The Guildford Alliance the Surrey based Pro-am series has just completed the 2021/22 season which was made even more special by the fact that this was our Centenary season and the fact that we were able to play a full season of events.
The Centenary season has a total of 19 Fixtures and more than 250 Amateurs, and 80 Professional’s played in our events during the season and The Guildford Alliance events continue to be as popular as ever and nearly all of the events were fully subscribed and often had a reserve list. Many thanks to all the Golf Clubs who hosted our events this season.
This season we added Hayling to our list of venues and we were blessed with glorious weather and I am sure Hayling will be firmly established on our rota from now on – we also had a two day trip to Sandwich and played Princes and Royal Cinque Ports and once again the weather was glorious – in 2023 our away trip is to Bournemouth to play Ferndown, Broadstone & Stoneham.
Our season began at Walton Heath for our Centenary event which had an amazing 43 teams playing on the day and great to see some of the Guildford Alliance players who do not play in the Alliance so much now playing on the day – the fixtures that we played during the season were at Hankley Common, Blackmoor, North Hants, Swinley Forest, Liphook, Sunningdale Heath, New Zealand, Hayling, Liphook, Woking (sadly this event was cancelled owing to adverse weather), West Hill, Princes and Royal Cinque Ports and The Berkshire.
We held our end of Season Championship event at Walton Heath – played over both Old & New Course and the Professional Challenge Trophy was won by Sam Hutsby (Hedge End Golf Centre) with a great score of 12 under Par over the two rounds – Sam joins a long list of past winners which includes Open Champions Max Faulkner, Henry Cotton, Bobby Locke, Alf Perry, Alf Padgham and Richard Burton - as well as former Ryder Cup players like George Duncan, George Will, Neil Coles, Ken Bousfield, Peter Alliss, Arthur Lacey, and many more leading PGA professional Golfers. The Amateur Scratch Trophy was won by Philip Clarke (Hankley Common) with 6 over Par score.
The season long Order of Merit winners were Professional Craig Sutherland (Poult Wood) and Amateur Jason French (Langley Park).
The Guildford Alliance would like to thank the Alliance President Roy Sheehan and especially the Captain for the year Roy Bailey (Liphook Golf Cub) for his support of the Alliance during his Captain’s year and Roy very kindly donated the Centenary Trophy which was played at Liphook and won by Ron Commans (The Wisley) and amateurs Clive Talbot and Len Busch
Next Seasons fixtures in full are Walton Heath (13th October 2022), Hankley Common (26th October , 2022), Woking (Foursomes) (7th November 2022), The Berkshire (9th November 2022), North Hants (22nd November 2022), Swinley Forest (1st December 2022), Liphook (15th December 2022), London Club (5th January 2023), New Zealand (19th January 2023), Hayling (1st February 2023),West Hill Liphook (9h February 2023), Woking (17th February 2023), Blackmoor (2nd March 2023), Burhill (9th March 2022), Ferndown (28th March 2023), Broadstone (29th March 2023), Stoneham (30th March 2023) ,The Berkshire (6th April 2023) and Walton Heath (12th March 2023).
The Guildford Alliance organises Golf days between October and April and If you are interested in playing in the Guildford Alliance in the 2022/23 season please contact David on davidgalliance@hotmail.com or @GFORDALLIANCE and he will be able to provide you with further information on these events or your club professional who will be able to help you.