100th Celebration for William Parker

ROYAL TANK REGIMENT GOLF SOCIETY THE PHOENIX RISES AGAIN

After what has been a different and difficult 18 months I am pleased to say that the Golf Society has managed to provide some humour and entertainment to our group and those members of clubs that have been lucky enough to be on the same course as us whilst we have attempted to knock a little white ball around with a stick. It has also been great to see that we have had some new members who have recently taken up the game.

Being released from our shackles in April, a group of 20 of us took on the wonders of Dartmoor at Tavistock Golf Club and although there were restrictions on the use of the clubhouse it was great to be able to meet up on a fantastic sunny day on a course that overlooks much of Dartmoor.

In May a few of us moved on to an interesting course in Somerset for a charity event which was, we are told, originally built for the use of the Officers and men of the Somerset Light Infantry. Being built over the workings of an old mine and used in the Second World War by the RAF to dump unused bombs prior to landing it makes for some interesting landscape. In June a number of us took up the invitation by the Tankie Golf Society based “Up North” to join them in the wilds of Worcestershire for a weekend of great golf, company and camaraderie and hope that we will be invited again next year despite players from “Down South” being the winners both days and overall. In the same month we also played the annual Reunion Trophy which, through the vagaries of the new handicap system (golfers will understand what I mean) was won by Dave Pinder who had only recently taken up the game. July took us to Looe in Cornwall for our annual humiliation against Looe’s seniors which Dave Taylor was able to arrange through his club. This was quickly followed by our annual support of Charlie’s Charity Day at Dainton Park, a great day out which raises funds for many of the local charities in Devon. This was immediately followed the next week with the annual RTR Golf Society Championships which had 32 entrants and was well won by Dave Taylor winning the Graham Pearson Trophy. September saw six of us head across to darkest Wiltshire to play at Rushmore Park for the inaugural ABF Charity Day, a great day which raised a great sum for one of our forces charity. October will see us through to our last meet of the year which will see us a Honiton GC and also a couple of us heading off to the annual Golf Monthly H$H Charity Day. The RTR GS (jeff5360@btinternet.com) is always looking for new members whether you have played before or new to the game as are the Tankie GS which is run by Stephen Hodson who can be contacted via the Tankie Golf Society FB page.