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Dear Members

On Saturday I was sitting outside at the Golf Club hav-ing a coffee. It then struck me, this place is alive! There were 20 children with parents preparing for their junior clinic with Glen and James McCully; there were male members on the first tee about to start their round; the practice putting green was a hive of activity; the shop had 4 interstate visitors paying for their round, and the adult short game coaching participants were starting to arrive. It was then I had it confirmed: we are on the path to success. The shop has been trading extremely strongly over the past few months and all areas of our golfing income seem to be on the increase. It is a pleasure to walk into our shop and see a smiling helpful face behind the counter - to see the shelves stocked and the fridge full ready to be raided. These things are the reason I joined WGC and then became president. The fulfilment of being an active member and enjoying the atmosphere of our golf club has made me even more determined to continue to drive our club forward. I encourage all members to become active participant in our great club and I am sure you will get some satis-fying results.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at

first.

William Shakespeare

We are well on our way through our steep hill climb, it's now time to start gathering more pace. Happy golfing.

Dean Campagna

MARCH 2013 NEWSLETTER

WANGARATTA GOLF CLUB

President’s Report

The ladies committee did a great job organising, prior to and on our Ladies Opening Day on February 12th. We had 44 players in the nine hole competition and another 20 non-playing members attended the lunch. Aileen Birthisel and Erika Ferrari coordinated the day’s catering with valuable input from a number of lady members. Pre-cleaning by Marlene Thompson and others, along with our gardeners, Marie McLeish and Judy Hirschfeld ensured the clubhouse was in top shape. Special touches for the day came from Glenda Dodson who provided many a talking point with her great creations of table mats and napkin holders. The food was beautiful, thanks to all our lady members and it was a wonderful team effort. We can be very pleased with the suc-cess of the day.

Sponsors for the Day’s competition were Merle and Kerrie Vanthoff who donated very nice prizes which were greatly appreciated by the winners. Thank you also to the summer eclectic competitions sponsors Joan Langdon, Lef Lazarou, Erika Ferrari and Cheryl Leitl.

Thank you to Dean Campagna and Rick Lee who spoke to the ladies with an update on what is happening in and around the club. It was great to hear all the latest news first hand.

The ladies will endeavour to hold a few fundraisers this year starting with a bus trip to Corowa RSL on Wednesday March 27th from 10am. This is being organised by Marlene Thomp-son. The next fundraiser will be a coffee morning on Wednesday April 10th at 10am. Wendy Batey from Initour, a small travel company specializing in South America will give a presenta-tion on South America – living and travelling there. Please put your name down in the golf shop if you wish to attend.

Lady Captain Lef Lazarou, Glenda Dodson handicapper and the match committee are to be congratulated on the work they did over the summer break to get the ladies program organised for 2013. Thank you also to Erika Ferrari and Jill Halbwidl for organising all the sponsors for the 2013 ladies' events. We are looking forward to a great year of golf.

Barbara Thomas

Lady President's Report

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Lady Captain's Report

Summer Golf went smoothly due to the support of Joan, Helen, Glenda, Barb and Jan. Also to Barb Thomas who spends so much time working in the shop.

Summer Eclectic - Thanks to Cheryl and Lorraine for doing these results.

Sponsors- Thanks to Erika and Jill who have done such a marvellous job. A full list of our sponsors is on the notice board and also on the web site. Thanks also to our lady members who sponsor events throughout the year.

Our Opening Day, enticed 44 players to compete in the 9 hole competition.

10 players contested in the NEDLGA Opening Day at Yarrawonga.

Winter Pennant starts March 5, 7 rounds and fi-nals April 30. We have two teams entered, Divi-sion 1 and 4: good luck girls.

Competition fees for 2013 are $8 (18holes) and $4 (9holes) for both Tuesdays and Thursdays

4 nearest the pin for both days.

Redemption of balls will now be $2.50

Block entry $30

We are attempting to use the swipe machine to enter players in the day's comp in golf link. Train-ing sessions, patience and spare reading glasses are required to make this successful and of course either memorise your golf link number or bring your card.

