Titirangi September '19

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September ‘19

Issue No. 01

On Tour

New Brand

Clyde Johnson

We take a look at some of TGC members making us proud on the world stage.

With a host of different logos and brands being used around the club, the board embarked upon a campaign to design a new brand identity for the..

In this issue, we profile Clyde Johnson, the Mackenzie guru and designer who is helping us stay true to our Mackenzie heritage.

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Contents

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From the GM An introduction from the new General Manager of the greatest club in New Zealand, Titirangi Golf Club..

Raking Bunkers Ye s , i t ’ s n o t glamourous, but it goes a long way to making an enjoyable round for everyone.

Here’s your howto guide... so no excuses.

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Titirangi Girls Classic We t a k e a l o o k a t o n e o f o u r n e w e r e v e n t s , t h e p l a n n i n g , what’s coming up and how you can get involved..

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New Look TGC With a host of different logos and brands being used around the club, the board embarked upon a campaign to design a new brand identity for the..

On Tour Titirangians doing us proud in Aussie, Hangzhou, and even TPC Sawgrass.

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Clyde Johnson In this issue, we profile Clyde Johnson, the Mackenzie guru and designer who is helping us stay true to our Mackenzie heritage.

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Richard was appointed the new General Manager of Titirangi Golf Club in l a t e Ju l y t h i s y e a r.

Welcome to the new look monthly newsletter for our club. We hope in time this becomes a must read for everyone in the club. The key to any great read is content, so if you have interesting stories, news from the club or just a topic you’d like to see covered please let me or Brett in the Pro Shop know.

With this being our first issue and with me just getting my feet under the desk, I thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce myself to you all. Before I start though, I want to say a huge thank you to Michael Wood. The ship he has handed over is in great shape. Michael was amazing at systems, processes, accounting, IT and lots more. They are big shoes to fill.

However, he has made that job easier with the care he took and the hand-over he gave. Thank you Michael, the work you did over a decade here at the club will forever be a part of our proud legacy.

Well, if you have spoken to me yet, then you know my ascent is not from these parts. I was born to two US Marines in Atlanta Georgia. As such, much of my childhood years saw us live all over the southeast of the US and then in my high school years in southeast Asia.

I moved to New Zealand in 1992 and quickly fell in love with the beauty of the outdoors and also met my wife (fell for her too, but that’s another story. I did a degree in Marketing and Management at the University of Auckland and began playing the great game in my final year there.

It was actually a Titirangi member, Jean Wil-

liams who lent me my first set of clubs. I joined the North Shore Golf Club and learned to play under John Reid.

With a degree and an okay game, my wife and I moved to California to pursue a golf career.

I was fortunate to get a job in the Pebble Beach forrest and ultimately become the Head Professional at Poppy Hills Golf Course.

Fast forward to New Zealand, and I had the pleasure of working for Julian Robertson on his Kauri Cliffs resort as the General Manager. After moving back to Auckland I pursued Management Consulting and Project Management rolls for nearly 20 years, before what I believe was a life-time opportunity opened up to become the General Manager of Titirangi Golf Club.

It truly is an honour to have been appointed into this role, and I’m looking forward to working with all of you to continue the incredible legacy this course and club has.

If you have a moment next time you are coming out to play, stick your head in and say hi, I’d love to meet you.

Richard Nauck

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The Alister MacKenzie To u r n a m e n t

is one of our most fiercely contested trophies, and probably one of the coolest as well.

If you haven’t experienced it, get into a team. This is a fantastic social time, and is at the heart of what we are as a club.

Yo u w i l l n e e d 1 0 p l a y e r s for each round, so get your team together.

Entry is $30 per round and includes dinner.

If you would like your partner to have dinner as well, please RSVP before the match. Cost is $25 for the additional meal.

Ro u nd 1 - Fo u r s o me s S t a bl e f o r d M atch pl ay

S u n d a y, 2 9 t h S e p t e m b e r Round 2 - Best Ball Stableford Matchplay

S u n d a y, 2 0 t h O c t o b e r Round 3 - Singles Stableford Marchplay

S u n d a y, 2 4 t h N o v e m b e r All Rounds are 12:30pm Shotgun Starts

Rules for rounds 1 & 2, Yo u m a y p a i r u p y o u r p l a y e r s a s p e r y o u r choosing. Once you have decided on your pairings they must be ranked 1 – 5 based on the lowest combined handicaps.

Round 3 the lowest handicap must play as #1, second lowest #2, etc etc and the highest is playing #10 In the event of teams tied after 3 rounds of competition, the team with the highest points total in the quiz (after round 2) will be a w a r d e d t h e t r o p h y.

