The Old Marlburian Golfing Society

Please find a notice from Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club.

"Members will be saddened to learn that Alister Alexander passed away on Monday 1st May 2023.

Alister joined Royal Ashdown in 1956 and was a regular supporter of the Club until moving to House membership in recent years.

Details of the funeral will be shared in due course and I am sure you will join me in offering our prayers and condolences to Alister’s family and friends."

I'm sure many OM Golfers will have fond memories of Alister.

Please find Bernie Thomson's Captain's Letter

CAPTAINS NEWSLETTER MAR23.pdf

This notice was originally posted in December 2021 and has been updated

Please note that subsidies will only be paid to those who have a DD mandate in place for payment of the annual subscription. This includes College Leavers who are asked to pay £2 per year

The subsidies agreed by OMGS Committee in 2021 will continue for the foreseeable future. The subsidy is based on the cost of a day's golf, including the green fee and the cost of lunch as follows:

• Players 25 and under will receive a subsidy of 50% of the daily cost for both matches and meetings
• Players 26 to 30 will receive a subsidy of 40% of the daily cost for both matches and meetings
• Players 31 to 35 will receive a subsidy of 25% of the daily cost for both matches and meetings
• Players 36 and over will receive a subsidy of 25% of the daily cost for attending meetings.

The above policy is designed to encourage youngsters to play in matches and everybody to attend meetings. The scheme will be reviewed annually

Match managers will be encouraged to include the estimated cost of the day on the website so that members, when they register, can see how much they will have to pay. Any queries should be referred to the Honorary Secretary

secretary@omgs.info

‘A Hundred Years of Marlborough Golf’

Friday 28^th October: 6.30pm for 7.15pm; Black Tie

In the Mountbatten Room of the Royal Automobile Club,

Pall Mall, London

The event took place and was enjoyed by all those who attended

There are some photos on the web site: Old Marlburian Golfing Society - Photo gallery (omgs.org.uk)

Thank you.

James Hopper                           Bernie Thomson

President                                    Captain

Due to the sad passing of the Queen, the OMGS Autumn Meeting, due to be held on Friday 9th September, was postponed.

The Autumn Meeting has been rescheduled to Friday 14 October.

Please register online

Old Marlburian Golfing Society - REARRANGED Autumn Meeting - Friday 14th October (omgs.org.uk)

Please contact Bernie Thomson with any queries.

We look forward to seeing you there,

Will

William Wells, Hon Secretary, OMGS

The OMGS had a successful month as follows

-          We won the Alba Trophy at Woking for the first time which was a tremendous achievement as it is a scratch event. Our team was David Niven and Elliott Matthews and their scores were 75 in the morning and 71 in the afternoon. A total of 146 and they won by 3 shots (I think).

-          We also won the Public Schools Putting for the 3^rd time under the inspiring leadership of Chris Dowling. For those of you who do not know, 32 schools participate in 4 qualifying events at Royal Wimbledon. Each school has a team of 4 and everybody plays everybody so each player has seven 18 hole matches. The top two schools go into the final day and the bottom two get relegated. It is quite scary. We topped our qualifying group and won the final with 40 points (out of a maximum of 56) pipping Charterhouse (by 2 points). Our team was Angus Murray (who came top of the points scoring with 12 points out of 14), Jim Hewer, Tom Macfarlane and Jack Naylor.

-          Finally we won the very senior Darwin (the over 75s) comprising an 18 hole stabelford competition at Woking.  Our team was our President, James Hopper and Martin Mercer who holed a huge putt from off the green at the 14^th to win.

The AGM of the OMGS took place during the spring meeting at the Royal Worlington and Newmaket GC on Friday 13th May 2022 and the minutes are attached. AGM minutes 130522.pdf

The following were elected officers of the Society:

President: James Hopper

Captain: Bernie Thomson

Hon Secretary: William Wells

Vice Captain: Alasdair Niven

Past Captain: Bob Percival

As you can see, we are still lacking an Hon Treasurer and we really need someone to volunteer for this role. If anyone is interested, would they please contact either the Captain or Hon Sec.

Sunday 8^th May 2022 was an historic day at Sunningdale. It was not only a lovely day but the youngest ever team of OMs was assembled to play the annual match against the Scottish invaders, Fettes. There were 10 OM participants with an average age of 27.

That was the good news. The bad news was that we lost 7-3. The morning foursomes were very close. We were 3-2 down at lunch but three of the 5 games went to the last hole. After dining well, we played a 4 ball better ball on the Old Course in the afternoon but unfortunately only won one of the five games.

However the course and weather were perfect and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. We now have a significant number of active members of 35 and under and as a Society we need to do all we can to encourage this group of players to participate in OMGS events.

Bob Carrick

9^th May 2022

Marlborough squeezed through 3-2 against Rossall. Wins for Blockley & Hewer and for Matthews & Murray left us 2-2. 
Foster & Greenwood were 1 down going down 18 but their opponents took 6. Halves in par up the 19th and 20th led to the long par 3 21st. Our opponents three-putted from 12’ after we’d got caught up on the bank to the right but we got our 4 and so up the 22nd we went.  A long drive from Foster and a good 9 iron from Greenwood meant we were at the back in 2 but on the correct level. Rossall then four-putted from the swale down at the front of the green and we rolled it up to 2’ for the win. 
We’re now out against Haileybury

C Foster/H Greenwood beat H Kingsbury/D Blackadder-Weinstein 1up

J Naylor/J Porter lost to C Rietschel/O Flynn 1dn

C Blockley/J Hewer beat J Durie/T Tredinnick 3/2

EMatthews/A Murray halved with J Balgarnie/A Mackay

D Niven/J Rhodes beat J Woolf/A Hofmann 8/7