News & Updates

Rookery Park has become the first Suffolk club to achieve the new-style, National GolfMark award in recognition of its work within the game.   In accordance with England Golf’s  Get Into Golf scheme, Rookery is working hard to encourage newcomers to golf.   Its...

Abbie Symonds was the runner up in the 2014 final and hoped to go one better this year.   However, it is a splendid effort to come second two years running and her efforts netted her the Ladies Under 21 handicap prize.  On day one she also won nearest the pin,  when...

Georgia Parker topped the list at the Newton Green Junior Open, winning in both the girls’ and the mixed divisions with 41 points.    This, the best score of the day, reduced her handicap by four shots to 19.   Keep up the good work, Georgia!

Well done, Abbie Symonds!  She has bagged a place in the National final of the Westwood Golf Tour for the second year in a row and will take her place in the line up on the Filly Course at Close House Golf Club for the 56-hole competition to be played on Sunday/Monday...

Click here and follow the link to download the Entry Form. Teresa Wardlaw is looking forward to receiving your entries and welcoming you to Stowmarket on Thursday 29 October. Please click here to download the Entry Form

With back to school looming we are hearing good things about junior golfing achievements during the long summer holiday.  Two more girls in the news are Alice Iron and Fiona Stokes from Haverhill. On August 15th, 16-year-old Alice won the Ladies Championship with a...

Georgia Parker, who plays for the Junior County Second team, continues to return good competition scores playing a   round the County.  She won the Captain’s Weekend Stableford at her home club, Bury St Edmunds, with an excellent  score of 40 points and then travelled...

The Junior Open at Southwold on June 13th was a good place to be if your name was Georgia Parker. Georgia, from Bury St Edmunds, was handicapped off 28 at the start of the day and probably never guessed she would become the overall winner in the field of twenty-three,...

In the quarter finals of the Senior Jubilee Shield at home against Ufford Park, Lynne Quayle of Flempton made a hole-in-one at the par three fifth.  She used a nine wood.   On one of the hottest days of the year, Lynne treated both teams to a celebratory Pimms. Sarah...

Remember the 7th at Thorpeness?   That’s the pretty, 130-yard watery one.  It’s not long, but challenging and  Chris Lynch-Bates holed her tee shot during a friendly game at the Club with Sally Crosbie, her Stearn Trophy partner.  Came the next visit, this time the...

The May draw for the 100 Club found the following winners: £100  Sue Strutt-Holmes (Bungay);                                                                                                     £50 Frieda Waldron (Rookery Park), Jenni Balls (Aldeburgh);                ...

We’re looking back and looking forward!   Julie Otto was Suffolk’s most successful and highly influential lady golfer as an amateur and, at the height of that, her first golfing career, she was probably the finest amateur lady golfer in the world. Learning the golf...

The Draw was made at the Delegates Meeting.  The prizes were awarded to: Jacqueline Waghorn - £100 (Thorpeness); Pippa Beak - £50 (Flempton); Elspeth French - £50 (Aldeburgh); Aldeburgh Ladies Section - £50; Flempton Ladies Section - £25; Sue Montgomery - £25 (Bury St...

The draw was made at the Annual General Meeting.   Prizes went to the following: £100 Ali Hardiman (Aldeburgh) £50 Janice Aldridge (Seckford); Jackie Moseley ( Bury St Edmunds) £25: Ann Legg (Cretingham);  Jane Orde-Powlett (Royal Worlington); Janet Elby (Fynn Valley)...

Eloise Aldous and Molly Newson came 14th and 18th respectively in the 36-hole Midland Junior Champion of Champions event held at The Nottinghamshire Golf Club last weekend.  First and second were Lianne and Annabel Bailey of Kirby Muxloe.

Abbie Symonds is in the news again!   She played in the Aldeburgh Junior Open at the weekend (21st September), defending the title she won last year.   Out in 40 and four over par, she came back in 36, a sparkling two under, returning a 76, just two over the standard...

The National Final of the Lee Westwood Golf Tour to be held on the Filly Course at Close House Golf Course (Newcastle) on Monday 29 September 2014 will feature our own Abbie Symonds.   She qualified as the top Under 21 lady player from Area 2 (Essex and...

The Lamb Trophy sponsored by Martin Lamb, was held on Saturday 30th August. The stableford event played over 36 holes is for the winners of the various competitions throughout the previous year.The event this year was won by Claire Ferguson with an overall score of 81...

The final match, which was played at Aldeburgh on 30th August, did not actually feature the eventual winners of the Weston Trophy.  The destination of the trophy depended upon the outcome of the fixture between Newton Green and Aldeburgh.   Had Aldeburgh won all five...