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January 2025 update

The draw having been made in London at the East India Club, Whitgift will play Radley in the first round of the Halford Hewitt, at Royal St George’s on Thursday 10th April, starting at 9.30am. The full draw can be seen at https://www.halfordhewitt.org/2025-halford-hewitt-drawsheet/ ; probably the tie of the round sees multiple winners Epsom and Tonbridge […]

September/December 2024 report

Grafton 1st round result – Malvern 2 1/2; Whitgift 1/2 North Norfolk can be the most pleasant of places, even if a little hard to reach. The sun can shine; the sea can sparkle; the birds can sing, and the coastline can be spectacularly beautiful. Or not. Friday morning began – for your correspondent – […]

July/August 2024 report

A rare sunny day, for the most part, saw us turn up in reasonable numbers to Hever Castle GC – or at least try to turn up. We had been warned beforehand that there would be roadworks outside the club, but they proved a little more expansive than had been expected, to the extent that […]

Cyril Gray 2024 report

The winning Whitgift team, with trophy – Nic Gates, Richard Gibson, Martin Hayes, Nick Edwards, Jonny Ufton, Neill Williams CYRIL GRAY 2024 – a tournament win for Whitgift The Cyril Gray is a scratch foursomes competition played every year at Worplesdon, and contested by 32 of the 64 Halford Hewitt schools; it is limited to […]

May/June 2024 report

Alan Scovell’s Captain’s Day was held at Purley Downs (Purley Ups and Downs to the less fit amongst us) in early May. A reasonable turnout, no doubt inspired by the prospect of more Fortnum & Mason biscuits amongst the prizes, took to the course on a warm and sunny day – quite a change from […]

Thompson Tankards and Halford Hewitt blog 2024

The Whitgift flag flies at Deal in preparation for the centenary competition which starts on Thursday  (cover). And this is where it starts. The first round today (Thursday) v Shrewsbury at 11.30. Yesterday was Peter Kenyon Bowl and the society’s internal foursomes competition, the Thompson Tankards, at Prince’s. And 55 years after he last won […]

March/April 2024 report

Tandridge GC hosted our AGM and very enjoyable annual dinner, with some team golf beforehand. The evening activity was joined by some 30 people, about half of whom ventured on to the golf course. The AGM itself saw Mark Chatham appointed vice captain, and Laurie Evans and Martin Hayes both elected to the committee. Mark […]

January/February 2024 report

12 OWs joined nearly 800 others at a black-tie dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane to celebrate 100 years since the Halford Hewitt was first played. All 64 ‘Hewitt schools’ were represented, plus several guests, some of them representing the various courses on which the Hewitt has been played over the years. The […]

September/December 2023 report

The late summer hot spell may have been winding towards its end when we visited Piltdown but it was still very good weather and, much as at Royal Ashdown the previous month, the heather was in fine shape! It all goes to show that a good golf course doesn’t need bunkers to make it challenging […]

July/August 2023 report

Our August open meeting was the Hornsey-Walker Cup, looking resplendent having been polished and with the base now firmly fixed to the cup by 2022 winner Andrew Winterbotham. The cup was first presented in 1927 and so it is approaching its centenary; we shall have to plan an appropriate celebration. The fixture was held at Royal […]