Rick Butler, SVGA Captain John Newberry and Ian Baker at The Coast

The association boasts more than 1,000 members and each year organises over 40 events in the greater Sydney area.

Members can play most of the best courses Sydney has to offer and usually at very attractive discounted rates.

The other big positive is that you are playing with fellow club golfers aged 55 years and over in a very social environment devoid of any elitism.

ASG visited with the Sydney Vets at their recent event at the spectacularly located The Coast Golf Club at Little Bay in the city’s eastern suburbs.

It was a very blustery morning but the Vets turned out to be a very friendly bunch who didn’t let the difficult golfing conditions get in the way of having a great time.

The Coast course sits right atop the cliffs on Sydney’s rugged southern coastline and a strong gusting wind blowing straight off the ocean certainly made things interesting.

But so too was the company. We played in a foursome with the SVGA Captain John Newberry, from Cumberland Golf Club, Ian Baker of Palm Beach GC, and Rick Butler, a member of the adjoining St. Michaels Golf Club.

On the other side of St Michaels is one of Australia’s acknowledged best courses, the NSW Golf Club. All three of these coast hugging courses feature in the Sydney Vets annual schedule, along with the likes of Mona Vale, Riverside Oaks, Concord, Cumberland, Avondale, Long Reef, Oatlands, Ashlar, Lynwood, Kooinda Waters, Twin Creeks, Killara, Bonnie Doon, Rosnay and a heap of other great venues, over 40 in all.

Perhaps the only top courses missing from the schedule are The Lakes, which is no longer a very veteran friendly layout, The Australian Golf Club and Royal Sydney, which haven’t really come to the friendly green fees party.

The others are very happy to have the usually full 144 starter fields of well behaved, course conscious older golfers.

The Sydney Veteran Golfers Association was established in 1986, one of the first official veteran golfing organisation in the country.

It is affiliated with the NSW Veteran Golfers Association, meaning members also have access to the 50 odd Weeks of Golf conducted across the state and to other national and interstate veteran golf events.

Membership is open to affiliated club members who hold a Golf Australia handicap and are aged over 55. It costs just $30 a year with a one off $30 joining fee.

John Newberry has been the Captain for 16 years and is proud of what the association has achieved and of the continuing service it offers members.

Members range across the handicap spectrum and come from all walks of life, from doctors and lawyers to labourers and factory workers.

“It is a terrific group of blokes and we do go away for two country trips each year as well,” John said.

Members mostly come from across the Sydney region but there are a few who commute from areas like Wollongong, Moss Vale and the central coast.

There are also some continuing members who have moved further afield, one to Singapore and one to India, but as John says: “We don’t tend to see them very often.”

No doubt those international members don’t want to cut their ties to an organisation that over the years has developed some true and lasting bonds and friendships.

New members are always welcome and for details of how to join and other information go to the Sydney Veteran Golfers Association website here.

Dodge, a member of the Iron Pot Golf Club and Col Probert from the Kogarah Golf Club in NSW were tied on 237 after 54 holes of strokeplay at the three courses used as venues for the event.

Dodge won the championship when he parred the 18th hole at the Tasmania Golf Club.

Third was Denis Gorman from the Wollongong Club on the NSW south coast.

Recent poor weather in Hobart didn’t do the championship any favours but still 316 older golfers, 252 men and 64 women, took part in the week long event.

Despite the preceding wet weather the courses, including the Tasmania, North West Bay and Claremont golf clubs were presented in very playable conditions.

2011 AVGU National Championship Results

The A grade net went to David Burns (Caliope Q.) with 217 on a countback from David Bliss (Claremont Tas.).

The B grade Champion was Richard Green (Claremont Tas.) with 266 on a countback from Phil Wicks (Tasman Tas.) while the net winner was Rob Davies (Pelican Waters Q) 217 from runner up Terry Haines (Capel WA).

C Grade was won by John Ricketts (Tasman Tas.) from Harry Lovelock (Redland Bay Q.) with the net going to Jim Nixon (Pelican Waters Q.) from Harold Beck (Oatlands Tas.)

