{"id":392124,"date":"2026-01-05T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392124\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:03:10","slug":"mount-maunganui-bay-oval-to-transform-into-pins-pours-golf-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392124\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Maunganui Bay Oval to transform into Pins &#038; Pours golf range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWith golf increasing in popularity across the country, we thought it would be cool to bring a unique experience to one of the best sports grounds in our very own backyard.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Premium bays with ball tracking technology will track exactly where golf balls land onto the Bay Oval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Daily prizes include a brand new custom-fit Ping G440 driver for the nearest-to-the-pin winners, with the top 10 each day qualifying for a hole-in-one shootout on the final day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThanks to Lexus of Tauranga, the first player who scores a hole-in-one on the final day will walk away with a brand new Lexus LBX Morizo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The Clubroom Director Hayden Beard in action. Photo \/ Labb Studios\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The Clubroom Director Hayden Beard in action. Photo \/ Labb Studios<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The Bay Oval international cricket ground hosted its first-ever Super Rugby game in April last year and will become a major music venue for Australian DJ Fisher later this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">In 2023, it was transformed into a Fifa Women\u2019s World Cup training ground for the Netherlands football team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Bay Oval general manager Kelvin Jones said the cricket ground was a multi-use community asset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are a cricket ground first and foremost, but we\u2019re always looking to find new experiences for people to enjoy especially around the holidays,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhether you\u2019re here to watch a cricket game, enjoy a concert or hit some golf balls, the Bay Oval can be enjoyed by everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Jones said he was excited to be hosting the inaugural Pins &amp; Pours golf event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt will not only help to promote the venue, but it will be a lot of fun too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">-Content supplied by freelance journalist and The Clubroom co-owner Zoe Hunter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWith golf increasing in popularity across the country, we thought it would be cool to bring a unique&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,9826,755,16371,23815,23814,29252,209814,209815,10228,85,319,130708],"class_list":["post-392124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bay","tag-golf","tag-into","tag-maunganui","tag-mount","tag-oval","tag-pins","tag-pours","tag-range","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-transform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}