Our last outing of the season, as it turned out, was at Royal Ashdown on a very pleasant September day. 26 members and guests turned up to play for the Autumn Cup, on Ashdown’s West course, which measures a meagre 5,559 yards off the white tees and has no sand bunkers, but provides a true […]
The society finally got started in mid-July at the President’s Meeting. This was held at Kingswood, our President’s (Pip Burley’s) club – or more accurately, one of them – and the weather was perfect; warm but not unpleasantly so, and just right for a Covid-compliant gathering on the club’s terrace after the golf! 31 players […]
There is very little to report on for the last quarter, for reasons that will be evident to all. We are however fortunate in that golf, at least, has been permitted for the last few weeks, albeit with some unusual playing conditions and constraints. The different methods that golf clubs have adopted to prevent the […]
The news is of course dominated by Covid-19 and understandably so. For the moment, we are in lockdown and the authorities hit the ‘pause button’ just when the golf season was about to begin in earnest. In particular, one of the casualties has been the Halford Hewitt, the 64-school event which has the highest profile […]
With some trepidation, given current weather patterns, over twenty society golfers will set off for Deal on the Kent coast to contest the 2020 Scratch Cup on March 1st. In part at least, this serves as a trial for the Halford Hewitt team, and so it is limited to the best, and no doubt hardiest, […]
Readers will appreciate that this is the close season for the golf society, but planning is well underway for 2020. As reported in the last edition, 16th June 2020 marks exactly 100 years since the society’s first meeting after WW1, and we will be holding a centenary meeting to celebrate. Largely for logistical reasons, we […]
