Country Week Teams

Country Week Teams

Prior to the Country Week Teams event, SGGI and both the Men’s and Women’s Country Teams squads conduct a fund-raising social event to assist with expenses.
Details for the 2024 fund-raising event are here.

South Gippsland enter a Men’s and a Women’s team each year in the Golf Australia Country Week Teams event.
This Teams Matchplay event is the pinnacle event for our best South Gippsland golfers.

2024 Venues:
Men
: The Sands, 13th Beach and Portarlington

Women: Anglesea, Curlewis and The Sands

Dates:
Mon.30th Sep – Wed.2nd Oct.

Men’s Draw (Shield Division)
Monday 30th Sept. at The Sands, Torquay
R1.  Bye
R2.  1:25pm v West Gippsland  10th tee

Tuesday 1st Oct. at 13th Beach
R3.  8:25am v Ballarat  10th tee
R4.  12:30pm v Murray Darling  1st tee

Wednesday 2nd Oct. at Portarlington
R5.  7:30am  v Goulburn Murray  1st tee

Women’s Draw (Division 2)
Monday 30th Sept. at Clifton Springs
R1.  8:25am  v West Gippsland  10th tee
R2.  12:30pm  v South Western  1st tee

Tuesday 1st Oct. at Curlewis
R3.  Bye
R4.  12:30pm  v Dalhousie  10th tee

Wednesday 2nd Oct. at the Sands, Torquay
R5.  8:25am  v East Gippsland  10th tee

Men’s Results:
Round 1: Bye
Round 2: West Gipps 4 def Sth Gipps 3
Round 3: Ballarat 5 def Sth Gipps 2
Round 4: Murray Darling 4 def Sth Gipps 3
Round 5: Goulburn Murray 4 def Sth Gipps 3

Very proud of the efforts of all the boys. Some close matches that could have gone either way, resulting in different contest outcomes on the day – but that’s golf.

Women’s Results:
Round 1: Sth Gipps 6 def West Gipps 1
Round 2: Sth Western 4 def Sth Gipps 3
Round 3: Bye
Round 4: Sth Gipps 6 def Dalhousie 1
Round 5: Sth Gipps 4.5 def East Gipps 2.5

Fabulous effort by the whole team, finishing 2nd to the ‘local’ team, South Western (and also winning bragging rights over East & West Gippsland).

See below for a more detailed report from our reporter on the spot.

Our South Gippsland men’s team:
Manager: Roy Fleming (Korumburra), Assistant Manager: Ian Balfour (Woorayl),
Chris Buckland, Arron Morris, Isaac Batty, Steve Bromby (Capt), Jye Kruyer, Mat Wrigley, Wayne Kennedy, Jack Jacobsen.

Our South Gippsland women’s team:
Manager: Sue Hoskin (Meeniyan), Assistant Manager: Beth Curram (Foster).
Rebecca Thomas (Leongatha), Andrea Thorson (Meeniyan), Elly Berryman (Woorayl), Chloe Wilson (Lang lang), Rena Casey (Lang Lang), Merryn Dear (Wonthaggi), Merrissa Cosson (Korumburra), Kylie Collins (Foster), Kay Dumbleton (Leongatha), Beth Curram.

Women’s Country Week Teams Report
Great weather at Clifton Springs for Day 1 of Country Teams. The morning round was against West Gippsland – fast out of the blocks for us & a great win of 6/1.
The afternoon round was a ‘tight turnaround’ against the local district of South Western. They were tough opposition on their ‘home patch’ and we were narrowly defeated 4/3. It is an afternoon hit off tomorrow and we are up against Dalhousie at Curlewis.
Another fine day for Country Week Day 2 – a cool wind with sunshine glimpses had most keeping their ‘layers’ on. 
The Curlewis course was beautiful along with its stunning clubhouse. Our team obviously enjoyed the afternoon start – and the course – as they played great golf to record a 6/1 win against Dalhousie.
Day 3 saw us playing East Gippsland in the last round of the event at The Sands Torquay. We hit off the 10th Tee with an 8.25am start against East Gippsland who, like us, had 2 wins. All matches were very tight through the morning’s play. Four matches went to the 18th hole, with 3 squares and a narrow loss and then 3 fabulous wins finshing on the 16th and 17th holes. This gave us the 4.5 to 2.5 win and secured Runners Up. Despite having the most matches won and least lost we came up just a game short of South Western.