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Bunkers returned to Hartley Whitney after 10 years, there was 18 participants attending our Captain's Cup event.

The course looked great it pushed a lot of us players to the top of our game regardless of the heatwave as we kept ourselves hydrated all day. Fairways were almost bone dry due to the extreme weather conditions however the greens were in excellent conditions, some of the greens were either slow or fast for putting the balls in.

Afterwards we all sat down by the terrace had a couple of cold drinks before dinner.

Food was good, Chicken & mushroom pie as a main dish with crushed potatoes and vegetables. Brest-Choux ring, vanilla Chantilly cream and macerated berries.

Vice Captain Luke read out the list of fines.
Luke - Calling Captain Dave ' Phil ' plus his dress code for golf the colours of his clothes did not match.
Phil - Being only 2 shots over gross after 10 holes.
Stephen - Buying himself a new set golf balls from the Pro shop. Picking up Michael's ball and wearing cargo shorts for golf 🤣 shocking.
David - Nearly killing Luke with his tee shot on the 9th and for wearing a colourful shirt in the evening.
Darren - Blobbing the 1st hole and then blaming Frazer for his club selection and hitting 3 shots in the same bunker 2nd.
Frazer - For chipping in on the 13th for 4 points.
Sean - Hitting his driver too straight
Samir - On the 15th walking towards the tee without a golf ball and having trouble filling out a score card.
Rick - 3rd hole his umbrella snapped off and rolled away having to chase after it and nearly killed Nick
Michael - For nearly hiting Nick's group with his ball on the 15th green.
Nathan - Panicked because he forgot to put sun tan cream on before he left home for golf and had to put it on before he sat down in the shade Wuss!

Captain Dave announced the winners of the skill prizes
NP in 2 2nd Phil Richards
NP 3rd Nick Rothery
NP 9th Phil Richards
NP 14th Luke Peters (So close into getting himself a hole in one!)
NP 17th Samir Tappouni

The winning team of the 18 hole competition were David Beck, Samir Tappouni and Ian Turvill

3rd place 41 points Phil Richards
2nd place 44 points John Thorp
1st place 46 points Samir Tappouni

Our newest member in our Golf Society won his first Bunkers trophy of 2026 congratulations Samir

Winner Samir receiving the trophy from Captain Dave


Roving reporter Luke Peters

You can see the full set of results on the results page

The current Order Of Merit can be seen here


Bunkers made a return to Tylney Park after 7 years. The Met office promised heavy rain but the golf god's smiled upon the lucky 18 Bunkers golfers. Apart from a couple of sprinkles the rain kept away and the sun often broke through the clouds. The course was in good condition although the lush green rough swallowed a great many wayward golf balls. The greens had some tricky "Hills & Valleys" which presented challenging reads on long putts. Not sure about having large oak trees in front of greens ? The showers were VERY hot ! and afterwards the very friendly staff served steak pie with vegetables and gravy - followed by sticky toffee pudding and ice cream. Nice meal and a nice course.

Vice captain Luke Peters read out the fines:
Himself for having windswept hair on arrival.
Guest Nigel Jones for over use of the bunkers on the course.
Tony for telephoning Luke from the first tee.
Paul Stevenson for going to the wrong tee box.
John Furness for playing YouTube songs on his mobile while other Bunkers players were teeing off on the first tee.
Tony P & Nathan T fined for wearing shorts whilst everyone else wore long trousers.
Ian T for shaking hands on the 18th green - with his cap on !
Samir T for buying range balls and practicing before golf and for nearly being late for his tee shot.
Dave Shorter fined himself for terrible bunker play.
John Furness fined for borrowing money off John Thorp, having his dog's pill alarm going off and for moaning about being in divots on the fairway.
Frazer W for scoring 4 point pars on the 2 hardest holes.

Captain Dave Shorter gave out the prizes.
Nearest the Pin Prizes.
NP2 on the 6th - Samir T
NP on the 8th - Rick B
NP3 on the 11th - Chris T
NP on the 17th - Steven C (very close to being a hole-in-one !)


Nick Rothery slam dunked a bunker shot on a par 3 for a birdie and then holed from 110 yards on a par four for an eagle, got 36 points and won nothing (life's tough).

Nigel Jones made his first appearance as a guest and won the best guest prize - he was the only guest ! but Bunkers are generous and very welcoming !!

Third with 37 points Frazer
Second with 38 points David B
First with 39 points Luke
Having picked his son in the sweep Tony got the £18 pot, nice to keep it in the family.....

Winner Luke receiving the trophy from Captain Dave


Roving reporter Tony Peters

You can see the full set of results on the results page

The current Order Of Merit can be seen here


Calcot welcomed us with some challenging weather conditions ! Beautiful sunny, blue skies interspersed with very windy - heavy showers some of which included some fierce hail squalls. However the sunny periods won the day eventually.

