PB Golf Club tee off for the future
1 November 2019 - Sunrise Foundation
l-r Pat Butler (board member), Rob Dymock, John Rouse (Patron), Miggles Shanks (President), Dave Keown (Manager) and Pete Anderson (board member) hope donations and bequests from members will see their fund grow to become a well needed regular source of income for Poverty Bay Golf Club in the future.
Established in 1893, Poverty Bay Golf Club (PBGC) is renowned as one of the best links courses in New Zealand. The club, which is the 5th oldest in New Zealand, ranks among the country’s top golf courses and has played host to numerous prestigious events, including the 2020 New Zealand Men’s and Women’s Amateur Golf Championships.
Board member, Pat Butler, says the board established an endowment fund at Sunrise as “a long term investment in the future of the club. We want to see the golf club maintained and enhanced as a sporting venue and community facility long into the future.”
Dave Keown, club manager, says they have a strong club culture and are lucky to have committed members and staff who work hard to help the club succeed.
“This year both the Men’s and Women’s Poverty Bay Opens were an outstanding success because of the contribution of a large number of members and, of course, our dedicated staff. We had many out of town players and they enjoyed the fabulous course and their time in Gisborne.”
He added that “many people get enormous pleasure out of playing golf. There is camaraderie and fun involved with playing the sport. It is also great for players health with a person who plays golf enjoying a life expectancy seven years longer than average.”
Rob Dymock has only been playing golf for three years, but she loves it and wants to keep playing for lot longer. She says she was surprised to learn at last years Women’s AGM that the club was only making ends meet.
Rob is a volunteer on Sunrise’s grants committee and she says it was only natural her thoughts turned to how the club could grow an endowment fund to help keep the club strong in the future.
“I thought to myself if we keep doing the same thing here, then we were going to get the same results for the longevity of the club. I’m a strong supporter of the endowment model Sunrise operates and thought an endowment fund for the club could make a real difference to funding issues in the future.”
She added, “I was surprised to hear about the challenges the club faced and I feel sure there are many people out there, once they found out the club needed their help, that would want to help grow this legacy fund”.
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