Hub auxiliary members who turned out in force to support the amazing efforts of the golf ladies are front (from left): Joy Ball, Kirsten Weinzierl (Operations Director at the Hub) Joan Gaunt, Mandy Gilchrist (Hub Volunteer Co-ordinator). Back (from left): Yvonne Morgan, Lyn Waderson and Hilary Kerrison.
Marilyn John (right) PIGC ladies president and an organiser of the very successful Pink Laddies Day during festivities with committee members Maria Kirwan (left) and Marlene Gibson.
Jeanette Diss, South Gippsland Golf Area President, joined members of the Phillip Island Golf Club at their very successful Pink Ladies Day last week, with (from left) Toni Noah, Dawn Andrews and Mary Smith.
Some of the many helpers who contributed to the success of the Pink Ladies Day at the Cowes Golf Club last week. (From left): Annette Millership, Kaye Huther, Roz Reid, Marilyn Jamieson, Jill Zelman, Charlene Duthie, Maria Kirwan and Mary Taylor.
Nathan McMullen (second left) with Sandy Barker, Michelle Barker and Karen Egan was one of three gentlemen who joined in the fun and helped boost funds raised on Pink Ladies Day. Nathan, a Golf Pro on holiday with family over here from California, obligingly (for a small fee) if any lady so wished, hit their ball for them from the fairway, on to the green, and as near to the pin as possible. His comrades in arms doing the same thing were Nev Thurgood and James Fowler.
Some of the Phillip Island lady golfers who turned out in force to raise funds for Pink Ladies Day (from left): Jo Westhorp, Liz Fincher, Mary Bourke, Liz O’Neil, Naoko McRae, Miyukl Nagashima, Jen Bilson and Allison Stewart.
It was a sea of pink at the Phillip Island Golf Club last Thursday, as about 100 lady golfers threw themselves behind a major event to raise funds for the Phillip Island Health Hub Auxiliary.
The name of the game at the Phillip Island Golf Club last Thursday was not golf, but fun and fundraising, as almost 100 lady golfers threw themselves into a host of festivities to celebrate the Club’s annual Pink Ladies Day this year.
Proceeds from this very special event are to be donated to the Phillip Island Health Hub Auxiliary, to assist them in their quest to fund a chemotherapy chair at the mooted Phillip Island Community Hospital, which is due to open in Cowes by 2024.
It was indeed a sea of pink, as the women, dressed from head to toe in every shade possible to find, teed off in the fun, 13-hole competition, that saw a couple of male golf pros give those who wanted it a helping hand mid fairway to land their pink balls closer to the pin than might otherwise have been the case. For a fee of course, that boosted the day’s fundraising tally.
It was then into a magnificent lunch served by Club volunteers, with raffles, auctions and prizes the order of the day for the next few hours.
Live music was provided by Peter Buitenhaus.
Special thanks go to Jill Zelman and her team of ladies for the effort they have put into the event, and to the many sponsors who supported the day.
Over $7000 was raised.