A good turn out of 18 hardy golfers participated, going off in groups of three. The recent extremely dry weather allowed the ball to run fast and long - sometimes into hazards or through the greens. The undulating greens were tricky and overall the conditions made for difficult scoring opportunities which presented in the overall lower scoring. Best score of the day went to Phil Richards with a score of 36 points which was significantly better than the 18 man field average of 25 points. 2nd and 3rd were Nathan Tidbury and Paul Risk with 34 and 31 points respectively (only 3 out of 18 players bettering 30 points).

The dinner wasn't the best but the beer was good as was the pre golf brunch selection..

Captain Dave Shorter handed out many fines for misdemeanour's.
Frazer Webb was fined for unsuccessfully looking for his ball when he had parked his trolley on top of it.
John Furness for allowing his trousers to almost fall down on the first tee and for leaving his scorecard in his car and for repeatedly asking Nick Rothery what his score was on the previous hole (5 X).
Dave fined 9 players for arriving after 1 pm - even though tee times were up to 2:38 pm (easy money ! but harsh).
Samir and Chris Turvill were fined for spurning birdie chances (Chris twice !). Samir was also fined for having a "too bright" golf bag and doing the pointy finger thing lining up his putts and 3 putting.
Ian Turvill fined for letting his trolley fall over three times and repeatedly exclaiming "this isn't a 13 mph wind". Nathan Tidbury for chasing his runaway trolly downwind on the 9th.
Tony fined for losing his dob-in sheet and for not winning when Captain Dave had drawn him in the sweep. David was fined for using too many bunkers on the 1st hole !
Finally - on the 6th hole from the stream in front of the green Ian Dowdswell played a wedge shot with his ball sitting 2 inches below the running water surface onto a good position on the green. INCREDIBLE SHOT - nobody likes a show off ........ £1 fine 😀

Skill Prizes
Nearest the Pin in 2 shots on 2nd Phil Richards
Nearest the Pin on 7th Darren Anderson
Nearest the Pin in 2 shots on 10th Nick Rothery
Nearest the Pin on 17th Nathan Tidbury
Strongest Man Darren Anderson!

3rd place Paul Risk 31 points
2nd place Nathan Tidbury 34 points
1st place Phil Richards 36 points

Winner Phil not receiving the trophy from Captain Dave, as Paul Healy hadn't realised he had the trophy we were playing for so got fined for not bringing it!


Roving reporter Tony Peters

You can see the full set of results on the results page

The current Order Of Merit can be seen here


After nearly 2 years since we returned to Theale Golf Club, with a number 11 players participated this event. Weather forecast was mixture of rain and sunshine definitely for Springtime during the Spring Season overall the weather was decent. The golf course itself was in perfect form fairways fresh cut grass the greens were fast, super tricky to putt the balls in.

After the last group finished the last hole of the round we all freshened up and got dressed meet up in the bar for drinks before being called for dinner. Main course Chicken & mushroom pie with chunky chips and peas and for dessert fruit crumble with vanilla custard delicious crumble !
We all enjoyed ourselves and each other’s company.

Vice Captain Luke read out the fines:
Captain Dave - Not getting past the red tee on the 14th tee. Finding the bunker by the 17th green with his tee shot on the 18th hole.
Phil Richards - Wearing jeans inside the clubhouse after golf. Throwing away his DOB Sheet away in the car park before we even started the first round.
Ian Turvill - Saying the F word after hitting a bad tee shot on the 15th tee.
Luke Peters - Losing his Dob sheet although he never lost it but he had to keep picking it up from blowing away. Forgetting the Skill prizes leaving them in the boot of his car.
John Thorp - Teeing off on the wrong tee box.
Nick Rothery - Putting his tee in the red tee instead of the yellow tee on the 11th tee.
Captain Dave - Didn’t know how to turn off the shower tap. Accusing John of not giving him the right amount of money for the £3 raffle.
Frazer Webb - For bouncing his golf ball off the tree and nearly scaring Michelle to death on the 15th hole. And for playing the ugliest golf ball ever created yikes !
Luke Peters - For giving up on the 7th hole after failing to hit his ball out of the bunker 3 times.
Luke and Ian - Nearly getting hit by Michelle’s golf ball on the 17th hole as they were standing in the wrong place.

Skill Prizes
Nearest the pin on the 6th Michael Prevost
Nearest the pin in 2 on the 7th Nick Rothery
Nearest the pin on the 13th Phil Richards
Nearest the pin in 2 on the 18th David Beck
Strongest Man AKA Michelle Cockram Woman power!

3rd place Phil Richards 36 points
2nd place David Beck 42 points
1st place Michael Prevost 44 points - Well done.

Winner Michael receiving the trophy from Captain Dave.


