Guildford Golfing Alliance celebrates centenary.

The Guildford Alliance the Surrey based Pro-am series has just completed the 2021/22 season which was made even more special by the fact that this was our centenary season and the fact that we were able to play a full season of events.

The Centenary season has a total of 19 fixtures and more than 250 amateurs, and 80 professionals played in our events during the season and The Guildford Alliance events continue to be as popular as ever and nearly all of the events were fully subscribed and often had a reserve list. Many thanks to all the golf clubs who hosted our events this season.

This season we added Hayling to our list of venues and we were blessed with glorious weather and I am sure Hayling will be firmly established on our rota from now on – we also had a two day trip to Sandwich and played Princes and Royal Cinque Ports and once again the weather was glorious – in 2023 our away trip is to Bournemouth to play Ferndown, Broadstone and Stoneham.

Our season began at Walton Heath for our Centenary event which had an amazing 43 teams playing on the day and great to see some of the Guildford Alliance players who do not play in the Alliance so much now playing on the day – the fixtures that we played during the season were at Hankley Common, Blackmoor, North Hants, Swinley Forest, Liphook, Sunningdale Heath, New Zealand, Hayling, Liphook, Woking (sadly this event was cancelled

Professional Challenge winner – Sam Hutsby

NEXT SEASON’S FIXTURES

Walton Heath Hankley Common Woking (Foursomes) The Berkshire North Hants Swinley Forest Liphook London Club New Zealand Hayling 13/10/22 26/10/22 07/11/22 09/11/22 22/11/22 01/12/22 15/12/22 05/01/23 19/01/23 01/02/23

PRO OOM – Winner Craig Sutherland

West Hill Liphook Woking Blackmoor Burhill Ferndown Broadstone Stoneham The Berkshire Walton Heath 09/02/23 17/02/23 02/03/23 09/03/23 28/03/23 29/03/23 30/03/23 06/04/23 12/03/23

Amateur Scratch – Phil Clarke

owing to adverse weather), West Hill, Princes and Royal Cinque Ports and The Berkshire.

We held our end of season championship event at Walton Heath – played over both the Old and New Course and the Professional Challenge Trophy was won by Sam Hutsby (Hedge End Golf Centre) with a great score of 12 under Par over the two rounds. Sam joins a long list of past winners which includes Open Champions Max Faulkner, Henry Cotton, Bobby Locke, Alf Perry, Alf Padgham and Richard Burton, as well as former Ryder Cup players George Duncan, George Will, Neil Coles, Ken Bousfield, Peter Alliss, Arthur Lacey and many more leading PGA professional golfers. The Amateur Scratch Trophy was won by Philip Clarke (Hankley Common) with 6 over par score.

The season long Order of Merit winners were professional Craig Sutherland (Poult Wood) and amateur Jason French (Langley Park).

The Guildford Alliance would like to thank the Alliance President, Roy Sheehan and especially the Captain for the year, Roy Bailey (Liphook Golf Cub) for his support of the Alliance during his Captain’s year and Roy very kindly donated the Centenary Trophy which was played at Liphook and won by Ron Commans (The Wisley) and amateurs Clive Talbot and Len Busch

The Guildford Alliance organises golf days between October and April If you are interested in playing in the 2022/23 season please contact David on: davidgalliance@hotmail.com or

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