News and results

NEWS

A glorious success for the old boys was recently achieved in the Grafton Morrish at Olton when the Old Edwardian golf team qualified for the knock-out stages at Hunstanton and Brancaster in September. This is particularly impressive since, according to the team captain, Tim Pickering (1981), the team has only qualified once in the last 25 years and that was in 1992. The scores of the heroes were as follows:

Pairings Stableford points

Tim Pickering (1981) / Gary Meads (1986) 24
Rob Harborne (1992) / Alastair Harborne (1990) 24
Jeremy Clifford (1989) /Simon Smart (1990) 20

Lest anyone should think that these are not very big scores readers are reminded that this is a scratch foursomes competition

RESULTS

March 25 Match v School, Harborne

Lost 3 ½ - ½

April 1 - 3 Halford Hewitt, Royal Cinque Ports and Royal St Georges (Scratch Foursomes Match Play)

Round 1: Lost 4 - 1 to Kings Canterbury
Plate, Round 1: Lost 2 ½ - ½ to Bishops Stortford

May 8 Spring Meeting, Harborne

Best Gross: Alistair Harborne 80
Best Net: Duncan Glover 88 - 15 = 73
Best Stableford: Ian Clemson 30 points

May 9 Grafton Morrish, Olton (Scratch Foursomes Stableford)

Team of Tim Pickering, Gary Meads, Rob and Alistair Harborne, Jeremy Clifford, and Simon Smart qualified for final with a combined 68 points.

September 23 - 25 Grafton Morrish Finals, Hunstanton and Brancaster

Round 1: Lost 2 - 1 to Charterhouse


June 24 MK Foster, Little Aston (Handicap Foursomes Stableford)

Team was unplaced but congratulations to Simon Coghlan and Dan Andrews
on winning the Pudding Bowl in the afternoon.

June 24 - 26 Cyril Gray, Worplesdon (Over 50s Foursomes Match Play)

Round 1: Lost 3 - 0 to St Bees
Plate, Round 1: Won 2 ½ - ½ v Stonyhurst
Round 2: Lost 3 - 0 to Blundells

July 13 Match v Old Silhillians, Olton

Won 3 ½ - 2 ½

August 6 Match v Old Veseyans, Harborne

Won 4 ½ - 1 ½

September 15 Match v Old Warwickians, Moseley

Lost 3 ½ - 1 ½

September 30 Autumn Meeting, Kings Norton

Buckley Salver Winner: Alistair Harborne 42 points
Runner-up: David Wells 41 points
Best visitor: Chris Darby 33 points