After a nine hour fascinating match Rob beat Reg 5-7, 7-6, 5-7, 7-6, 7-2. The styles were contrasting with Reg being more aggressive and Rob’s more patient and not as hard hitting. In the...
Robert won his quarter-final against previous twice-World Champion Ahmed Nasr from Egypt by three games to two. He won 7-4, 7-5, 3-7, 3-7, 7-4 after more than six hours of play and meets. The...
Robert easily won through to the Knock-Out phase of the 2022 GC World Championship being held at Southwick, winning all 7 games in his block. In the first round he beat the English player...
Play started promptly Saturday 30th July with six players competing in the glorious weather and the lawns were looking green and true… David Dray, as tournament manager, decided that the format would be a...
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They arrived so early that we had to wait until Ray had completed his mowing before starting, but this did give us time for an extended coffee and chat. The sprinkler problems have led...
On a day of perfect English summer weather wedged between spells of extreme heat the Tunbridge Wells team of Gerald O’Brien, Peter Player and Kate Sander played an away match against Southwick which resulted in...
For the first time in a long while we participated in this. Unfortunately we had some late drop-outs, so Victoria and I played and the other clubs who had spares helped us out as...
A somewhat reduced Division this year, with only five teams making it this weekend after several late pul–outs and a number of clubs saying that they didn’t realise it was happening! Nevertheless the manager...
Our second Golf R League match was a home game against Reigate. It appears they had found it difficult to find players and this meant that their team consisted of three 2 handicap players...