Opening Day for Season 2011 - Thursday 24th February

A 9 hole Stableford competition was organised by Vice Captain, Georgina.
There were 26 players, all playing off the newly organised Yellow Tees.
This was a "fun" round, as the Yellow Tees will only be used during Pennant matches and Club Championships.

Winner today's 9 hole comp. Marny with 22pts
        Marny
Runner-up was Celia with 20pts
              Celia

After the golf there was an Opening Day meeting, where President, Judi welcomed the members and past members, who were present.

Judi mentioned that TriGolf Clinics are currently being run by Warren on Mondays with an enrolment of 12. We hope that some of these participants will become regular golfers at Mt. Lofty. Members were thanked for supplying morning tea in the "Blue Wren Cafe" over summer.
Sybil was thanked for supplying flowers throughout the summer in "lily Waite House". A winter Flower Roster was circulated.

Thank you Sybil for the beautiful flowers used today as table decorations.
              flowerin gum

     hydrangeas

Captain, Meredith gave her report, thanking members for participating in various interclub team events over summer.
Meredith announced the winners of the three trophy competitions held in the summer season. All three winners had excellent scores, showing that our golf course has been invery good condition all summer, helped by good rainfall and very competent groundsmen. Well done boys.

Grandmother's Trophy was won by Sue with
an incredible score of 46 stableford points.
  Sue
Ada Rowley trophy was won by Celia, over
two rounds. She had an impressive total of 81pts.
       Celia
Libby McGregor trophy is the highest aggregate
score over 4 x 9 holes and was won by Mel with 97pts.
          Mel

Joy, our Handicap Manager gave her report and announced the handicap trophy winner and Eclectic winners.

Summer Eclectic trophies, both Thursday & Saturday won by Joy
                   Joy

Handicap Trophy won by Sue, dropping an impressive 16 strokes.
                   Sue

We welcomed past members, Berne, Joyce, June, Valda, Nita, Grace, Pat, Barb, Betty and Esme who joined us for lunch.



   Past members

   Past members

During lunch Jill organised a fashion parade of club shirts, worn by our models Fay, Mel and Joy.

White shirts and Tartan pants -
worn during 1990's up to 2001
White shirts
2002 our 75th Anniversary shirt
75th Anniversary shirt
Navy shirts, jumpers & vests are always popular
Navy shirts
Early this century we changed to light blue
Light blue
Examples of our recent light blue shirts, with 2011 shirt on right.
Latest shirts
Raffle winner Jenny
Raffle Jenny

Thanks to Jill and the members who donated the shirts. A special big thank you to our wonderful models.