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New Brand A club’s logos are fundamental communication tools. At their best, they are instantly recognisable and speak to not just the club, but who the club is. Those brands that really nail this are those whose icon alone is all that is needed; Augusta Nationals famous “Flag Stick in America”; Pebble Beach’s “Lone Cypress”; Royal Melbourne’s “Crowned Wings”.

Over the years Titirangi has had a number of logos, and at present if you walk around the clubhouse, pro shop and course, you can find as many as 5 different logos in use. Our icon, has always been some form of the Koromiko, with the current versions unfortunately being referred to as the marijuana logo by many.

Earlier this year, the board embarked upon a project to create a new logo. One that would better reflect who we are as a club. The brief was simple: Capture the essence of who we are as a club, pay tribute to our history, and provide a design that would serve us well in a variety of contexts (from logo’d apparell, to golf balls, to letterhead and brochures).

A campaign was run on the crowd-sourcing site 99Designs.

This website is connected to thousands of creatives, brand experts and agencies around the world. You place the brief, put up a prize (in our case, $2,500) and whoever wants can compete. Over 120 designers joined the campaign and provided designs. The board narrowed the group to finalists of 4-designs and after seeking some expert advice from some of our own Titirangi members who work in the Brand industry, decided a winner.

The Name

Established in 1909 as the Maungakiekie Golf Club, our earliest days were played on a different course all together.

In 1915 land was purchased for what is now our home and on the 3rd of February 1915 the ‘committee’ passed a short resolution... “It was decided to call these links Titirangi”.

While still called Maungakiekie Golf Club, the course itself was simply called Titirangi. It wasn’t until October of 1930, that Maungakiekie Golf Club split, and we became known as The Titirangi Golf Club. Our logo pays homage to these early days and our very first name, simply Titirangi.

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Alister MacKenzie

The decision of the membership and the activism of its committee in 1927 led to probably the most significant event in our club’s 100 plus year history. When Mr. Mackenzie supplied designs for a complete remodel of the land the course sat on, little did anyone realise that it would place Titirangi in very hallowed company.

Following his design of Titirangi and Royal Melbourne, Alister MacKenzie went on to design Cypress Point

What life have you There is no life and Augusta National. History now holds Alister MacKenzie as one of the greatest golf course designers to ever live. His name is synonimous with the best clubs in the world.

The dilegence of the membership and committees for the last 90 years, to remain true to our orginal design and to keep to MacKenzie’s design principles, is why we continue to stand alone, and proudly, as the only Alister MacKenzie course in New Zealand. We are A MacKenzie Course.

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Brand Roll-out: From the 1st of October we will roll out the new logo.

Because of the amount of change required and also the amount of branded stock we have, we will have a transition of 6 months.

Over this time, you can expect a few sales in the proshop as we get rid of our old branded stock. Our goal is that by the 31st of March 2020, all past logos will be archived and all branding from that day forward will be our new logo. You can expect new branded product soon.

u if you have not life together e that is not in community Koromiko

Over the past 100 plus years the club has had many logos and iterations of logos. One commonality among them all was the presence of a plant very few members would have known the name of: Koromiko. The origins of why the Koromiko plant and folliage have been used is up to some debate, however, it has always been there. It is part of our identity. When the committee decided it was time that we refresh our branding, a prerequisite was the development of an ICON that could become as recognisable as the name itself.

Our icon is the Koromiko - found throughout the golf course, throughout our history and even in the stained glass windows of our clubhouse. The new icon moves away from the Koromiko flowers (which are often mistaken for another medicinal plant) to the juvenille Koromiko branch and leaves.

The simplicity of the new icon allows for its use in a host of situation. It is our hope that in time, our icon will become ‘iconic’ and members and visitors alike will know “That’s Titirangi”.

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On Tour...

You don’t need to hang around the club too long to know we have some outstanding talent here. Here’s what a few of our best have been up to.

Brittney Dryland qualified 10th in the Queensland Strokeplay. which was being played at The Gailes Golf Club in Brisbane.

Brittney made quick work of her first two opponents in the Queensland Amateur but unfortunately fell in the semi final 2&1, to the eventual winner Stephanie Kyriacou.

Johnny Tynan also played in the Queensland Strokeplay in a field of over 150, all vying for the top 16 to make the match play.

Johnny put in 4 solid rounds and ended up in a tie for 37th, in a very tough field.

Munchin Keh played this week in the CLPGA Hangzhou International Championship, after a first round 79, she had her work cut out for her to make the cut, but that didnt phase her, she shot a second round 68 to make the cut by 3 shots. Munchin finished the event in T28 to pick up another paycheck on what is continuing to be a successful year.

Jang Hyun Lee (Eric) (pictured on right) competed in the Junior Players Championship this week just gone, at none other than TPC Sawgrass! Eric posted scores of 72 - 72 - 71 to finish the event in T7th, in a field full of the best junior golfers in the world! Fantastic effort from Eric.