Roving reporter Luke Peters

You can see the full set of results on the results page

The current Order Of Merit can be seen here


A good turn out of 17 players including 2 guests. The conditions were very blustery and the course was dry. Thankfully the rough had not yet managed to grow too much. It was hard to putt on the undulating greens because they had recently been hollow tined and sanded.

After golf the food was a main course which was an absolutely delicious Beef and mushroom casserole with a square of puff pastry and a bed of creamy mashed potato with carrots and broccoli.

The Vice Captain Luke dutifully read out the list of fines.

John T - Wearing a flat cap.
Dave - Going back to play the 3rd hole again from the 5th and kept parking his buggy over his golf balls.
Ian and Frazer - For playing very badly
Samir - For wearing a cap and jeans inside the Clubhouse.
Nick - For winning nearest the pin in 2 from the wrong fairway !
Phil - Walking off before his group had finished their tee shots on the 13th tee.
Frazer - Club throwing.
Ian - For swearing.
Dave - For saying he lost his mobile phone when it was in his back pocket.
Ian - For wearing a disco shirt to dinner
Nick - For wearing golf shoes inside the clubhouse.
Tony Goodhead - For hitting his fairway wood directly at Tony Peters on the 6th hole and then attempting to kill Tony Peters on the 10th green with his out of control golf trolley.
Luke - For persistently over clubbing
Darren - For chasing his out of control trolley down hill in the 6th fairway.
Rick - Only just clearing the ladies tee with his opening shot.
Nick - Drove the green on the 15th hole and didn’t shout out FORE !
James - 3 phone calls on 5 holes.
Paul Stevenson - For parking in the members car park.

Skill Prizes
Nearest the pin on the 4th hole Paul Hearly
Nearest the pin on the 8th hole Nobody
Nearest the pin in 2 - 10th hole Nick Rothery
Nearest the pin in 2 - 15th hole Nick Rothery
Strongest Man - Phil Richards

3rd place 30 points Tony Peters
2nd place 32 points Dave Shorter

We should congratulate Nathan Tidbury winning his 1st Bunkers trophy with a fantastic round of golf netting 44 points, 12 points better than the second best player. Nathan needed to get home to Portsmouth to put his kids to bed so was unable to stay for dinner and to receive The Winter Shield trophy. Anticipating being fined Nathan kindly left £3 for the fines pot.

Roving reporters Luke and Tony Peters

You can see the full set of results on the results page

The current Order Of Merit can be seen here


Despite the A3 being shut all 18 players made it to Hurtmore Golf Club in time for the event. The early morning fog cleared in time for our first tee time at 10:32. It was chilly but soon the sun started to shine for throughout the entire afternoon, the course was in good condition and the excellent greens ran true and fast.

Paul Risk returned to play his first Bunkers event for more than 11 years.

We had new guests Rob Law and Samir Tappouni. All together we had 18 players some of whom enjoyed a hearty breakfast before play. The after golf meal Hunters Chicken , chunky chips and peas was delicious followed by desert lemon tart with fresh raspberries - sweet and tasty.

Our newly appointed Vice Captain Luke Peters read out the list of fines.
Luke Peters - Taking a phone call on the 10th hole.
Paul S - 3rd Hole twice he couldn’t remember his ball.
Michelle - Wearing a zip up bright colourful top.
Paul S - Apologising for not having the trophy engraved in time for today only to realise that it was the trophy for the April event.
Luke, Paul S and Michelle - Shaking hands before Phil could putt and finish last hole of the course.
Luke - For not eating the rest of his toast for breakfast.
Paul R - For going AWOL for the last 11 years ! Aiming for Tony Peters
Tony - For putting 4 putts on the 12th hole.
Rob Law - For getting himself lost on his way to the starting tee.
Ian - His mobile phone alarm system going off to remind him to take his pills.
Chris - Hitting the tee box where the group in front were.
Nick - Driving the green on the 16th hole for a ( Par 4 )
John - Getting the bar man to bring the drinks.
Rob - Not taking his hat off to shake hands with his teammates.
Tony & Darren - Taking 6 shots between them to get out of the same bunker on the 13th hole - Tony gave up without getting out in the end!
Michael - More hair on his arms than his head ! Ouch
James - Birdie on the 1st hole.

[ Skill Prizes ]
Nearest the pin in 2 on the 4th Hole Samir Tappouni
Nearest the pin on the 5th Hole Chris Turvill
Nearest the pin on the 16th Hole Nick Rothery
Nearest the pin in 2 on the 17th Hole Ian Turvill
Strongest man Paul Stevenson

3rd place
Ian Turvill - 40 points
2nd place
Nick Rothery - 41 points
1st place
Chris Turvill - 41 points

Winner Chris receiving the trophy from Captain Dave.


Roving reporters Luke and Tony Peters

You can see the full set of results on the results page

The current Order Of Merit can be seen here