OW vs OE Singapore Golf Match 2024

The Singapore OW vs OE golf match had been long talked about and finally organised by the two skippers Jelf (Hg 91-96) and Eton’s Vaulkhard.

Thanks to a tropical rainstorm on arrival, our tee off time was delayed by 2 hours. Once we finally got going, we decided to play a Texas scramble, two fourballs, an Eton buggy and a Wellington buggy. We didn’t negotiate shots so each buggy played off scratch.

The Etonians got off to a flyer, 5 down after 6. Wellington, the opposite. The scores at the turn were Eton 5 under, and OWs 5 over- a lot of ground to catch up on. Rich Gower (Pn 99-04) played brilliantly throughout and kept the side together, assisted on occasion by Jelf. Dom Morrison (T00-05) and Will Blaney (A00-05) found it tough to begin with but contributed well on the back nine, where we managed to scrape par. Special mention to Blaney, who on the 18th, had a lovely up & down in the dark, under phone light. Eton also parred the back nine, winning the match by 10 shots.

In hindsight, a different format may have helped us, maybe not the overall result, but a closer margin. Eton were the better golfers and our enthusiasm during the rain delay probably impaired our start.