{"id":186219,"date":"2025-10-02T23:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186219\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:49:14","slug":"prams-charity-golf-winners-by-just-half-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186219\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAMS CHARITY GOLF WINNERS BY JUST HALF A POINT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than $17,000 was raised as Gunnedah PaediatRic and Maternity Support (PRAMS) held its annual charity golf day at the Gunnedah course on Sunday September 21.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 80 golfers took part in the 4-person Ambrose on a lovely sunny day, with a barbecue lunch also part of the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>PRAMS committee member Rebecca Ryan said there was great sponsorship from businesses and great community support, while the Gunnedah Golf Club golfers\u2019 donation was $1515.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"NDUxLDQxLDEsNjA=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exterfresh.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/exterfresh-mrec-002.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/a><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"NDU4LDM4LDEsNjA=\" href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CM_GT_Collective-Christmas_Web-banner_728x90px.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was our 15th golf day and many of sponsors have been there since the start and some of the golfers too!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ryan said funds would partly go towards ongoing PRAMS projects including kids activity packs for youngsters when they go to a hospital or the emergency department, and scholarships for local nursing and medical students.<\/p>\n<p>A big focus for the group when the hospital redevelopment opens will be improving accommodation for visiting medical staff, Ms Ryan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure medical staff are welcomed and want to call Gunnedah home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ryan said PRAMS worked closely with hospital and community health staff, while key focuses included maternity and paediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne concern (in Gunnedah) is a lot of women are moved to Tamworth or further with their baby,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be able to get back to caring for babies in Gunnedah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the golf, the winning team comprised Lachie Fleming, Shane Fleming, Tony Burtenshaw and Dan Percy with 53 points.<\/p>\n<p>Just half a point behind in second place was the foursome of Andrew Ceeney, Glen Pinn, Sam Gulliford and Adrian Burl.<\/p>\n<p>Burl won the men\u2019s straight drive while Fay Hausfeld won the ladies straight drive.<\/p>\n<p>Nearest-the-pin winners were Ceeney, Matt Agostino, Blake Small, Luke Johnston, Sophie Carter and Donna O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"SocialOnly\" href=\"https:\/\/narrabricourier.com.au\/photo-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">To order photos from this page click here<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than $17,000 was raised as Gunnedah PaediatRic and Maternity Support (PRAMS) held its annual charity golf day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,118776,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-186219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-prams","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}