MANSFIELD Hospital Auxiliary held another very successful Annual Golf Day on Sunday, March 2.

We are thrilled with the final results from the day and have raised around $40,000 for new purchases for our wonderful hospital.

Last year’s golf day funds have recently purchased three new Dialysis chairs for the crucial dialysis program, and we hope to allocate this year’s funds to necessary equipment for the Urgent Care facility, which continues to work overtime at the forefront of local emergency needs.

In lovely early autumn weather, our large field hit off with 46 teams and 138 players.

We thank Mansfield Golf Club, especially Chelton Crow, for the generous use of all the facilities and to Tony Cooksey and team for the excellent state of the course, especially given the dreadful drought conditions lately.

As usual, the big incentive for everyone was the chance to win a car on the Par 3 16th hole, courtesy of Mansfield Motor Group, which has once again been a major sponsor.

Special thanks to Dion Theodossi for his continued support.

We keep waiting for the car to go off.

Maybe next year!

Another added incentive was the chance to win the $1500 Putting Competition.

We thank Jenny Gould and DPG Property Services for their support again this year.

The “unlucky winner” was Ross North, who narrowly missed the hole but settled for a cash consolation.

We also extend special thanks to Vacuum Trucks and Spargo Group for their very generous funding of prizes and auction items.

We are again extremely grateful to Foodworks and A Third Hand for the ongoing provision of the on-course BBQ for our event.

Celebrations continued with an excellent gourmet dinner sponsored by the Golf Club.

We were pleased to have on board Paris Zachariou, a local singer and terrific entertainer, who was our emcee and auctioneer for the evening and who also entertained us with several song medleys.

Congratulations to all the teams who competed.

The main winners were as follows:

OVERALL CHAMPIONS: Dan Maloney, Ben Martin, Mark Jones

MEN’S WINNERS: Peter Van, Dion Theodossi, Craig Walsh

LADIES’ WINNERS: Tracey Gravenall, Lorraine Wilson, Gayle Wells

MIXED WINNERS: John Gifford, Michelle McGuire, Tony McGuire

VETERANS (MIXED): Alan Parrot, Colleen Leeds, Steve Chisholm

VETERANS (MEN): Garry Watson, Warwick James, Peter Shaw

VETERANS (LADIES): Susan Kinloch, Mag Knapp, Shelly Comerford

FAMILY: John Angliss, Gary Angliss, Jeff Hall