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We were proud to host the 2026 County champs at our field on the 6th of September, congrats to the following club members who won their respective categories
Paul Field – Gents Longbow
Peter Roberts – Gents Barebow
Full results are available at https://www.bucksarcheryassociation.org.uk/results
Some photos courtesy of Tony
Calling ALL Whiteleaf archers — experienced competitors, brand-new archers, and everyone in between!
On Sunday 20 September 2026, we’re holding the Whiteleaf Bowmen Championships, and the aim is very simple:
🎯 Shoot some arrows. Have some fun. Enjoy a great day with the club.
This is OPEN TO EVERYONE, irrespective of experience or ability. Never entered a competition before? Perfect. Give it a go! Been shooting for years? Brilliant — come along and join in.
🏹 Choose your challenge
There are three ways to take part:
🌞 Western Round – All Day (Shooting to commence at 10:00, Assembly Brief 09:45)
One full Western Round: 8 dozen / 96 arrows, with four dozen at each of two distances.
☀️ Warwick Round – Morning (Shooting to commence at 10:00, Assembly Brief 09:45)
If you don’t fancy the full day, or want to shoot a few fewer arrows, you can shoot the Warwick in the morning, which is 4 dozen / 48 arrows, with two dozen at each of two distances.
🌤️ Warwick Round – Afternoon (Shooting to commence approximately 13:00, Assembly Brief 12:45)
Another complete Warwick after lunch — so if you can’t make the morning, you can still take part!
Shoot at whatever distance you’re happy at, it doesn’t matter! Shoot at your own level. This isn’t about everyone having to shoot their age appropriate distance.
🏆 Championships… but without taking ourselves too seriously
Yes, it’s the Club Championships. Yes, there will be scores. Yes, there will be winners.
But above all, this is meant to be a FUN day of shooting.
And to keep things interesting, we’ll also have 🎨 SPOT COLOUR PRIZES! 🎨
So even if you’re nowhere near the top of the leaderboard, there will still be opportunities to walk away with something. Sometimes one particularly well-placed arrow is all it takes!
⚖️ Our extremely serious judging procedure…
There will be no “formal” judging as such.
If there’s a question over an arrow, sort it out together on your boss. Have a look, have a chat and reach a friendly decision.
If everyone on the boss genuinely can’t agree, the TO will be summoned to arbitrate.
Naturally, such an important matter demands the highest standards of sporting governance.
Therefore, the TO’s decision-making procedure will be:
🪨 ROCK. 📄 PAPER. ✂️ SCISSORS.
No appeals. Probably. 😁
The point is that it’s a fun day, and it’s open to everyone. We want everyone to enter into the spirit of the day: friendly, fair and fun.
📅 Get your entry in!
🏆 WHITELEAF BOWMEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
📅 Sunday 20 September 2026
⏰ Western – All Day | Warwick – Morning | Warwick – Afternoon
📋 ENTRY REQUIRED BY MONDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2026 – ENTER HERE –https://forms.gle/3tN9PHXtY1nTqT798
Whether this is your first competition or your fiftieth, we’d love to see you there.
Don’t worry about whether you’re “good enough”. You are. Shoot your own round, at your own level, alongside your clubmates and enjoy being part of the day.
Everyone is welcome. Every ability is welcome. Every bowstyle is welcome.
🏹 Come along, fling some arrows, chase a spot-colour prize and become part of the 2026 Whiteleaf Bowmen Championships!
Sunday 14th September saw this year’s club championships followed by a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of Whiteleaf Bowmen in 1965.
Whether it was an inclusive range of Western rounds or the promise of a special anniversary cake, there was a great turnout and the weather gods were kind, as it remained dry despite all the dire forecasts.
There is just a handful of club members now who shot at the original club ground next to what used to be The Rose and Crown in Saunderton. Despite the obvious attraction of being located next to a pub, there were some challenges with shooting alongside a busy railway line.
When The Rose and Crown asked us to leave, the future of the club looked bleak. Thankfully the owner of Stocken Farm offered us the field we now have and the club and its contents, including the original 1960s club hut moved up to the new ground. The hut was replaced in 2013 with the current building and thanks to the hard work of many club members over the years, we have a shooting ground to be proud of, which is the envy of many other clubs.
Whiteleaf Bowmen has a great tradition of welcoming all archers, whether they shoot competitively, just for fun or for the social side of things. Long may this continue for the next 60 years.
Results are below, with spot prize winners as follows:
Green – Jan O’Keeffe
Worst white – Alex Grimshaw
Worst black – Jan O’Keeffe
Centre blue – Alistair Grimshaw
Best red – Paul Davis
Best gold – Graham Bourke
Results are in for this year’s tournament. The event consisted of a National followed by the Pope & Young round.
