2020 VIC Champs 13-17 Feb - Come to ME, Mountain - SW VIC

[LeftyHoges]

From the people who brought you other great drunken 4AM ideas such as...

Ummmm.....

Errrr.......

Potato Parcel....?

Vacuum Shoes....?

Licki Brush....?

Comes the 2020 VIC Champs edition in the wonderful, the magnetic, the what-the-****-is-that?!?! home of LeftyHoges, South West Victoria!!!

Dates locked in for 13 - 17 Feb, 2020.

OZgolf VIC Champs 2020 Course Itinerary (Costs are rough at this stage)

Thursday
Heywood Golf Club - The course where I first learnt to throw a club. Ahhhh, memories....
3PM tee-off
$20.00 Green Fee + $10.00 Prize Fee

Friday
Warrnambool Golf Club[/B][/B] - Home of current world no. 17 Marc Leishman, who I beat once in a schoolboys tournament, and have been riding to death ever since.[B][B]
12.30PM tee-off from the first
28 spots booked
$49 Green Fee + $10.00 Prize Fee + $5 push cart
Carts $40 for anyone with medical cert.

Saturday
Portland Golf Club - The course where I currently throw my clubs. I'm better at it now too.
12.30PM tee-off, shotgun start
$20.00 Green Fee + $10.00 Prize Fee + $10 Comp fee

Sunday

Port Fairy Golf Links - My highest individual honour in golf, 2009 Club Champion
8AM tee-off
$45.00 Green Fee + $10.00 Prize Fee
No Carts (pull buggies available)

Monday
Cobden Golf Club - Not really meaningful, I just like this place, and it's on the way back to Melbourne.
Maybe 9AM start?
$20 Green Fee + $10.00 Prize Fee

Accommodation:
Portland Bay Lodge
$40 per person per night

Chosen because we can be as loud as humanly ****ing possible.

Come one, come all to the weirdest VIC Champs yet!

 

BSB: 303-092
Acc no. 4959945
Acc Name: Nicholas D Hoggan

[JoeS]

S..t had on display with Righty Hoges

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[JoeS]

Courty in full flight

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[JoeS]

Simon the ring in

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[JoeS]

Johhno letting it fly

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[JoeS]

AndyP deep in concentration,and still sober at this stage

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[JoeS]

Peppas,long bomber

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[JoeS]

Pickles,be the ball,nanananana

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[JoeS]

14th Fairway to green at Port Fairy

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[JoeS]

The views

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[JoeS]

Might have been at Heywood

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[Pickles]

Uploaded some images (mostly warrnambool and port fairy) here https://imgur.com/a/rXxed57

[Johnno]

Now that I'm 2 days back at work and realising there actually is much worse things in life then playing Portland GC I'll give a few shout outs.
Firstly congrats to Joe on the win. Commiserations to Lefty for not being able to get the win on home soil and also to Shaz for getting to walk 3.5k less then the rest of us and not taking advantage of it.

Thanks to Nick for all that comes with organising and also anyone that helped in any way ( Courty , Aaron etc).
Thanks to everyone I played / looked for my balls with , special mention to Sam for losing the pink ball straight up and taking the pressure off myself and Peps.
Side thanks to Nick for recruiting Simon for uncivil and giving me the supposedly impossible match.. winning that gave my confidence the boost to go out Saturday and smash what I managed last year... half that 25pts is yours Lefty.
Cheers to Pickles for the airport pickup , Dotty, Chappy and Ron for various lifts.
Honorable mention to Wayne for the small beers gag...

Hopefully see you all next year to do it again.

[SundayHack]

12 months ago a 4am plan was hatched to bring the Vic Champs to the home of its spiritual leader. Usually drunken 4am plans don't go so well, this one was spot on. This last week was never about playing top 10 courses of the likes of Barney or the sand belt, it was about seeing where Nick grew up playing his golf. Having said that Port Fairy was one of the most fun courses I have played and deserves a rating much higher than it currently holds.

Lefty thanks again for organising another awesome champs. The courses were all good country tracks with Port Fairy the cream on top. The scout camp accom will be hard to top also.
Thanks to Peppas and Benno_r for your shifts driving myself, 3pp and Spud in the venga bus. It was muchly appreciated because "we like to party".
Thanks to 3pp and wbenno for being car buddies. Many laughs were had.
Thanks to everyone for turning up. It is the people that make this trip a cracker.

