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Member Update

Hi Veteran Golfers. Time for a quick update on HVGC.

We now have 107 members, which I think is a testament to our current format and the friendliness of the clubs members. I would like to thank you all for helping make HVGC a success.

I would also like to thank everyone for picking up their club shirts, almost all shirts have now found a home. However, we have one mens shirt left over and we are missing one ladies shirt. This would indicate that one man has been given a ladies shirt. While it may enhance your figure, please check your shirt, if it has three buttons then it is a man’s shirt. If you have the wrong one please bring it back, I won’t make any comments, honest.

Next Tuesday is stroke play followed by a noon BBQ. We have had to change the BBQ format and unfortunately the committee has been forced to make a $2 donation compulsory for all members attending. I hope all members are ok with this charge. Also, as we had a number of non members line up for a free feed at our last BBQ, the committee has decided that all members must wear their club shirt to attend the BBQ. For those members who do not yet have a shirt, please see me at the BBQ.

I would like to bring to your attention a couple of Veterans events you may be interested in. The Port Stephens Vets week of golf (WOG) is being held in October this year. If you have never been to a vets WOG this would be a great event to get you started. Played at four courses in Port Stephens, it is a very friendly, enjoyable and cheap way to have a great week of golf and make new friends. The second event is the NSWVGA Veterans matchplay championships, held at four Newcastle courses in November. This is a graded event and no one is knocked out, you get games all four days. It is very well run and has some great prizes. Details of these and other vets events can be found on the HVGC website.

Finally, for those wanting the current NSWVGA events program book, I have left some signed ones in the cupboard under the computer in the clubhouse.

That’s it from me, see you at the course.

Cheers,
Ian.

Check this week’s Results here
Check our Calendar of events here

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New Members

Hello and welcome to all new members of Horizons Veterans Golf Club (HVGC). I hope you enjoy your time with the Club and make use of all that the New South Wales Veterans Golf Association has to offer.

As new members you are entitled to a subsidised veterans golf shirt. The cost to you will be $15. It is important that you receive a shirt, in that all NSWVGA events and some of our own events, require proof of membership of a veterans organisation. As well as a signed members booklet from your home Vets club (HVGC) the other form of proof that is accepted is the official Vets shirt.

If you haven;t provided your shirt size, please do so as soon as possible. If you don’t provide me with a size within a week then I will assume that you do not want a shirt.

The sizes are normal shirt sizes, in that people who ordered what they usually wear received shirts that fitted. Ladies, please give me the size in LADIES shirt sizes i.e. numbers (whatever they mean, I have no clue).

Please let me know by return email as soon as possible.

Thanks and again, welcome.

Ian Barnard
President / HVGC

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Apply for Membership

Apply for membership of the Horizons Veterans Golf Club. 

Membership is available to financial members of Horizons Golf Resort who have attained the age of 55 years for men and 50 years for women. A current GA handicap is necessary to participate in HVGC events, but this may be obtained after the submission of five competition cards.

Members must pay an annual membership fee as determined by the Management Committee and in doing so become bound by the Constitution and Rules of the Club and become members of NSWVGA.

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HVGC Shirts

Hi all. Just a reminder that the Vets shirts will be ordered on Wednesday. If you don’t have your size beside your name on the sheet above the Club noticeboard by the close of the vets presentation tomorrow I will assume that you don’t want a shirt.

Colour

Just to answer those who think that the shirt colour chosen is too hot, below are the actual facts from a physics perspective (taken from the ABC website).

“Generally in summer, we’re treated to lines of loose summery white clothing. Not only is the white supposed to look nice floating around the edges of a picnic — until a few seconds into the event, when it has its first grass stain — people claim that white is the ideal way to keep cool in the summer. When we see white, we’re seeing the combination of all possible visible light. This means that white clothing reflects a great deal of wavelengths of energy coming in. This means it should reflect the sun’s rays back, instead of letting them cook us. And that’s perfectly correct.

Except that this explanation is incomplete. Heat is not just coming in off of the sun. It’s also coming off a person’s own, sweating, warm-blooded, mammalian body, which is a lot closer than the sun is. When all that body heat hits the white clothing covering it, it gets reflected right back towards the body. When we wear white, we cook ourselves.

The best colour to keep cool in the heat, it turns out, is to wear black. Black absorbs everything coming in from the sun, sure. But black also absorbs energy from the body instead of reflecting it back. Now, the helpfulness of black clothes depends on finding black clothes that are the same thickness and looseness as those summery white clothes. Black clothing also needs a little help from atmospheric conditions. Once it has absorbed heat, it has to have some way to radiate it away. If there’s even a little wind, black clothing is the better choice for those who want to keep cool, so find something black to wear this summer.

Another reason black is safer for you in the summer months is because of its high ultraviolet protection factor.  The darker a colour, the more protection from the sun you’ll have, whereas the lighter the colour, the less protection you’ll have from the sun.  This could mean the difference between skin cancer and staying safe.”