Intrepid Golfers Brave Melbourne Rain for ASGA Golf Day
It wasn’t the ideal day for a round of golf, but the inclement Melbourne weather on Wednesday 4 October didn’t deter a record number of sign industry professionals from turning out for a fun day of Ambrose golf competition at the Sandhurst Golf Club.
More than 90 golfers tee’d off under threatening skies, representing companies including Spicers, Visual Exposure, IVE Group, Kwik Kopy, Roland, Peak Install, Empire Signs, Sign & Badge Solutions, SignManager, iSigns, Signarama, Hexis, Bentleigh Signs, Lettertech, Ball & Doggett, Forma Sign and SMIB.
The Spicers Team including Wayne Hood, Scott Houthton, Paul Tempest, Matt Hogg and Shane Britten took out the main honours on the day with an overall score of 54. They were closely followed by Team Graphic Art Mart, led by Matthew Christie with Warwick Mariluch, David Gardner, Daniel Ewington and Joel Tan with 55.875. A swag of other awards were made, including Nearest the Pin , Long Drive, Lucky Team and the tricky Survival Ball.
Spicers was principal sponsor of the event, while Graphic Art Mart provided drinks and the on-course drinks cart. SMIB sponsored drinks at lunch, along with some of the novelty hole prizes, where they were joined in sponsorship by Ball & Doggett, BounceLED, Letter Tech, Amari Visual Solutions, General Formulations, Hexis, HVG Graphics Media, ORAFOL, Shann DPM, Signarama and Visual Technologies.
Prizes were presented at a gourmet BBQ lunch, where the teams enjoyed an opportunity to network with the entire group after what was a chilly, but enjoyable, 18 holes.
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- Team Graphic Art Mart
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- Spicers & Visual Exposure (ASGA President Mick Harrold on the right)
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- Team Spicers & IVE Group braved the rainy conditions
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- Team Kwik Kopy, ready for action.
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- Kwik Kopy Williams Street team included ASGA’s Michael Punch.
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- “No worries – all we need is a positive attitude,” says ASGA Vice President, Damien Nielsen.
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- How many can get under a buggy canopy, ask Team Roland.
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- Nice weather for ducks…
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- Banding together to form a composite team are Peak Installations, Empire Signs and Sign & Badge Solutions.
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- Team Signmaker & iSigns
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- Team Signarama
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- Team Hexis with Bentleigh Signs
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- Team Hexis
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- Team Letter Tech
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- Team Ball & Doggett
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- Team Spicers & Forma Sign
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- Team SMIB
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- Tim Cogger won the Straight Drive on Hole 1 – here he is presented with his prize by Scott Houghton from Spicers.
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- Michael Gallagher took out NTP for the second shot on Hole 4, and here he receives his award from Matt Fitzpatrick from sponsor Signarama.
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- NTP for the second shot on Hole 9 was taken out by Gerard Hudford. The prize was presented by Ian Parsonson from sponsor Hexis.
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- Ben Morris won NTP for Hole 14 sponsored by Shann Group and presented by Jack Matherson.
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- Mick Harrold from sponsor Visual Technologies (L) presented the prize for NTP for Hole 17 to Matt Christie.
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- Dean Arthur got NTP on his second shot on Hole 18, and was presented with his prize by Scott Houghton from Spicers.
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- Orafol sponsored NTP for the 3rd shot on Hole 12, and Russell Murphy presented the prize to Callan Laughton from InSigns.
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- A double winner – Ben Morris of Peak Installations won the Long Drive on Hole 5 – here, he receives his award from Ian Parsonson from sponsor Hexis
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- NTP Par 3 on Hole 6 was taken out by Nick Sear of SMIB, with the award presented by Jason Rewse from Halifax Vogel Group.
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- Scott Houghton from Spicers – winner of the NTP Par 3 Hole 8 sponsored by General Formulations.
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- Jack Matherson from Shann Group won NTP on Par 3 Hole 11 – Scott Smith from Ball & Doggett presented the sponsor prize.
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- Jarrod Whyte from the Shann Group is presented with a set of clubs as his prize for NTP Par 3 on Hole 16 by Andrew Sear from SMIB.
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- Bounce LED / Letter Tech presented Scott Houghton from Spicer with the Long Drive on Hole 10.
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- Peter Rigby from Aaron Signs won the Lucky Membership Draw, winning a year’s membership of ASGA – welcome Peter!
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- Mick Harrold congratulates the Survival Ball winner.
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- Runners up were Warwick Mariluch, David Gardner, Daniel Ewington and Joel Tan from Graphic Art Mart.
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- Winners are grinners – Team Spicers took out the main honours on the day.