It is with sadness that this morning we were informed of the passing of past EGWG President Cherry Macarthur.

Cherry had also served as President of East Gippsland Lady Veterans. A Life Member of Buchan Valley Golf Club , Cherry will missed by all.

R.I.P Cherry, and deepest sympathy to Cherry’s family and our friends at Buchan Valley.

Club Grants

The is currently two Government grant opportunities.

The Volunteering Australia grant application is for $1000 to $5000 - A condition is that you must have a least 40% volunteers of your workbase. Applications close 20th September.

The Sporting club grant is for up to $1000 and applications close 29th September.

Refer to view details tab for more information and links to grants.

VALE - JACK DARBY

It is with much sadness we inform members of the passing of Sale GC Life Member Mr Jack Darby.

Jack had a strong passion for golf and served as Club Captain from 1976-78

Jack spent many years volunteering his time on numerous things around the club including electrical maintenance, soil chemistry, fairway watering design and greens reconstruction. Jack also spent many years helping our junior golfers including daughters Angela Todd and Carolyn Carlos who both went onto represent Victoria.

Jack was an outstanding golfer himself around Sale, Gippsland and Victoria. Jack won 14 Club Championships at Sale, an outstanding achievement.

Jack loved his golf so much he never let a flood worry him. When the South Gippsland Highway was cut off due to floods he would launch his boat and motor through trees to a landing under the 4th green where he would begin his game from there.

Many fun years were spent around the club and there are so many great memories of Jack.

Jack will be sadly missed by the Sale Golf Club & everyone associated with Golf in East Gippsland.

Long time Bairnsdale & Tambo Valley Golf Club member, Mr Jack Heil, passed away on the 8th August.

Jack was well known at both clubs and he sponsored a trophy for the Bairnsdale Ladies for the biggest improver over the previous 12 months.

In later years, Jack camped at Tambo Valley GC where he put his previous green keeper skills to the test and spent many hours working on the course. Jack painted the clubhouse, worked on the surrounds and tees and cleared a lot of the rough areas to help create the parkland type setting that visitors to Tambo Valley now enjoy.

From all the golfing fraternity in East Gippsland, we pass on our deepest sympathy to Joan and the family and friends of Jack.

The Department of Health and Human Services has closed down all outside recreational gatherings.

Golf Clubs have been directed to close until the 13th of April.

As such, all golf courses in the Golf East Gippsland district are now closed to all forms of play.

Congratulations to Roma Hall - Toongabbie who recently had a hole in one. 125 mtrs 9th hole @ Toongabbie. Every golfers dream

Well done Roma.

Due to the Government imposed restrictions in response to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) all camping at Tambo Valley Golf Club is prohibited.

This includes those who have ‘on site’ camping rights at the club.

Thank you for your understanding -the course is still open for social play.

It is with regret that the East Gippsland Classic scheduled for 27th, 28th and 29th of March has had to be postponed until a date to be fixed. Government regulations and advice from Golf Australia make it ill advisable to run the event at this time. We will continue to monitor the situation, however when the health and wellbeing of our people is concerned, we take seriously our duty of care to be proactively ensuring that we do all that is reasonably possible to keep people safe.

Tournament Secretary Clive Storey

Orbost Golf Club and the wider golfing community in East Gippsland mourn the passing of Bernie Shanahan.

Bernie was a golfing legend in East Gippsland who represented the District with distinction and had many outstanding achievements at club and district level.

He was also a life member of the Orbost GC, and our deepest sympathy go to his extended family & friends

Vale Bernie

Latest advice received from Golf Australia regarding the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

This information has also been sent to all Club Secretaries.

As you are aware, COVID-19 or the Coronavirus as it is more commonly known has created global health concerns regarding the disease and its infection rates.

Golf Australia is writing to provide further assistance and guidance to our clubs and facilities on this important topic.

It is Golf Australia’s recommendation to clubs and facilities that advice from the Australian Government’s Department of Health should be monitored closely over the coming days and weeks, as well as the Australian Government’s Smartraveller website. Advice may change from day to day.

Please note, Golf Australia remains fully operational for all of your clubs and facilities support, rules and handicapping and competition management requirements. For contact details of each departmental area, please visit [https://www.golf.org.au/contactus/]

Member, Guest and Staff travel advice If your members or guests have recently returned from overseas, they are now required by law to self-isolate for 14 days upon their return, as of midnight on Sunday, March 15. During this period, they should not visit your facility for any reason.

If – in the 14 days prior to Sunday, March 15 – your members or guests have recently returned from or transited through China, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mongolia or South Korea, we recommend that they do not visit your facility for any reason – including use of the golf course only – until the 14 day period has elapsed.

