After a couple of tricky years, I am delighted to report on a “return to normal” for OWGS in 2022. An ever burgeoning fixture list saw more OW golfers than ever in action for the Society. While the elite teams were not quite back to their imperious bests, the enjoyment of social golf and conviviality/camaraderie around matches certainly were. Fuller…
Welcome to the first OWGS newsletter of 2022! Spring (and Cheltenham) is here and hopefully you have had an opportunity to get onto the golf course. Here a few match reports to bring you up to speed with the OWGS in Spring OWGS Survey We have a survey which I would be grateful for you to complete… 3 or 4…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…