I was busy last week and didn't get round to posting about our trip away last weekend to East Brighton Golf Club. I was also collared in the car park today by a certain M Wheddon asking where the post was...
Surrey National was under snow and unlikely to clear till the mild weather the following ...
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Tuesday this week saw the January fixture for the Surrey Chamber of Commerce at the fantastic Hankley Common Golf Club. It is the regular first venue of the year for the Society and no surprise it saw a very large society turnout.
Weather was as good as it could get for mid January. A ...
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Don't know what the headline is here... "Mild January Stableford, Fantastic Scores", or "Blimey Jim is playing in January"
Clearly the mild weather helped bring out the best in Mr Doran, pipping the determined Gabriel and Grant Wallis only on countback with a very impressive 42pts. Jaggsy and ...
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Swashies, Pistols (and friends) all turned up on Saturday for Phil's birthday comp for a 4-club challenge.
Bit of an annual event now, with ca$h prizes on a stableford and team format, with a healthy heap 'social' thrown in. The mixed fourballs made up between Swindles and friends were all sorted ...
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Played with Dave in the last comp of the year a couple of weeks ago and he said that the family were off to Lapland to see a certain festive chap and take in the Acrtic circle.
Apparently the family group included grandchildren, but I suspect a certain Grandad Shirley was more excited than ...
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It is that time of year again for me to dust off the "picture" of Jerry and hope everyone has a good Christmas and New Year.
From the tee times Graham has kindly arranged, note that many days have a reduced number of slots (and don't forget Phil's birthday 4club challenge on Saturday 29th - ...
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Lee got his 2nd ever hole-in-one in Sunday's damp Swindle, the first being a cracker into the wind at the long par3 16th at Surrey Downs a couple of years ago.
On the slightly uphill par3 7th at Surrey National, we had 165yards odd to the pin and Lee pured a 7iron down the flag. We both saw ...
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Small gallery of Swashies at the Turkey Trot courtesy of Phil
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After a damp start, Saturday's round of the Ryder Cup matches turned out to be a mild Autumn day and the better of the weekend. Sunday's Turkey Trot was meant to be cloudy but remain dry. Some chance! Persistent rain throughout the day! Hopes were sadly high that the rain ...
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Weather last weekend was great for mid November, bright breezy and cool although very soft underfoot... and unbeknownst to us the greens had been tined during the week. So greens the were slow together with the morning dew and very bobbly given the tining. From the footprints around the ...
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