Golfers rise to the Corporate Challenge at Cowdray

Guy Harwood with the winners of the Corporate Challenge at Cowdray Park

After two very competitive rounds over the summer months and more than 60 teams entering, six teams competed in the grand final of the Cowdray Park Corporate Challenge.

On a wet day all the finalists found the conditions challenging with scoring matching the inclement weather. The best individual score of the day came from Guy Harwood, chairman at Harwoods Group, with a very creditable 32 points.

The winning team were HT Supplies from Chichester, who came in with 89 Stableford points and won on countback from Ian Hamlets’ team West Sussex Office Furniture.

All the competitors commented on how well the course was presented and Harvey Terry from HT Supplies thanked Harwoods for the excellent competition and said the winners were looking forward to enjoying the team prize of four days of golf in Sunny Spain.

Pictured is Guy Harwood congratulating the winning team – from left to right Harvey Terry, Guy Harwood, John Doran and Guy Goodens

The newly-formed Cowdray Golf Society is proving very popular with other golf club members and golf societies.

The aim of the society is to bring together like-minded people who have a love of the game and who wish to play through the autumn and winter months on a course acclaimed for its fantastic conditions and now voted the No1 course in Sussex by Golfshake.com.

Anyone who registers for the golf society can enter some great events sponsored by some best high-street names meaning great prizes plus discounted green fees at Cowdray, its sister course Chiddingfold Golf Club and Estapona in Spain.

In addition there will be many opportunities under the society umbrella to gain professional coaching on your game with the team at Cowdray. Anyone who would like more information on the society should contact Kate at [email protected] or call 01780 813599.

The day after Bonfire Night, the fireworks continued at Cowday Park when the the two sections of the seniors – the 71-and-unders and the 72-and-overs, locked horns in their annual battle for the Jimmy Thompson Spoon, donated by a past professional.

The previous year’s winners, the ‘old guys’, were determined to hold on to the trophy, and show the ‘young upstarts’ who ruled the roost.

The format was better-ball matchplay, to count over the full 18 holes. The older generation were allowed to tee off from the forward yellow tees, while the younger players had to concede distance by teeing off from the back white tees.

The only difference this year was that the head greenkeeper had not been nobbled to move the white tees even further back!

Following a heavy overnight frost, tee times were delayed by 30 minutes to allow the course to clear.