We have just returned from the Kent coast where our team have enjoyed our best Hewitt for decades. Please read the report prepared by our team Captain, Dan Burstow. We arrived for the 2023 Halford Hewitt with, on paper, our strongest ever squad of players and a reasonable draw. We welcomed 2 new recruits in
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We will keep you posted here as to our progress – the following table covers who is attending and where they are staying eating and golfing over the numerous days of the vent on the Kent coast. the Warm up weekend last week was great fun and an opportunity to field two new players in
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Report from Halford Hewitt Team Captain – Dan Burstow We had drawn Tonbridge at the draw earlier in the year, the number 1 ranked team out of the 64 competing teams! However, our squad of players is perhaps it’s strongest ever and after our narrow loss in the plate final last September we arrived with
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It’s hard to know where to begin in sharing the stories and ultimately the excitement of what was possibly our best ever Halford Hewitt tournament. We start with the fact that we were able to take 12 good single figure golfers for selection – with the luxury of two reserves and the very much appreciated
Read MoreOur 2019 campaign will go down as one with many broken records and us proceeding into the second round (thus avoiding the Plate Competition) but no further sadly. After a useful practice day for the evident top ten of our touring party of 20 (somewhat depleted from the original list of 24) the pairings were
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The 2018 Halford Hewitt tournament for Hurstpierpoint will surely be remembered as one of our finest and most successful events for many year. Firstly, the great success in finding and engaging much new talent and secondly in a convincing and thrilling first round win at Royal St Georges against St Bees, a school we have
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We have just enjoyed the latest warmup down at the host clubs Royal Cinque Ports and Royal St. George’s. We were delighted to welcome 2 new members to the Society who will certainly lay a claim to a place in our Hewitt team this year and hopefully for many years to come. Will Carroll is
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Dear all This is our society Annual General Meeting and dinner At Davy’s Wine Bar in St James, that is preceded by the interesting annual draw for the Halford Hewitt competition which is held at the East India Sports and Public Schools Club in St James’s Square. The 2018 Public Schools Golf Society Annual General
Read MoreAs the dust settles on another successful Halford Hewitt, we can reflect on some of the highlights. Undoubtedly the important achievement this year was the introduction of two new young players who are both still at University – Tom Fairfax and Freddie Newmarch, they both played really well showing great power and enthusiasm and were
Read MoreAt the Public Schools Golf Society AGM and competition draw in London on 11th January, we were picked out of the hat alongside Edinburgh Academicals. We have played this really nice bunch of guys in recent years – most notably in our great Plate run of 2012 when we knocked them out at Princes in
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