Photo above: (from left)

BACK ROW: Phil Walton, Rhys Harris, Mike Dobson (PDGA Treasurer), Gary Puddick (Captain), Anthony Marchesani, Andrew Schonewille, Ron Craven (PDGA President), Brian Meneilly, Peter O'Dwyer and David Dorning.

FRONT ROW: Ashley O'Dwyer, Tyrrell McGeever (PDGA Junior Co-ordinator), John Bright (PDGA Pennant Co-ordinator), Ray Ousley (PDGA Life Member), Dave Heffernan, Peter Molloy (PDGA Secretary), Ryan Fuller and Trevor Roberts (Team Manager and PDGA Media Co-ordinator).H

Not in photo: Nigel Harris, Chris Hurwood, Bob Bright and Marino Colombo.


UPDATE
The PDGA Squad finished in third spot after 3 day of hectic golf at Kooringal, Latrobe and Kew Golf Clubs. We did not accomplish all our goals this year but we have something to aim for in 2011.
As usual this is a team effort but I would like to thank the following people who made my job a lot easier:

Ray Ousley for his complete dedication to the team and also the excellent range of player statistics that certainly assisted the selectors in choosing the final players. Ray also assisted with the pin sheets each day which certainly helped our boys around the course and also his caddying.

Bob Bright for his valuable input as a past Country Week manager and selector.

I would also like to thank the following PDGA Executive members for their assistance to the team:

John Bright for looking after the uniform issues that arose and buying the food for the event and caddying for Ryan Fuller.

Mike Dobson for his valuable assistance with finance issues and booking venues.

Tyrrell McGeever for his assistance with uniform ordering and collection and assisting with keeping the boys fed during the games.

To all the caddies Ashley O'Dwyer, Phil Walton, Andrew Schonewille, Chris Hurwood, Ray Ousley, Bob Bright, John Bright, Ron Craven, Peter Molloy, Nigel Harris, Dave Heffernan - I thank you for putting in valuable time with the team. (I apologise if I missed anyone who caddied this year).

To the support staff I thank you for your valued input into our campaign this year.

For all results click here or go to 2010 RESULTS link above.

Trevor Roberts - Team Manager

GETTING READY FOR COUNTRY WEEK
Ray Ousley, Chris Hurwood (ex Kooringal member) and I went over to Kooringal Golf Club in Altona to view the course and to get some GPS/Laser listings of the holes (our Course Booklet is now complete and printed). For all the rain that we have had the course was in really good shape. The fairways had plenty of grass and the greens were running true with good speed.

UPDATE:
Ray and I went to Latrobe Golf Club at Alphington on Tuesday this week to take GPS/Laser readings and were pleasantly surprised how good the course was looking. The fairways were dry and had a good grass cover and the greens were firm. An interesting layout with tight fairways especially hitting from the tee. The Course Booklet for Latrobe is complete and already printed.

We went to Kew Golf Club this next week and have finalised the data for the course. Kew was in very good order and should be ready for the final matches on Friday 1st October.



HEATCOTE OPEN AMATEUR
This event was played on Saturday 11th to the Sunday 12th September at Heathcote Golf Club. The course was in excellent condition bearing in mind that they had had a lot of rain in the previous weeks. Well done again to Heathcote Golf Club for their hospitality over the weekend.

HEATHCOTE OPEN SCORES:
Ryan Fuller 145, Anthony Marchesani - 145, Gary Puddick - 158, Chris Hurwood - 163, Brian Meneilly - 157, Rhys Harris - 162, Aaron Grindal - 155, Dave Heffernan - 166, Peter O'Dwyer - 162, Ian Merrett - NCR & 79, Mitch Harris - 164 and Andrew Schonewille - 163.

PORTSEA OPEN SCORES
Some of our Country Week Squad members played in the Portsea Open and here are the scores: (Winner Keiran Pratt - 70, 66, 70 and 70 = 276)
Marino Colombo - 77, 74, 76 and 69 = 296
Ryan Fuller - 80, 76, 74 and 73 = 303
Peter O'Dwyer - 70, 81, 74 and 80 = 308

Missed the cut:
Gary Puddick, David Dorning, Rhys Harris, Mitch Harris

Other Peninsula players:
Charlie Sartori - 79, 71, 76 and 81 = 307
Brad Meadows - 82,76, 75 and 79 = 312
Mick Miller - 84, 75, 74 and 77 = 310


COUNTRY WEEK DRAW
The draw for this years event has been published by the VGA and is listed below.

Click the following link to view the list of practice sessions that the squad will be looking forward to: COUNTRY WEEK SQUAD PRACTICE SESSIONS

Trevor Roberts - Country Week Manager