Last Friday 24th saw the 2014 League draw to an official close and the auld enemy of Farleigh picking up the title for the 3rd year running.
5 Ball Texas Scramble
Farleigh hosted this years finals day. Its a mixed-club 5ball format on a Texas Scramble. Surrey National went mob handed with 18 players as a couple of the other clubs were light on ...
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Archives for October 2014
The Jolly Boys Tour – Portugal 2014
Tour Report posted on behalf of Mr Graham Adams
Jim’s weather report of rain thunder and lightning happily proved wide of the mark it was wall to wall sunshine with the occasional burst of clouds as the pictures show.
The golfing standards in general were not as high as we would have liked, but the competition was fierce with only 20 points ...
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Happy Birthday Mark
44 years young today. ...
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Mick in Portgual
Photo sent over by Graham ...
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The Addington 16th Oct 2014
Posted on behalf of Phil "he's on a roll" Macve
Had a great day at The Addington on Thursday, the weather had been terrible all week and looked to carry on for the rest of the week apart from a 5 hour gap Thursday morning, when we were playing!, it shines on the righteous! Originally intended to be an eight aside match, Swashbucklers vs The Bett's ...
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October Saturday Swindle
Saturday's Swindle (posted on behalf of Phil "Guiness please mate" Macve)
Not many for the swindle today, seven of us. A few playing in the comp, the B Tour away in Portugal and the forecast of rain, pretty much all day, may have kept the numbers down. However, it didn't rain, in fact it was warm and dry, lovely, bit of wind which made it ...
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Jolly Boys Portugal 2014 starts
Barely a day or two has gone and it seems that before a ball is struck, Graham has the hat.
Mushi has grassed him up:
Here we are at first tee with Graham proudly wearing the Special hat! I thought might qualify for posting on swashbucklers site- Graham may like to explain the detail for having to be nominated!
The expected response from Graham ...
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The GBR – The Gender Bragging Rights Cup October 2014
Posted on behalf Phil
Well another year flies by and the GBR Cup is upon us again, Gender Bragging Rights for those of you who didn't know.
A keenly fought Ryder Cup-Style event that pits the men and women of Surrey National against each other. 18hole Foursomes in the morning and 9 hole singles in the afternoon. Originally conceived by Sam Hall ...
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Soggy October Swindles
Saturday 11th
Saturday saw a big pot of 17 Swindlers out to take the spoils - even Mr "New Driver and 3wood" Town dug deep to join in, confident after his recent good play. We had a bout 30mins of rain - not bad for the forecast. Jaggsy narrowly missed taking Tony out off the 4th tee, bouncing his tee shot over Tony walking up the 5th fairway, ...
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Dates confirmed for the Inter-Swindle Ryder Cup 2014/15
Here they are....
Swashbucklers Dates
(Captain Lee 'All hail...' Feasey)
9th November vs The Smugs
30th November vs Early Birds
31st January vs Bobs Bashers
8th March vs The Originals
Originals Dates
(Captain Brian 'The Yeti' Chamberlain)
16th November vs. Early Birds
29th November vs. Bobs Bashers
1st February vs. Smugs
.... and finally we ...
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