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Well, 2025 certainly flew by and with it, we staged the usual eleven official outings and introduced two new trophies, the Richie Gold Shield and the Charlie Upton Shield. Our official website ( www.houtbaygolfclub.co.za ) details the winners of all these competitions and whom we congratulate on their victories. Our now annual par-3 competition held…
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At long last a HBGC Newsletter… and on which we report on two outings. In September we visited the very hospitable Kuils River Golf Club where Thys Bosman won the Walters Cup with a score of 36 points and in October we played the equally impressive Bellville course where Garth Roberts won the Valentia trophy…
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A surprisingly dry-ish course awaited us at King David Mowbray Golf Club on the 10th August after really heavy rains the day and night before. A few puddles on the fairway did not worry our winner of the Val O’Riley Trophy, Craig Beckwith who recorded 38 points. And at last, he wins a trophy at…
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Once again a real privilege to play at Erinvale in mid-May and the course and the weather did not disappoint. Despite recent hollow-tyning the course was in great condition. And the scores reflected by the winner/s bore testimony to this. I have always thought that Erinvale was an extremely difficult eighteen holes. Playing off the…
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What a brilliant weekend at Langebaan at the beginning of the month, the weather was glorious with no wind at all on both the Saturday and Sunday. The course was in magnificent condition which no doubt helped our twelve pairings as Hout Bay Golf Club were triumphant in the Goodwin Challenge against Langebaan by 7…
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Our January outing was “repeated” in a sense at the Rondebosch Golf Club on 13 April as the earlier one did not feature any nearest the pins, and there was a gap in the calendar before the two May outings. And the weather was kind to us all. Andrew Bearne won the event with 40…
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What marvellous weather for our outing at the Strand Golf Club on the 16th March, not a breath of wind. Total contrast to last year’s outing where one could hardly stand let alone play golf! Taking full advantage of the conditions, Kevin Jaques recorded 40 points, off his 15 handicap, in his round to win…
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A rather interesting outing at Somerset West Golf Club in February, indeed a tale of two – nines. The frontnine around the clubhouse was calm and warm with the back nine on the new layout played in agale-force wind. Well obviously these conditions suited Scott Campbell who blazed round the 18 holes with a grossscore…
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Well January certainly flew by but there was time for our monthly outing played in fairly pleasant conditions at Rondebosch Golf Club. And taking advantage of these benign January conditions was Mark Douglas and John Philander who both recorded 38 points with Mark Douglas winning the Dorothy Burmeister Trophy on a count out. Scott Campbell…
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2024… well that year certainly flew by. But for the Hout Bay Golf Club it was a year where the club in its 103rd year, introduced social media!!! The club has a website : www.houtbaygolfclub.co.za : and for this we thank Ale Bonora for all his efforts in introducing this incredibly impressive website. We also…