Dear Members of BGS,
I attach the Financial Report for last year. This will be discussed within my talk at the upcoming AGM at Pine Ridge Golf Club on 19th May. If you are coming to the AGM then I suggest that you print this or carry an electronic version with you.
We are hoping that we can have a full year of golfing coming up and I will be looking to subsidise our 2021 events so that we all can benefit. → More...
“Here we are again, happy as can be, all good friends ……… “ and no company!
It’s March, the daffodils are out, the trees starting to bud – so it is time to think about the coming golfing season😉
I trust you are all safe and well as we celebrate (if that is the right word) one year of COVID. Many of us will have had our first jab and the Covid numbers are all heading downwards – Thank God.
BoJo said Golf Courses will be able to open on 29th March – but when will you be able to get out and play on your own courses? → More...
A huge thank you to everyone at BGS for the generous gift certificate. I’ve enjoyed doing the website for the past 13 (!) years and will look forward to keeping an eye on your antics in the future. Hopefully the season will be able to kick off before long. Stay safe.
Dear all, there has been some discussion about how useful our Trophies are. Dust gatherers or useful?
I demonstrate here the most useful trophy that BGS awards. The Autumn Ice Bucket awarded to the best high handicaper..
In this case, I was celebrating my 70th Birthday a couple of weeks ago. It will be used again for Ruth’s birthday on Wednesday, Christmas on Friday and New Year next week. Then it will probably gather dust until my family gets together when Lockdown rules ease. → More...
Dear BGS Members,
I trust you are all safe and well as we enter Lockdown #2 which has called an abrupt halt to our short golfing season.
I am afraid that our planned end of year Winter Warmer at Dummer on 26th November has been cancelled. So we will miss our final outing and a Thanksgiving dinner 😉
With the uncertainty over lockdown ending and golf clubs reopening we decided not to try to play Dummer in December. It looks like Basingstoke GC will be owning the Dummer course in 2021 and so we may never play Dummer again. → More...
CAPTAIN VERSUS PRESIDENT 2020
(COULD PETER “TRUMP” TERRY AGAIN?)
…Or is the President “Biden” his time? At least we would get a result by the end of play on November 4th as two teams of IBM BGS golfers took to the fairways of Royal Winchester on Lockdown Eve along with most of the Club’s membership. Glorious weather justified the post-October date for the 21st holding of the event with Peter hoping to repeat his team’s triumph last year and use his extra year as Captain to become the first to win the trophy twice. → More...
PN Comment – I spent much of my youth fishing on this beach! We also entered the course (through the fence) during the first recent Open to see a hole in one early one evening. Never played it – but I have played Princes next door several times including with my brothers father-in-law who was the Pro for many years.
Golf’s authorities are responding to renewed lockdown on the day handicap procedures change for hundreds of thousands of the UK’s recreational players amid fears of “teething problems” with the new system. → More...
The Gods were good to us on Wednesday 7 Oct.
After 100 mm of rain on Camberley Heath in 4 days we had a bright sunny if cool and breezy day.
The course was in great condition apart from a few worm casts and had benefitted from the rain.
17 BGS members took part under our new Covid 19 rules and at least we didn’t need masks to play golf.
3 players elected to use the Black tee measured course and lost 6 off their handicaps compared to yellow tees. → More...
Winner was Mark Kenyon, on count back from Steve Fayers. Both had 37.
The IBM Silver Jubilee cup (first played for in 1973) result was the closest in living memory, possibly ever (ending very nearly in a 3 way tie).
Surrey and Sussex won by just one point, making it an unprecedented four wins in a row – gauntlet thrown down for next year!
I want to thank the three players who stepped in to make it an 8 a side match, Dugie McNellis, Gordon Whickman and John Devlin. They all played very well averaging just over 68 between them. → More...