Great Day for Junior Golf in the Illawarra
Jack Newton Junior Golf and Golf NSW were pleased to be able to hand over $10,000 to Golf Illawarra for the development of junior golf in the region. The inaugural JNJG Junior AM took place yesterday at The Grange Golf Club with 26 groups getting involved in the initiative developed to support junior golf. In breezy and testing conditions sponsors, club members and junior golfers took part in a fun Ambrose event with the goal of raising funds for the host region of the Subaru State Championships. It is hoped that this Junior AM will become a regular part of the State Championships and junior golf can continue to develop all across NSW.
There were a number of major sponsors who got involved in the event. They included Titleist, Subaru, Gerard Malouf and Partners, Fenton and Associates and Wests Illawarra. Other corporate partners who took part in the event were Bass Electrical Engineering, Illawarra Academy of Sport, Rapid Cool, Pendle Inn, Golf NSW, Golf Illawarra, MM Electrical Merchandising, AHA, Wollongong Golf Club and Dapto Leagues Club.
Golf Clubs from across the Illawarra also took part in the tournament and brought along one of their juniors to play. These clubs included Russell Vale, The Links Shell Cove, Wollongong, Port Kembla, Mt Broughton, Moss Vale, The Grange, Highlands and Shoalhaven Heads.
The following teams managed the tough weather conditions the best to take home the prizes on the day.
Scratch Winners: The Links Shell Cove Team of Robert Lopich, Larry How, Chris McGrath, Jamie Krzyszack (junior) 59
Sratch Runners Up: Fenton and Associates Team of Paul Fenton, Greg Kerr, Keenan Hobbs, Blake Windred (junior) 61c/b
Nett Winners: Russell Vale Golf Club Team of Paul Fairwall, Steve Townsend, Allen Sellers, Travis Fay (junior) 57
Nett Runners Up: JNJG Team of Tahnia Ravnjak, Peter Van Wegen, Dean Biddle, Ethan Keane (junior) 58.25
Nett Winner for the Illawarra Golf Clubs: Kiama Golf Club Team of Shaun O'Toole, Brett Kitley, Darcy Bond (junior) 59.33
Longest Drive Winners (8th hole):
Men: Mike Crandell
Ladies: Olivia Wilson
Junior Boys: Jason Hong
Junior Girls: Shelly Shin
Nearest The Pin Winners:
Mens (4th hole): Shaun O'Toole
Ladies (7th hole): Robyn John
Junior Boys (18th hole): Darcy Bond
Junior Girls (10th hole): Jess Lasky (card draw)
Titleist sponsored prizes for a raffle which included a full set of custom fit Titlesit irons, woods, wedges, a Scotty Cameron putter and plenty of ProV golf balls. Illawarra Golf Clubs sold tickets for the raffle and all of the money they collected they were able to keep and put towards their club junior program. Over 2000 tickets were sold and 10 lucky winners were selected. Congratulations to these winners and JNJG will be in contact over the next week to arrange delivery of the prizes.
Jack Newton Junior Golf and Golf NSW would like to thank all of the generous sponsors and golf clubs who got behind the initiative to make the event a success. To be able to raise that much money for junior golf in the Illawarra in such a short time is fantastic and we hope to make the event even better next year. If you would like to be involved in the event next year please contact JNJG. We are passionate about giving junior golfers all the support we can and events like this are one way businesses in the community can get involved.
Jack Newton Junior Golf also ran a raffle for the Golf Illawarra Clubs to raise money for their own junior programs. All prizes for the raffle were generously donated by Titleist and included custom fit irons, woods, wedges, a scotty cameron putter and dozens of ProV golf balls. Illawarra clubs were given books of tickets to sell to their members and all money collected from the sale of the tickets the club got to keep to put towards their junior golf program. It was pleasing to see a few clubs really take advantage of this opportunity to raise money at absolutely no cost to them. We hope to make next years raffle even better and get more clubs to take up the selling. Below is a list of the prize winners for this years raffle:
1st Prize: Set of 8 Titleist Irons custom fitted - M Schott (Shoalhaven Heads)
2nd Prize: Set of Titleist Metals: 913 Driver, Fairway & Hybrid - G. Bradshaw (Russell Vale)
3rd Prize: Set of 3 Titleist Vokey Wedges - A. Eksteen (Nomads)
4th Prize: Scotty Cameron Putter - Doug Dobb (Moss Vale)
5th Prize: Dozen ProV's - J. Warden (Shoalhaven Heads)
6th Prize: Dozen ProV's - M. Christoforou (The Grange)
7th Prize: Dozen ProV's - K. Taner (Shoalhaven Heads)
8th Prize: Dozen ProV's - T. Darlow (Port Kembla)
9th Prize: Dozen ProV's - C. Criuis (Port Kembla)
10th Prize: Dozen ProV's - G. Stenson (The Grange)
Congratulations to all of our winners.
