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Wimmera Vets Greens Championships Results 2026

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Results for Vets Golf at Rainbow Monday 27th July

We had 56 competing in a 4BBB Stableford Comp at Rainbow Golf Club, including 7 Ladies & 49 men.

Winners on a 3 Way Countback, all on 41 points, were Wayne Morton & Colin Moore from Jeparit; Runners-up were Ian hair & Daryl Watson from Natimuk; & 3rd were David Baker & Steve Harris from Horsham - all on 41.

NTP’s: on the 3rd Rob Exell; on the 5th Brendan Etherton; 8th Graeme Puckle; 10th Neil Slocombe; 13th Chris Phelan; & on the 16th Ross Barnett.

Congratulations to all the days Winners.

Big thank you to all the Rainbow Volunteers for making it such a great day! The course was fantastic!!

Next event will be Murtoa on Monday 10th August. It’ll be the last round of the Vets Sandscrape championships.

2026 Wimmera / Kara Kara Vets Challenge - Peter Kelly Memorial Shield - Results.

We had a fantastic turnout at Donald Golf Club for the Peter Kelly Memorial Shield of the Kara Kara / Wimmera Challenge.

74 competed on the day with an even split of 37 for each side. And the Winners this year were …. Kara-Kara!with a total score of 332 points, against Wimmera’s 302.

David Lanyan was ecstatic! So, We have one win each now 👌

2026 Wimmera Vets Greens Championship Results 

The Results are now in for the Wimmera Vets Greens Championships

Winner: David Baker (Horsham) with 75 Points

Runner-up: Anthony Jones (Moor Park) 73 Points, & 3rd Tony Kernick (Moor Park) with 72 Points.

4 Special Service Awards:

We Presented 4 Special Service Awards to 4 of our very valued members since our AGM for all their dedicated service to the Wimmera Vets over the years.

Norrie Poulton (Hopetoun), Bob Hayes (Horsham), Daryl Dunford (Chalambar) & Max Rogers (Natimuk)

Thank you So much guys for all your valued service & commitment to our Association.


Photo of our Wimmera Exec Committee Receiving the Trophy from Left -Ron Oakley (Glenelg Vets President): (Centre) David Baker (Wimmera Captain), and (Right) Ian Hair (Wimmera President).

& Photo of (Wimmera Captain) David Baker & Ian Hair (President Wimmera) being presented with the Inaugural Wimmera / Kara Kara Vets Challenge Shield at Donald, in memory of Peter Kelly from Donald.


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Our Champions for 2025  are:

Greens Champion - Mark Edelston (Rainbow)

& Sandgreen Champion - Anthony Jones (Moor Park)

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  • Please note: You must be a financial member for 2025 to accept prizes or participate in vets.     

  • The programs for 2025 are printed, so get your copy at the next event (some program changes are likely in response to scheduling, attendance, club support and distances travelled for the events.) The committee appreciates the support of all in keeping our small association functioning

  •  You can contact our Committee using the club email address: veteran.golfers@gmail.com   

  • Thanks to Crop Opti and Allan & Trev's workwear for supporting the WDVGA polo shirts. They look great. If interested in ordering a shirt, please drop a note to wimmera.veteran.golfers@gmail.com.
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  • You can update an email address through the "contact us" link on the website.

The Australian Veteran Golfers Union (AVGU) is an Australian wide organization  with an association in each Australian state and boasting of 30,000 members. The AVGU conducts a National Veteran Golfers Union Championship each year, which is open to all Veteran Golf members.  The event  is rotated between states and venues.

The Victorian Veteran Golfers Association (VVGA) has 5,000 members distributed among 21 districts.  Each district conducts events  at least monthly using over 250 golf courses throughout Victoria.   Veteran Golfers are welcome to play in any of these events.   Open VVGA championships are conducted at 5 different locations annually.  The Four Ball, Country, Sandscrape, Teams and State Championships events make up the VVGA major events.

There is a new VVGA website - it can be sourced at https://www.vvga.org.au

The Wimmera District Veteran Golfers Association (WDVGA) has approx 150 members and our fixture schedules events at 19 golf courses in the area bounded by Edenhope, Kaniva, Rainbow,Hopetoun and Ararat during the year.  Events are held on Mondays, generally fortnightly.                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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