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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 2010 fixture list is:

 

7 January         AGM & Supper at Armoury House        

24 March          Royal Mid-Surrey   (18 holes)   

9 April               Luffenham Heath    (18 holes)  

10/11 April        Hunstanton  (54 holes) 

12 April             Royal West Norfolk, Brancaster (18 holes)

22 April             Spring Meeting at Worplesdon

12 May              RN GS at Liphook (18 holes)                              

21 May              Rye

29 May              Piltdown

2 June               Artists Rifles at the New Zealand

4 June               Littlestone    

18 June             Royal  Worlington

23 June             Chislehurst  (18 holes in the afternoon)

30 June             Summer Meeting at the Berkshire           

8/9 July             Suffolk Tour at Aldeburgh & Woodbridge    

17 July              Royal Ashdown Forest                      

24 July              Wine Trade at The Berkshire (team of 8)    

30 July              Huntercombe G.C.                      

4 August           Old Radleian’s at Porter’s Park       

17 August         Goring & Streatley                       

24 August         Seniors’ Golfer’s Society at Denham        

4 September      Worplesdon                          

7/8 Sept             Royal St.George’s

10 September    Lucifers at Huntercombe                   

21- 25 Sept       Captain’s Tour (Cornwall)

2 October          Littlehampton

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

10 October        RAF GS at Temple GC (18 holes)

15 October        Royal Artillery GS at Effingham                   

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

11 November     Annual Dinner at Armoury House       

6 Jan 2011        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.