The 2018 EGDGA AGM was held at the Sale Golf Club on the 2nd December.

The following persons were elected to represent the District.

President: Clive Storey

Vice President: Barry Hoskin

Secretary/Treasurer: Chris Shanahan

Junior Coordinator: Brett Wyllie

Executive Committee: Rod Moreland, Wayne Hardwidge, Peter Anderson, Brian Cahill

Thank you to those members for your commitment to the Association & for golf in the region in general.

The Country Girls Play Golf group held their 2018 Grand Final day @ South Pines GC on Saturday 1st December.

34 ladies from various clubs around East Gippsland District played in the monthly event which was created to encourage more participation within the District and an opportunity for lady golfers to play a medal event on a weekend. The events are rotated throughout various clubs within the District and all ladies are welcome to play

Interclub 2018 Medal Champion was Jenny Dowie

December Medalist was Nadine Martin

Four Seasons Teams Champions: Lake Entrance Country ladies.

**See view details for a link to the Country Girls Facebook page and photos/results for events during the year.

Congratulations also to Tania Holmes who has promoted this concept and for the success it has been

The 4 club challenge between Maffra, Lakes Entrance, Orbost & Bairnsdale Golf Clubs was played @ Orbost on the 21st November.

This is the 12th occasion the clubs have met for the 10 player per team event and this years winners were Lakes Entrance GC by one stroke over Orbost.

South Pines stalwart Don Moore was last night awarded life membership to the South Pines GC.

Don has served the club ib many roles of the years and is still an active volunteer around the course.

Congratulations Don.

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South Pines Captain, Rod Moreland, achieved every golfers dream when he scored a hole in one at the par 3 second hole at South Pines GC on Saturday 17th November.

84 players took part in the Annual veterans challenge between East & West Gippsland District Golf Associations.

The event was played at the Sale GC and East had an average overall score of 27.46 to West 26.52

Better scores for the day:

East: Mal Kirkpatrick 39pts

West: John McFarlane 39pts

See view details for results sheet.

Congratulations to Christie Arras who aced the par 3 4th hole at Bairnsdale during day two of their tournament.

As part of the 100th tournament anniversary, there is $1000 up for grabs for the first male and female to score an ace.

Well done Christie.

Promotion to Div 1 in 2019 awaits East Gippsland Ladies after the topped the table in Div 2 at Country Week.

The team was able to secure top place by one game after the won their final match 4 1/2 to 2/12 over Western.

They edged out Dalhousie who needed at 6 1/2 to 1/2 win over South Gippsland but managed only a 5 / 2 win.

Congratulations to all the players, caddies and officials.

See view details for the Golf Victoria link and results.

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Congratulations to Allen Lawson.

Allen from the Lakes Entrance GC holed out on the par 3 third hole at Buchan Valley GC during the Veterans event held on Tuesday 2nd October.

48 players attended the day with results posted under the Veterans tab.

Well done Allen, hope the bar bill wasn’t too great

East Gippsland Men’s & Ladies teams are both in Division 2 for this years Country Week.

On Monday 1st October @ Keysborough GC

The men played two matches but were defeated in both. They lost Round 1 v Murray Darling 4/3 and in Round 2 to West Gippsland 5/2.

The ladies had one match today against Dalhousie and won 5/2.

Day Two Results - matches played @ Cranbourne GC

Ladies defeated South Gippsland 4/3 in the morning but lost in the afternoon to South Western 3/4

Men defeated Golf Central (Bendigo) 4/3 and had the bye in the afternoon.

With one match to go, the Ladies find themselves tied in 2nd place with a realistic chance of finishing on top if they can have a big win over bottom placed Western and hope Dalhousie can steal a few games from South Western.

The men are currently in last place but only one game off third - All the teams are evenly matched so relegation could come down to an individual game but will avoid relegation if they can win their match over third placed North Eastern.

Day Three Results -Matches played at Patterson River

An extremely exciting day for both our teams and for different reasons.

The men managed to avoid relegation by half a match when they lost 4/3 to North Eastern. Thankfully, Golf Central was up against eventual Division winners in Murray Darling and lost 5 1/2 to 1 1/2 with them losing two of the games 1 down.

The Ladies side however won their Division and will be promoted to Division One next year. The ladies team held off Western to win 4 1/2 to 2 1/2 and then await the result of the South Western v Dalhousie match. Dalhousie duly won but missed out on top stop by one match.

Well done and congratulations to all players, caddies and officials who represented East Gippsland in Country Week.

During a recent event held at Maffra Golf Club, held in conjunction with the Country Girls Play Golf group, Johanna Wyllie of Tambo Valley Golf Club shot a two under par, 70, to beat the previous course record of 72.

During her round Johanna had 8 pars, 6 birdies and 4 bogies.

In the recent South Pines GC tournament, Johanna also set a course record of 78 to beat the previous best of 79 which she had also held.

The next Country Girls Play Golf Event will be held in conjunction with the Lakes Entrance tournament on the 13th October.

The following players have been selected to represent East Gippsland Women’s Golf in the Coltman Cup to be played on October 1, 2 & 3 on various courses in Melbourne.

Maffra: Mel Bransdon & Jo Sellen

Sale: Jo Ballinger & Liz Foreman (emerg).

Newry: Robyn Walker

Lakes Entrance: Nadine Martin & Renee Percival

Toongabbie: Leanne Wallace

Bairnsdale: Sue Wood & Kerryn Clemm (emerg)