With confidence high after a good win last week, the u14 boys travelled to the luxurious pitches of Bedford School for the Saints DPP Festival. With two tough matches ahead of them, Bedford Blues and Ampthill, the boys knew they were in for a real test. With several of the boys noting how much like Hogwarts…
Leighton Buzzard 2nd XV 51 v 43 Olney 3rd XV Buzzard’s 2nd XV conspired very hard to lose this game but eventually managed to beat a very good Olney 3rd XV 43-51 in this away fixture. The two sides between them managed 16 tries and 7 conversions, a liberal splattering of yellow cards and periods of dominance. In the…
LUTTERWORTH 33 – 10 LEIGHTON BUZZARD Leighton Buzzard lost their latest Regional 2 East Midlands league game away at Lutterworth. After a poor first half, Buzzards improved considerably after the break. Whilst this was too late to take anything from the game, it did show both quality of the players and potential for future matches.…
Three golfers tied for top spot with handicap busting performances in a charity event which raised £5,500 for hospital equipment at Leighton Buzzard’s Plantation Road course. With results determined by the points scored over the last nine holes on the course, Peter Raza,won, beating Julian Heffron and Shane Bentley who all carded 46 points. Tom…
Charity was the winner when three golfers tied for top spot in an annual event at Leighton Buzzard’s Plantation Road club on Thursday which raised nearly £5,500 for worthy causes. One hundred and twenty Leighton members, friends and guests took part in the Plum Duffs annual fund raiser organised by retired local businessman Geoff Dimmock,…
Senior Leighton Buzzard golfers are winding back the years with an impressive autumn winning streak. Last of the summer wine Captain Andy Mcdonald celebrated a 5-1 win over the Leighton club team to win the Mashie Cup…and then handed the reins to Vice Captain Paul Bishop to secure a 6-0 white-washing of Stowe, a 5-2…
The much travelled wife of a retired former mariner is to be the next Vice Captain of the Ladies section of Leighton Buzzard golf club. Barbara Rickard, who accompanied husband Phil for many years on voyages around the world when he was chief engineer of an ocean liner, will take up her new role in…
A 13-year-old Leighton Buzzard school girl has won a County golf title at her first attempt. Olivia Olleson carded an amazing 50 points to win the Bedfordshire Schools high handicap girls championship by a four shot margin ….and have her handicap slashed by nine shots to 33. The former Brooklands pupil now studying at Vandyke…
We hope that, like us you are all looking forward to returning to the club for the forthcoming season and seeing your young people training and preparing for fixtures once again. New players are welcome as always, just come along – the ever popular hatch will be serving food and refreshments and the shop will…
An eight-strong team of junior members of Leighton Buzzard golf club have shown the sport is kids’ play when it comes to winning trophies. For the squad has just retained the coveted Kingston Cup, an annual competition involving teams from the junior, senior, ladies and mens sections of the Plantation Road club. Junior…