The ladies played a 36 holes stableford on the Tuesday and Thursday at different combinations of clubs. At Claremont/Tasmania, Diane Charlewood (Oatlands Tas.) was successful from runner up Viv Beck (Oatlands Tas.). Diane Wolfe (Wodonga Vic.) won the event at the Tasmania/North West Bay combination from Debbie Randall (Sanctuary Cove Q.), and Paula Dixon (Shepparton Vic.) won the event played at North West Bay/Claremont.

2012 AVGU National Championship

The vets national championship in 2012 will move to one of Australia’s golfing Mecca’s, the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

The tournament will be conducted from 11th to 16th November 2012, on four renowned golf courses, Rosebud Country Club, The Dunes, the Legends Course at Moonah Links, and the Ocean Course at The National Golf Club.

The latter three of those courses are all rated well inside Australia’s Top 50 and these will be the venues for the 54 hole Stroke Championship as well as the Ladies 54 hole Stableford event.

Full Tournament details, Accommodation Guide and online registration are available here.

The five day event for men and lady veteran golfers is being played at the Claremont Golf Club, North West Bay Golf Club and Tasmanian Golf Club.

The tournament culminates on Friday with the final round of the Men’s 54 hole national championship.

The Australian Veteran Golfers Union National Championship is an annual event that rotates through the states.

THERE

The five day event will be held at three stunning courses within 15 kilometres of the Hobart CBD with a presentation dinner at the Wrest Point Hotel.

The veteran golf national championship is open to amateur golfers, aged 55 years or older, who are financial members of an affiliated Veteran Golf Club, Group or Association.
Entry for ladies is open to partners of male entrants and Lady Veteran Golfers. All entrants must have a current Golf Australia handicap.

The championship is on from 23rd October to 28th October at the Claremont Golf Club, North West Bay Golf Club and Tasmanian Golf Club.

Tournament Director Ron Graham said while bookings had been very healthy the event still had extra capacity and organisers had decided to keep entry open until the week before the event.

As of September 6 there were some 325 players registered to take part as well as around 100 non-playing visitors.

The cost for males is $220, including four games of golf and the Presentation Dinner, $190 for ladies including three games of golf and the dinner, and $90 for non-players including the dinner.

There is a variety of accommodation available in the area and many entrants were taking advantage of the special rates available for the Spirit of Tasmania to bring their own cars and extend the stay with a tour of the Apple isle.

“The organisation for the event is going well and it should be a memorable tournament for the players,” Graham said.

“We’ve also organised a lot of tours for the non-players because we know a lot of players are bringing their wives and partners and we are ensuring they will be well catered for.”

The Australian Veteran Golfers Union National Championship is an annual event that rotates through the states.

For more information and registration links on the 2011 Championship, which is hosted by the Tasmanian Veteran Golfers Union, visit the championship website here.

WHEN Greg Kent’s father bought his then nine year old son four old golf clubs and a “scabby old bag” he inspired a life long love affair with the game of golf.

After almost 50 years that love affair probably grew even stronger the other day when Greg won the 2011 NSW Veteran Match Play Championship.

“When I was nine my old man bought me a set of sticks, for one quid it was then, at an auction,” Greg said. “There was an old three wood, a three iron, a five iron, a scabby old bag and a putter and I’ve loved the game ever since.”

Greg was one of just over 70 golfers from across the state competing in the week long tournament for golfer aged 55 and over conducted on three courses in the Illawarra; The Links Shell Cove, Port Kembla and The Grange.

In the final round played at Port Kembla Golf Club last Friday he was up against the ultra consistent local golfer Ron Hall, a Port Kembla member who has made every final since the event moved to the Illawarra four years ago.

Hall’s match play tenacity is now becoming legendary, winning the event in 2009 on the 22nd hole and being runner-up twice in two very close finishes in 2008 and 2010.

“He played well,” Greg, who plays off a 1 handicap, said of his opponent. “He chipped very well. He chipped a lot of balls in close and made it tough but I putted well which was good. I knocked it on the greens and putted well all day so that was a bonus.”

Greg, a member of Charlestown Golf Club in the NSW Hunter region, was one up at the turn and made it two up soon after before the never say die Hall fought back to square.

Greg won 14 and 15 and then birdied 16 to take the match 3 and 2.

Greg has also won the Bill Mead Match Play Championship conducted down on the Murray for the past two years and is a multiple winner of his club’s senior championship.

“I’ve been playing veterans golf for the last four years or so. I’ve really enjoyed it as a bit of an outlet,” he said.

