Greendale’s greens are back in order once more after experiencing some horrific flood damage earlier this year.
In association with the Elmwood Trading Company, Club President Steve Roulston joined Lesley Murdoch for a chat about the recovery process and the upcoming 26th edition of the Meadow Mushrooms Greendale Open taking place next weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One cold time to talk golf in association with the
Elmwood Trading Company and just a little bit of housekeeping
from last week's golf segment. Of course, we chatted with
Sam McGill and he was about to play in the
Canterbury match play, which he did and he won and
had to go to an extra hole with Cooper Moore.
But pretty cool. He was very confident Sam. So let's
(00:20):
go out to the Greendale Golf Club this week and
chat with Steve Rolston.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Steve, good morning, good morning, leaves here since going oh.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Really good, And look we do remember when that your
golf club and the greens and the few ways what
flooded and the donations and contributions came in from all
over New Zealand. How has Greendale Golf Club recovered?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And took quite a while to recover. We were probably
closed for probably two months. Well when I say we
went fully closed for terms, were closed fully closed for
about a month with the aden holes and probably took
about a month to get those fear ways that have
(01:05):
been quite badly damaged with the salt and whatever. Yeah,
and we played probably nine holes for about a month
before we went to fully open eighteen holes. So yeah,
it took a while, a lot of hard work by
quite a number of people, whether it be members and
you know, past members, current members, or even quite a
(01:28):
number of people that actually came from other golf clubs
as well to help out.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Now that's so cool. I mean that's what you'd expect,
wouldn't you in a sporting environment where people do sort
of link hands and get together. Because I'll never forget
those images. It was pretty horrific.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, it was very horrific. Ye, you're just saying about
the donations. We had donations coming from all over New
Zealand and you know for various golf courses and various
people that aren't even tied up with golf. Once they
put it onto the television whatever and got a bit
of your time, they support was quite awhelming. We had.
(02:03):
We had Mike Godney, he did a two golf tournaments
up at Pegass for us for ourselves and higher Arta
who also were affected. And yeah, they went down well
and as I say, just had a bit of money
coming in over that time that we went open and yeah, no,
things are on went and upwards and there they're going fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Will you Greendale is an eighteen whole country golf club.
You're about forty k's out of christ Church, I think
fifteen minutes from Ralston, just under two hundred members. But
it would be very picturesque, I would imagine out there.
But you have got a really big event coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, we've actually got a Meado Mushrooms torment coming up
next Sunday tomorrow week. And yeah, it's fifty twenty six
years since we've been associated with Meadow Mushrooms. And how
it came about was actually had a couple of members
that were working on the Gig's Crossing farm down there
where Meadow Mushrooms facilities are, and yeah, Meadow Mushrooms management
(03:09):
approach these couple of guys that were working, one being
a salt manager, them just being a worker on the farm,
and they said about getting in with the golf club.
And yeah, after twenty six years, is still gown strong.
What we do is they run the day and we
sort of organize everything for They run the day and yeah,
they put a barbecue on for the for the players
(03:31):
through the day and then we provide a meal at
nighttime which goes down very well. Because one thing Greendale
has always been held in highest regards for the meals
that are put forward by the ladies and that upwards.
So you know, fantastic next week.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, I bet you. Look it's interesting, isn't it because
where you are out at sea and you've had amazing
population growth. I mean, has that been good for your club?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yes, yes, it has. We're actually with you know, Rolliston
growing crossubstantially. We've had quite a lot of members and
they come from Rolliston and the surrounding areas as well.
It's you know, with i'd say going with by the
locals and Rolliston. We have quite a number of our
members actually, I mean enough to come out of christ
(04:18):
Church and now with the motorway being constructed and everything.
You know this guys and that live over the other
side of christ Church and you get the club within
twenty five to thirty minutes just with that motorway being there.
But you know, we have great support from everywhere. We
have actually do have quite a lot of support too
with come the weekends. We've got very good health and
(04:38):
safety officer and runs the facilities for us over the weekends.
We have quite called Die Gibbs and she does that
fantastic job and the mound of green, the players and
you know people that come along support us over the
weekends and even you know, like the long last week
then the long weekend, we have quite numbers because the
(05:01):
weekend had probably anything from sixty to our the green
fee players there over the week you know, per day
and no things. Yeah, going quite well on that steep.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So how did you get involved step being a volunteer
for the club.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, well what happened was I've been sort of involved
for about twenty five years, been on the committees and
course green course convener and at the moment i'm president.
But going back, my boys and that were mad keen
on rugby and cricket, and both boys actually had to
have braces at the same time, so they thought we
(05:37):
were going to do in the winter. So both boys
were schooled at Darfur High School and they had a
very good guy out there, teacher up there called James Roth,
and he used to walk through the schools and that
through this sporting weekly, he actually got the school to
develop a goal section of it and it's how the
boys got involved with it. And yeah, with me just
dropping them off Saturdays and let the play golf. I
(05:59):
just thought I'll get into it. That's where it started.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh that's fantastic, And what's your handicap.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
At the moment, I'm on the sixteen. I'd like to
be able to get down and just once they broke aiding,
but I doesn't seem be able to do it. But
they apart for sixteen, and I'm more than happy at
that at the moment. Maybe you must be nice to
get out to an eight and again to get one
shot per whole.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, maybe you'll get that in the twenty sixth and
your meadow Mushrooms Greendale open next week.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, it would be nicely. There would be nice here
because you look just there are. We've probably got about
ninety entries so far. I've got a few more yesterday,
and yeah, it's a great day out of people want
to maintainselves Vale. I think we're sort of going to
probably cut off about one hundred and twenty and great prizes.