If you are a Titirangi Member and have any major events coming up away from the club, please let us know so we can involve you in these newsletters.

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Projects Clyde’s been a part of.

Tara Iti

St Enodoc

Woodhall Spa

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Clyde Johnson in his own words

With an insatiable desire to travel to and play the British Isles’ seaside links, my passion for golf course design exploded from an early age. It is golf’s incomparable relationship with landscape, the interaction with nature’s elements and a sense of adventure that most intrigued. Little did I know then that I would be following in the footsteps of many past and contemporary masters of the art of golf architecture!

The ideal golf course architect must ‘have the soul of an artist, the brain of an engineer and the heart of a golfer’. American golf writer Herbert Warren Wind’s infamous quote in the back of my mind, I headed off to the University of Sheffield to read Structural Engineering and Architecture. Promoting collaboration between creative and technical disciplines, this study introduced the daily challenges that face a fieldbased golf course architect whom tries to balance the call for inventive play and aesthetic interest with environmental and economical sensibility.

As the future of golf course construction remained clouded by economic uncertainty and dwindling playing demand, it seemed fitting that I should head overseas to understand the courses and golfing culture that have most influenced, for better and for worst, today’s state of the game. While a postgraduate degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia provided a base to develop my understanding of modern trends in golf course development and design, it was an internship with Tom Doak that truly introduced me to the field. Time in the dirt, alongside the associates of Renaissance Golf Design, at Dismal River and Tara’ Iti has provided an invaluable apprenticeship in implicating the sophisticated yet restrained approach to design and construction that I so admire.

While many experienced architects may view it as a disconcerting time to operate within the business, it is my belief that an exciting period for golf course development presents itself, with the opportunity to guide a golfer-focused future for the game...

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Tw o d i f f e r e n t p r o c e s s e s t h a t b o t h h e l p t h e h e a l t h o f o u r g r e e n s : C o r i n g ( l e f t ) a n d D e t h a t c h i n g ( b e l o w ) . We ’ r e d e t h a t c h i n g t h i s S e p t e m b e r.

Maintenance Week Wo r k b e g i n s M o n d a y , 1 6 S e p t e m b e r Intensely managed turfgrass areas develop an organic layer underneath the surface of decaying plant material integrated with the living roots, crowns and stems of the grass known as thatch.

While a small layer of thatch is beneficial, thatch removal is key in maintaining surfaces to a high standard along with reducing disease pressures, improved water infiltration and firmer surfaces.

The two processes we use at renovation are coring and dethatching for thatch removal.

Coring is a method where cores are removed from the surface by hollow tines and backfilled with sand, coring relieves compaction and provides aeration and drainage to the root zone Dethatching or as it as alternatively known as scarifying removes excessive thatch with a vertical cutting blade up to 3mm in width and 25mm in depth creating a series of lines

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which are then backfilled with sand for thatch dilution.

Twice each year we measure our thatch levels through a testing procedure which the results will indicate how aggressive we need to be with our renovation method and it also highlights if any changes in our management practices are required to maintain correct thatch levels.

This spring we are dethatching the greens as we have found this method provides a more consistent/truer surface through the summer period. Our intention is to also dethatch the tees & aprons along with coring the green surrounds, all of these other areas will be sanded and seeded as well.

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2019 PGA Trainee (Brett) Raffle Tickets Get in there and support our man.

Our resident PGA Trainee Professional Brett is selling raffle tickets to raise money for the Trainee’s end of year graduation event. There are a grand total of 11 prizes to be won and tickets are $5 each.

Top Prize - Golf for two people (including cart) at The Hills Golf Course, Arrowtown and two nights accommodation for two people at the Ramada Suites, Queenstown Second - Golf for two people at either Pegasus Golf and Sports Club (including cart) or Gulf Harbour Country Club (including cart) Third - Oakley Summer Golf Pack including Radar Prizm Golf Sunglasses and Cap (Value $379) Fourth - One pair of Footjoy Golf Shoes (to be selected by the winner) Fifth & Sixth - One Dozen Titleist ProV1 Golf Balls and One Titleist Cap Seventh to Eleventh - One Dozen ProV1 Golf Balls There are approximately 50 trainees in the programme around the country, all with 50 tickets each The prizes will be drawn on the 29th October 2019 and the winners will be contacted directly and published on the PGA Website.

There is a maximum of 5 tickets per person.

If you would like to buy some tickets, please see Brett in the golf shop.

M a i n t e n a n c e We e k R e c i p r o c a l s Maungakiekie - $25 Akarana - $25

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No, No, NO, High Side - No Entry

No, No, NO, Put it in the middle

Yes, Yes YES, Low Side - Entry

Smooth Side

Tine Side Rough, but uniform in the middle Nice and smooth on the edges

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Bunkers

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After you’ve successfully taken your shot, take the rake and using the tine side down, rake the area of your shot and all footprints. Done correctly this will create a uniform flat, but rough area of sand.

