A meeting at Hankley Common Golf Club that almost didn’t take place as just the day before the greens were still on temporaries and some bunkers still full of snow.
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The four of us set off on the Friday from LHR by the BA midday flight for Gibraltar, much closer than Malaga to our destination, with keen anticipation and some trepidation for our 2 finals at the world famous Real Club de Valderrama, in order to have 2 clear days of golf to follow over the designated weekend.
A new fixture, the inaugural West Midlands meeting, took place on Wednesday 25th October by kind invitation of the Blackwell members. Three OHs who are members, George Barkes, Simon Sharp and Charles Wade were joined by David Moseley, Adrian Gracey, John Casson and William North plus another Blackwell member (not OH), James Busby.
Coming just a month after RWNGC’s 125th anniversary, a grand scale celebration attended by several OH members of the club, our meeting this year was also special in that it attracted a record number of 40 entrants, well above our norm for both Spring and Autumn meetings, and gratefully accepted by the club secretary.
The Harrovian team for the Bernard Darwin this year had an interesting statistic – five of the six representing the side played cricket at Lords v Eton – the Captain of the BD side being the sad omission and ruining what I suspect would have been a unique full house! What that meant of course was that there was a natural competitive spirit within and an aversion to losing to Eton, both of which stood Harrow in good stead.
