Toria had been member of Whiteleaf Bowmen for almost 45 years. During that time she had been Club and County Champions, not to mention medallists at the National Indoor Championship, The Grand National Archery Meeting and The Southern Counties Archery Meetings and regularly shot for Buckinghamshire.
At the club she had held all the major offices including Chairman when the club was forced to moved from “The Rose and Crown” at Saunderton in 2003. Fortune was with us when we found our present home at Walter’s Ash. In the early 1990’s she was made Honorary Vice President and Life member to reward her for her endeavours for the club.
Toria was a regular at Beginners classes, Fun Shoots and Work Parties where she was famed for her Rock Cakes at the rest intervals.
Toria’s son Paul came down from Coventry to plant an ornamental cherry tree at the far end of the field along the bottom fence, with a plaque commemorating both Toria and Ken Greening. Jan O’Keefe, Francis Gerrard, Susan and Barry Tutty, and Tony White were there from the club.
The Whiteleaf Bowmen Barrel Trophy for best gold at 80 yards at our annual club tournament. It was was first awarded in in 1967. The complete list of winners for each year is as follows
We will be holding the Club Championships on 20th August 2023. Sighters will commence at 10:00 PROMPTLY, registration will be from 09:30. We would be grateful for any members that would be willing to help setup prior to this.
This year we will be shooting variants of the National rounds, with the round for the Club Champion being a Long National. These are six dozen rounds, 4 dozen at the longer distance and 2 dozen at the shorter.
Long National 80y & 60y
National 60y & 50y
National 50 50y & 40y
National 40 40y & 30y
National 30 30y & 20y
To encourage new members to participate we will also offer a “National 20”, this is not an official AGB round, but at 20 & 10 yards is ideal for those who are new to Archery.
In order to plan for the day can you please complete the form below to enter. Entries to be received no later than Monday 14th August 2023.
The day finally arrived for the first Whiteleaf Bowmen Open Shoot post pandemic with 28 archers due to compete across all 9 targets. The ground party arrived early to set up the field with mist swirling around but the prospect of a dry, maybe sunny shoot. Some sterling work soon had the field ready for the shoot and it was great to see a full field of targets with pristine targets on, ready to greet the archers.
As our Chairperson Julie welcomed the archers and went through the admin, the sun started to appear and 27 archers prepared themselves for the challenge ahead. The shoot went really smoothly under the control of the judges David and Meera and helped by the fact we only had one missing arrow the whole day.
At the end of a very enjoyable shoot, the top archers in each category received their medals from our Lady Paramount, Jan, and a hastily arranged raffle (thanks to those who provided prizes) raised over £100 for club funds.
Thanks to Neill for arranging the tournament and those archers who helped on the day.
Whiteleaf Bowmen classifications shot on the day Master Bowmen (and club and county records[tbc]) – Imran R Bowman 1st Class – Julie M, Kevin J Bowmen 2nd Class – Jan O, John W, Marc B, Brenda G Bowmen 3rd Class – Paul F, Jon S
We are please to announce that we will be running 2 UK record status tournaments this year. Dates and entry forms below.
Longbow Tournament – Double National
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled for 2023 – all those who have entered have been contacted. If you have not received an email please do get in touch with the tournaments officer.
UKRS York / Hereford / Bristols
14 May 2023 Venue: Whiteleaf Bowmen, New Road, High Wycombe, HP27 0PP Rounds: York, Hereford and Bristols Closing date for entries: 28 April 2023 For further information please download the entry form:
Indoor archery is back on at Lacey Green Village hall, the dates are below
Sessions (ready to shoot) are at: 1730, 1930, and, with prior notification on the Whiteleaf Indoor WhatsApp Group, at 2130. If you are not already a member of the group and would like to be added, please contact Paul with your name and phone number: treasurer@whiteleafbowmen.org.uk
Cost per session is: £3 adult club members, £2 junior and £5 visitor (please bring proof of AGB membership.
This year we are dispensing with cash payments. You will need to sign in for every session that you shoot (please make sure your full name is clearly written). You will be billed twice – once at the end of December, and again at the end of the season, electronic bank transfer is the preferred method of payment.
On Sunday 28th August 2022 eight archers from Whiteleaf Bowmen gathered for the Club Longbow Championships. This year the competition was also opened up to Barebow archers from the club, recognising the growing number of Barebow archers within the club.
The day started fairly sedately with a National competition, 4 dozen arrows at 60 yards and 2 dozen at 50 yards. In traditional format the Longbow competition was judged by the number of hits, with score used as a tie break, whereas barebow were placed based on scores. With everyone warmed up and getting settled into a groove the next element of the competition would shake things up a bit.
This was a variation on the theme of a “Pope and Young” shoot. Five paper animal targets were placed downrange, and five shooting positions established. Each archer then had the opportunity to shoot five arrows from the one position, rotating round until they had shot five arrows from all of the positions. For the first stage of this each archer had 100 seconds to shoot all five arrows. Everyone was comfortably loosing all of their arrows within this time, so when the time for the next stage was dropped to 50 seconds the pressure was on. Subsequent stages saw the time drop to 40 seconds, and with the final stage only 30 seconds the pressure was on.
The final element of the day was a “Wand” shoot, which was one final chance for everyone to demonstrate their skill in hitting a 4” wide and 5’ tall stick placed at 40 yards. Andraes managed to hit this on his very first shot, with the longbows taking a bit more time to gauge the target. Both Paul and Julie managed a hit after a few attempts by everyone, but after a couple more arrows Paul managed to claim the prize.
The Longbow/Barebow championship will take place on the 28th of August – further details at http://www.whiteleafbowmen.org.uk/events/whiteleaf-longbow-barebow-championship-2022/
The Whiteleaf Club Championship will take place on the 4th of September – further details are at http://www.whiteleafbowmen.org.uk/events/whiteleaf-club-championship-2022/