He is also vice president at Charlestown and usually manages to play golf three times a week, including Sundays with his wife and son.

Wife Kath stole his thunder somewhat on the final day at Port Kembla by sinking her first ever hole in one, on the 144 metre par 3 third.

“She is very pleased with her hole in one,” Greg said. “They are rarer to get than a tournament win so she is very happy. She doesn’t drink so I’ll probably be doing the drinking for her tonight to celebrate.”

“It was very exciting,” Kath said afterwards. “It was just a straight shot and it just kept going and then all of a sudden it just disappeared straight into the hole. I always wanted to have one at my own club, but this is better. I’ve been playing for 20 years and that’s the first one. I’ve only got two more to catch up to Greg.”

Not to be outdone, overall Ladies winner Melita Watson from Branxton Golf Club also scored an ace on the par three 3 twelfth.

The NSW Veterans Match Play Championship has been played in the Illawarra for the past 4 years, this year moved from mid June to late February in search of kinder weather.

Low single figure male players compete in a scratch championship division whilst men with higher handicaps and the ladies play off their handicaps in a number of seeded divisions.

Tournament Director and NSW Veteran Golfers Association President Dick Farrant was delighted with the success of the tournament, saying a move to the Newcastle area next year was being considered as another innovation, with the event to then alternate between the two districts.

“We are thinking about doing it on rotation basis, possibly using courses like Charlestown, Meriwether, Waratah and perhaps even Belmont,” Farrant said.

“It just depends on the availability of the course and what fees they want to charge because I want to try and keep it at a reasonable fee level for the players.”

IT WAS the battle of the mo’s at the 2010 NSW Veteran Golfers Matchplay Championship final at a fine and sunny Port Kembla today.

In a tussle that went right down to the wire, Mittagong’s Cameron Fraser beat defending champion and local Ron Hall 1 up on the 18th hole.

The pair were even after the front nine but with near perfect ball striking and deadly putting Fraser was inching one and two holes ahead as they came home.

Fraser, a recent NSW Senior Amateur Golfing representative and a tournament winner on the elite senior amateur circuit, hit 16 greens in regulation.

Not bad for a player who had a 30 year layoff due to business commitments and only came back to golf seven years ago.

In fact it was his wife, Ineke Kelson, winner of the Ladies Matchplay final over Wollongong’s Trikki Young on the 19th hole today, who spurred him back into the sport.

When they met over seven years ago in the NSW southern highlands Ineke told Fraser she was a golf nut and if he wanted the relationship to go any further he would have to take it up.

“I said I’ll go and learn,” Fraser told her, not mentioning his considerable early golfing success, beginning as a 12 year old.

“I was just lucky it wasn’t hang gliding or something like that she was into,” he said.

Fraser, who plays off 4 at his home club the Highlands Golf Club, was happy with his performance during the week long event, this year played at four clubs in the Illawarra on the NSW south coast.

“He’s a very good player, I was just very happy to beat him,” he said of his close battle with Hall. “He was hard to beat but I got him.”

Hall has appeared in every final since the event moved from the north coast to the Illawarra three years ago.

He won last year and was runner up the year before – all close, tense matches that went to the 18th hole or beyond.

“It went right down to the wire again,” Hall said. “I was pretty happy with the way I played but on the day he was just one shot too good.”

“He hit 16 greens out of 18. That’s pretty clever.”

Tournament director Dick Farrant was delighted with the successful week of golf, particularly since the tournament had been threatened at the 11th hour with severe weather warnings.

As it was the seeding event on Monday had to be moved to Kiama Golf Club because of wet conditions at Shellharbour Links, with the four matchplay rounds conducted at the Links, The Grange and two at the championship Port Kembla course.

Windy and cold June weather hasn’t been kind to the tournament in the last two years but things should improve dramatically for competitors with the event planned to move to a much warmer late February date next year.

Hall tees of on the 17th – a hole he needed to win to keep the match alive.

The 2010 Australian Veteran Golfers National Championship will be played in the beautiful Port Macquarie Hastings region on the Mid North Coast of NSW.

The event will be held from November 7 to 12 at three courses organisers boast the CSIRO says are in an area with the best climatic conditions in Australia.

