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Another great day for the Wimmera Vets on Monday 7th April, at Warracknabeal Golf Club, with 62 playing including 11 ladies.
Thank you to all those attending, & Thank you so much to Warracknabeal Golf club for hosting a great day! & huge thank you to all the volunteer ladies that catered for the day.
Enough for 3 Divisions again:
A Grade: Winner was Russell Schultz (Warracknabeal) with 35pts on a countback with Runner-up Brian Dufty (Nhill) also on 35pts, & 3rd place went to David Lanyon (St Arnaud) with 34 points.
B Grade: Winner was David Baxter (Warracknabeal) with 37 points, Runner was Chris Phelan (Warracknabeal) with 36 pts & 3rd went to Brian Pitt with 35pts.
C Grade: Winner was Dexter Schilling (Warracknabeal) with the best score for the day of 40pts, runner-up on a countback was Jo Donnelly (Dimboola ) with 36 points, to 3rd place Brian Scott (Warracknabeal) also with 36pts. (Laurie Wadge just missed out - also with 36)
NTP’s: on the 5th - Casey Phelan & Terry Sanders; on the 7th - Corrine Heintze & Ken Schmidt; on the 9th - Val Scott & Peter Sturrock & on the 13th - David Baxter.
Congratulations to all the days winners!
Our next event for the year will be at Sheep Hills Golf Club on Monday 12th May - 9.30am for 10am Hitoff.
Photo of the days winners: Dexter Schilling, David Baxter, Jo Donnelly, Chris Phelan, David Lanyon, Brian Scott, Brian Dufty & Russell Schult

& Also,

Congratulations to the Wimmera Veteran Golfers for winning the 3 Way Challenge on Tuesday 22nd April at Chalambar against Glenelg & Ballarat Districts.

We won with 33.0; 2nd went to Ballarat with 32.1 & 3rd went to Glenelg with 30.1. There were about 70 attending the day of which about 25 were from the Wimmera. (Including 2 ladies)

Results for the Divisions ….

A Grade Winner: Dennis Mayberry with 36 on a countback with Runner-up (from Warracknabeal) Anthony Henrey also on 36. 3rd was won by Russell Schultz (Warracknabeal) with 35.

B Grade was won by Joseph Cahir with 34 on a countback with Norm Clark also on 34. And 3rd went to Chris Phelan (Warracknabeal) with 33.

C Grade Winner: winner was Bill Marriott with 36, Runner up went to Colin Dunn with 35 & 3rd went to Elizabeth Nichol with 32.

NTP’s: on the 4th T. Watson; no-one on the 6th; on the 8th Russell Schultz (Warracknabeal); on the 16th Rob Wallace; & on the 18th David Lanyon (St Arnaud). Congratulations Wimmera!

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Our Champions for 2024 are:

Greens Champion - Colin Moore (Jeparit)

& Sandgreen Champion - Janice Midgley (Minyip)

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