A club golf competition just for grandmothers has been won for a second time by a Leighton golfer still celebrating the birth of a lockdown grandson six months ago. Barbara Bradley joined Leighton Buzzard’s Plantation Road club in 2014, and two years later. thanks to grand-daughters Molly and Marnie, won the coveted Grannies Salver donated…
On a balmy and humid evening last week, nine riders from the club took to the start line of the COVID friendly 10 mile time trial organised by North Bucks Road Cycle Club starting from Stoke Hammond taking a course up the A505 towards Leighton Buzzard and back to Stoke Hammond over a challenging up…
Leighton Buzzard golf club staged the South East England Schools’ championship on Friday – with local talent topping the table on a rain-soaked day. Club Captain Simon Rossiter is pictured with the Boys champion, Milton Keynes based Arnie Arkanath, and the Girls Championship winner Roisin Scanlon who both play off handicaps of just one. Both…
Kitchen store boss Tim Martin credited his playing partners for after carding a handicap busting 47 points to win Leighton Buzzard golf club’s 50th Anniversary Trophy. “They slowed me down and focused on the game,” said Tim, 65 after his first major silverware win since joining the Plantation Road club from Mentmore six years ago. Tim,…
Golfing grandmothers have stolen the show at Leighton Buzzard’s Plantation Road club, with one formally being installed as Captain of the 90-strong Ladies Section…and another hitting a hole-in-one in the ladies drive-in competition won by a grannie who only took up the sport five years ago !! With lockdown restrictions now allowing outdoor social gatherings,…
Competition golf is back on the menu at Leighton Buzzard’s Plantation Road club, with the winners of two events decided within the space of days. Retired hairdresser Anne Tilbury was the first to win silverware, beating 42 club colleagues to top the table in the club Beck Trophy competition. Although Anne is no stranger to…
Leighton Buzzard kayaker Charlie Smith was lost for words after moving a step closer towards this summer’s Olympics with an unexpected victory at the sprint and paracanoe national selection event in Nottingham. Charlie, 22, trumped a strong field in the men’s K1 1000m with a time of 3:42.77, to secure a spot at May’s ICF…
In aid of the NHS, and as part of her Duke of Edinburgh Award, 15 year old Maggie Rae, who attends Cedars Upper School, set herself the sizeable challenge of paddling 200km in her racing kayak, and has raised £1,828 in the process. Her inspiration for completing the challenge was a tribute to her Great…
A Leighton Buzzard golfer has been honoured with an “Unsung Hero” award by the sports’ leading body for his work in steering his club through the year-long pandemic crisis. Simon Rossiter had only been Captain of Leighton’s Plantation Road club for three months when national lockdown measures were imposed to help curb the spread of…