The tree courses, Port Macquarie Golf Club, Camden Haven Golf Club and Wauchope Country Club, are located within a region that is a tourist Mecca offering pristine beaches, a lush hinterland, vast national parks and many local attractions.

The national championship, conducted under the auspices of the Australian Veteran Golfers Union, rotates state by state each year and has been growing in popularity annually.

The tournament in Cairns in 2009 was a big success and with the large veteran golfer community in NSW already strongly established, the Port Macquarie event is highly likely to be a sell out – and likely to do so quite quickly.

The tournament includes a 54 Hole Stroke Championship in three grades for men and a 54 hole stableford event for women in two divisions.

There are also single competitions conducted as part of the events and a Medley fourball stableford on the Monday.

The week begins with registration and a welcome function on the Sunday and concludes with the final rounds and a Presentation and Farewell Dinner at the Westport Club on the Friday evening.

Organisers say highlights of the 2010 Championships include

• Lady golfers and their playing male golfing partners will always play on the same course at the same time
• To maximise limited hire cart and buggy availability there will be morning and afternoon shotgun starts
• The three courses are only 30 minutes apart by road
• The program for ladies includes a 54 hole event
• Catering facilities will be available on each course during and after play
• Welcome and Presentation Function at the Westport Club are close to the Port Macquarie CBD and in easy reach of the majority of accommodation places
• There are a wide range of accommodation types and venues available

Entry Forms will be available on the NSWVGA website or you can email Tournament Director Neil Beecroft on neilb2008(at)live.com.au

The one stroke victory at the 54 hole championship in Cairns highlighted a week of veteran golf that delighted organisers and participants.

Tournament Director Claud Clark said 327 men and 95 ladies contested their respective events and the turnaround from the championship in Adelaide last year reflected the success of an intensive marketing campaign.

Claud Clark reports:

The Bendigo Bank Veteran Golfers National Championships provided one of the closest and most dramatic finals in the history of the event.

Going into the final day Ian Cooke of Cairns Golf Club led the two time championship winner Colin Angel from the Grange Club in Adelaide by one stroke.

Playing in the same group both had pars for the first two holes but Cooke stumbled with a bogey on the third while the consistent Angel responded with a par to level the scores.

Cooke bogeyed  the fourth which gave Angel a one shot lead but Cooke responded with  a brilliant birdie at the sixth to again square the match.  In a matchplay type atmosphere the players went stroke for stroke until the tenth when the consistent Angel moved to a one shot advantage.

Fighting hard Cooke birdied the twelfth and thirteenth to secure a one shot lead in the Championship with five holes to play. Angel squared the match on the 15th and a two shot turnaround at the 16th gave Angel a two shot lead with two holes to play.

Cooke again produced a birdie on the 18th but the experienced and classy Colin Angel held on to claim his third National title with a narrow one stoke win.

After the game Angel gave high praise to Ian Cooke and said he was confident the Cairns player had the game and the temperament to eventually win the National Championship.

Cairns won its first ever National title with Sam Lemura winning the Nett Championship and the prestigious Vic Kendall trophy with a clear four shot lead over Chris Hollands from Kiama Club in NSW.

Ray Miller from Half Moon Bay shared the lead after day two of the event but could not hold on and Lemura took full advantage of playing his home course on the final day to secure a clear win with a nett score of 212.

B Grade was won by Young Kim of Asquith ( NSW ) with an impressive score of 253 from Geoff Lavis of Wanneroo Club ( WA ) and C grade was won by Harold Lovelock representing Redland Bay (QLD) from John Corr of Port Kembla ( NSW ).

The ladies staged a stableford event with Siobhan Davies from Club Pelican ( QLD ) winning the A Grade with 68 points on a countback from Elaine Woodard representing Mt. Lawley Club ( WA ).

B Grade Ladies was won by Kaye Roberts from Rockingham ( WA ) on 75 points from Marjorie Carter representing the Western Australia Golf Club on 69 points.

Members of the National Executive and players gave high praise for the event which many rated the best they had ever attended.

