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The 2008 School Golf Championship, sponsored by OHGS, was played at Sene Valley on April 3rd on a lovely sunny day. 19 boys played and the winner and Golf Champion for 2008 was Tom Hay (9 handicap) with the best Gross score of 78. The Runner up was Tom Bean.

The School team to play OHGS was chosen from the championship and the match OHGS v The School took place also at Sene Valley Golf Club on April 25th.

OHGS did have a pretty strong team and The School suffered from the loss last year of their star players Duncan Pike (1 handicap) and Luke Jennings ( 4 handicap) who are now at University.

OHGS had a convincing win 5 - 1
OHGS (Captain) Dick Young and John Denham won 5 & 1
Bob Chappell (Captain of Sene Valley) & Dave Green won 3 & 2
John Young and Tim Wren won 2 & 1
Geoff Cooke and Peter Thomas (both ex Harvey teachers) won2 & 1
Nick Hopkin and Simon Readman won 2 & 1
Greg Cowling and Gary Cochran were the only pair not to win.


Winner of the 2008 School Championship Tom Hay receiving the trophy from John Dennis Chairman of Governors

Posted by John Oliver in Golf Society at 10:12 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

It is with much sadness that I have to advise you all of the death on 25th January of William Green (Bill to everyone) .

Bill was one of the first members of the OHGS but gave up playing a few years ago. He played his golf at Sene Valley and then moved up to Etchinghill when it opened as it was in those days considered an easier option than Sene (that was before the top 9 holes were added).

I understand that the funeral will be at Barham Crematorium on 11th February but at this stage I do not know the time.

If any of you knew Bill it would be good to see him off with a good representation from OHGS and I hope to see some of you then.

Posted by John Oliver in Golf Society, Old Boys Remembered at 08:50 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

The OHGS played The School yesterday at Etchinghill Golf Club and for the first time ever OHGS won with a score of 4 - 2 making the overall score over 10 years 5 1/2 to 4 1/2 for OHGS.

It is hoped that the 2007 match will take place in March - April.

Posted by Andy Coughlan in Golf Society at 16:25 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

The annual golf match OHGS v The School was held at Etchinghill Golf Club on Friday 15th April.

OHGS have never won this match at Etchinghill
whereas we have won all the matches held at Sene Valley except for 2003 when we halved.

On paper OHGS had a very strong team this year
which we needed to have to take on the boys, as there is a very high standard of golf at Harvey at present.

Our successes were John Edwards (15) and Geoff Cooke (12) playing on their home course and they won 2 up; Richard Young (7) and John Denham (13) had a good win of 5 & 4; Ian Gavin (6) and Graham Furneaux (12) Captain of OHGS, had a very tight match and halved with Graham playing against his son Hugo Furneaux. That was the end of our successes.

The lead match turned out to be crucial to the result as we always knew it was likely to be. Duncan Pike playing off 1 and Luke Jennings off 5 playing for The School are a formidable pairing especially at Etchinghill which is Luke's home course, so we needed our strongest possible opposition which we had in Henry Law playing off scratch (Henry is the Assistant Proffessional at Littlestone) and John Young off 5 (John is the current Vice Captain of Littlestone Golf Club). That proved to be a very tight game with OHGS almost coming back from being 3 down but losing on the last hole 1 down.

Derek Wood (14) and Bob Chappell (16) went down 3 & 2, and that just left John Oliver (14) and Dave Green (21) to take on Matthew Davy off (28) and Dean Law off (30). Mat's drive on the first hole virtually sealed the match before it started and having to give 11 and 12 shots to Mat and Dean respectively proved far too much an obstacle for OHGS and the match was over with Mat only dropping
7 shots to par off a 28 handicap!!!

The School won 3 1/2 to 2 1/2.

It was a great day played in the best spirit of golf and the highest standards of friendship and association with The School.

There was an impromptu Longest Drive and Nearest the Pin competition won by John Young (OHGS) and Charlie Homphrey (School) respectively. Earlier names on the board showed 'longest drive- Richard Young aged 68 1/2 years and ' nearest the pin' John Denham aged 71 years, which hopefully will be an encouragement to the boys that life does not finish at 30 or 40 but some of us are still active in spite of our advanced years!

Posted by John Oliver in Golf Society at 17:03 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)