(06:45):
Going back when they first started it, they probably try
to get it, sort of hold it around seeing heading
towards Christmas, and we still sort of running it sort
of on that you know direction, and you know the prizes.
The fantasic stick manding hands and whatever and being mushrooms,
and with the barbecue and everything, they mushrooms in that
(07:07):
all day and I usually end up with the mushrooms
as my prize at the end of the day, because
if anybody doesn't get a good prize, that's what you
end up with, a box and mushrooms. So everybody gets surprised,
which is quite pleasing.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well I'm salivating as we speak.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Quite friends, quite good.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yes, well, look that's wonderful. Look, I'd love to hear
how you get on at your annual events. But look,
thank you so much, first of all for coming on
air with us, but also for the amazing voluntary work
that you do. And it's all, you know, whatever sport
it is, it's just so critical to keeping all those
connections and the invisible threads in our communities all knitted together.
So Steve Rowlson, thank you and enjoy next weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Particularly just one other thing leaves me. I'll better make
a plug for us. Anybody that hasn't played at Greendale.
Every first Wednesday of every month we held our midweek tournament,
and with that we only get about forty to fifty
plowers a long most month, going back many years, ago.
I did see it. They had as many as the
hundred and sixty four in the field. But if anybody
(08:05):
liked to come out and play, it's just a twenty
dollars fame. We started eleven thirty the mornings. The starts
the first Wednesday of each month and stayble for competition.
So yeah, no one's played grendel Morn. We're happy to
bother playing that tornent well, playing that tournament door come
out and never around the weekends.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Sounds good?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Why not? Thanks much?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And I tell you what you know, Greendale is a
little breeding ground for sports people, not just golf, but
it is a very important area in the Canterbury region.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Next, I know you're singing the creckeit and everything on.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And hockey and netball and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yep, yeah no hockey and netball. Yeah no, I's totally agree.
It's a great week breeding ground us definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, thank you very much for your time. Enjoy and
get that handicapped down.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yes, thankfully. The appreciate your ring and thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Thank you. That is Steve Rawlstain. For more from News
talks'd b listen live on air or online and keep
our shows with you wherever you go with our podcast
on our radio
One cold time to talk golf in association with the
Elmwood Trading Company and just a little bit of housekeeping
from last week's golf segment. Of course, we chatted with
Sam McGill and he was about to play in the
Canterbury match play, which he did and he won and
had to go to an extra hole with Cooper Moore.
But pretty cool. He was very confident Sam. So let's
(00:20):
go out to the Greendale Golf Club this week and
chat with Steve Rolston.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Steve, good morning, good morning, leaves here since going oh.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Really good, And look we do remember when that your
golf club and the greens and the few ways what
flooded and the donations and contributions came in from all
over New Zealand. How has Greendale Golf Club recovered?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And took quite a while to recover. We were probably
closed for probably two months. Well when I say we
went fully closed for terms, were closed fully closed for
about a month with the aden holes and probably took
about a month to get those fear ways that have
(01:05):
been quite badly damaged with the salt and whatever. Yeah,
and we played probably nine holes for about a month
before we went to fully open eighteen holes. So yeah,
it took a while, a lot of hard work by
quite a number of people, whether it be members and
you know, past members, current members, or even quite a
(01:28):
number of people that actually came from other golf clubs
as well to help out.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Now that's so cool. I mean that's what you'd expect,
wouldn't you in a sporting environment where people do sort
of link hands and get together. Because I'll never forget
those images. It was pretty horrific.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, it was very horrific. Ye, you're just saying about
the donations. We had donations coming from all over New
Zealand and you know for various golf courses and various
people that aren't even tied up with golf. Once they
put it onto the television whatever and got a bit
of your time, they support was quite awhelming. We had.
(02:03):
We had Mike Godney, he did a two golf tournaments
up at Pegass for us for ourselves and higher Arta
who also were affected. And yeah, they went down well
and as I say, just had a bit of money
coming in over that time that we went open and yeah, no,
things are on went and upwards and there they're going fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Will you Greendale is an eighteen whole country golf club.
You're about forty k's out of christ Church, I think
fifteen minutes from Ralston, just under two hundred members. But
it would be very picturesque, I would imagine out there.
But you have got a really big event coming up.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, we've actually got a Meado Mushrooms torment coming up
next Sunday tomorrow week. And yeah, it's fifty twenty six
years since we've been associated with Meadow Mushrooms. And how
it came about was actually had a couple of members
that were working on the Gig's Crossing farm down there
where Meadow Mushrooms facilities are, and yeah, Meadow Mushrooms management
(03:09):
approach these couple of guys that were working, one being
a salt manager, them just being a worker on the farm,
and they said about getting in with the golf club.
