OJA Golf
Annual Golf Tournament
2025
After a "year off", the OJA Annual Golf tournament will be held at in the autumn at the Waterlooville golf club. More details will be available nearer the time.
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May 2024
Unfortunately, there was insufficient interest to hold the planned 2024 Golf Weekend event in 2024. If any members have any suggestions as to a suitable event for 2025, please contact the association on oldjohannianassociation@gmail.com, or register your interest by clicking on the link below
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Click here to register your interest
2025 OJA Golf - TBA
The last Golf event to take place was held at the Waterlooville Golf Club on Thursday 5th October 2023. Due to a lack of interest, it was not held in 2024, and we plan, subject to demand, to hold the next event in October 2025. The sad demise of the College in terms of bricks and mortar doesn’t mean an end to the many happy memories many still harbour. The golf day is an opportunity to meet old friends and swap stories.
2023 OJA golf report
OJ Golf Day Thursday 5th October 2023.
Warm weather greeted another OJ golf day at Waterlooville golf club. After the sad closure of the College, it was considered important to keep one of the functions, originally started by Brother David almost 50 years ago, alive and kicking.
Although numbers, for a variety of reasons were a lower, it turned out to be a good competition with some close scores. It was a pleasure to welcome Stefan Bartkowiak and Steve Beddingham from the OJ committee who enjoyed meeting past students. Stefan walked the course and took a number of pictures to mark the day.
As in previous years we were supported by a number of OJ’s who contributed to the event. Terry Healy, and Jason O’ Malley from Portsmouth Golf Centre and Woburn GC added to the generous prizes. Steve Beddingham, Brit Pearce, and the OJ committee donated wine, and Tom and Will Phillips donated an hour and a half on their new golf simulator at Tournerbury golf club on Hayling Island. I am always amazed by people’s kindness. Any money made on the raffle and auction goes to the Royal Marsden hospital.
The course was in excellent condition and contributed to the following results. We were able to award prizes to 7 places.
1st Brit Pearce 40 points
2nd Brian Saunders 39 points
3rd Matt Kell 38 points
4th Will Phillips 37 points
5th Stuart Powell 36 points
6th Stuart Mohammed 32 points
7th Tracy Powell 32 points
I would like to personally thank Matt Kell for his support in running the competition this year. The event in my opinion is so much more important than the results. A chance to catch up with old friends is a joy.
There is a drive to change the format in future years. It would be run on a Saturday or Sunday at a course that has a hotel. Perhaps next May. This would allow people to travel and stay overnight. It also avoids taking a mid-week day off, which a number of people expressed was the only reason they were unable to attend.
The committee would love to hear your thoughts on this. Please be encouraged to voice your thoughts though any of the contact channels you prefer.
Kind regards Brian Saunders