Paul Marks scores a massive 44 points at Salisbury & South Wilts
The second event of 2025 is coming soon, a first time venue at Sonning Golf Club which should be lots of fun!
We also have the first round against the Anchor Society at Royal Winchester on 1st May so need a few more players!
Big welcome to Stuart Marks as the Stragglers Captain for 2025, nominated under duress but I'm sure he will have a great time along with everyone else this year!
Anyway we are back with an action packed year ahead with the following events:
Thur 27th March
Captains Drive In
Goring & Streatley
Thur 1st May
Anchor Society
Royal Winchester
Thur 15th May
Spring Cup
Sonning GC
Sun 1st June
Anchor Society
Isle of Purbeck
Thur 19th June
Memorial Salver
Ampfield GC
Thur 17th July
Summer Bowl
The Army Club
Thur 11th Sept
Autumn Trophy
Alresford GC
2nd - 5th October
Folkestone Tour
Kent
Fri 14th November
Don Marks Winter Shield
Royal Winchester
Also a big thank you to all members and those that supported the charity over the past two years. On behalf of the Hampshire Stragglers Golf Society, we presented a cheque to the charity for £3,564, representing the fund-raising for Prostate Cancer UK by our Society between November 2021 and November 2022. A tidy little sum that was warmly received by the charity, even though it's a drop in the ocean of the £30+ million raised each year!
A very warm welcome to the Hampshire Stragglers Golf Society website. We hope you enjoy the contents of the website, whether you be a member of the Society or simply a friend.
The Hampshire Stragglers Golf Society was launched on 1st January 2010 and is the reincarnation of the Hampshire Stragglers Cricket Club founded in 1966, over forty years ago, by Tom Wilson. The 'spiritual home' of the Society is Royal Winchester Golf Club where many members of the Society are also members.
Cricket is now beyond the ailing bodies of many members of the Society, but the great tradition of the Hampshire Stragglers Cricket Club can be found on the golf course. We play competitively hard and drink hard! The cricket club motto, and now the Society motto, "Good Natured Debauchery", is alive and kicking in many respects!
Royal Winchester 2010
The Society plays five main events a year as qualifiers for the annual "Straggler of the Year" Order of Merit competition. Other events are organised outside the five main golf days. All playing members of the Society are eligible to play in the organised events. We have a number of 'social' members who support the Society.
We will endeavor to keep the website regularly updated with news, as a means of staying in touch with our members, but we also hope it will be a source of interest to non-members.
If you are studying this website and have any suggestions about it, the Society itself, the events we organise, courses to play or trips to go on, or you have any queries and/or would like to be considered as a member, they should be directed to the Honorary Secretary of the Society on hampshirestragglers@gmail.com.