Congrats to all the winners, mainly Joe. Mate that round on Sunday was a pleasure to watch. It made it even easier to watch knowing where my calcutta money laid. So thanks. Just make sure you come back next year with a much lower handicap to give everyone else a chance to take home some wood.

Pickles, mate I know it is tough sucking over an entire weekend as I can speak from previous experiences. But you did it with a smile and that is all that matters. Come back next year and pass that gnome onto someone else.

Personal highlight of the week was almost holing my tee shot on the short par4 8th at Warrnambool to go 6up in my match against 3pp. How things can change so quickly though as the lowlight came just 3 holes later when I did my back in. I was unable to bunt my way around good enough and lost the match 2down.

I say it every year but if you haven't been to a Vic Champs make it happen. It is the best week of golf you will have all year.

So until next year thanks everyone.

[wazamac]

How was Cobden?

[benno_r]

12 months ago a 4am plan was hatched to bring the Vic Champs to the home of its spiritual leader. Usually drunken 4am plans don't go so well, this one was spot on. This last week was never about playing top 10 courses of the likes of Barney or the sand belt, it was about seeing where Nick grew up playing his golf. Having said that Port Fairy was one of the most fun courses I have played and deserves a rating much higher than it currently holds.

Lefty thanks again for organising another awesome champs. The courses were all good country tracks with Port Fairy the cream on top. The scout camp accom will be hard to top also.
Thanks to Peppas and Benno_r for your shifts driving myself, 3pp and Spud in the venga bus. It was muchly appreciated because "we like to party".
Thanks to 3pp and wbenno for being car buddies. Many laughs were had.
Thanks to everyone for turning up. It is the people that make this trip a cracker.

Congrats to all the winners, mainly Joe. Mate that round on Sunday was a pleasure to watch. It made it even easier to watch knowing where my calcutta money laid. So thanks. Just make sure you come back next year with a much lower handicap to give everyone else a chance to take home some wood.

Pickles, mate I know it is tough sucking over an entire weekend as I can speak from previous experiences. But you did it with a smile and that is all that matters. Come back next year and pass that knome onto someone else.

Personal highlight of the week was almost holing my tee shot on the short par4 8th at Warrnambool to go 6up in my match against 3pp. How things can change so quickly though as the lowlight came just 3 holes later when I did my back in. I was unable to bunt my way around good enough and lost the match 2down.

I say it every year but if you haven't been to a Vic Champs make it happen. It is the best week of golf you will have all year.

So until next year thanks everyone.

Top effort to persevere through a bung back too mate. You played very well considering.

[JoeS]

How was Cobden?

Good country track,best played as a fun track.It had some bite to it,stay out of the trees

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[wazamac]

Good country track,best played as a fun track.It had some bite to it,stay out of the trees

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Cobden is where I learnt to swing like an octopus.
Remember the days of putting $2 in the honesty box and going out all day.

[BUSHY]

How was Cobden?

Was awesome for a chilled out 8ball going around after a long week. Tough in spots but lots of fun.

[BUSHY]

[wazamac]

Was awesome for a chilled out 8ball going around after a long week. Tough in spots but lots of fun.

Remember the day I was putting out on the second green next to the road. Car went straight on and down into the valley on the other side.
With all that commotion going on, I missed the putt.

[Courty]

Some pics here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uaugp2u3m...Exmq8_Cfa?dl=0

[thecollective]

looks like a great road trip guys. Pity you didn't have time to visit Robe GC. They have a number of new holes set along the dunes.

Keen to head down there soon....

[Dotty]

Thanks for great weekend, and a couple of stunning courses.

Balance deposited, plus another $50 for the leftover beer.
(I did some work for a NFP yesterday and tried to give it away, but alcohol is prohibited on their premises. I will polish it off over a few months and the Vic Champs chosen charity can have what would have gone to the grog shop.)

Lefty, get your mum checked out for dementia. That's crazy talk saying that you aren't the best of her sons.

To all attendees, thanks for relaxing time, great memories and those 'little' efforts (Calcutta auctioneer, lifts to/from RSL, scorekeeper, wifi fixer, etc.) that are very much appreciated.

See you all again in 2021.

[BUSHY]

looks like a great road trip guys. Pity you didn't have time to visit Robe GC. They have a number of new holes set along the dunes.

Keen to head down there soon....

Robe was actually thrown up as a pre-champs option after a bit of a planning snafu, just worked out we couldn't get there.

[LeftyHoges]

Robe was actually thrown up as a pre-champs option after a bit of a planning snafu, just worked out we couldn't get there.

Smiling Samoyed Brewery took immediate care of that "plan"...