The Biarritz Golf blog
The winner ? .... charity
By Keith Sutherland 29 September 2009
What a great day !! The Frome Lions Charity golf event at Orchadleigh golf club last Friday was a complete success. The sun shone and the golf was good. Our team “The boys from Biarritz” didn’t win despite great leadership and meticulous planning .. and some dodgy putting, but we returned a respectable score and finished in the top half. Thanks a million to my fellow team mates, David Gill, Robin Kirwin-Taylor and Kev Readman for making a decent fist of it all.
Our Biarritz Golfing Experience donated prize of a two night stay in the Radisson Hotel, Biarritz with two rounds of golf at Golf d’Arcangues and Golf de Biarritz along with chauffeur driven transport to and from Biarritz airport and both golf courses, was won by Andrew Alden from Frome. The prize was presented by Norman “bites your legs” Hunter, the great ex Leeds and England footballer, who in his day struck fear into many of the top strikers in the old English first division and still looks like he could now !!
Charity of course was the big winner and we know that the “Hope for tomorrow” charity will benefit from the day. Well done to all the volunteers from Frome Lions who did all those jobs around the course that us golfers sometimes take for granted as we strive for golfing excellence.
Watch this space for further events when we hope to offer a similar fantastic prize of a golf trip to Biarritz for the benefit of a local charity.