{"id":2943,"date":"2025-12-17T00:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:53:20","slug":"2025-xmas-lunch-december-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/2025-xmas-lunch-december-16\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Xmas Lunch – December 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Michael O<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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Vets Champion 2025 Jon Bowden<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t
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    Veteran’s AGM and Presentation Day – Xmas Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Date: Tuesday, 16<\/strong>th<\/strong><\/sup> December<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Captain’s Report<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We had a very successful season with several new members joining us.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We averaged 31 players per week, 5 more than last year and 8 more than previous years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Our largest field was 42 for Dave Benson’s memorial game.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Melbourne Cup Day, sponsored by Jim Watson as part of his birthday celebration each year was a good success, even though they cored the greens the week before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I would like to thank Merv as VC and Jim Watson, Richard Verboon and Jon Bowden as match committee for their able assistance throughout the year. We have the most organised match committee of any of the club competitions. Even with all these helpers, we still have periods where no-one is available so I am pleased to announce that Cliff Spencer is going to, reluctantly, help us this coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If anyone else would like to help, or take over, please talk to me anytime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1.\u00a0Veteran’s Champion\u00a0<\/strong>– Third with Bruce Darby with 72 Nett, Second on a count back was Jim Watson also with 72 and the\u00a0winner, for the third time in four years, was Jon Bowden<\/strong>\u00a0with Nett 70.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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    2.\u00a0Eclectic Winner<\/strong>\u00a0– third was Michael O\u2019Connor, nett\u00a058.15. Second was\u00a0Ray Barker\u00a0with a nett of 58. The\u00a0winner was Jon Bowden<\/strong>\u00a0who\u00a0had\u00a0a nett of 56.75.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    3. Ray Atcheson Shield<\/strong> – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The\u00a0winner this year was Ray Barker<\/strong>, beating Bruce Darby in the final. Thank you to Ray Atcheson\u2019s family (Debbie and Neil) for continuing their support of this event.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    4. Kiwi Trophy – Sponsored by Rob Hearn and Charles Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This year\u2019s scores were a bit higher than previous years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Second were Richard Verboon 59 points (shooting 6 over par for his three rounds)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Winner, for the second year in a row, was Terry Halsall<\/strong> with 60 points<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    5.\u00a0<\/strong>Raise our glasses<\/strong>\u00a0to those who are no longer with us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Geoff Harveson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    John Agnew<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Dave Benson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Special thanks for today’s event go to Mel for making some beautiful salads and being of great help in preparation. Laurie B for coming in and helping in the kitchen in preparation for our lunch. Phil for donating money for the mince pies and ice cream. Bill and Kenny for a great job getting the BBQ done, under extreme difficulties. Kaye and Rosie for helping with the clean up after the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Through the $5 wheel spin and the couple of $1 wheel spins, we raised $187 which went a long way to paying for our lunch. This was the first time we did a less formal Xmas lunch and it appeared to be very successful. Next year we will most probably do the same concept again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The Melbourne Cup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margarethouse.com.au\/mrvets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}