For results of games go to : www.wangarattagolf.org.au and we thank Glenda for doing a fantastic job. Befriend the Wangatta Golf Club on facebook where Simon McKay (great job Simon) enters all the Mens's and Ladies re-sults and also Friday nights Chronicle.

Our program is now at the printers and thanks to Meliesa for co-ordinating the fixture book.

Lef Lazarou

Irrigation

It seems we have finally sorted out all the hardware problems.

We have ordered 10 Megalitres a week for irrigation, but with no

predicted rainfall and with Buffalo & William hovel levels drop-

ping dramatically, we may be put on restrictions shortly.

Greens

Still recovering slowly, some dry patches around the edges, but

overall not too bad. As the temp drops over the next 6 weeks,

we should see some good growth with the bent grass which will

enable us to start to groom & lightly dust the greens with sand.

The couch is ttending to take over, we have ordered some

chemical (Tupersan) to subdue the couch, but it will continue to

get worse each year. Currently the only way to successfully re-

move couch from bentgrass greens is a green replacement pro-

gram. Once a bentgrass variety is chosen from the current trial,

we will be extending the nursery to about 400m2 (currently

120m2)

Green surrounds

Some more shaping will occur over the next few weeks as time per-

mits.

Bent Grass nursery

The trial plots are varieties A1, A4, Mackenzie, Pen G2, Declara-

tion and 007. Unfortunately the variety Authority failed to germi-

nate. All plots now have a satisfactory cover and are responding

well to fertilizing and topdressing applications that are adding

body to the turf as well as withstanding the lack of rainfall and

warm conditions that we are experiencing. After consulting with

the AGCSA president Andrew Peart after an onsite inspection,

no fungicide will be applied to the nursery to determine which

bent varieties are best suited against fungal diseases that are

prone to the region. The nursery is currently being cut at 8mm

with a pedestrian cylinder mower and will gradually be lowered

until the mower height reaches 3mm . Fertilizing and topdressing

practices will continue in the meantime. At this point of time there

is very little difference between the performances of the different

bent varieties.

Fairways

Some fairways are looking great, others are struggling with the

gum trees taking most of the water. The fairway mower is out of

adjustment, we have McTees coming this Friday to hopefully get

another few months out of it. We will require a new fairway

mower around Aug/Sep 2013.

Bunkers

Most were rotary hoed and faces boarded on the working bee

day, as we are still irrigating. They still get wet & compacted.

Working Bee

A big thanks to all who attended the working bee on Sunday 3rd

Feb.

Bunkers were reshaped. Gardens weeded. Tee blocks & dis-

tance markers painted. Paths & around tee signs sprayed. There

are still lots of small projects that we require help with. Please

members support your club by attending working bees.

Allen Bastin

Course Report

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The Schoolteacher was taking her first golfing lesson.

"Is the word spelt p-u-t or p-u-t-t?" she asked the instructor

"P-u-t-t is correct", he replied.

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Warm welcome to New Members

UPCOMING EVENTS

Mar 14 Rotary District 9810 Golf Day

Mar 18 GAC - Bright

Mar 19 GAC - Myrtleford

Mar 20 GAC - Wangaratta

Mar 23 4BBB Mixed Event

Mar 23 Calcutta - Auction - Dinner

April 5 - Friday Night Dinner


Juniors

We are fortunate in this club to have as junior members

a group of young people whose characters and person-alities are as attractive as their on-course exploits.

We will be looking at them all in coming issues of the newsletter. This month we introduce Sam and Angus Mclean.

There’s a special reason for this: both boys, aged 13 and 11 respectively, are competing in this year’s Skills Tests held in conjunction with the Victorian Open Cham-pionships at Thirteenth Beach on the Bellarine Peninsu-lar. They each competed last year at Spring Valley, where Sam was runner-up to Mateus Sanchez in his age division, but won the driving section. This year, they’ve each won the regional competitions in their age-groups, hence the trip to Thirteenth Beach. The Skills Tests are run nationally and are very scientifically worked out and very searching in their examination of a young golfer’s abilities in long and short play. If attitude is any guide, our two young players will do well!

