golf - Jules Akel

130 w e l l i ng ton y e a r b oo k 2 0 07 − 2 0 0 8w e l l i ng ton y e a r b oo k 2 0 07 − 2 0 0 8 131is getting enough Sundays in the year as teams arequeueing up to play on our excellent wickets. Thanksalso to Steve Blosse, Phil Stockwell, Brian Wilsonand Chris Potter for all their support and patience.gol fEnjoy the winter and if you would like to play for theowcc in 2009, please contact Sam Streatfeild [C 1993–1998] on 07 818 437 514 or sam.streatfeild@gmail.complayed and 29 attended the dinner and agm in the evening.The weather was good and Richard Eggleshaw won theO’Brien Trophy with a score of 70 (net 66 against a parof 68 and a standard scratch of 71). There were someother strong contenders with James Holland, RoryStradling and Mike Gowar all scoring 75. The Captain’sShield was won by Richard Eggleshaw with 38 points andthe Birkmyre Trophy by Nicholas Hurst with 31 points.The Birkmyre Card (scratch prize for those over 50 yearsold) was won by Simon Pettigrew. The Wooden Spoonwas won by Angus Gordon. The Captain’s Tankards werewon by Mike Gowar and Richard Eggleshaw with a scoreof 34 points. On the Sunday, James Holland won the GuyDocker Trophy, Richard Eggleshaw the Walter Greenwayand Richard Eggleshaw won the Dutton trophy for thethree rounds of foursomes on Saturday and Sunday.The 2007 Autumn Meeting, held at Liphook at theend of September, was a great success. Jon Douglas wasthe winner of the Needham Trophy with a score of 71level par, with James Holland close behind on 72. TheRoberts Wilson Cup was won by Jon Douglas with 39point and James Holland close behind again with 37 points.Richard Hardingham won the John Booty 50+ ScratchPrize with 80. James Holland won the Board ChallengeCup (combined Spring and Autumn) with 75 points and theAllom Trophy was won by Patrick Power with 32 points.The Leese Challenge Cups were won by Mike Power andTony Collett with 38 points.We are delighted to welcome quite a number of newmembers, especially those who are under 25 and who havefound out the fun of Old Wellingtonian golf. The owgs isflourishing. Patrick Power became Captain on 1st Januarythis year—a popular choice and he was warmly welcomedby all those present at the Spring Meeting Annual Dinner—no doubt helped by the quality and quantity of the port heprovided. I know the Hon. Secretary much appreciatedthis despite his slowness on the following morning.Of course, the very final word has to be concerningthose ows who play golf and are not members of the owgs.Join the owgs and find out what all the members knowalready; it’s great fun whatever your skill level is. John Goodeve-Docker (Secretary). Telephone and fax: 020 8740 0686;mobile: 07710 781961; email: jgdocker@btinternet.com2008 Quarter-finalists in the Halford Hewitt CupBack row: J.A. Holland, A.T. Gowar, P.J. Power, R.W. Eggleshaw, E.M. Barry-Walsh, J.J. Douglas, C.E. Richardson, C.R.A. Rowse.Front row: J.A.D. Wyke, C.B. Manson, M.J. Power, T.D.G. Warrillow, J.I. HarperThe Golf Society’s report this year is split into own personal detriment ! It was also good to note that2 halves—the serious Golf Competitions and the team’s average age was in the mid-20s and our oldestthe more sociable meetings and matches. player was only 38. This, and the number of good, youngThe serious competitions are the Halford Hewitt, the 3Bernard Darwin competitions and the Grafton Morrish.We also take part in an invitation trophy atWoking—The Alba Trophy.golfers coming through College in the next few years,bodes well for future success.We qualified well for the Grafton Morrishbut unfortunately lost in the first round toThis year we had a much better run inStowe. Our team was James Harper, Basthe Halford Hewitt, getting through to thequarter-finals. We beat Oundle, Loretto andWatsons—last year’s winners—until we metTonbridge in the quarter-finals. However thiswas a great improvement on previous years,especially bearing in mind the quality of ouropponents. One of our opponents was IainHenderson, playing in Oundle’s top pair, andJames Holland in fine formGowar, James Holland, Richard Eggleshaw,Jon Douglas and Hugo De Pree.In the Bernard Darwin we lost in the firstround and our team was Nigel Hurst-Brown,David Frame, Ian Boyd, John Churchill, AlexAldrich-Blake and Anthony Penna. We fareda bit better in the Senior Bernard Darwin andhad a creditable result in the Veteran Bernardhe had mixed feelings about our first round success againstthem as he was delighted to see so many of the boys whomhe had encouraged at College playing so well, even to hisDarwin, with David Stirling playing a tremendous part justa couple of weeks before his very sad death.At the 2008 Spring Meeting at Rye, 34 membershis year has seen another strong year for theTowrc. It has seen the return of Tim Cockroft[A 1980–1985] to the game after a bit of timeout to focus on his new job. He re-entered the gamein spectacular fashion by winning the British AmateurDoubles championship at the Queen’s Club. The sad thingwas that he partnered a Harrovian (nobody is perfect) !He continues to work hard on the game and narrowlymissed out on a challenge match for the World Doublestitle. Many congratulations for his efforts this season andwe wish him all the best next year and are happy that wewill have a contending Noel Bruce pair this year.Talking of the Noel Bruce Cup we had a slightlydepleted showing this year only fielding two pairs. Theyoungest pair of Rod Shepherd [Bn] and James Fuller [Bn]are certainly an upcoming pairing. Sadly they were denieda visit to the second round this year by suffering defeat tothe old hand of Howard Angus in the Winchester pair. Alearning curve it was and they will come out fighting nextyear. The other pair of James Coyne [O—when it wasa boys House !] and Mark Penna [Hl] did a little betterr ac k e t sby reaching the quarter-finals where they faced eventualwinner Harrow. They put up a good fight and nearly wonthe first game against the current World Champion ! Afterthat though they somewhat lost their way and went out3-0 (17/18, 10/15, 10/15). We hold high hopes for a strongow representation in the event next year.Congratulations again to James Coyne who retainedhis u24 Open singles Crown last season. He beat AlexColdicott of Cheltenham College again in the final. Thisyear it was slightly more convincing. Despite losing thefirst game 15/5 it was one way traffic and he sealed thematch 3-1 (5/15, 15/0, 15/3, 15/1).The ow pairing of James Coyne and Mark Penna alsoretained the Milne Hue-Williams cup for the fourth yearin a row. This is an outstanding effort for the youngergeneration of players within the Club and shows the depthwe are accumulating. The same pair also retained theSandhurst Cup (not an old boy event) for a second year.We very much look forward to tracking the owRackets players over the next season and please keep aneye on the website for results throughout the year.