President's Bulletin – January 27th, 2023

Men’s Comp.

Last Saturday was the second round of the Chris Rigoni 4BBB, 28 players played which was again a great field.

Brad Carroll and David Clark were not going to be bridesmaids this week when they shot another great 44 points to win the day and firm favorites for the Shield.

Runners up were Dick Matthews and Spider Hancock on a countback from Jade Galvan and Paul Cowman on 43 points.

After two rounds, the leading 8 are D Clark & B Carroll 88, T Batt & C Piazza 85, B O'Donohue & T Chapman 84, P Evans & D Rowe 84, P Stewart & G Browne 84, I Wales & P Green 82, J Galvan & P Cowman 79, K O'Shaughnessy & G Veldman 78, the final round tomorrow.

17 players played in the Wednesday comp and Fox O’Donohue won the prize money with a brilliant 36 points, runner up Peter Vasey on a countback from Jim Martin on 33 points.

Only one player turned up for the 9 hole comp. For the future, if there are not enough players for a comp, then 9 hole players can play their 9 with the 18 holers and drop off.

Programme

The programme for the next two weeks:

Ladies Comp

Last Tuesday, 22 Ladies played following the greens being freshly scarified whilst they were playing. However there were some very good scores regardless.Winner of the 18 hole comp. was Liz Orton with 38 points, runner up Lyn Dwyer with 32 points. Winner of the 9 hole comp. and Special Birthday Girl Robyn Ternes with 19 points, runner up Penny Dawkins with 17 points.

Course

A fantastic working bee last Monday where 5 members helped Gerard in scarifying 7 greens, A Huge SHOUT OUT to Peter Ternes, Jon Harrington, Fox O’Donohue and Peter Stewart helping me in raking out the cutting.

Tuesday working bee, just magnificent, 9 members helped and we were finished in four hours, A HUGE SHOUT OUT to Jon Harrington and Fox O’Donohue, both days, Jim Martin, John Costello, David Clark, Tony Chapman, Pieter Veldman and Evan Jones. We had four members from the Beechworth Correctional service as well. (The fellas eyes sure lit up when they were offered profiteroles for morning tea! – thanks Marnie) Gerard and Tristan finished off a great team of workers.

Next working bee, pruning the large tree on the 10 green and removing branches over growing on fairways.

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Opening Day of NEDGA

Opening Day of the Northeast Golf Association will be held at Myrtleford this year, Sunday 12^th February. It is a 2-player aggregate Stableford. As the host club, we need good numbers to play also we will provide lunch and run the bar. Please enter via the attach entry form.

Australia Day – Par 3 event

32 players played in this year’s Australia Day Par 3 event. We had visitors from Albury, Wodonga and Melbourne and good to see country member Chris playing. Thanks to the ladies for organizing the day, fantastic.

Men – Gross – Daryl Dawson, Runner up David Clark

Net - Fox O’Donohue, runner up John Costello

Ladies Gross – Marnie Broz, runner up Sandra Piazza, Judy Bynon, Barb Welch

Net - Marg Fitridge, runner up Denise O’Donohue

Nearest pins – Peter Stewart x 3, John Costello x 2 and myself 2

Alpine Classic

The 20^th Alpine Classic to be held on the 20^th,21^st and 23th March.

We have over 130 entries so far, if you wish to play, go to the Myrtleford Golf Club website and follow the Alpine Classic tab.

If you wish only to play at Myrtleford course, please register after February 16^th.

John and Sue Wilson Golf Weekend 4-5^th February

Sponsored by the Savoy Club, a great weekend of golf and I urge members to support both events. There will be a stroke event on the Saturday and a two player Ambrose on the Sunday – Mens, Ladies and Mixed (subject to sufficient entries). Please put your name on the list on the noticeboard. As the men are responsible for catering on the Sunday, volunteers are needed to put together a barbecue lunch.

New Signs.

Have you noticed the new signs on the course, thanks to John Costello for ordering and erecting, another step in smartening up our course, thanks John.

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Good hitting,

George