Sam and Angus started golf pretty much together at Christmas-time in 2010. Both were rookies, neither of their parents played, they had no particular physical or other advantages that were at all obvious. But Sam started on a handicap of 34, and after two years is down to 13. Angus hasn’t progressed so dramatically, but golf isn’t his major passion whereas cycling is.

Both received lessons from Alex, and subsequently from the McCully team in Yarrawonga and now at WGC. Sam practices on average three times a week, hitting bucket after bucket of balls on the driving range, and plays in the men’s comp. most Saturdays. He doesn’t play in any particular four – simply puts down his name in the time-slot most convenient for him (the Mcleans live nearly 30 k out of town, so his starting time is heavily dependent on his parents’ sched-ule). How do adults react to finding a 13-year-old with them on the tee? Very generously, Sam advises. How about when he out-drives them? (Unfair ques-tion I think, even as I ask it.) But Sam is typically modest in his response, and that springs, I think, from the fact that he has a very adult and practical attitude to his game – one that all experienced golfers hope to share: you play your own game, you play the course, if you play well that’s great, if you play badly it’s no one’s fault but your own.

He has in his bag a driver and fairway wood, two hybrids, 5,6,7,8,9 irons, pitch-ing wedge, putter and two further wedges: a 54 and 58. If he has any particular difficulty, it’s with the 5 iron, which he sometimes finds hard to stop on its run (he calls it a long iron, which I find vexing because I obviously can’t hit it any-where near as long as he does!) and his favourite is probably the 58 wedge which he likes to loft with a bit of draw and drop gently on the green.

Any advice for young golfers? I ask. Sam’s answer is immediate, definite and succinct: Take lessons.

Not bad advice for almost anything, really.

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Mention Friday evening twilight competition around Wangaratta Golf Club, and two things spring to mind: daylight saving, and Eddie Rainbow. For more than 35 years Eddie has nurtured and expanded and sponsored this event, and seen its popularity reach a level that hardly varies from year to year.

Which came first? Well, daylight saving, in 1972. Eddie relocated his business Rainbow Filters from Melbourne in 1974 in response to the decentralization movement then so much in vogue. A minor inducement was the offer of imme-diate membership of the local golf club – and it would be pleasant to say that Eddie accepted with alacrity and at once made his mark as a top player.

In fact, at fifty years of age Eddie had played precisely two rounds of golf – and it says much for the power and fascination of the game which binds us all that he worked his way down to a handicap of 11, won a Singles Knockout (his name’s up there in gold), founded the twilight competition - and in the process

became the longest enduring Sponsor which the club has ever known.

What’s in a name? Smith Filters or Jones Filters don’t exactly have the ring of Rainbow Filters, so Eddie started out with that advantage at least, plus good ideas and technical know-how and plenty of hard work. Rainbow Filters provides air conditioning filtering both for home and industry (some of its units are as big as an average room) and Eddie founded it in Melbourne, and ran it there and in Wang. until he turned 79.

That was ten years ago. But don’t think for a moment that at 89 his golfing days are over. Eddie still plays regularly, aided by mechanical transportation, and of course still plays the twilight competition, though others now run it. He doesn’t claim sole responsibility for its foundation (there were three or four involved in the very early days) but he was for many years the major enduring organizer as well as sponsor, and has seen it grow and develop its own personality – the bringing of a plate in the early days, the expansion to a DIY barbecue, the provision of bar facilities, the crea-tion of a warm social event.

There are major prizes to be distributed at the end of each daylight saving period. The trophies are provided from a fund to which Eddie and wife Phil substantially con-tribute. Rainbow Filters is no longer Eddie’s property – but they continue to contrib-ute as well, which reveals something of Eddie’s personality and persuasiveness. And perhaps that bristly moustache – Eddie is one of those rare individuals who during the war did time in two services: the Artillery as a gun-layer, and the R.A.A.F as a trainee pilot – and the determination and initiative this reveals have served him and our club well.

Which came first?

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