The Wintersun Legend.
For more than 20 years, The Wintersun Carnival has been offering veteran golfers holidaying in North Queensland the opportunity to experience the Mackay-Whitsunday region and join with local golfers to play the local courses of which we are justifiably proud.
Story on the 2025 Wintersun Carnival
The Wintersun Carnival for 2025 has seen some significant changes to the competition formats for Proserpine and Mackay.
Due to declining player numbers year after year the Proserpine and Mackay organizing committees conducted a review to consider what changes could be made to satisfy the needs of the competitors. It was revealed that we were spending a large sum of money on prizes for the 72 hole championship with less than half of the players competing in this event and the feedback from the majority of competitors was that they preferred a Stableford format. It was agreed to discontinue the 72 hole event and run separate events at Proserpine and Mackay consisting of 36 hole and 18 hole Stableford events, Sarina and Pioneer Valley remained the same as they were already playing this format. It is pleasing to see that we have had a significant increase in numbers across all four venues.
Mackay also introduced a $10,000 hole in one prize and made the presentation dinner an optional payment. The result we have is an increase in player numbers from 120 in 2024 to 174 in 2025.
The 36 hole Championship in Proserpine saw the players enjoy ideal weather and course conditions for the two days of play. The 36 hole ladies champion with 77 points was Sharon Ischenko from Yeppoon and the 36 hole mens champion with 71 points was John Strelec from Proserpine.
Click on the following to view overall results.