kevin Broad and team from Tapanui.

Congratulations to all 🎉

Hi team, here is the lists of teams playing at either Gore RSA Bowling Club or Gore Bowling Club on Sunday for the Eastern Mixed Pairs. A text will be going out to those whose contact details I have also. The draws will be available on the day. There are still two spots available for the Gore green due to a couple of teams having to pull out, if anyone knows of someone to fill these spots. Let me know ASAP if you would like to fill these. Start time is 9am, $20 per team. Hopefully this terrible summer weather improves 🤞🤞🤞

Cracker day for a catch up game against Tapanui. A massive thanks to Gore Mitre 10, players enjoying the shade under the umbrellas kindly provided to the club 😎👏

The Gore/Riversdale RSA members (and Ian) on tour in Matamata for the RSA National Triples tournament. Day one done and dusted, two to go 🍻🥂😎

The draw for the men’s pairs on Sunday. 9am start. $20 per team. Good luck to those playing 👏

On Sunday we held our annual Gore & Districts Memorial RSA sponsored Elimination tournament. After the torrential rain on Saturday, our greenkeeper did a fantastic job getting the green ready, where we had a full turnout. A huge thank you to Gore & Districts Memorial RSA for their incredible generosity towards this, the sponsorship contributing towards travel for the team to play in the RNZRSA National Outdoor Bowls Tournament wherever it is held around NZ. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all for a great day. Thanks to President Steve Popham for presenting the prizes as follows:

First 🥇 - Barry Winwood, John McKay and Roger Sanson
Second🥈- John King, Norm Broome and Maureen Broome
Third🥉- Kerry Bishop, Gwyn Davis and Darren Broome
Fourth🏅- Cyril Shirley, Theresa Shirley and Jim Walker

Congratulations to the following women selected for the Joyce Woodward fixture on 14th October at Gore Bowling Club. All the best team 👏

A great turnout for our opening yesterday, President Steve Popham welcoming everyone, and Patron Marty Bone bowling the first bowl of the season. 38 members came out for a bowl, and we welcome three new members to the club. Heres to a great 2023-24 season 🍻🍻

Members hard at work this morning at our working bee, and the greenkeeper prepping the green, getting ready for our 2023-24 opening at 2pm. New members welcome 🤗

The draw for Sunday for the Fours. Just a reminder that it is a 9am start at Hokonui Bowling Club, and $40 per team.

If you are looking for something to do inside today, we are holding our last quiz for the off-season at 2pm, come along for a yarn and some raffles 😄

We are now approaching that time of year again! How fast has this season flown by? This season has seen some fantastic bowls in our local Southland Competitions and thanks to the effort and dedication of some of our bowlers we are now starting to be recognized throughout NZ as a Centre with strong competitors who are going to be representing Southland on the International stage!

The efforts and accomplishments of this season deserve to be celebrated so start getting your numbers and save the night to come along and celebrate with everybody at our Annual Awards Night! Always such a great night to come together and celebrate the game we all love. Tickets are now on Sale, contact Sharon at the office to book your table!

Come along to our first winter quiz, tomorrow at 2pm. $20 teams of four, raffles available also 😀

Today we held our annual AGM, with a great member turnout despite the cold weather 🥶

A huge thank you to our outgoing committee members for your support and hard work during your time on the committee.

The following is our committee and team for the coming 2023-24 season:

Controlling Officers:
President: Steve Popham
Vice President: John King
Past President: Robbie Heads
Secretary/Treasurer: Emma Hanley

Patron: Martin Bone
Green supervisor: Sam Creighton
Club Captain (men): Noel Ryan
Club Captain (women): TBC
Catering Convenor: Rose Graves
Tournament Convenor: Ken White
Committee: Pania Rayner, Barrie Graves, Herbie Clement, Mark Kubala
Bar Manager: Noel Ryan
Selectors (men): Noel Ryan (Blue), Mark Kubala (Gold)
Selectors (women): Moira Briggs (RSA1), Lynda Gardyne (RSA 2)

To follow is the winners of Champion of Champion and Club fixtures for the 2022-23 season, congratulations to all. Names and titles in picture captions.

Here’s to another great season!!!

AGM REMINDER for today at 2pm at the club rooms, members please bring a plate.

Congratulations June and John!!!

We finally got to hold our annual Fives tournament a couple of weeks ago, after COVID played havoc the last two years. It was a great weekend, the weather was brilliant and some fantastic bowls played. A huge thank you to all of our sponsors, especially our major sponsor Gore and Districts Memorial RSA, your support year on year for this is amazing and we really appreciate it. Also thank you to MLT for your support of the club.

Terry Lynch was pipped at the post this year, Steve Sanders and team taking out top honor, with Terry and team coming in second. Third was Lindsay Halls Riversdale combination. Congratulations to all who placed and thank you all for your support by entering.

Waitangi Day saw us hold our annual tournament in honour of the late Gloria Fisken, thank you to the Fisken Family for their generous sponsorship of this tournament each year. Results as shown on the photos. A great day had by all who played.

We held our annual promotion tournament in January, a scorcher of a day but a great day all the same. Here are the results from this tournament, and thank you to all who came along, from the bowlers to those who were new to the green. Thank you to our sponsors for this, MLT and Craigs Investment Partners for your support.

Reminder about corporate bowls tomorrow night, starting at 6pm 👍👍

What an absolute cracker of a day today to hold our annual Elimination tournament. Huge thanks to Gore RSA as our major sponsor for this tournament, and for everyone who supported and helped to make it a great day of bowls. Congratulations to the following teams:

1st: Robbie Heads, Emma Hanley, Donna Kirk
2nd: Roger Sanson, Barry O’Connor, John McKay
3rd: John Haines team - Mark Kubala, Ruth and Joe Benson
4th: Norm Broome, Steven Brinsdon, John King

These are the dates of the Hokonui Bowling Club Tournaments for this season.
To enter please contact Gary Johnstone 027 222 6488 or Andrew MacGregor 021 344 906