It will be an emotional packed
day for several teams of Marysville Golf Club members as
they tee off together for the first time as a group
since Black Saturday, when fire engulfed the small
picturesque township and golf course.
Sandhurst Club in
conjunction with the Marysville Golf Club has
established the
Marysville Sandhurst
Challenge, a special golfing event to raise
funds to help re-establish the Marysville Golf Course.
Some of the funds will be used to help
establish the Liesfield Junior Golf Trust, named after
two junior members, brothers James and Mathew Liesfield
who perished in the fires. The Trust has been
established to develop and support junior golfers,
particularly those in the Marysville community, as well
as those in the bushfire-affected areas of Victoria.
A simply ceremony will be held prior to
the start of the Marysville Sandhurst Challenge with the
ringing of the 'Captain's Bell' for a minute's silence
before the flags are hoisted to symbolically signal the
commencement of a new era for the Marysville Golf Club
with a cavalcade of fifty Golf Carts all dressed with
yellow ribbons to the Champions Course.
Sandhurst Golf Club Captain Paul
Ferrari said, the establishment of the Marysville
Sandhurst Challenge would provide the sporting community
of Victoria an opportunity to help re-establish the
Marysville Community Golf & Bowls Club, which is an
important part of the social and economic infrastructure
of the popular tourist town.
Marysville
Community Golf & Bowls Club president Nick Jans said
everyone was looking forward to the day and was
extremely happy such an event, which brought golfers
together in a positive way to look to the future, had
been initiated by Sandhurst Club.
Media Enquiries:
Dr Nick
Jans, President, Marysville Community Golf & Bowls
Club, Mobile: 0407 008 721
Ron Smith Corporate
Media Communications Sandhurst Club Mobile: 0417 329 201
