We have our junior season opening event taking place on Sun 23rd March. It’s 9 holes from the forward tees in an adult and junior pairs format, followed by dinner t 5pm and a quick presentation afterwards. If you’re eligible and you haven’t yet signed up, please get in touch asap.
F9 Stableford
What a great score by Graham Jones to win Saturday’s competition. He recorded a whopping 24 points. Three players then tied on 21 points with Liam Murphy 21 finishing as the runner up following the card play off then Chris Wood and Lucy Leonard finished in fours spot.
We had a bumper turn out with 48 players taking part. The next one is taking place on Sunday 6th April.
Ladies 18 & 9 hole Stablefords
Well done Caroline Smith for winning Thursday’s 18 hole stableford with 37 points. Helen Williams was second with 31 points beating Irene Kirk on countback.
Karen Stockton racked up a great score of 22 points to win the F9 stableford. Vicki Wells was runner up with 21 points and Ceri Hyde third with 19.
Bogey 6
Congrats to Chris Wood for winning Bogey 6 with a fine score of 3up. Glyn Isaac was second with 1 up beating Danny Fox into third on countback.
Big up to Jim Nicholson for winning the Sharp. This is the aggregate score of the best four Bogey scores from the six men’s Bogey competitions that were played from Oct 2024 – March 2025. He finished one up with both Danny fox and Chris Wood finishing on even.
St Andrews Trip
We had a great trip up to St Andrews last weekend. There was lots of fun and good golf played.
There were 12 golfers (myself and 9 HGC members: Kerry & Howard Gill, Jane Wilkinson, Sally Budd, Tony Bray, Chris Brown, Peter Atherton, Jonny Yates & Ian Powell. Plus Sally’s husband Mike and Peter’s university friend Jerome O’Callaghan. Peter’s wife Jennie also attended as a non golfer). We stayed at the Fairmont hotel which was top notch.
On Sunday we played the Torrance Course, on Monday we were at the Eden and we finished off at Elie on Tuesday, playing in perhaps the strongest winds I’ve ever golfed in!
Thanks to everyone for attending and making it such a brilliant trip.
Pamela Ogden
Thanks to Jan Ravenscroft for sharing this lovely photo and update on Pamela from her recent trip to Australia.
Whilst in Australia in February I met up with Pamela Ogden, a much loved former member of the Ladies Section who was married to James Ogden. Pamela retired from golf and emigrated 5 years ago (at the age of 92) to live with her daughter Vanita near Palm Beach outside Sydney.
Pamela remains a “country” member and looks forward to reading the newsletters and hearing about all the HGC activities and the antics of her old friends.
As you can see she is still in great shape at 97! She wishes to be remembered to everyone and sends her best to all.
