Huge entries set down for Wittenoom Cup and Brenda Wittenoom Open at Albany Golf Club

Capacity fields will contest the 2023 Wittenoom Cup and Brenda Wittenoom Open at the Albany Golf Club this weekend.

A total of 245 players are set to hit the course in the 36-hole stroke competition, including defending champions Terry Porter and Marilyn Vanderbyl, on the Albany Links course.

Perth golfer Porter took out top honours in last year’s Wittenoom Cup and he will be out to achieve back-to-back Wittenoom Cup titles against a field of 164 men, an increase of seven players from last year.

A strong contingent of 81 women will vie for the Brenda Wittenoom Open that was first held in 2003 in honour of Brenda Wittenoom, a popular volunteer who was awarded AGC life membership in 1981.

The Wittenoom Cup is rich in history with the first competition taking place in 1927. It is named after Charles Wittenoom, a former AGC President.

The men and women’s events are run in conjunction with each other every year as the Albany Golf Club’s major annual competition.

Albany golfer Vanderbyl will be out to win on her home golf course for the second year running.

Vanderbyl finished with an overall score of 143 last year, defeating Cottesloe member Joy Davis by two strokes.

The two marquee events cap a busy nine-day golf carnival at the course, as players in their droves travel from around WA to take part in one of the State’s major regional golf events.

Albany Golf Club general manager Dan Northcott said the winner is always hard to predict.

“It’s always a pretty open event, everyone is in it to win it,” he said.

“It’s pretty much the same as last year — it is full with fields at capacity and we’re looking forward to it.”