And yeah, after twenty six years, is still gown strong.
What we do is they run the day and we
sort of organize everything for They run the day and yeah,
they put a barbecue on for the for the players
(03:31):
through the day and then we provide a meal at
nighttime which goes down very well. Because one thing Greendale
has always been held in highest regards for the meals
that are put forward by the ladies and that upwards.
So you know, fantastic next week.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, I bet you. Look it's interesting, isn't it because
where you are out at sea and you've had amazing
population growth. I mean, has that been good for your club?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yes, yes, it has. We're actually with you know, Rolliston
growing crossubstantially. We've had quite a lot of members and
they come from Rolliston and the surrounding areas as well.
It's you know, with i'd say going with by the
locals and Rolliston. We have quite a number of our
members actually, I mean enough to come out of christ
(04:18):
Church and now with the motorway being constructed and everything.
You know this guys and that live over the other
side of christ Church and you get the club within
twenty five to thirty minutes just with that motorway being there.
But you know, we have great support from everywhere. We
have actually do have quite a lot of support too
with come the weekends. We've got very good health and
(04:38):
safety officer and runs the facilities for us over the weekends.
We have quite called Die Gibbs and she does that
fantastic job and the mound of green, the players and
you know people that come along support us over the
weekends and even you know, like the long last week
then the long weekend, we have quite numbers because the
(05:01):
weekend had probably anything from sixty to our the green
fee players there over the week you know, per day
and no things. Yeah, going quite well on that steep.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So how did you get involved step being a volunteer
for the club.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, well what happened was I've been sort of involved
for about twenty five years, been on the committees and
course green course convener and at the moment i'm president.
But going back, my boys and that were mad keen
on rugby and cricket, and both boys actually had to
have braces at the same time, so they thought we
(05:37):
were going to do in the winter. So both boys
were schooled at Darfur High School and they had a
very good guy out there, teacher up there called James Roth,
and he used to walk through the schools and that
through this sporting weekly, he actually got the school to
develop a goal section of it and it's how the
boys got involved with it. And yeah, with me just
dropping them off Saturdays and let the play golf. I
(05:59):
just thought I'll get into it. That's where it started.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh that's fantastic, And what's your handicap.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
At the moment, I'm on the sixteen. I'd like to
be able to get down and just once they broke aiding,
but I doesn't seem be able to do it. But
they apart for sixteen, and I'm more than happy at
that at the moment. Maybe you must be nice to
get out to an eight and again to get one
shot per whole.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, maybe you'll get that in the twenty sixth and
your meadow Mushrooms Greendale open next week.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, it would be nicely. There would be nice here
because you look just there are. We've probably got about
ninety entries so far. I've got a few more yesterday,
and yeah, it's a great day out of people want
to maintainselves Vale. I think we're sort of going to
probably cut off about one hundred and twenty and great prizes.
(06:45):
Going back when they first started it, they probably try
to get it, sort of hold it around seeing heading
towards Christmas, and we still sort of running it sort
of on that you know direction, and you know the prizes.
The fantasic stick manding hands and whatever and being mushrooms,
and with the barbecue and everything, they mushrooms in that
(07:07):
all day and I usually end up with the mushrooms
as my prize at the end of the day, because
if anybody doesn't get a good prize, that's what you
end up with, a box and mushrooms. So everybody gets surprised,
which is quite pleasing.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well I'm salivating as we speak.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Quite friends, quite good.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yes, well, look that's wonderful. Look, I'd love to hear
how you get on at your annual events. But look,
thank you so much, first of all for coming on
air with us, but also for the amazing voluntary work
that you do. And it's all, you know, whatever sport
it is, it's just so critical to keeping all those
connections and the invisible threads in our communities all knitted together.
So Steve Rowlson, thank you and enjoy next weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Particularly just one other thing leaves me. I'll better make
a plug for us. Anybody that hasn't played at Greendale.
Every first Wednesday of every month we held our midweek tournament,
and with that we only get about forty to fifty
plowers a long most month, going back many years, ago.
I did see it. They had as many as the
hundred and sixty four in the field. But if anybody
(08:05):
liked to come out and play, it's just a twenty
dollars fame. We started eleven thirty the mornings. The starts
the first Wednesday of each month and stayble for competition.
So yeah, no one's played grendel Morn. We're happy to
bother playing that tornent well, playing that tournament door come
out and never around the weekends.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Sounds good?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Why not? Thanks much?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And I tell you what you know, Greendale is a
little breeding ground for sports people, not just golf, but
it is a very important area in the Canterbury region.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Next, I know you're singing the creckeit and everything on.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And hockey and netball and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yep, yeah no hockey and netball. Yeah no, I's totally agree.
It's a great week breeding ground us definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, thank you very much for your time. Enjoy and
get that handicapped down.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yes, thankfully. The appreciate your ring and thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Thank you. That is Steve Rawlstain. For more from News
talks'd b listen live on air or online and keep
our shows with you wherever you go with our podcast
on our radio
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