Very, very sad news at the end of last week, Carol Newman passed away after an illness.
A fantastically bubbly character at the club, Carol will be missed by all. Most definitely the rock in the infamous and always-dangerous mixed pairings partnership with Mr Graham Loveless (I'm sure Graham will agree), I've seen first hand that ...
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Archives for April 2017
Ritchie and Mark… ‘that’ picture
If you were in any doubt of the silhouette of Richie and Mark on the club's TV, here are the pair re-living their original photoshoot on a recent tour to Portugal. ...
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Our new Club Captain Mark Wheddon
Posted on behalf of Captain Mark
The art of successfully delivering anything is primarily down to preparation. Failing to prepare, prepare to fail!
The Captains Drive-in and Ball didn’t start at 6am on Saturday when I got up. It started months ago! There’s a lot of work behind the scenes that ensures these days run smoothly by a number of ...
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Phil’s post on the Captain’s Ball 2017
Posted on behalf of Phil
So it's goodbye and well done Joe and welcome to our own Swashbuckler, Mark. What a great and well organised day it was too.
I was delighted to be playing with Lee and my two great buddies who most of you know, Philip and Richard. We didn't trouble the podium but had a great day out there, 7 birdies but unfortunately one ...
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Captain Mark’s Drive-In – April 2017 (the golf part!)
We had a top couple of days of weather to enjoy seeing both Joe's year draw to a close, and welcome in Mark as Surrey National Golf Club Captain 2017/2018. Together with Mark's vice, Dom, the three of them were welcoming teams as they arrived for Saturday's Texas Scramble.
As per, usual mumblings about handicaps/selected holes/bad ...
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Sunningdale Old Course in the Springtime
As away days go, you will have to go very very far to beat Sunningdale Golf Club.
I didn't know too much about the detail of Sunningdale before today. I knew 'of' the course, had seen it feature on European Masters and more recently the British Ladies Open, but I couldn't have picked out a memorable hole or pro's shot... but I knew ...
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Easter Swindles
I was away for some of the Easter Swindles and some good scoring was around - Jane smashing the Swindle on Friday with 35, Ritchie swallowing a general play cut, Al Gol and Yeti sharing 35 on Saturday and Sharon strolling in with 37pts on Sunday. Barry was back on form today, Monday, fresh from his Le Touquet tour last week cleaning up the ...
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Scottie tears it up in April Stableford and Sergio wins!
Good weather this weekend meant a very large Swindle on Saturday. More the merrier for Mr Lee Snashers as he took most of the loot with 35pts. Cha ching and Congratulations.
Sunday saw a good heap of Swashbucklers out playing in the Stableford comp, enjoying the continuing good Spring weather. One of the warmest place in Europe I ...
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Swashbucklers Spanish Tour 2012
This photo was dug out at the weekend from Benalmedina in Spain. Scanned and sent over by Sean ...
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Spring Day at Walton Heath
April's Surrey Chamber of Commerce (SCC) venue was the prestigious Walton Heath Golf Club last Wednesday. An expensive day, but it was the first time it had featured on the venue rota for the SCC. After walking the course for several years watching the US Open qualifiers in May, I couldn't miss the chance to play the course.
We were ...
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