By Michael Davis
Kitty McEwan, believed to be the primary girl to jot down about sport in Australia, was inducted into the Victorian Golf Corridor of Fame because the trade got here collectively at Huntingdale Golf Membership for its annual celebration of the sport on the Victorian Golf Trade Awards Dinner.
A proficient sportswoman with a selected curiosity in golf, Kathleen ‘Kitty’ McEwan was a member at a number of golf equipment, together with Barwon Heads, Riversdale, the place she was membership champion in 1933 and Commonwealth, the place she was the inaugural ladies’s membership champion in 1926. She was additionally Girls’s Captain.
McEwan began protecting golf for The Radiator in 1937 after which the Solar Information Pictorial in 1938, which she continued – with a break for warfare service within the Land Military – till she retired in 1966.
A scholar at Ormiston Girls School, she was instrumental in organising what was initially referred to as the Desk Speak Cup, an interschool problem occasion between groups from non-public ladies’ faculties and named after the journal which sponsored it.
This later grew to become The Solar Cup, named after The Solar Information-Pictorial for whom she labored. McEwan grew to become secretary of this occasion between 1929 and 1947. That occasion is now identified merely because the Girls’s Interschool Problem Cup and has all through its historical past raised some huge cash for charity.
Other than her warfare service, she lobbied strongly for improved circumstances for ladies within the office and for ladies’s sport to obtain press protection.
She had a spread of pursuits and involvement in a number of outstanding teams.
Amongst different issues, she McEwan is remembered by the Kitty McEwan Trophy at Barwon Heads and by the Vic Sport’s Kitty McEwan Award for the Victorian Feminine Athlete of the Yr.
Kitty was a robust affect on feminine journalists like Peg McMahon and Di Gatehouse, pioneers in writing about ladies’s sport usually and golf, particularly, forThe Age and Herald-Solar newspapers in Melbourne.
McEwan was certainly one of two new inductees alongside the favored and well-known newbie golf official, Richard Kirby, a former Victorian Golf Affiliation President who acquired an Order of Australia within the King’s Birthday Honours.
Kirby was honoured for service to golf, which included 5 years as President of the VGA from 2002-2007, a protracted affiliation with the Golf Society of Australia and the Spring Valley Golf Membership in Melbourne.
Different award winners have been:
PGA Awards:
• 2023 Membership Skilled of the Yr: Michael Moore, Rossdale Golf Membership
• 2023 Coach of the Yr – Excessive Efficiency: Brandon Rave, Metropolitan Golf Membership.
• 2023 Coach of the Yr – Sport Growth: Kim Collett, Settlers Run Golf and Nation Membership.
• 2023 Administration Skilled of the Yr: Sienna Voglis, Barham Golf Membership.
• 2023 Legends Professional-Am of the Yr: Gardiners Run Golf Course.
• 2023 Regional Professional-Am of the Yr: Gippsland BMW Warragul Professional-Am.
• 2023 Metropolitan Professional-Am of the Yr: Peninsula Sotheby’s Portsea Celeb Professional-Am.
• Corridor of Fame Inductees: Kathleen McEwan and Richard Kirby
Golf Australia (Victoria) Awards:
• Volunteer of the Yr: Allen Gilgen, Commonwealth Golf Membership.
• Inclusion Initiative of the Yr Award: Crimson Cliffs Golf Membership.
• Victorian Golf Membership or Facility of the Yr: thirteenth Seaside Golf Membership.
• Victorian Novice Gamers of 2023: Jazy Roberts and Jasper Stubbs.
Golf Administration Victoria Awards:
• Golf Administration Victoria Worker of the Yr Award: Max Oliver – Golf Operations – The Dunes Golf Hyperlinks.
• Golf Administration Victoria … Excellence in Administration Award: Anthony Masters – Normal Supervisor – Barwon Heads Golf Membership.
VGCSA Awards Superintendents’ Recognition Award
Kyle Wilson, Moonah Hyperlinks Golf Resort.