We are please to announce our annual Open Tournament which will be taking place on the 18th of May 2025
Venue: Whiteleaf Bowmen, New Road, High Wycombe, HP27 0PP (What3Words – https://w3w.co/thinnest.tender.geese)
Rounds: York, Hereford and Bristols
Closing date for entries: 2 May 2025
For further information please download the entry form:
You may also enter via our online entry form at: https://forms.gle/Rn8c8GTXyjFwJf7c8
This years tournament took place on the 19th of May. The day started off rather overcast but it got warmer as the day progressed. A special thanks to everyone who set up the field in the days leading up to the competition as well as the field party on the day who turned up early to help set up and helped with finding lost arrows.
A total of 35 archers took to the field shooting a variety of rounds. Results and photos are below.
We are please to announce our annual Open Tournament which will be taking place on the 19th of May 2024
Venue: Whiteleaf Bowmen, New Road, High Wycombe, HP27 0PP (What3Words – https://w3w.co/thinnest.tender.geese)
Rounds: York, Hereford and Bristols
Closing date for entries: 3 May 2024
For further information please download the entry form:
You may also enter via our online entry form at: https://forms.gle/KXa3Qp48DQyC9kPA6
Twenty-Three archers eagerly took to the field to compete in the Club Championship shoot this year. With rounds ranging from a Long National for the actual championship, down to a National 30 there was something for all archers. The weather stayed dry for the whole shoot and shooting started a fraction after 10:00. With the shoot only being six dozen, almost every end had either a best gold or hidden colour prize for those that weren’t hitting the gold. In fact, the most nervous times were the search for the arrow that would win the green colourprize and wondering when the Longbow Best Gold prize would be won.
After the final arrow had been shot, the field was returned to its usual look and our secretary Jan quickly put she scores in order and filled out the result sheet. Our Lady Patron for the shoot Julie then presented the medals and some trophies and the colour prizes of chocolate. The full results are below but special congratulations to our club champions for 2023, Julie, Paul D, Brenda, Simon, Imran and Junior Man Alex.
Thanks to Neill for arranging the tournament, Julie for being our Lady Patron, Jan for the scoring and results and all those who helped set-up before and tidy up after the shoot. Hopefully see even more of you at this shoot in 2024.
Results and Photos follow.
| Long National – Championship Round | |
| Womens Recurve | Julie |
| Mens Recurve | Paul D |
| Womens Compound | Brenda |
| Mens Barebow | Imran |
| Mens Longbow | Alan |
| National | |
| Womens Longbow | Jan |
| Mens Recurve | Jon |
| Mens Compound | Julian |
| National 50 | |
| Mens Recurve | Andy |
| National 40 | |
| Mens Barebow | Matthew |
| Mens Longbow | Adi |
| National 30 | |
| Mens Barebow | David |
| National 30 Junior Championship Round | |
| Junior Mens Barebow | Alex |
| Spot Prizes | |
| Best Gold @ 80 yards | Imran |
| Most Golds Unrewarded | Andreas and Kevin |
| Married Couple | Jan and John |
| Best Gold Compound | Nick |
| Best Gold Recurve | Jon |
| Best Gold Barebow | Alex |
| Best Gold Longbow | Adi |
| Red Colour Prize | Andy |
| Blue Colour Prize | Peter |
| Black Colour Prize | Adi |
| White Colour Prize | Alan |
| Green Colour Prize | Francis |
The clouds hung lightly over the corner of a field that is home to archers of Whiteleaf braving the first day of the second decade of the third millennium.
A hardy few of nine men and one woman (that’s ten for anyone struggling with sums after the new year) set forth to shoot the traditional new year clout. True to form Alan let forth the first whinge on the ground of the year (claiming his first was shortly after midnight) before the “serious” business of archery began.
The “competition” took its usual form of ribald humour, leg pulling, 2 arrows on one of the static bosses and even one or two archers really trying – Mark scored with all his arrows until the 5th end while Calvin ( no shame on a novice) and Neil ( don’t let this man coach your barebow aiming) both contrived only one scoring arrow each in the same time.
After 8 ends three were still in the running and within 4 points ( on paper a forth was technically in it but this would require a perfect score and all the others to miss) but having led the whole way through Mark’s solid 3,3,miss in the last end saw him pull clear of the field for a famous victory.
The Frog was presented to Mark to display in a place of honour for another year
Scores ( numbers are the Scores after 5, 8 & 9 ends)
| Mark | 29 | 36 | 42 |
| John | 21 | 35 | 37 |
| Tony | 15 | 32 | 34 |
| Nick | 17 | 23 | 28 |
| Jim | 17 | 21 | 21 |
| Val | 5 | 9 | 13 |
| Ian | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Alan | 2 | 7 | 11 |
| Calvin | 2 | 9 | 9 |
| Neil | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Have a good years shooting and see you all – new years day hats and all – next year
For pictures of the day see below:
Reporters: R. O’binhood and L.E.Golas
Welcome to the Whiteleaf Bowmen Open Tournament 2018.
This is a UK Record Shoot (UKRS) tournament.
A very big thanks to everybody who came, and not only the ones who shot.
We have had several very positive comments, and a couple of suggestions on how we can improve the shoot. Any comments would be most welcome, both positive and negative. (Mail to: Peter King)
Results can be found here