Dear fellow OW golfers It gives me enormous pleasure to tell you that Winchester are the proud winners of the 2018 Halford Hewitt Cup. Now thereÕs a sentence that I expect many of you never anticipated reading.Ê But the team of ten outstanding Old Wkyehamist golfers won this most prestigious tournament through talent, preparation and determination. For those of you…
Last weekend Tom competed at The Frame Trophy; held at Worplesdon each yearÊ-Ênamed after the legendary David Frame).Ê It is the only over 50 Open Competition (most senior events being over 55). Despite having the yips in the first round and missing 5 short putts (the shortest was about 1ft) and having a triple bogey at the second hole in…
All, I hope this finds you well – trying to enjoy some fine British Summer golfing weather. We are short of players for the following matches – please see if you can play and make yourself available: 1. OWGS vs. Royal St. George’s at Sandwich -ÊSaturday 23rd July. There is also an optionalÊdinner afterwards. 1 player required. Please contact Ben…
Quite remarkable that our very own OW golfer is now ranked 56 in the World in terms of Amateur Golfers… http://www.wagr.com/en/Ranking/Player.aspx?playerid=23325&ismens=True the highlight being a recent 3rd placed finish in the Gut Bissenmoor Classic where he started with a 6 under par 65. ÊÊhttp://www.pga.de/epd_en_news/items/claudio-consul-against-the-pros.html I am sure we all wish him fantastic success over the next few months…
OWGS Vs. Notts Golf Club, Hollinwell Summer finally arrived in the midlands to greet a select band of OWGS golfers to Hollinwell on Saturday, and the second match against the club provided a course in immaculate condition, company all in good form, and a result which went someway to avenging the golf lesson provided to us back in November. OWGS…
Match Manager, Toby Stubbs, writes… Whilst I donÕt expect you to emulate the extraordinary feats of Mr Stenson at Troon, I do hope that you may be able to join the OW team to take on the Old Etonians at another fabulous links course. I am trying to raise a team of ten for two rounds of foursomes at Rye…
With the matches coming think and fast… a double match report! OWGS v Bradfield at Sunningdale On a surprisingly mild Sunday morning, some of OWs finest turned out at one of the UK’s finest to take on a Bradfield side bristling with super stars and big hitters. The challenge was beefed up, playing off the back tees of the New…
A beautiful spring morning saw OWGS get off to a flying start in the morning with steady golf from Nyren Scott-Malden and Andrew Brownrigg. They were followed in by the canny senior pairing of Val Powell and Christopher Cornell. Huntercombe fought back to gain a point against Parkinson and Cruikshank, whereupon the fourth match came to an end with Simon…
To those of you that don’t subscribe, I can whole heartedly recommend Golf Quarterly as a fine addition to your golf journal collection. Aimed more at the more genteel side of the golfing world, it is amusing and often features tales, anecdotes, quizzes and profiles that are often very close to home. So much so, that there is a decent…
All, George Close-Brooks currently has 33 signed up for the Summer meeting at the Berkshire next Friday 6th July. If you would like to play then please let him know asap. gclosebrooks@icloud.com Format is 18 or 36 holes. Play your own ball or play foursomes, choose your partners or be matched upÉ lunchÉ etc As part of the Summer meeting…