GOLF Central Victoria’s newly promoted women’s team is looking forward to the challenge of playing at a higher level at next week’s Golf Victoria Country Week.
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GCV will field teams in both the men’s and women’s section of the annual event, which tees-off on October 1.
The have won promotion to division one after winning division two in in 2017, while the men will contest the men’s plate.
The women's team is again headed by Kristi Bilkey, a member of Neangar Park and Bendigo golf clubs, and the current Bendigo Golf Club champion.
The team includes Neanagar Park club champion Janelle Brown, Heathcote club champion and district champion of champions Tristen Wearne, Axedale club champion Ruth Iser, Bernice Campbell, Helen Leech and Fiona Watach, from Neangar Park Golf Club, and Jenni Bilkey, Carmel Bourne and Sharni Rothacker, from Bendigo Golf Club.
Watach will enter Country Week in top form following a recent win in the East Geelong Golf Club Open.
The men's team is captained by the big-hitting Craig Grigson, from Neangar Park, with up-and-coming junior Jarrett Miles, also from Neangar Park, elevated to vice-captain.
Country Week veteran Lex Johnstone, from Axedale, returns to the team, which has four new players in Ben Furphy, Jarrod Berry, Craig Hodge, all from Neangar Park, and Bill Caulfield, from Belvoir Park.
Seasoned campaigners James O'Brien, from Castlemaine, and Justin Williams, from Neangar Park, complete the team.
Team Manager Philip DeAraugo said it was a very balanced team with a good mix of experienced players and a number of golfers that have many years of representative golf ahead of them.
The women will start their campaign at Southern Golf Club with two matches next Monday, followed by a match at Woodlands Golf Club on Tuesday and the final match at Huntingdale on Wednesday.
The men will tee-off at Keysborough Golf Club on Monday, followed by two matches at Cranbourne Golf Club on Tuesday and the final match at Patterson River Golf Club on Wednesday.