VETERAN GOLFERS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS

54 Hole Gross Winner and Champion for 2009  -  COLIN ANGEL    The Grange Club  S.A.          230

54 Hole Gross Runner up                                     -  IAN COOKE         Cairns Golf Cub    QLD        231

54 Hole Nett  Winner                                           -  SAM  LEMURA   Half Moon Bay GC   QLD     212

54 Hole Nett Winner A Grade                              -  CLIVE HOLLANDS    Kiama GC       NSW       216

54 Hole Nett  Runner up  A Grade                       -  JAMES  CORDERY  Southern GC    Vic.            217

54 Hole Gross Winner   B Grade                          -  YOUNG  KIM     Asquith  GC    NSW                 253

54 Hole Gross  Runner up B Grade                       -   GEOFF  LAVIS  Wanneroo GC   WA                 259

54 Hole Nett  Winner  B  Grade                            -   MAT  SCHLOTTERBACH  Club Pelican  QLD 222 c/b

54 Hole Nett  Runner up B Grade                          -  JOE ALEXANDER   Nedlands GC   WA             222

54 Hole Gross Winner  C Grade                            -   HAROLD  LOVELOCK  Redland Bay QLD       275

54 Hole Gross Runner up C Grade                         -  JOHN  CORR    Port Kembla  GC     NSW           276 c/b

54 Hole Nett  Winner  C Grade                               - TOM  TWIBLE  Wynnum GC     QLD                  214

54 Hole Nett  Runner up C Grade                           – GARRY  CARTER   Western Australia GC   WA  217

Ladies Results

36 Hole Ladies Stableford A Grade Winner            -  SIOBHAN  DAVIES  Club Pelican  QLD  68 pts C/B

36 Hole Ladies Stableford A Grade Runner up       -  ELAINE  WOODARD  Mt. Lawley GC  WA  68 pts.

36 Hole Ladies Stableford B Grade Winner            -  KAYE  ROBERTS   Rockingham  WA   75 pts.

36 hole Ladies Stableford B Grade Runner up        -  MARJORIE  CARTER  Western Australia GC 69 pts.

IT CERTAINLY took some doing, but Port Kembla’s Rod Hall has finally taken out the NSW Veteran Matchplay Championship.

Hall was beaten by a whisker on the 18th hole in last year’s final and today it took him till the 22nd hole to topple Canberra’s Joe Marumo.

There was never more than one stroke difference throughout the match and in a golf format that can be nerve wracking at the best of times, Hall called on some 50 years of golfing experience to retain his composure.

“It can be pretty nerve wracking but I guess you just call on all the things you have done in the past and trust your ability, that’s all. Just trust your swing and go from there,” a delighted Hall said later.

“You are always disappointed when you get beaten on the last but that’s the way it goes. You’ve got to take the good with the bad. This year it just happened to be my turn.”

The fourth and final round of the matchplay event, which included four men’s divisions and two ladies divisions, was played in near perfect sunny conditions at the Shellharbour Links course.

It was a far cry from the first two days of the tournament when sometimes gale force icy winds lashed competitors (see reports below).

“I’m pretty happy. Its always good to be a winner but when you consider what we have gone through all week it is more of a challenge to be still standing at the end of the week,” Hall said.

Hall took up golf as a 12 year old when the local milkman’s son in his home town of Windang suggested “we’ll go up the golf course with dad one afternoon.”

‘The pro up there (at Port Kembla where he has been a member for 49 years) got a few of us together, he used to give us lessons on a Friday afternoon, and it just developed from there,” Hall said of his golfing career.

He went on to have a plus one handicap in his late teens, be a junior and senior NSW state representative, win 13 club championships, the state Champion of Champions title, and a host of other wins.

The 62 year old will be itching to get back next year to defend his title.

‘It’s a good event, I enjoyed it last year. It’s very well organised. Dick (Farrant) does a great job of organising it.”

His final round opponent, Joe Marumo, from the Federal Golf Club, is also highly likely to be back.

Marumo has only recently qualified for the vets (aged 55 plus) and took a week off his job as a Canberra teacher to take part in the tournament.

He needed to win the 18th hole to keep the match alive. Taking Hall to another four sudden death holes should be more than enough to inspire his return.

Ladies Winner “Over the Moon”

QUEENSLANDER Lyn Morrison said she felt “over the moon” to take out the NSWVGA Matchplay Women’s Division One title.

It was a sterling effort from Lyn, from Coolangatta & Tweed Heads Golf Club, who was by far the lowest marker in the field and perhaps the one most feeling the earlier icy conditions.

“I was over the moon. It was quite a thrill. To give 15 shots away to win is a bit of a battle, but I really enjoyed it,” Lyn said.

