Welcome to 2016

All,

We hope you all had a great festive season, have caught up with all your chores & are champing at the bit, ready for our first game next Tuesday.

The game on 2 Feb is at Mareeba, (just as well considering the forecast for this week), & is a relaxing 4BBB stableford to ease you back into the game.

The day is sponsored by Drummond Golf.

Copies of our program will be available at registration & membership fees are due if you have not already paid them.

New membership cards will also be available, so if you are planning to play in any away comps, either inter- or intra-state, don't forget to collect one.

Entry forms for the State closed championship at Bargara on 23/24 May will also be available, or you can download them from the QVGU site at http://www.qvgu.com.au/champ.html.

Entry forms for the National Championships in Adelaide are also available for download at http://www.qvgu.com.au/avgu.html.

See you in Mareeba.

Louis

Merry Christmas

All,

Our program for 2016 has now been posted to the blog - see the right hand column.  We will also have copies available at registration when we resume on 2 Feb.

Meanwhile the committee wishes all our members a very Happy Christmas.  Keep safe & healthy & we'll see you all in the New Year.

Louis

President's Report & Results Cairns 1 Dec

The 2015 season of veterans golf was completed in fine style at the Cairns Golf Club today.

A 4 ball best ball stableford was played, followed by a Christmas lunch during which the prizes for the day were presented. There was 98 starters including 81 men and 17 ladies.

We were pleased to have some of our sponsors of the season present to enjoy golf and lunch, they were Katrin Nash of Drummond golf, Rusty Ellis of Brothers Leagues Club and Bob Westerman from Golf World.

The sponsor for today was DEBORAH DUFFY ESTATE AGENT and unfortunately Deborah was unable to attend.

For those who will miss their Tuesday golf, tableland summer of golf starts next week with a game at Millaa Millaa and the following week at Atherton. The complete draw is elsewhere on this site.

Mareeba Golf Club is also starting Friday golf to begin on 11^th December with both 9 and 18 hole events so call the club to book a tee time on 0740921528.

Veterans golf will resume on 2^nd February 2016 with a 4BBB at Mareeba.

RESULTS

WINNERS; Warren Wright & Brian Panigas 46 points.

RUNNERS UP; Jeff & Glynis McGrath 45 points.

NTP MEN; 5^th Don Thomson, 8^th & 17^th Robin Tonks, 11^th Rod Cade.

NTP WOMEN; 5^th & 11^th Betty Lou Pitt, 8^th Chris Everall, 17^th Lil Benfield.

All those present at the luncheon received a ball.

Last Game in 2015 Cairns 1 Dec

All,

Our final game for the year is a 4BBB stableford at Cairns golf club, with a shotgun start at 0730.

It is sponsored by Deb Duffy Real Estate & is followed by our Xmas breakup lunch.

Cost for the day is our usual $12, plus $20 for the meal.

See you there.

Louis

President's Report & Results Gordonvale 24 Nov

The annual general meeting of the FNQVGA was held today at the Gordonvale golf Club and the reports were accepted by the membership and the new committee is as follows:

President; Roger Smith (me)

Vice Pres. Suzanne Brennan.

Captain; Russ Gill.

Vice Captain; Wal Anthony.

Treasurer; John Everall.

Secretary; Lou Siedle.

Committee; Di Diversi, Chris Everall, Greg Gibb, Lois Tait.

The retiring member is June Willmot and on behalf of the members I thank her for many years of service to our club, including serving as secretary and vice president. June has contributed more than her fair share. I also thank Di Diversi for a job well done as treasurer and Greg Gibb who is the outgoing captain who has done a great job, both having completed a three year term. Well done both of you and I am pleased to have you on the new committee.

Thanks must also go to the following members who have again accepted honorary positions,

Hon Patron, Claud Clark.

Hon Auditor, Harvey Blanch.

Hon Solicitor, Jim Liston.

Todays event was a 4BBB stableford and the sponsor was SAVANNAH LIFESTYLE RESORT and we were privileged to have Melody Lucas from Savannah on hand to address the members about the advantage of buying a residence in a lifestyle resort over a retirement village. Melody also presented the days trophies as well as the Savannah cup. Thanks Melody.

After the event of the day the annual trophy presentation was held for our club championships and other major honour board events.

RESULTS

WINNERS; Dave Ingram & Doug Christison 50 points.

