{"id":3925,"date":"2025-10-01T20:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:43:49","slug":"day-3-happy-and-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/2025\/10\/day-3-happy-and-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 Happy and Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Day three of Division One Country Teams event was played at Mildura GC in a cool breeze environment.<\/p>\n<p>The women were up against South Western District (Geelong &#8211; Colac area) and as predicted the contest was extremely tight.\u00a0 Our top players Kim Morris and Rowena Wallace were up against some power hitters and could not hold them off.\u00a0 Similar for Julie Daniel. However, in her dogged style Maxine Sadler continued in her efforts to take a 1 up win.\u00a0 Then some very strong wins to Nacole Horneman 6\/5, Sonya Hill 3\/2 and Julie Kerchen 3\/1 gave GMGA a 4\/3 win\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the total outcome of the women&#8217;s event.\u00a0 &#8220;Home&#8221; team Murray Darling won with four wins from four matches with GMGA second with two wins and a draw. South Western, Ballarat and Western followed down the ladder.\u00a0 \u00a0Well done to our GMGA Team<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3928 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CTE-WOMEN-2025-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CTE-WOMEN-2025-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CTE-WOMEN-2025.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the men it was a different story when they faced &#8220;home&#8221; team Murray Darling around the Mildura course.\u00a0 The top order performed well with Mitch Grandell recording a 6\/5 win, Chris Tomlinson 3\/2 win and Daniel Adem chipped in on 18 to win the hole and get a square. However after that GMGA did not have the best of days to compete with some accomplished players around their well known course. Jeremy Rath, Sione Vaenuku, Aaron Dale and Nick Giles all battled hard but could not get the win we needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the event the West Gippsland team won four out of four, Murray Darling were second with two wins from four the same as Ballarat in third, South Western finished fourth with one win and one draw while\u00a0 GMGA Men only managed one halved match to finished fifth and will be relegated to Division Two next year.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3927 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CTE-Men-2025-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CTE-Men-2025-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CTE-Men-2025.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was great to see the spirt of play in the matches and the camaraderie amongst all the GMGA Women and Men players and the women&#8217;s caddies.\u00a0 Well done and thank you.\u00a0 Special mentions must be give to Maxine Sadler who recorded four wins from her four matches, 3\/2, 2 up, 2 up and 1 up. Similar congratulations to Mitch Grandell with four wins 4\/3, 4\/3, 1 up and 6\/5.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Country Teams Event will be played in Ballarat in mid September.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day three of Division One Country Teams event was played at Mildura GC in a cool breeze environment. The women&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-gradient\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/2025\/10\/day-3-happy-and-sad\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read More\">Read More <i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmga.org.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}