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OF SPORT
OFGS V COLLEGE 2019
Match v College 2019
This annual match was held on Friday, 4th
October at Aldeburgh Golf Club where the
course was hardly recognisable from that
of the Autumn Meeting two weeks earlier,
having greened-up following much needed
rain.
7 OFs and 3 College staff took on a team
of 10 pupils, playing 6 singles matches and
2 foursomes matches.
The OF team came out narrowly on top,
with most matches being closely contested.
Nick Gandy & Neil Jackson vv Sam
Sporborg & Will White.
Jonny Newton vv George Jackson
James Blyth vv Callum Pearce
Hugh Curle vv Jonty Lecompte
Alex Gordon vv Fraser Johnson
Peter Howard-Dobson vv Max Day
Clive Cooksey vv Henry Moore
Lunch of soup and sandwiches was kindly
provided by the College while the OFs
took care of drinks and post-match tea and
cakes.
Barry Hitchcock & Johann Myburgh vv
James Cowell & Jake Mermigan
OF RIFLE CLUB
AT BISLEY 150TH
IMPERIAL MEETING
combination of all 12 qualifying shoots in
the meeting over six days in all weathers
and at all ranges (300 yards to 1000
yards).
BY STEVE MCDOWELL,
To win this legendary and world-famous
title (and the Gold Cross and thus forever
to have the post-nominals “GC” added
to your name), you must beat 1200 of the
best marksmen and women from all over
the world, with brilliant consistent shooting.
Out of 755 points, Sandy and two other
firers dropped only 15. In the last shoot,
the 15-round Prince of Wales – he knew
that to win the title by one V-Bull, he
needed to shoot a maximum 75 with 12
central V-Bulls. He got down to shoot in the
very last detail, in the hardest conditions,
around midday on a bright hot day, with
a turbulent thermal wind making wind
assessment a harrowing nightmare.
SHOOTING CORRESPONDENT
SANDY WALKER, GC, OF.
We’ve said it for so long now. Our kid, the
Gangling Metronome, Sandy Walker one
day would win Something Big under the
banner of the Old Framlinghamian Rifle
Club.
Already he is the youngest shooter to
represent his country at every level, not
only did he return from the Commonwealth
games in Australia last year with a bronze
medal, and another from the World
Championships.
But in 2019 at the Imperial Meeting at
Bisley – he really did win a very very VERY
Big One. The Grand Aggregate is the
Lacking as he does anything at all
resembling an adrenal gland and having
the mastery to perform in the wind, he duly
shot a 75.12 – described by his target
Our thanks to the College for a very
enjoyable match and we wish the boys well
and hope to see them as OF golfers before
too long.
Sandy Walker
mate, himself a distinguished shooter as
“the best shoot I’ve ever seen”.
It is no exaggeration to say he is among
the best handful of full-bore shooters on
the planet. And he gets to fire a cannon in
celebration.
He is as ever our pride and joy and we are
immensely proud of him.
And he’s only 32.
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