Veteran’s AGM and Presentation Day – Xmas Lunch Date: Tuesday, 16th December Captain’s Report We had a very successful season with several new members joining us. We averaged 31 players per week, 5 more than last year and 8 more than previous years. Our largest field was 42 for Dave Benson’s memorial game. The Melbourne Cup […]
Charles Johnson’s 70th Birthday
It is always nice when our members wish to celebrate milestone birthdays with us and this week we had the pleasure of celebrating, our club Secretary, Charles Johnson’s, 70th. The weather was great and we had 38 participants, which was also good to see after all the wet weather leading up to this week. Charles […]
Vale Geoff Harveson
Sadly, Geoff passed away on Friday, 25th July, 2025 aged 87. Geoff was a keen veteran golfer, having joined the group around 2002. Geoff was Treasurer of Vets in 2003, Vice Captain in 2004 and Captain in 2005. Unfortunately Geoff had a few health problems in the last couple of years and stopped playing golf […]
Vale John Agnew
John Agnew sadly passed away on Sunday, 18th May, 2025. John owned a Real Estate agency in Fremantle before coming to live in Margaret River. He has been a long time member of the Veteran’s group, first playing with us around 1997. He won the Veterans Championship in 2004 and 2005 and was Captain of […]
Vale Dave Benson
It was sad to hear today, Tuesday, 18th March, 2025, that Dave Benson lost his battle and passed away. It was a relatively sudden illness and diagnosis and we are sure that he would be happy that it didn’t drag on. David was an ex-Primary school teacher who shifted to Margaret River in the mid […]
2024 Xmas Luncheon
Our Christmas lunch was held on Tuesday, December 10th and we had a great field of 34. This is also our AGM where we give out the annual awards After the presentation, 37 of us went on to Lunch, which was again catered by Saul Atkinson of Margaret River Catering. Saul put on a great […]
Vale to Jim Taylor
I was disappointed to hear that another stalwart of Veteran’s passed on Thursday, 4th July, 2024. Jim was born in 1931 and was 93 years old. Jim was a remarkable man not only in the field of surgery but as a missionary in the Belgian Congo. Jim wrote two books on surgery. “The Lumbar Spine: An […]
Vale to Mike Beale
Mike Beale passed away on the morning of Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Mike was a keen member of both the Margaret River Veterans but also the Country Veterans Golf Association. Mike was our delegate for the CVGA for several years and went to every game, along with Jon Beales, until his health deteriorated in recent […]
Ross Fraser’s 70th Birthday
It is starting to become a bit of a tradition now that members are celebrating milestone birthdays by sponsoring an event. Ross turned 70 on Wednesday, 24th January and wanted everyone to be part of his celebration. We had a good field of 30 players come out to enjoy a beautiful day, weatherise. Strangely the […]
2023 Christmas Lunch
Our final major event of the season is our Christmas Lunch, which this year was held on Tuesday, December 5th. We ended up with a good turn out of 32 people and it was nice to several partners joining in and enjoying the camaraderie. Bruce Darby was presented with the Kiwi Trophy, a new competition […]