President:

President Roger in his first outing welcomed 69 starters to the Waterford Valley course where we were playing for the Thord Lorich Trophy. Roger thanked the WVGC for their hospitality and their support to our Vets club. He noted that the course was in fantastic condition, which was shown by the results and the large attendance by members.

Starters:

Our tee starters of Peter Garbellini, Chris Tierney, Noel Manning with Chris Proctor did a great effort on getting the field away, seeing we only had the two tees.

Apologies:

Our apologies totalled 21 for the day, with ex-President Donald sending his regards to the field, stating he hopes to be joining us soon on the course.

Guests

The guests for the day were, John Tetteroo with John Molloy, Ross Rowley with Tom Buzza and Derek MacCallum was introduced by Alan McAuliffe hoping that they enjoyed the experience and look forward to having them as members.

Sponsors

As a reminder don't forget our sponsors:

• The House of Golf - drop in and see Innes or his staff for any of your golfing requirements.
• Window Cleaning Services - see Chris Thorne to assist with this household chore.

Goldfields Tournament.

There is a Gold Fields tournament at the Neangar course, part of the VVGA program in April. At this stage Trevor Bottomley has shown interest.

Bush Fire effort

Our Bush Fire effort from the raffle at the previous golf day at Rossdale resulted in totalling $1025, which was fantastic and thanks for your support to assist the golf clubs in the East Gippsland area, namely Mallacoota and Buchan. It was put to the members of the day that we split the donations to those clubs to assist in the rectification of their course - all in favour.

Annual Subs

The annual subs of $30 for 2020 are now payable to David Vine asap.

CoM Business:

Matters under consideration by the Committee this month included:

1. Insuring that all our members have Golflinks handicaps.
2. The review of our Club Management rules including Constitution and Bylaws is continuing by a sub-committee. It is hoped to present the new proposals to members for consideration following the next Committee meeting.
3. Continued recruitment of members to assist in Club Management and development of skills in the Club for this purpose.
4. Management of processes for Online Applications for membership.
5. Marketing Manager Daryl has enabled us to improve the prizes for the winners of the A, B an C grades each month.
6. Planning to create a rational basis for management of Club income and expenditure.
7. Following our email inquiry and a show of hands at the meeting, we have had sufficient feedback from members to warrant planning a trip to Buchan later in the year.