Contact
Coordinator - Brian Foster
09 473 9465 or 021 109 1940 

The Golf Section ...
is open to all Financial members of the Bays Club and any member wishing to play need only contact the Golf Section Co-ordinator (as above) and you will be included into our playing numbers, we also are quite happy for you to bring along friends as long as we know, as they may become potential members of the Bays Club.

Playing Format
We meet once a month and play on various courses in and around the Greater Auckland area. With the exception of our two mystery tours and our annual Managers v. Presidents match played at the Mangawhai Golf Club. All section members are given a calendar of the events for the year. All games are played to N.Z.P.G.A. rules and our match-cards are recorded in stableford points, hole by hole.

Transport
With the exception of our mystery trips and our annual tournament at Mangawhai Heads, we use our own means of transport, but for the others we hire a coach and leave from the Bays Club.

Financial
The cost of our green fees are at present on most courses $35 and to be added to that is $10 to help cover the cost of the prizes. So your cost for the day is $45 unless you are a financial member of the Golf Club we are playing on, in which case if we do not have to pay green fees for you, then we will not charge you, except $10 towards prize money. All money is paid to the Golf Co-ordinator in the club house who then settles the account with the golf club. You have the option to become a financial member of our section, the cost being $24 or pro-rata if joining during the year, the advantage of this is that it qualifies you to contest for our  five  trophies we play for each year.

Handicap
Our members that belong to a Golf Club will play with their official handicap and for those of us that do not belong to a golf club, we have a handicapping system of our own and you are informed of your playing handicap on the day. New members or visitors playing, who do not have an official handicap, will start on a 24 handicap for their first game, and adjusted accordingly if required.

Trophies
We currently contest for five trophies during the year, and they are:

1 & 2. The Championship Trophies, for ladies and men, which is played over four courses and the highest three scores that are registered on your cards, are the ones that represent your final total score, therefore the person/persons with the highest total score will be deemed the winner/winners.
3. The Eight Clubs Trophy is played for on a nominated course, and the rules for such is that you are only permitted to use eight clubs ( including your putter ) and the person recording the highest stableford score will be adjudged the winner. With equal scores, the final result will be determined by a count back, by three holes at a time.
4. The Ivan Poole Godfathers Trophy is contested at our December meeting, and the only qualifiers are the preceding winners and runner-up of the previous months meetings.The highest recorded stableford score takes the trophy and in the event of a drawn score then the overall winner is determined by a count back.
5 The Eclectic Trophy is awarded to the player who records the highest overall stableford points over 18 holes on all the courses that were played that year. All cards have their hole by hole stableford score checked and recorded onto the eclectic register and amended if required after each game. Therefore at our last meeting of the year after the days cards have been checked onto the register, the player that records the highest overall score over the 18 holes is deemed to be the winner. In the event of a drawn score, then a count back will determine the result.

Trophy Presentations
In December after our final game of the year, we go home and get changed and return back to our club restaurant for our end of year dinner and prize-giving.