RNLI Golf Day raises record amount

Tue 22 Sep 2015

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Fifty-two players took part in a mixed golf competition on 27 August and raised over £4000 for the new lifeboat at Wells, including £1000 from a charity auction and raffle which Barclays Bank have again offered to match with an additional donation of £1000.

The winners were Sue Hutchings, Rosemary Boyer, Keith Boyer from Weston Park and Martin Dunnell from Royal Cromer with a net score of 58.4. Second were Bernie Vaughan, Liz Vaughan, Lindsay Woods and Kevin Pratt, with a net score of 58.8. The team from Barclays, namely Tom Hall, Paul Knights, Will Sommerville and Raymond Johnson were third with 60.9 net.

The organisers. Sue Edwards and Wells Lifeboat Press Officer John Mitchell, would like to thank all who took part and the local businesses who provided sponsorship and donations. 

The event was originally started in 2003 by Sue Edwards and has previously been hosted at Cosstessey, Bawburgh and Dunston Hall Golf Clubs as well as its current venue at Weston Park outside Norwich. In the last four years, over £14,000 has been raised for the RNLI. The present organisers intend to stand down this year and there may also be a need to relocate to a new course next year. If anyone would like to take up the reins and help organise and run the event next year, please get in touch with John Mitchell (via our contact page) or with Sue Edwards; it would be great to keep this popular and successful fund-raising event going in future...

Picture shows winning team of Martin Dunnell (Royal Cromer GC), Keith Boyer, Sue Hutchings and Rosemary Boyer (from Weston Park GC) with organiser Sue Edwards and Wells Lifeboat Operations Manager, Chris Hardy.

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