WIMMERA District Golf Association will send a strong line-up to this year's Golf Victoria country week competition in Melbourne, which starts on Wednesday.
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Top golfers from the region have been selected in the representative team to compete in the third division of country week competition.
The division is also known as the bowl division, while divisions one and two are known as shield and plate respectively.
The competition, which starts on Wednesday and runs until Friday, works in a relegation-promotion format.
Successful teams from lower divisions are promoted to a higher division and the bottom teams in higher divisions move down.
Wimmera narrowly missed promotion to the plate division last year.
It will face Kara Kara in its first match at Patterson River Golf Club on Wednesday at 12.30pm.
Wimmera has matches against Dalhousie and South Western at Cranbourne Golf Club tomorrow and South Gippsland at Peninsula-Kingswood Golf Club on Friday.
Levi Burns, the two-time reigning Horsham Golf Club men's champion, was a standout in last year's Wimmera team and will compete again.
Horsham's Scott Boschen, Casey Schmidt and Matt Jakobi also made the cut.
Other members are Nhill Golf Club's Shane Grover and Trevor Polkinghorne, Serviceton's Brett Whitehead, Edenhope's Ben Campbell and Warracknabeal's Anthony Wilken.
Campbell, Boschen and Schmidt also competed at the individual country championships on Monday and Tuesday.
In the first round on Monday, Campbell posted a score of 79 seven strokes over par and eight strokes behind overall leader Zach Murray of Wodonga.
Boschen shot a first round 80 to end the day eight strokes over par and Schmidt's first round score of 82 put him in equal 55th place in the standings.
Wimmera team manager Brian Thomson said the Wimmera team was in with a chance to be promoted to plate division if it played to its potential.
"The team looks pretty strong this year and we've got a lot of youth," he said.
"We lost in the final match last year, which would have put us up into the next division, so we're looking to sneak up a division this year."
Thomson said the Wimmera side would face stiff competition.
"Dalhousie and South Western have come down from division two last year so they'll be hard to assess until we see a few results," he said.