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As you walk out of the bunker continue to rake as before, making sure all your foot prints are covered. No one likes a bunker shot out of someone else’s foot print.

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Now here’s the bonus! Using the smooth side of the rake smooth the edge of the bunker to about meter out from the edge.

Go for it, push the sand away from the edge.

This means when the next player hits into the bunker their ball will roll over from the edge into the middle of the bunker, rather than plugging or sticking near the edge.

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Now throw the rake into the middle of the bunker. Don’t lean it on the edge and definitely don’t lay it on the smooth area you just created (kind of defeats the purpose if you think about it).

As a club, we have a reputation as having one of best tracks in the country. Over winter, our reputation grows even more as we are also one of the dryest in Auckland. The club commits over $1 million per annum to our course, and we have one of the best and most dedicated green’s crews you’ll find anywhere.

Having said all of that, the responsibility for presenting an amazing course for members and visitors alike, is a shared one. As members we have a responsibility, a requirement even, to replace our divots, fix our ball marks (and find an extra one to fix) and rake our bunkers.

In this months, newsletter we start a series on course maintenance from the member’s perspective. We start with Bunkers. This past week, we distributed over 170 new rakes to our 73 bunkers. Besides looking very sharp, the new rakes are designed (if used correctly) to help us present amazing bunkers.

So here’s your lesson on Bunkers: 1.

Don’t hit it in there! But if you do, find the lowest entrance point nearest your ball to enter. This prevents destroying the top edges and faces of our bunkers.

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Take a rake with you as you go to your ball!

Our shop staff will be out on Holes 1 and 7 over the next few weeks, to help demonstrate.

Thank you for helping us present a great course for all to enjoy!

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TITLEIST PROMOTIONS Personalised Golf Balls

FITTING

Titleist are offering FREE personalisation of golf balls during the month of September.

Titleist will be on site on the 19th of September (during maintenance week, so we can hit bombs off of 1 tee) showing off their latest irons and woods.

Sign up for a fitting in the pro-shop Spaces are strictly limited. So be quick!

This is available on ProV1, ProV1x and AVX Golf Balls.

You can also get high numbers (5-8) on ProV1 and ProV1x or Yellow AVX balls.

The personalised writing comes in, Black, Blue, Green, Pink, or Red. A maximum of three lines of 17 characters per line. Most regular text characters are available including: @, $ or #.

Stuff

$89 per dozen ($80.10 with member discount).

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Please contact a member of the golf shop staff if you would like to place an order.

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Selective Grass Control Plan on Fairways 2019 With spring growth starting to appear with slightly warmer temperatures we are now in the process of controlling the poa annua grass species via spraying and promoting the colonial bentgrass (browntop) species. The reason for the spraying is that the browntop is a much better species for our fairways as it has better heat tolerance, less disease issues and lower fertility requirements meaning a more all-around better performance.

Expect more Yellow Less Lush Green for a week or two

The application process involves spraying the fairways twice at two weekly intervals with the fairway turning a bleached white appearance one week after the first application.

The process after the last application is waiting for two more weeks and then any bare poa annua areas are seeded with browntop.

The T100, T200, and T300 replace the AP1,2, and 3 range.

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Hit the fairway, hit the green, two putt!

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Playing our new 17th!

A foggy start to a beautiful day (Brett Peacock)

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Titirangi Girls’

Classic

E n t r i e s N o w O p e n !!!!

S u n d a y, 6 t h O c t o b e r 2 0 1 9 Last years event was a tremendous success and we’re looking at bigger and better than ever for this year. We have partnered with She Loves Golf, a NZ Golf initiative and will also be having a Festival of Golf that day with our Classic being the featured event.

We have a number of generous sponsors on board for the Classic, and we need some more volunteers. So if you can help that day, email Brett.

To allow competition across a wide-range of abilities, this year we have: Gross, Stableford, Two’s, Nearest to the pin and Longest Drive competitions.

Tee off will be a shotgun start from 12:15pm and the event will be played from the yellow tees.

Upon entry, each player will receive a special gift pack full of goodies.

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TITIRANGI GIRLS CLASSIC Titirangi Golf Club

Sunday 6 October 2019 18 hole tournament - $30 entry - shotgun start 12:15pm   Gross, stableford, nearest to pin, longest drive & twos prizes 4 hole fun event - free entry - starts around 2:30pm Participation prizes A fun day for junior girls featuring amazing prizes and a great day at Titirangi Golf Club for all!

For further information & registration contact: golfoperations@titirangigolf.co.nz Send name, email & membership number

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