The ANZ Landmark Charity Golf Day raised in excess of $40,000 for Variety, the Children’s Charity and $20,000 for the Jane McGrath Foundation.

Former Australian cricketers Glenn McGrath, Mark Taylor and Peter Taylor and former Wallaby Matt Burke participated in the annual event.

The event has solely been a fundraiser for Variety, the Children’s Charity, in the past but in 2009 money was raised for the Jane McGrath Foundation because of McGrath’s attendance and the first anniversary of his wife’s death from breast cancer was on Monday.

To start Tuesday’s proceedings the celebrities, Moree Golf Club professional Matt McGuire, golfer Robert Wharram and Golf Cart girls Georgia Colley, Annabelle Cosh and Kirsty Hartog were auctioned to the teams.

After the auction, Variety Bash director Stuart Telfer presented a Liberty Swing to Moree Plains Shire Mayor Katrina Humphries.

The golf itself was a four person ambrose competition, which was won by the Golfing Goddesses and their auction purchase Wharram, with the Pink Ladies and McGuire finishing second.

The golf was not conventional, on one of the three novelty holes, players teed off left handed, with a cricket bat, using a hockey stick, on their knees or blindfolded.

The Variety Bash will run from August 16 to 26 and feature the Moree team of Lee Estens, Barbara Glennie, Joy Holmes and Tricia Siddons.