The Northcliffe squadron left at dawn. Their mission? To conquer the Press Golfing Society in the annual skirmish. Their target? The wonderful Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire, close to the home of the legendary Dam Busters squadron. Ably led by Group Captain Vyvyan “Guy Gibson” Harmsworth and Flight Lieutenant Garth “Barnes Wallis” Burden, 14 brave chaps from the Northcliffe's "Bomber [...]
The Society’s “Golfer of the Year”, Roland Agambar, rolled over his good form from last season when comfortably winning the Burton Challenge Cup at our first fixture of 2017 held at The Grove. His 36pts were three points clear of runner-up Ian McIlgorm who was one point clear of new Society member Gordon Thomson. Roland was cut two [...]
It was party time for the “Par-Tee Boys” at the christmas Scramble as they celebrated winning the last fixture of the year, aided by an long chip-in from well off the green by Captain Arsan Aryanpour from Mailbrands. Having been postponed for two weeks from the scheduled fixture because of torrential rain that had, unusually, flooded the [...]
The “Order of Merit” play-off final for the Iain Walker trophy for “Golfer of the Year”, was won at Frilford Heath by Roland Agambar, who beat Barry Theobald, Ian McGowan and Mike Creaby. The final of the “Match Play” knock-out competition at The Grove for the Cousins Bowl was won by Keith Cottington who beat Phil Barber in [...]
There was a first time winner at the West Hill fixture when Martin Morgan came home an easy winner of the The Rothermere Challenge Cup. His 38 pts was well clear of runner-up Clive Heard who beat Lee Terry into third place only on countback who, in turn, beat Ian McGowan on countback. All three [...]
The Northcliffe joined forces with the Press Golfing Society for a challenge match against the On Course Foundation golfers who were flying out to Oakhill in the USA for their “Ryder Cup” golf match against American colleagues. John Simpson, former IMG executive and founder of the charity that supports the recovery of injured service personnel and [...]
Our first "Back to Back" fixtures with the North Foreland match on Sunday followed the next day by Royal Cinque Ports proved to be a great success, particularly for last year’s winner at Deal, Will Flint, who made it a double by winning for the second year running, but this time only just on countback. With blue skies [...]
A change of format may have been the undoing for the Northcliffe in the annual match against North Foreland. Traditionally the match has been played in Canadian foursomes format but this year 4xball better ball was tried. The result speaks for itself with the Club winning by their biggest margin, although all matches were only decided [...]
Kerrel Wills left his home in the Midlands before dawn to drive down to the Northwood fixture as it is one of his favourite courses and he showed why when he scored 36pts to win the Tom Marlowe Trophy, just beating Mike Creaby’s 35pts. Trying to beat par around Northwood proved just how tough the [...]
Nothing separated this year’s joint winners in the Inter-Company golf tournament held in sunny Portugal. Having “won” the infamous “Wooden Spoon” two years ago and then sharing the Viscount Rothermere Trophy with dmg-media last year in Hardelot as join winners, Metro were determined that this was going to be their year on their own. But, just [...]
