Another great day at Swinley.  30 OTs and guests enter for the day playing for OTGS Challenge Cup in the morning and Greensomes Cup in the afternoon.  Sadly we seem to have lost the Challenge Cup BUT we do have the base!  Guests competed for a separate prize in the morning but could take part in the Greensomes Cup.  The weather once again was favourable, the course was in good condition given the time of year, the lunch was as good as ever, what was there to not enjoy?!

Once again a massive thanks to David M for organising and indeed sponsoring the event.  David has indicated strongly this might be his last year of organising the event  after 55 years!  Many complimentary comments have been received confirming  the players greatly enjoyed the day and his generosity.

Results in the morning, Individual Stableford (Challenge Cup),
1st      – Gavin Krombas 42 Pts
2nd    – Dan Trapnell 35 Pts

Afternoon, Greensomes,
1st      – Mark Hallas & L. Hill  37 Pts
2nd    – Jamie Hunt & Mark Bootherstone 36 Pts

Date for 2027, Tuesday 9th March

Once again we were blessed with another wonderful day despite the  lack of numbers for various reasons (5 Attendees), however, this certainly didn’t dampen the day.

The day started at noon with lunch and the AGM for the OTGS which updated those attending with what had happened within the society over the past year and golf at the school.  The minutes can be read on the OTGS website.  Given there were so few of us we ended playing a five ball for 18 holes.   Prizes played for were non-vet stableford, vet’s Cup, nearest to the pin x2 and longest drive.  Fortunately for Mark Banham he was the only non-vet so was a one horse race!  Nearest to the pin was won by Mark and Andrew Horne, Longest drive and vets Cup was won by Richard Willacy.

Great day was had by all and look forward to 2026.

Attendees:  Richard Willacy, Mark Banham, Andrew Horne, Terry Davidge, David Morgan

This year’s Cyril Gray took place again at the end of June 25 – 27.
Once again the weather was kind and, as ever, the course was in great condition.  Our first round was against Framlingham which  Taunton succeeded in winning 2-1.  This was a relief as the 1st round of the Plate was due to be played at 16:20 that afternoon which would have put David & Anne’s kind B-B-Q invitation in jeopardy and it was good last year!  Second round was against King’s Canterbury which sadly we lost 2-1 this time.

Once again a huge thank you to David for hosting members of the team at his home for a team B-B-Q and more importantly for captaining the Cyril Gray team for the many years past (too many to remember) and congratulations, with great expectations, to our new Captain Matthew Pyke.   This year another Hewitt member crossed the line at 50 to join the team, welcome Gary Hector.

Team:
David Morgan, Richard Willacy, Tim Blood,  Gary Hector, John Groombridge, Martin Knight.

Reserves: Neil Robertson

Results-sheet-2025-Day-3-pm

Once again on a beautiful Sunday afternoon OTGS gathered to qualify for the Grafton Morrish Finals in Norfolk beginning of October.

Under the wonderful leadership of Pete W the team pairings were,
Richard Willacy & Mark Banham
Gary Hector & Greg Whalley
Tim Blood & Pete Whalley

After a slow start on the front nine we pulled our socks up and improved on the back nine such that the team scored 85 points in total and came third out of the field of eleven schools.  The top five qualify for the finals…….we did it again!!

Finals are due to take place at Hunstanton and Brancaster on 3-5 Oct 2025.

GM Qual Results 2025

GM Finals Draw 2025