Presidents Report:

The members were welcomed to Waverley/Churchill Golf Club to compete in the tournament for the Royce Hollingworth trophy. With this being our first opportunity to play at the course, the members graciously thanked the hosts for their hospitality.

Under the watchful eye of our starters Peter Ross, Yvonne Daniel and Ian Richards they successfully had the field of 55 at their tees at the scheduled time - well done.

VVGA 4BBB tournament

The VVGA 4BBB tournament at Hamilton Golf Club on the 20/21 March is available to our members to attend.  Laurie Comerford is looking for a partner for this tournament, if interested please contact Laurie.

Sponsors

Members please remember to support our valued sponsors, House of Golf Moorabbin and Jimmy Jams.

Bookings

Access to our booking sheet for members closes on the Thursday prior to the event. There are reasons for this:

• The Captain has to prepare the draws and send them out to members in reasonable time for them to receive them;
• The Captain has to advise our host club of numbers in time for them to make their commercial arrangements to supply the lunches. Some of our host clubs will charge us for the number booked regardless of how many participate, so the 2023 Committee will be obliged to consider requiring members who pull out after these arrangements have been made to pay the charge by the host Club.

The members were reminded to advise of non attendance to a tournament by NOON on the Thursday prior to the tournament to assist with the tee draw and advising the host clubs of dining numbers.

This being my last newsletter as I am stepping down as President, I wish to thank the Committee and members for their support during my time.

MEMBERS,  I feel that it is unfortunate that no one has stepped forward as our Marketing person for 2023. Daryl has provided 11 years of service in this role and any member nominating for this position will receive plenty of support from the committee.

AGM

President Roger opened the AGM and announced his retirement from the Presidency on health grounds, but like the character he is advised he would continue to assist the Club and Committee in all the ways he can.

2023 Committee

Roger handed over the chair to Life Member David Vine for the election of the 2023 President. David spoke of Roger's contribution to the Club and thanked him on behalf of the members and this was followed by a spontaneous round of applause for Roger.

The Committee for 2023 was elected at the AGM as follows:

President: Harold Hayes

Vice-president: Peter Garbellini

Captain: Jeff Stevens

Vice-Captain: No one nominated, for the moment the position remains vacant

Secretary: Jeff Taylor

Treasurer: Peter Ross

Handicapper: Ray Desmond

Marketing Manager: Daryl Edwards

Webmaster: Laurie Comerford

Captains Report:

Results from 'Waverley'

Captain Jeff Stevens welcomed members to Waverley Golf Club for the Royce Hollingworth Trophy Stableford event.

Overall winner

Bruce Keenan (24) with 38 points won the Royce Hollingworth Trophy

Bruce received a $40 House of Golf voucher for this effort.

Grade winners

A Grade:  Peter Garbellini (14)  35 points

B Grade:  Peter Fischer (27)  36 points

C Grade:  Ian Richards (36)  36 points

Balls down the line:

36 points  Patrick Ryan ()

35 points  Brendan Cooney ()  George Robinson ()

32 points  Philip Horsburgh ()

31 points  Ross Rowley ()

30 points  Rod Goode ()  Peter Rodwell ()  Bernard De Robillard ()

NAGA Award:

Winner John Hendrie won a House of Golf 30 minute lesson !

Nearest the pin

Hole 3 Ross Rowley

Hole 5 Brendan Cooney

Hole 13 Harold Hayes

Hole 16 Tony Villani

Door prize Winners:

Valerie Purves celebrated a good day at Waverley by winning the door prize of a round for 4 at Waverley.

Brendan Cooney will be able to enjoy the wonderful flavours of a Jimmys Jam pack.

Mark Pearson won the third of our door prizes, a nice bottle of red.