The Red Lion Golf Society
Great thing about working on the radio is I do meet loads of people, and get to try out all sorts of different things, I enjoy jogging and walking, but most of all I do enjoy a game of Golf. Have to say I'm no Tiger Woods, but I do play off a handicap of 24. Again living in East Kent we do have some wonderful Championship golf courses. I'll keep you updated on how the Golf's going, I do tend to play most weeks, even in the winter.
The Gang who started it all
Golf fundraiser 2004
Young Sam behind the Bar at The Red Lion, well the 19th
For The 2004 Children in need fundraising day we played a round of golf with some future stars of the game, and raised over £1000
The Lads From The Red Lion In Dover were fund raising by playing golf most of 2004.
After a hard slog of 18 holes of golf it's always nice to come back to the 19th and a lovely smiling face.
Handing over some cash we raised to the Dover RNLI

The cheque presentation from the golf team of The Red Lion, Dover, to The Dover Lifeboat crew.

The team raised over £600.

Well done lads.
Red Lion crew with the Dover Lifeboat chairman and a crew member

After around a year of playing golf together a few of the regulars at the Red Lion in Dover thought it would be an idea to see who would be interested in joining a golf society. Then in was decided to start one up within the pub, 28 of us put our names down for the first match which was played on Saturday 2nd April. We intend to play a match each season of the year at least.

Ready for the off
Red Lion card

Here I've selected a few photo's of our golf match at Etchinghill, hope you enjoy them. Weather on the day was sunny and warm with just a genital breeze. Handicaps ranged from players playing off 6, to others off 28. Wesley was the over all winner with a round of 83, playing off a handicap of 16.
Keith, Johnny, and John the post the first team off
Warming up on the 1st
About to hit on the 1st, and it went right down the middle, bloody supprise!
More of the team on the first
Dino, Phil the baker
Dino in full swing
Tall Chris and his team on the 1st
Another 4 ball ready for the off
Irish john and his team
And the last lot tee off
Dino in the woods
From woods to water, poor Dino
in the bunker, and sand everywhere
after the bunker, now putting out
John, the captain of the team, and Wesley
it's on it's way
John the captain in action
it's in the hole lad
Keith taking some dirt with the ball
Keith in action, but where's the ball gone?
Found the ball, now putting out
Cor, some had the buggeys
nicely out my son
It won't go in Dino just looking lad
It's in yes, yes, yes.

RED LION GOLF SOCIETY

EVENT 1 Scores..

PLAYERS NAME SCORE NET POINTS H.CAP .
WEZ 85 69 38 16 WINNER
PHIL CULLEN 89 72 34 17 RUNNER UP
MARTIN 92 72 34 20 RUNNER UP & Long driver 18th
IRISH JOHN 102 74 34 28 RUNNER UP
COLIN BARNES 90 33 16
AARON 90 31 14 L/DRIVE & nearestthe pin 12th
GRAHAM 99 30 25
ADAM POSTIE 90 30 14
PHIL THE BAKER 108 28 28
JOHN PECK 106 28
COLIN CARTER 99 25 16
COP DEAN 109 24 28 ONLY BIRDIE
CHRIS CRIBBENS 110 23 28
STEVE WALKING 116 23 28
DEN THE REV 113 22 28 NEAR PIN 17TH
JOHN GRIFFITHS 114 20 28
AERIAL CHRIS 126 19 28
DEZ THE MENIS 128 19 28
JAY 137 14 28
ALEX CPF 144 12 28
DEANO 152 9 28
HOWARD 129 6 28
TONY MAN CTY 148 6 28
ADAM 168 1 28
KEITH 175 1 32
JOHNNY LEWIS NIL NIL NIL 28 Only ½ round work
putting out
Bugger, just missed
me over, roll on the 19th
After around 4 hours of great golf it was back to The Red Lion in Dover (19th hole) for drinks, food and some awards. We had trophies for the winner. Well done Wesley, also the longest drive, nearest the pin, who hit the most bunkers and the person who took the most shots...Won't name that person here!
Awards back at the Red Lion
More awards.
And even more

Must say we had a great first outing for our golf society, and a big thank you to John the Post for putting it all together so well, and to Etchinghill Golf Club who put up with us.

Our next full outing is going to be on Saturday 25th June.

All photos from the society outing were taken by John Erskine and the copyright is owned by 'The Red Lion golf society'. If you would like details and information about the society please E.mail