Wearside Wanderers Golf Society

The Wearside Wanderers golf society consists of 20+ regular playing members and some other occasional players, mostly from around the Sunderland area, four of us regularly play at Wearside Golf Club, hence the name. We meet about twice a month during the spring, summer and autumn seasons to play golf and socialise.

Society Structure (2010)

Hon President - Brian Sykes

Chairman - Derek Griffiths

Vice Chairman - Paul Marshall

Captain - Jim Rooks

Vice Captain - Tim Aberdeen

Treasurer - John Ford

Competition Secretary - Ian Gunn

Social Secretary - Paul Baker

Web site Host - Andrew Teasdale

 

A brief history of our society

The Wearside Wanderers Golf society was formed in 2002 by four lads as an excuse to get away from their respective families, play some golf and have a few beers (and a few more and more etc). That year we went to Scotland for a four day jaunt, playing six courses, having an excellent time in the process.

The next year the word spread and we were joined by another two like minded individuals who wanted to join the fun. We also increased the number of rounds from six to seven, played over five days. This change worked well and once again much fun was had by all (and once again, much ale was supped by all).

In 2004 we expanded our range, instead of only going away for a week we played as a group at various local courses throughout the year including two trips to the Borders and a weekend trip over to the Lake District. Sadly the Lake District lived up to its name but the weekend wasn't a total washout (or a was it a "brainwash" out, John & Dennis?) as that weekend was the catalyst to forming the Wearside Wanderers golf society we have today.

2005 was our first full season as a proper society with a membership comprising of fifteen golfers from widely different backgrounds. The season comprised of thirteen rounds including five in the Borders harking back to our very first year. The whole season was a great success, bringing together players of varying ability who started the season as total strangers and finished it as firm friends.

By 2006, the society had expanded to twenty one full members and a few occasional players who are always made most welcome. The seasons golf consisted of sixteen rounds at courses throughout the North East (still including the obligatory borders trip). The final round this year was at Wearside Golf Club and was sponsored by a local design and consultancy company DESCO, many thanks to them for their generosity. 2006 saw the tightest championship in our history with six points covering the top three after sixteen rounds of the championship.

During 2007 we continued to develop and extend the society with twenty four full members. This year our Championship consisted of fifteen rounds including a few courses new to the society. This seasons Borders Championship was contested over eight rounds on five courses in the Dumfries & Galloway region of south west Scotland and was a resounding success. As last season our society benefited from some corporate sponsorship by the generous support of five of our members companies, thanks to them we were able to provide some excellent prizes and trophies at the season Finals day in October. As in 2006 the Championship proved to be extremely tight with four points covering the top three places.

The 2008 season produced the most exciting and trying season yet. After six months, playing 288 holes of golf at sixteen different courses, with an estimated combined total of 21,606 shots It all went down to the last shot on the last hole of the last course to produce our new Champion. The 2008 season was dominated by the weather. We started in a blizzard at Ramside, endured gale force winds at Bellingham, monsoon conditions at Seaton Carew and to cap it all for the first time in our society history we had to cancel a match, but even with all of this the competition was as fierce as ever.

2009 brought with it a major financial recession and we as a society had to take this into account. We tried to limit the cost of each round to a maximum of £30 and on the whole we achieved this goal. Secondly we decided to cancel our Borders Championship week away and replace it with two weekend trips. The first, in May, was to one of our old stomping ground The Hirsel at Coldstream followed the next day with a return trip to Eyemouth, this trip was well received with ten players for both days. The second trip to North Yorkshire was less successful with only a few players for both days at Catterick and Bedale in August. The 2009 Championship was as hotly contested as ever with no less than four players going in to the final game at Wearside with a chance of winning, in the end Jim Rooks came out on top with a new record total of 370 points. As we head into 2010 I am sure we will have the same level of competition in the season ahead.

Previous Season's Results

2002 Results

Link to the the 2002 scores Excel file - 2002 Results

2003 Results

Link to the the 2003 scores Excel file - 2003 Results

2004 Results

Link to the the 2004 scores Excel file - 2004 Results

2005 Results

Link to the the 2005 scores Excel file - 2005 Results

2006 Results

Link to the the 2006 scores Excel file - 2006 Results

2007 Results

Link to the the 2007 scores Excel file - 2007 Results

2008 Results

Link to the the 2008 scores Excel file - 2008 Results

2009 Results

Link to the the 2009 scores Excel file - 2009 Results