RUNNERS UP; Eric Pilhljerta & Graham Webb 48 points.

NTP MEN; 5^th George Studham HOLE IN ONE, 8^th Bill Eden, 14^th Graham Webster,

17^th Ian Schofield.

NTP WOMEN; 5^th & 14^th Ruth Yelland, 12^th Georgie Jarred, 8^th Suda Woodward

CONSOLATION BALLS.

47 points, Barry Butt & Peter McMenamin

45 points, Ted Lander & Graham Ross.

44 points, John & Chris Everall, Bob Billingham & Brian Rowan, Russ Gill & Des Jones,

George Kyriazis & David Jackson.

43 points, Bruce Walters & Wayne Petrohilos, Harvey Blanch & Trevor Barry, Garry Long &

Yasuo Kumagae, Jon Shearer & Peter Johnson, Wal Anthony & Tom Stager.

42 points, Garry Castle & Wayne Hoger, Max Smith & Ross White, Ken Gorton & Graham Webster, Jeff & Glenys McGrath, Kay Bergiel & Cathy Coverdale.

41 points, John Famularo & Frank Thelan, Bruce Jenner & Bill Eden, Brian Brown & Claud Clark, Victor Lee & Ken Smithson.

Next Game & AGM Gordonvale 24 Nov

All,

Our next game is a 4BBB stableford at Gordonvale with a shotgun start at 8.30am.

It is preceeded by our AGM at 8.00am, so please ensure you are registered before then, as you will not have a chance after.

After the game we have our normal presentations as well as presentation of annual trophies.  We would appreciate it if trophy winners were able to stay to collect their trophy as otherwise we have to cart them around with us, so if we forget to bring them to the final game you will have to wait till next year!

Gordonvale is currently starting to scarify its greens & there will be several temporary ones in play.  Rough in drains has been mowed, but straw lying in them can pose a problem & trees are shedding leaves in copious quantities, so you don't want to be off the fairway.

See you there.

Louis

President's Report & Results Half Moon Bay 17 Nov

Today we played a stableford event at a rather rain swept Half Moon Bay and quite a number of players did not complete the full 18 holes. A rather disappointing field of 78 men and 16 ladies teed off in fine weather but soon the skies opened up and drenched us all. Perhaps those who stayed in bed knew more than the rest of us.

The sponsor for the day was BROTHERS WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT AND FULLERS SPORTS and we sincerely thank them for their support.

I would like to remind our members that next Tuesday is our Annual General Meeting scheduled to start at 8.00AM at Gordonvale Golf Club so please be registered for your game in time for the meeting as there will be a shotgun start at around 8.30 AM. The event is a 4 ball best ball and at the conclusion we are presenting trophies to our champions and winners of our honour board events.

RESULTS

MENS DIV 1 WINNER; Peter Doherty 41 points.

RUNNER UP; Des Jones 37 points.

DIVISION 2 WINNER; Alan Armstrong 45 points.

RUNNER UP; Kevin Steinke 38 points.

NTP; 3^rd & 9^th Peter Yelland. 11^th Roger Smith. 16^th Bruce Jenner.

MENS BALL RUNDOWN;

37 points, Dave Bennett, Don Kerr.

36 points, Graeme Webster, Peter Yelland, Ross White, George Kyriazis, Robin Tonks.

35 points, Wal Anthony, Gary Spencer, Graham Morrow.

34 points, Peter Walters, Tom Stager, Graham Ross, John Everall.

33 points, Rod Ingram, Claud Clark, Barry Hartley, John Collett, Roger Smith, Garry Castle,

Russ Gill.

32 points, John Pilbin, Ken Smithson, Bill Eden, Lou Siedle

31 points, Ron Sylvester, Rod Cade, Evert VanKleef, Roger Glover, Dave Jackson, Alan Dwyer.

WOMENS WINNER; Kay Bergiel. 31 points.

RUNNER UP; Andrina Wilson 29 points.

NTP; 3^rd Kay Bergiel, 11^th Andrina Wilson, 9^th Andrina Wilson, 16^th Lois Tait.

WOMENS BALL RUNDOWN.

28 points. Chris Everall.

27 points, Persis Armstrong, Edna Atkinson.

26 points, Glynis McGrath, Rosemary Barker.

25 points, Lois Tait.