{"id":667886,"date":"2026-05-13T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/667886\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:11:11","slug":"national-golf-event-here-yarrawonga-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/667886\/","title":{"rendered":"National golf event here | Yarrawonga Chronicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last year\u2019s 21 st annual event at Coolangatta &amp; Tweed Heads Golf Club,36 amputees competed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">\u201cWe have 36 definites and I expect 40, from all states in Australian and one from overseas,\u201d local member and past board director Andrew Watson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The 70-year-old retired electrician, a below knee amputee, will compete and was heavily involved in luring the tournament of YMGCR.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\" data-original-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778663471_70_imengine.public.prod.mmg.navigacloud.com.jpeg\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778663471_70_imengine.public.prod.mmg.navigacloud.com.jpeg\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    The 70-year-old retired electrician is a below knee amputee and will compete in the tournament at YMGCR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">\u201cIn 2024 I mentioned our club resort to organisers, did a presentation, discussed it with our CEO Peter Savy and made a formal proposal,\u201d Andrew said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">\u201cI\u2019m ecstatic with our board\u2019s decision to hold the event. I love the club, the people, the staff are brilliant and the pro shop is brilliant. Our motto is \u2018More than Golf\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">A lot of talent will be on display including two amputees, Geoff Nicholas and Steve Prior, with world ranking of 64 and 65.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Mr Savy welcomed the AGA decision in choosing YMGCR. \u201cWe are proud to host this event and showcase our club resort to another big group of golfers playing in a national event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At last year\u2019s 21 st annual event at Coolangatta &amp; Tweed Heads Golf Club,36 amputees competed. \u201cWe have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-667886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667886","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=667886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}