HAMILTON Golf Club held its Annual General Meeting earlier in the week at which two club members were honoured with life memberships.

Barry Raymond and Malcolm Groves were both taken by surprise when the announcement was made.
Raymond joined the club in 1977 after retiring from football, and he thought golf would be an easy game to master, but soon discovered it wasn’t as easy as it looked.
Raymond’s plumbing skills have been well utilised and he has been involved in many projects at the club, which have included the fairways irrigation system and clubhouse renovations amongst many others projects.
He has also been a director on the club’s board and can always be counted on to be at the many working bees that the club holds to help maintain the course and facilities.
Groves first started golf at Hamilton in 1990 and is the current men’s captain, a position he has held for the past 11 years.
Groves is an electrician by trade and spends many hours assisting around the club; if he isn’t in the office undertaking his captain’s duty, he can be found helping out with any of the projects and working bees that happen on a regular basis.
He is also a very handy golfer, playing off a handicap of four.
Both Raymond and Groves are very worth recipients of their life memberships for the outstanding service they have given to the club.
Ian Ferguson was re-elected as president, Di Raymond was elected as women’s captain, Steve Giles and Rob Vecchiet were both re-elected as directors and Lyn O’Brien and John Hill have been welcomed as new directors, joining current directors, Adam Manson, Roger Lewis and Liz Nichol.

Monthly Medal
LAST Saturday was the men’s Monthly Medal, generating good scores across the field.
The A grade men’s winner was Andrew Keane with 69 nett, three shots clear of runner-up, Groves, while Troy Elliott was third with 73 nett.
Rob Harris ended up being the outright winner of the Monthly Medal and winner of the B grade competition with a very good 68 nett, while Kynan Caruana was B grade runner-up with 69 nett, and Brady Hicks finished third on a countback with 72 nett, edging out David Robertson.
The Saturday women’s competition saw Molly O’Brien once again top the leaderboard, narrowly winning on a four-way countback from Kerryn Price, Tania Cullinane and Enid Smith, after all four finished with 77 nett.
Nearest the pins on the third went to Mark O’Brien and Margie Hadley, Jon Manson won the sixth, Andrew Keane and Sue Walter on the 13th and Groves and Pinniger on the 16th.
The closest second shot on 15th was taken out by Marty Pitts and Tania Cullinane.

Midweek ladies
WEDNESDAY’s women’s event saw 50 ladies playing a stroke round, along with putting, the final round of Laidlaw Cup and the Medal of Medallists.
The Medal of Medallists is when all the monthly medal winners during the year play off for the overall prize.
The ultimate honour was won by Deirdre Simkin with 78 nett.
The A grade winner was Helen Holcombe with 73 nett, on shot ahead of runner-up, Jen Pike.
B grade top honours went to Jenny Edwards with 72 nett, comfortably clear of runner-up, Fran McMeel, who recorded 77 nett.
Nearest the pins went to Marg Langford on the third, Pam Brebner on the sixth and Holcombe on the 16th.
The closest second shot on the 15th went to Rachel Slade, the longest putt on the 9th was Bronwyn Dwight, and Jeanette Carmichael recorded the longest putt on the 13th.
Jenny Edwards won the putting award with 28 putts.
The nine-hole competition was won by Helen Clare with 18 points, one clear of runner-up, Kath Hartwich.