Lyn beat Joan Hartmann from the Wakehurst Golf Club in Sydney 3/2.

“I was lucky, I got three up straight away and it was enough to hold her,” Lyn said.

“She had the opportunity to get back because I had to give away quite a lot of shots. She played really nicely.”

In the end, Lyn finished the 16th with the three hole advantage she had established early on.

Lyn took up golf some 30 years ago because she was “sick of (husband) Dave being away and I did it to join him”.

Having been involved in lots of other sports including tennis, indoor cricket and athletics, she took to it like a duck to water.

“I enjoyed it immediately,” she said. “I started on 36 and in 9 months I was on a 13 handicap and then the following year I got to 10 and I’ve been as low as four. But in my last 2 years I have gone out to 12. I used to average six or seven but the grandchildren have taken priority.’

Lyn said she loved the Illawarra area where the week long tournament was staged, but with her Queensland heritage she wasn’t that impressed with the icy conditions that had gripped the southern states.

“I really struggled with the cold weather, it just about killed me. I am just not used to it, I was freezing. I have split fingernails and split skin from the cold. It was cold for everyone I suppose but being Cairns born and bred I am just not used to it,” she said.

In the Women’s Division 2, Janina Aird from Branxton defeated Margaret Cole from Port Kembla 2 up.

Round 3

AFTER two days of freezing winds the third round of the NSW Veteran Matchplay Championship took place in comparatively balmy conditions at the Port Kembla Golf Club on Thursday.

Last year’s runner up and Port Kembla member Ron Hall continued his run for the 2009 championship title with a 2/1 win over Camden’s Joe Smuk.

Hall will face off against Canberra’s Joe Marumo (Federal), who convincingly beat Steve Mikosic from the Shoalhaven Heads club.

Much better conditions are forecast for the final round at Shellharbour Links on Friday.

The week long matchplay event, with a number of mens and ladies divisions, is not a knockout and all entrants will play a fellow competitor with the same win/loss ratio on the final day.

Round 1 & 2

ICY winds saw many competitors looking more like skiers than golfers but after two rounds of the NSW Veteran Matchplay Championships in the Illawarra spirits were still high.

Men and lady golfers from some 40 clubs and from as far afield as Cranbourne and Rich River, Victoria and Coolangatta Tweed, Queensland, were taking part in the week long event.

In the top Men’s scratch championship division last year’s runner up Ron Hall had recorded two wins and was still alive as the event moved into the third day at his home club Port Kembla.

Others unbeaten in the top division included Joe Smuk from Camden, Joe Marumo (Federal) and Steve Mikosic (Shoalhaven Heads).

This is the second year the event is being held in the Illawarra.

The first two rounds were played at Shellharbour Links and The Grange at Kembla Grange.

The fourth and final round will be at the much improved Shellharbour Links course and competitors are hoping that forecasts predicting a respite from the strong winds that have gripped much of the state are correct.

For full results see the NSWVGA website here

More final day photos to come.

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PLACES are still available for the NSW Veteran Golfers Association Matchplay Championship being played in the Illawarra from June 8 to 12.

Tournament Director Dick Farrant says numbers are already up on the very successful event held in the Illawarra for the first time last year but there are still spots for both men and women.

The tournament is being played at three top south coast courses, Shellharbour Links, The Grange and Port Kembla.

The top 16 men will play off the stick for the championship and there will be at least three other handicap divisions for men and two for women.

Dick says the tournament is organised so all participants get a full week of matchplay and will end up on the Friday playing a fellow competitor with the same win/loss ratio.

Last year’s winner Tony Jones (pictured left with Ron Hall) from the Waratah Club will be defending his title along with runner-up Ron Hall from Port Kembla Golf Club.

Other low markers vying for the championship include Greg Kent (Charlestown), Joe Marumo (Federal), Bob Angus (Cumberland), Barry Bray (Liverpool), Grahame George (Charlestown), Dave Morrison (Coolangatta/Tweed), Alan Fensom (Wollongong) and Joe Smuk (Camden).

Greg Kent won the 2009 Rich River Bill Mead Memorial Matchplay when he defeated Geoff Everett (The Lakes) in the final at the nineteenth.

For further information, entry forms and contact details for Dick Farrant see the NSWVGA website.