The Halford Hewitt Tournament played at Royal Cinque Ports, Royal St.George’s and Prince’s Golf Clubs in April each year consists of teams of 10 playing foursomes matchplay off scratch. As usual, Eastbourne was one of the 64 school teams competing, and we had one of our most successful runs. We beat Bishop’s Stortford by 4 games to one, then Wellingborough by 3/2 and only went down 3/2 to a very strong team from Watson’s. But our two victories in this last match were by the impressive margins of 4 & 3 and 5 & 3.

The team was captained by Adrian Sharpin and we were very pleased to have two Hewitt debutants, namely Harry Rimmer and Jack Hughes.

The majority of the Eastbourne team, from the left: Adam Walker (caddy), Peter Walker, Adrian Sharpin, Charlie Oakley, Harry Rimmer, Ben Dawson, Tim Mote, Jack Hughes, David Barwell.

Harry Rimmer and Jack Hughes getting ready for our first round match.