NSW Veteran Golfers - Group Secretaries

NSWVGA Group Secretaries

In the early to mid1990s Veteran Groups were formed around NSW to improve communication and so further veteran golf. What follows is the history of Group Secretaries, who have done so much over the years to cater for the needs of veteran golfers in the state.

Group 1 Far South Coast

Dennis Hazell	1995	Keith Turnor	1996 – 1997	Alec Flack	1998 – 2007
Dennis Connell	2008 – 2009	Mike Newell	2010 – 2016	Max Gee	2017 – 2018
Group disbanded in 2019 – re-formed in 2021		Peter Burgess	2021 –

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Group 2 Mid-South Coast

Keith Gray	1995 – 1999	Neville Mallory	2000 – 2002	John Buttle	2003 – 2017	Alan Neems	2018
David Davies	2019	David Childs	2020	John Tudor	2021 –

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Group 3 Illawarra

Doug Matthews	1995 – 2001	Trevor Bell	2002 – 2010	John Ebrill	2011 – 2015
Chris Goodwin	2016 – 2018	Steve Wicks	2019 –

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Group 4 Sydney

Bill Sidwell	1995 – 2000	Neil Fryer	2001 – 2010	Ron Bergin	2011 – 2013
John Spencer	2014 – 2016	Lee Owens	2017 – 2020	Rob Bannon	2021 – 2022
Richard W Montgomery	2023 –

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Group 5 Metropolitan

Bob Coulson	1996 – 1999	John Neville	2000 – 2005	Rex Tate	2006
Bob Williams	2007 – 2011	John Nolan	2012 – 2016	Group disbanded in 2017

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Group 6 Brisbane Waters

Cliff Cullen	1995 – 1999	Barry Matheson	2000 – 2002	Paul Barker	2003 – 2005
Len Payne	2006 – 2011	Geoffrey Bakon	2012 – 2014	David Williamson	2015 – 2016
Gary Smith	2017	Les Matheson	2018 – 2020	Peter Crowder	2020 – 2024
Jill Lavery	2025

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Group 7 Newcastle

Angus Cook	1995 – 2002	Max Bramble	2003 – 2014	John Douglas	2015 – 2017
Peter Lawrence	2018 –

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Group 8 Hunter River

David Hamer	2000 – 2002	John Stein	2003	Les Hart	2004
Keith Corcoran	2005 – 2014	David Peel	2015 – 2020	Lee Hunt	2021 –

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Group 9 Port Stephens

Jack Pittard	1997 – 2002	Terry Cook	2003 – 2019	David Flatt	2020 –

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Group 10 Myall Coast

Brian Silverside	1996 – 1999	Geoff Fowler	2000 – 2002	Gary Wynne	2003 – 2010
Eric O’Driscoll	2011 – 2012	Bob Macklinshaw	2013 – 2014	Peter See	2015 – 2020
Paul McLean	2021	Peter Buttrey	2022 –

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Group 11 Manning Valley

Carl Myers	1995 – 2001	Keith Gibbs	2002 – 2018	Peter Stephenson	2019 –

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Group 12 Lower North Coast

John Whitt	1995	Eddie Boots	1996 – 2008	Neil Beecroft	2009 – 2011
Greg Christie	2012 – 2020	Steve Trott	2021 – 2023	Ross Bird	2024
Craig Keen	2025 –

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Group 13 Mid North Coast

Col Inglis	1995	Jack Walsh	1996 – 1997	Col Inglis	1998 – 2000
Floyd Ballard	2001 – 2003	Sudir Ghosh	2004 – 2006	Cliff Webeck	2007 – 2013
Lionel Goodacre	2014	Frank Wiley	2015 – 2016	John Plummer	2017 – 2019
Frank Stanton	2020 – 2022	Geoffrey Knight	2023 –

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Group 14 Northern Rivers

Reg Manning	1995 – 2004/5	Alan Young	2004/5 – 2012	Kel Pearce	2013
Ray Kent	2014 –

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Group 15 New England

Doug Johnstone	1995	Dick Keatinge	1996 – 1998	Terry Crofts	1999 – 2000
Harold Green	2001 – 2002	Gary Coote	2003 – 2005	John Shannon	2006
Les Sinclair	2007 – 2009	Jim Shadlow	2010 – 2020	Greg Constantine	2021 –

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Group 16 Central North

Jim Ruge	1995	Brian Yates	1996 – 1997	Neville Easy	1998 – 2001
Doug Harbison	2002 – 2005	Tony Ball	2006 – 2013	Bob Atchison	2014 –