We further recommend that if – in the 14 days prior to Sunday March 15 – members or guests recently returned from or who have transited through Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand or from a cruise holiday and who are experiencing flu-like symptoms do not visit your facility, including use of the golf course only, for 14 days.

For simple, easy to understand advice for your members and guests including important health tips, you can also refer to the World Health Organisation’s advice for the public website.

Member, Guest and Staff health advice Golf clubs and facilities are often heavily trafficked, and there is a chance that a member, guest or member of your staff will be exposed to, or test positive to, COVID-19.

It is vitally important that if a member, guest or staff member tests positive to COVID-19, they must inform the club/facility as soon as possible. If this has occurred, anyone testing positive will be contacted by the State/Territory Department of Health in relation to contact tracing. You should then take advice on ongoing facility operations from your State/Territory Department of Health.

PLAYING GOLF:

It should be noted that the vast majority of golfers can and should continue to visit your clubs or facility as per normal. Of course, golfers should exhibit a heightened awareness of personal hygiene as has been encouraged by state and federal health departments.

CLUBHOUSE & GOLF OPERATIONS:

Clubs should consider reviewing their clubhouse and golf operations ensuring procedures are in place that minimise close person-to-person contact where possible. It is up to club and facility management to consider whether policies on clubhouse opening hours, course opening hours and visitor access require review at this time.

It is important for club boards and management to review contingencies to plan stages ahead for club operations should public information change.

Practices within clubhouses should display a heightened regard for the sanitation of surfaces, of which your cleaning chemical provider will be able to provide guidance on.

Staff and volunteers should exhibit a heightened awareness of personal hygiene as has been encouraged by state and federal health departments.

COURSE MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS:

Clubs and facilities should consider reviewing their course maintenance operations ensuring procedures are in place that minimise close person-to-person contact. Practices within the course maintenance team should display a heightened regard for the sanitation of surfaces, including machinery controls, of which your cleaning chemical provider will be able to provide guidance on. Staff and volunteers should exhibit a heightened awareness of personal hygiene as has been encouraged by state and federal health departments.

Clubs should also consider separating course maintenance staff in to separate shifts to help ensure continuity should self-isolation among your course maintenance staff be required.

Examples of easy to implement changes to regular operations: Some examples of changes for clubs and facilities that will help reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 include:

• Place signage around clubhouse along with hand sanitisers
• Remove use of member cards in place of providing member number at point of sale purchases
• Remove shared items such as complimentary cheese and crackers
• Where possible, leaving doors ajar removing the need to push doors open or turn door knobs
• No hand shaking
• No dollar bets
• Use drink trays for rounds of drinks
• Remove items such as shoe cleaners, sun creams, hair brushes and combs, hair gel and hair dryers from locker rooms
• Sanitise motorised carts, push buggy and sand bucket handles, air compressor handles, before and after use
• Encourage golfers to wear their putting glove when removing the flag stick and when raking bunkers
• Remove cash transactions and encourage ‘Pay-Wave’ transactions where no contact is required
• Remove small pins from practice putting greens

Bairnsdale GC is holding a fundraiser for Aaron & Heidi Patten after the tragic death of their wife/mother, Gemma

To be held on Saturday 14 March @ the Bairnsdale GC, a bistro night will be held.

See view details for more.

All proceeds from the meals will be donated, together with a number of auction items, including an EZGO golf cart, Rounds of golf at Royal Melbourne and Long Island and a number of other items.

There are limited meals available (120 meals), but if people miss out on a table, you are encouraged to come for a drink and bid for the Auction items.

Will be holding a 2 day golf challenge on the 18-19th April.

New Year’s Eve 2019 was one we want to forget when Mallacoota was so heavily impacted by fire, and the Golf Course didn’t miss out with the best part of 90% of the course impacted, with only the buildings unaffected. We are striving to have the course fully playable by the above date but we may have to have some temporary greens and other restrictions, but it will not stop us having a great weekend. So please get your partners and join us in showing that golf will always prevail

Nominations are invited from golfers (Men & Women) with an official GA Handicap to form a two person team and register to compete in the Mallacoota Medley Challenge.

The two day competition will offer players the opportunity to participate in a tournament played under an innovative and challenging two person team aggregate format.

Men and Women will be restricted to a maximum playing handicap of 27 & 36 respectively. Players with handicaps over these limits are still eligible and encouraged to enter and play, however their handicaps will be adjusted to 27(Men) and 36(Ladies) for the 1st round and the men only will be adjusted, if necessary, for the Sunday as per the handicap adjustment table – which will be handed out on the first day.

See the events page for further details and entry form.