Welcome to Wimmera Veteran Golfers

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We had one of the best attendance for our first Wimmera Vets event for 2025 on Monday 10th February at Nhill Golf Club. We had 78 playing including 11 ladies. Plus we had players from Birchip, Donald, St Arnaud …. !

Thank you to all this attending, & Thank you so much to Nhill Golf club for hosting a great day! It’s a fantastic course!

Enough for 3 Divisions again:

A Grade (0-16) Winner was Mark Edelsten (Rainbow) with 39pts & Runner-up was Stuart Bone (Nhill) with 37pts. (Birthday boy)

B Grade (17-22) Winner was Steve Harris (Horsham) with 39 points and Runner was Wayne McDonald (Toolondo) with 36pts - on a c/b with Chris Phelan (Warracknabeal) & Rod Stanford (Nhill) also with 36 pts.

C Grade (>23) Winner was Pam VanKempen (Kaniva) with 40pts and runner-up was Jenny Tink (Serviceton) with 35 on a countback with Roy Liersch (Warracknabeal) also with 35pts.

NTP’s: on the 4th - Graham Pilgrim (Nhill) & Janice Midgley (Minyip); on the 7th - Colin Moore (Jeparit) & Janice Midgley (again); on the 9th - Graeme Puckle (Hopetoun), on the 12th - Rod Stanford (Nhill) & Cindy Marsh (Minyip); & on the 14th - Wayne McDonald (Toolondo) & Jo Donnelly (Dimboola).

Happy birthday to Stuart Bone who turned 55 on the day 🎉 - how’s that for keen to play vets!! 😁

Congratulations to all the days winners!

Our next event for the year will be at Stawell on Monday 24th Feb, 9am for 9.30am hitoff 🏌🏿‍♂️🏌🏼‍♀️

Photo of the days winners: Wayne McDonald, Steve Harris, Pam VanKempen, Stuart Bone, Jenny Tink & Mark Edelsten.

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Our Champions for 2024 are:

Greens Champion - Colin Moore (Jeparit)

& Sandgreen Champion - Janice Midgley (Minyip)

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  • Please note: You must be a financial member for 2024 to accept prizes or participate in vets.     

  • The programs for 2024 are printed, so get your copy at the next event (some program changes are likely in response to scheduling, attendance, club support and distances travelled for the events.) The committee appreciates the support of all in keeping our small association functioning

  •  You can contact our Committee using the club email address: veteran.golfers@gmail.com   

  • Thanks to Crop Opti and Allan & Trev's workwear for supporting the WDVGA polo shirts. They look great. If interested in ordering a shirt, please drop a note to wimmera.veteran.golfers@gmail.com.
  • Please pass this message on to those without access to email/social media
  • You can update an email address through the "contact us" link on the website.

The Australian Veteran Golfers Union (AVGU) is an Australian wide organization  with an association in each Australian state and boasting of 30,000 members. The AVGU conducts a National Veteran Golfers Union Championship each year, which is open to all Veteran Golf members.  The event  is rotated between states and venues.

The Victorian Veteran Golfers Association (VVGA) has 5,000 members distributed among 21 districts.  Each district conducts events  at least monthly using over 250 golf courses throughout Victoria.   Veteran Golfers are welcome to play in any of these events.   Open VVGA championships are conducted at 5 different locations annually.  The Four Ball, Country, Sandscrape, Teams and State Championships events make up the VVGA major events.

There is a new VVGA website - it can be sourced at https://www.vvga.org.au

The Wimmera District Veteran Golfers Association (WDVGA) has approx 150 members and our fixture schedules events at 19 golf courses in the area bounded by Edenhope, Kaniva, Rainbow,Hopetoun and Ararat during the year.  Events are held on Mondays, generally fortnightly.                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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