Sport
6 November, 2024
Esk Golf Charity Day success
The Esk Golf Club is working hard to give back to the community, through holding biannual charity golf days.
This year, the Esk Golf Club held a charity golf day on October 12 for the Esk Lions Club, and another on November 2 for the Esk and District Kindergarten.
Club president, Luke Latter, said it was important to the club to support the community.
“It’s really important we like to try and support all local businesses and community groups down in Esk,” he said.
“It’s a little community we support them and in return they support us as well.”
The Esk Golf Club had a number of local businesses donate prizes for the Kindy charity golf day.
These include Esk Bakery, Brisbane Valley Meats, Esk Fruit and Veg Shop, Esk Car Care, Brisbane Valley Hire and Sales, and more.
“The golf club donated the competition seed which was $600 and at a rough estimate the kindy raised around $1500 profi t from the day,” Luke said.
“It was a good day, we run the golf side of things and the kindy organises the raff les and the catering.”
The Golf Club then raised over $1000 towards the Esk Lions Club, which they donated $660 towards the Lions Childhood Cancer Research Foundation.
Luke added that since COVID, a lot of their charity golf day events stalled, however it was starting to pick up again now.
“We’ve done a couple over the years, the new kindy committee approached us and wanted to do it again so they were really happy with it,” he said.
“The golf club tries to do two or three charity days a year, there’s always one for Esk Lions.
“We sometimes have one for the RSL, since Covid we haven’t really done it again as they are struggling for volunteers.”
The winner of the 2 person ambrose Kindy charity day was M Rowe and M Simpson with a 61.5 nett.
Runners up were B Farnham and M Robson with a 64 nett, and D Hines and J Hines with a 66 nett.
The non golfer winners were A Anderson and C Borg with a nett of 60.
At the Esk Lions charity golf day, Matt and Kath Scott won the 2 person ambrose with a 60.75 nett.
Runners up were Brett Farnham and Barry Rowe, and the non golfer winners were P Kelly and J Kelly.
Congratulations all!
