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golf
celebrations. There have been many highs
and lows over our 6-year history but winning
the league after years of narrowly avoiding
relegation was an immensely satisfying
high. With many of the squad hitting 30
next season we now need some new blood
to help us in our new division and push for
another promotion. The introduction of full
co-education at Wellington has had its many
benefits but none as great as the freeing up
of Bigside 5 to allow us to play our home
games at College. In three years of playing
back at ‘Welly’ we have yet to lose a league
game and it brings back many a fond memory
with match teas in dining hall. For those of
you who want to take part in our 2011/12
campaign please contact Fergus Gilmour.
ow fc p l aye r o f t h e s e as on
f e rg u s g i l m o u r [h l 19 97 – 20 0 2]
top goal scorer
c h r i s ry l at t [h g 19 9 8 – 20 03]
goal of the se ason
e d m a l l a b u r n [a 19 95 – 20 0 0]
c o m m i t t e e p l ay e r o f t h e s e a s o n
a l e x g u l l i f o r d [h l 19 95 – 20 0 0]
G
olf is a great sport for involving all ages and all skill levels
and the owgs represents
those facets wonderfully.
In the last year we reached
the semi-final of the Grafton Morrish? one
—?
of the three prestigious golf tournaments for
Old Schools’ Golf?—?we entered two teams in
the Senior Bernard Darwin Competition and,
although we narrowly lost to Stowe in the first
round of the Halford Hewitt, we did manage
to reach the quarter-finals of the Plate.
On the less competitive side we played
12 matches against various societies and
clubs with varying degrees of success and
both the Spring and Autumn Meetings were
well attended. At the Spring Meeting at
Rye windy conditions made scoring difficult
but Bas Gowar [Bn 1991–1996] won the
O’Brien Scratch Medal with 75, Mike Power
[S 1952–1956] won the Captain’s Shield
with 37 Stableford points and the Birkmyre
Card Scratch Medal for the over 50s with
79 and Alex Stuart-Bamford [T 1993–1998]
won the Birkmyre Trophy with 33 Stableford
points. The Captains’ Tankards were won
by Peter Mallinson [Pn 1973–1977] and Chris
Stirling [L 1972–1977] with 31 Stableford
points, The Guy Docker Trophy was won by
Henry Somerset [Bn 194–1979] with 48½
Stableford points, the Walter Greenway Cup
by Barry Campbell [Hg 1954–1959] with 41½
Stableford points and the Dutton Trophy
was won by Simon Pettigrew [S 1956–1960]
with 69 Stableford points. At Liphook in
September 2010 while the scores were not
brilliant, great fun was had and Tony Collett
[C 1953–1958], Mike Preedy [C 1964–1969]
and Henry Somerset took the major honours
between them.
We are now beginning to see the benefits
of the golf course at College and in particular
the high quality of leaving golfers. The
quality is so high that we do lose some of
them to golf scholarships at University and
even to aspirations of being professional
golfers but against that is the high number of
enthusiastic golfers of all skill levels. This is
also beginning to show in the teams for the
major representative tournaments where the
average age and handicaps are dropping rapidly.
We continue to get new members of all
ages and skill levels and are greatly indebted
to Iain Henderson not only for what he does
for College golf but also for his enthusiastic
promotion of the owgs and encouragement
to join.