THE countdown is on with only three weeks to go until the hosting of the Victorian State Sandgreen Championships, and the course is seeing a frenzy of activity, with both male and female members painting boundary posts, hazard markers, raking up debris from the wind and mowing the fairways.

A FIELD of 45 men and eight women took to the course for Saturday’s stableford event.

PARKLANDS hosted visitors from around the district on Sunday for its annual four-person ambrose day.

LIFE membership is not something that people strive for when they join a club or an organisation and for Darryl Shaw that was certainly the case when he first fronted up to the Coleraine Golf Club 30 years ago.

IT was a quiet week of mid-winter competition golf, whereas the team at Parklands Golf Club have been anything but quiet.

LAST Saturday was a 4BBB stableford pairs event with any combination, as 88 players participated with Stephen Astbury and Bruce Luhrs claiming first place with 42 points.

On Saturday the stroke event was a right-handers versus left-handers stableford, which was played in very chilly weather with rain eventuating for the last few holes.

LAST Saturday's stableford competition saw small fields of 40 men and six women respectively.

EVEN the most cursory of glances across the global landscape would reveal that all is not well, nature continues to deliver weather extremes from the north pole to all continents on earth, including of course the Australian eastern seaboard.

THE four leading teams heading into the second of the two-round aggregate competition for the 4BBB Russell Family Trophy were within one point of each other.