The annual NZIOB PlaceMakers Northern Region Golf Day was held in Auckland on Friday, 15 February. Despite warnings of cyclones, torrential rain, and gale force winds, everyone was delighted to wake up to a cloudless blue sky and sunshine. Teams started arriving at 10:30am and got straight into it, starting with the Putting Competition, followed by a quick lunch, then out onto the course for a 12:30pm shotgun start. Teams made their way around the course, enjoying the sponsor activities at various holes. 

All-in-all, another great golf day was enjoyed by all who participated, and the Pakuranga Golf Club has been booked again for next year’s event. Thank you to everyone involved in the event and for your continued support every year. We hope to see you all again in 2023. 

Thank you to our Sponsors 

An enormous thank you to Jonathon Percy’s (South East Hub) PlaceMakers Mt Wellington team on Hole 1 and Dale King’s (Central North Hub) PlaceMakers Cook Street team, who have continued as the event’s Major Sponsors now for 22 years. A big shout out to all our other sponsors who have supported this year’s event: 

• James Hardie for sponsoring and running the Putting Competition
• Sopersmac for cooking up a storm on Hole 2
• Markham Global for coming from Hawkes Bay for the day and running activities on Hole 9
• Resene Construction Systems for the fantastic golf packs and running Hole 14
• Nauhria for the hot bacon and beans on Hole 4
• Hirepool for the BBQ on Hole 14
• Doors + Design for the BBQ on Hole 8
• Bettabuilt for running the watering hole and caption competitions on Hole 10 

Results from the day 

James Hardie Putting Competition
1^st – Regan Harris, Symonite
2^nd – James Taylor, Iconiq 

Team Competition:
1^st – Livefirm (Team 1) 52.30
2^nd – PlaceMakers Cook St (Jacky Wong’s team) 52.75
3^rd – RCP (Graham Stanage’s team) 53.25
4^th – Leighs Construction (Kevin Gidding’s team) 54.00 

Tees in the Jar Competition:
1^st – Jarrod Grocock, Icon Construction
Last – Chris Hawken, Summerset 

Captions Competition:

Caption 1 Winner: Mana Ashford, PlaceMakers Mt Wellington
Caption 2 Winner: Phil Eaton, Greenstone Group 

Best Dressed Competition:

Hawkins Construction
NZ Fire Doors
PlaceMakers Mt Wellington
Iconiq and RCP