Category: Tournaments

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

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) 

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