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The HAC Golfing Society is open to all members, both Regimental and Non-Regimental and members of the Active Unit are especially welcome. The vast majority of the current membership served in the Active Unit and are therefore staunch upholders of the Regiment’s traditions and customs.

 

The Society has two Society meetings per year- in April at Worplesdon and in June at The Berkshire with a member and guest meeting at the New Zealand in October.

 

There are 25 matches (all foursomes) against various societies and clubs played between March and October. Seven of these matches are played on Saturdays or Sundays.  The full 2011 fixture list is:

 

18 January        AGM & Supper at Armoury House        

29 March          Royal Mid-Surrey   (18 holes)   

8 April              Luffenham Heath    (18 holes)  

9/11 April          Hunstanton  (54 holes) 

16 April             Littlehampton (18 holes)

20 April             Spring Meeting at Worplesdon

11 May             RN GS at Liphook (18 holes)                              

15 May             Chislehurst (18 holes in afternoon)

20 May              Rye

28 May              Piltdown

29 May              Wine Trade at The Berkshire

1 June               Artists Rifles at the New Zealand

17 June             Royal  Worlington

24 June             Littlestone

29 June             Summer Meeting at the Berkshire           

7/8 July             Suffolk Tour at Aldeburgh & Woodbridge    

16 July              Royal Ashdown Forest                      

29 July              Huntercombe G.C.                      

10 August         Old Radleian’s at Porter’s Park       

16 August         Goring & Streatley                       

23 August         Seniors’ Golfer’s Society at Denham        

3 September      Worplesdon                          

7/8 Sept             Royal St.George’s

9 September      Lucifers at Huntercombe                   

19-23 Sept        Captain’s Tour (Cornwall)

28 September    Royal Artillery GS at Effingham

4 October          Bath Club Cup at Woking (team of 4)  

9 October          RAF GS at Temple GC (18 holes)

11 October        Guest Meeting at the New Zealand G.C.

17 November      Annual Dinner at Armoury House       

5 Jan 2012        AGM at Armoury House

 

It will be noted that the Society has the privilege of playing on some of the finest courses in the South of England

 

History does not record the birth of the Society other than it started in 1923 with a match against Littlehampton Golf Club at the behest of the then Duke of Norfolk who had been instrumental in enacting the Territorial Army Act of 1908. Over the years members of the Society instigated matches against their clubs nearly all of which survive today.

 

For further details please contact the Hon Secretary - William Fossick, The Grange, Greenstead Green, Nr Halstead CO9 1QZ, 

tel no 01787 472485 email: thefossicks@btinternet.com