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Group 17 Upper Hunter

Brian Collins	1995	Peter Marshal	1996 – 2001	Len Prowse	2002 – 2003
Graham Guest	2004 – 2024	Bruce Robinson	2024 –

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Group 18 Mudgee District

David Lester	1995 – 2003	Brian Insull	2004	David McLean	2005 – 2007
Geoff Dove	2008 – 2013	John Farkas	2014 – 2018	Doug Cook	2019 –

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Group 19 Blue Mountains

John Dulihanty	1995 – 2001	Paul Horton	2002 – 2010	Mike Zikan	2011 – 2015
David Hicks	2016	Richard Ledden-Cooper	2017 – 2018	Tom Hickey	2019 – 2021
Mark Seckold	2022 – 2023	Brian Giblett	2024 –

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Group 20 Nepean

Henry Fawkes

1995 – 2009

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At the end of 2009 Group 35 (Western Sydney) combined with Group 20 (Nepean) to form a new combined Group 20 (Western Sydney)

Group 20 Western Sydney

Stuart Rooke	2010	Chris Evans	2011 – 2019	Judy Jordan	2020 –

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Group 21 Southern Highlands

Harry Wilsher	1996 – 1999	Gary Peace	2000 – 2001	David O’Halloran	2002 – 2003
Len Ristuccio	2004 – 2005	David O’Halloran	2006 – 2008	Ray Dunn	2009 – 2013
Brian Graham	2014 – 2018	Andrew Finlaison	2019 – 2020	Mike Bolton	2021 – 2022
Terry Flint	2023 –

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Group 22 Central West

Bruce Burke	1995 – 1999	Ron Simmons	2000 – 2011	Brian Wright	2012 – 2013
Bob Pardy	2014 – 2018	Manuel Pro	2019 –

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Group 23 South Western

Maurice Penson	1995 – 1999	Peter Russell	2000 – 2002	Tony Nuss	2002 – 2004
Bill Kearney	2005 – 2007	Don Martin	2008 – 2010	Bill Kearney	2011
Kevin Jacobsen	2012 – 2013	Jim Wright	2014 – 2015	Ian Watson	2016 – 2017
David Steinbeck	2018 -2020	Garry Mason	2021	Lyal Twyford	2022 –

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Group 24 Holbrook District

Ron Harris

1995

Leo Mackinlay

2000 – 2017

Vic Durbage

2018

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In 2019 Group 24 merged with Group 23

Group 25 Murray River

Kevin White	1995 – 2004	Graham Andrew	2005 – 2011	Alan Nicol	2012 – 2016
Peter Moffat	2017	Don Stuart	2018	Geoff Lawrence	2019 – 2022
Rick Jamieson	2023 –

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Group 26 Southern Riverina

Ern Verity	1995 – 1998	Norm McCol	1999 – 2002	Doug Wastle	2003 – 2015
Rand Wilson	2016 –

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Group 27 Western Riverina

Noel Carrol	1996 – 2002	Gerry Cox	2003 – 2006	Dennis Moran	2007 – 2015
Dick Van Buuren	2016 – 2020	Maree Ciavarella	2021 –

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Group 28 Lachlan Valley

Bob Parsons	1995 – 2001	Ray Wyatt	2002 – 2007	Beryl Roberts	2008 –

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Group 29 Western Districts

Ken Jacques	1995	Frank Murphy	1996 – 2004	John Dixon	2005 – 2010
Geoff Smith	2011 – 2020	Ash Bullock	2021 –

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Group 30 North West

Mike Kelly	1996 – 2003	Trevor Humphries	2004 – 2005	Peter Gough	2006 – 2019
Howard Meppem	2020 –

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Group 31 Macarthur

Bill Williams	2000 – 2003	Bryan Chrystal	2004 – 2017	Norm McInnes	2018 –

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Group 32 Albury & District

Fred Chapman	2006	John Dobson	2007	Don Ross	2008 – 2009
Max Mueller	2010 – 2011	Ivan Lane	2012 – 2013	Bill Spears	2014 – 2016

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Group 32 disbanded at the end of 2016.

Group 33 Far West Broken Hill

Stan Goodman	2006 – 2010	Dudley Hanigan	2011 – 2020	Barry Jackaman	2021 –

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Group 34 Grafton & District

Graham Forman	2006 – 2008	Jim McDougal	2009	Graham Forman	2010
John Kliendienst	2011 – 2013	Matthew Tully	2014 – 2015

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Group 34 disbanded in 2015 and joined Group 14