Sunningdale Foursomes

The Sunningdale Foursomes is an open foursomes golf tournament contested at the Sunningdale Golf Club, Berkshire, in March. It was first contested in 1934 and has been held annually since, except between 1940 and 1947. The event is open to all golfers. Players are handicapped based only on whether they are male or female, professional or amateur.^[1]

Sunningdale Foursomes

Tournament information
Location	Sunningdale, Berkshire, England
Established	1934
Course(s)	Sunningdale Golf Club
Format	Foursomes match play
Month played	March

Format

The event is played over four days each March at Sunningdale Golf Club and is open to all golfers. Any combination of male or female, professional or amateur, is allowed. The format is foursomes match play, the field being limited to 128 pairs. For the first two rounds both the Old and New courses are used, but thereafter only the Old course is used. Players are handicapped based solely on whether they are male or female, professional or amateur.^[1]

Handicaps

The handicaps have varied slightly over the years. The current handicaps are:

• Male professionals: +1
• Male amateurs: 0
• Female professionals: 2
• Female amateurs: 3

Before 2023 female amateurs received a handicap of 4,

All competitors play from the same tees. Currently pairs receive the full difference of the combined handicaps, so that two female amateurs will receive 8 strokes from two male professionals.^[1]

Winners

Year	Winners	Margin of victory	Runners-up	Ref
1934	Diana Fishwick & Noel Layton	2 & 1	Molly Gourlay & Geoffrey Hawkins	[2]
1935	Joyce Wethered & John Morrison	3 & 2	Pam Barton & Leslie Garnett	[3]
1936	Joyce Wethered & John Morrison	5 & 4	Dennis Kyle & William Aitken	[4]
1937	Stanley Anderson & Dai Rees	5 & 4	George Hannay & Bob French	[5]
1938	Pam Barton & Alf Padgham	19 holes	Leonard Crawley & Francis Francis	[6]
1939	Cornelis Rissik & Bob Kenyon	19 holes	Corrin Bell & Cecil Denny	[7]
1940–1947 Suspended during World War II
1948	Wanda Morgan & Sam King	2 & 1	Philip Risdon & Dick Burton	[8]
1949	Bob French & Stewart Field	1 up	Jacqueline Gordon & Jack Knipe	[9]
1950	Max Faulkner & Jack Knipe	6 & 5	Francis Francis & Arthur Lees	[10]
1951	Jean Donald & Tom Haliburton	3 & 2	Alan Poulton & Bob French	[11]
1952	Philip Scrutton & Alan Waters	2 & 1	Alan Poulton & Bob French	[12]
1953	Jean Donald & Tom Haliburton	3 & 2	Dennis Smalldon & Graham Knipe	[13]
1954	Philip Scrutton & Alan Waters	4 & 3	Peter Mills & Tony Harman	[14]
1955	Bill Sharp & Syd Scott	2 & 1	Bob French & Eddie Ward	[15]
1956	Graham Knipe & Dennis Smalldon	3 & 2	Leonard Crawley & George Foster	[16]
1957	Brian Huggett & Ross Whitehead	1 up	Robin Galloway & Sandy Robertson	[17]
1958	Jean Donald & Peter Alliss	1 up	David Beard & Brian Bamford	[18]
1959	Michael Bonallack & Doug Sewell	5 & 3	Tony Slark & Peter Gill	[19]
1960	Belle McCorkindale & Maurice Moir	19 holes	Hugh Squirrell & Sid Mouland	[20]
1961	Jean Anderson & Peter Alliss	2 & 1	Wally Dubabney & Tony Grubb	[21]
1962	Neil Coles & Ross Whitehead	3 & 2	Michael Burgess & Martin Christmas	[22]
1963	Lionel Platts & David Snell	4 & 3	Keith MacDonald & Ian MacDonald	[23]
1964	Bruce Critchley & Robin Hunter	2 & 1	Peter Green & Michael Burgess	[24]
1965	Marley Spearman & Tony Fisher	1 up	Michael Burgess & Peter Green	[25]
1966	Robin Davenport & Sandy Walker	4 & 3	Freddie Sunderland & Graham Burroughs	[26]
1967	Neil Coles & Keith Warren	19 holes	Brigitte Varangot & Clive Clark	[27]
1968	John Davies & Warren Humphreys	6 & 4	Max Faulkner & Brian Barnes	[28]
1969	Peter Benka & Peter Oosterhuis	3 & 2	Catherine Lacoste & Jean-Michel Larretche	[29]
1970	Anne Willard & Bob Barrell	2 & 1	Mary Everard & Robin Hunter	[30]
1971	Alan Bird & Harry Flatman	3 & 2	Kathryn Phillips & John Putt	[31]
1972	John Davies & Michael King	6 & 5	John Tullis & Tony Howard	[32]
1973	John Putt & Mary Everard	6 & 5	Carl Mason & Howard Clark	[33]
1974	Clive Clark & Peter Butler	1 up	Howard Clark & Nick Brunyard	[34]
1975	Abandoned due to snow			[35]
1976	Clive Clark & Mike Hughesdon	2 & 1	Bernard Hunt & Ian Stungo	[36]
1977	Geoffrey Hunt & David Matthew	3 & 2	David Huish & Garry Logan	[37]
1978	Julia Greenhalgh & Alex Caygill	5 & 4	Carole Caldwell & Arnold Stickley	[38]
1979	George Will & Roger Chapman	3 & 2	Neil Coles & Doug McClelland	[39]
1980	Neil Coles & Doug McClelland	2 & 1	John O'Leary & Carl Mason	[40]
1981	Alan Lyddon & Gordon Brand Jnr.	1 up	Michael King & Mark Dixon	[41]
1982	Christine Langford & Mickey Walker	1 up	Maureen Madill & Mary McKenna	[42]
1983	John Davies & Martin Devetta	4 & 3	Linda Bayman & Mike Hughesdon	[43]
1984	Maureen Madill & Mary McKenna	3 & 2	Mickey Walker & Christine Langford	[44]
1985	John O'Leary & Sam Torrance	25 holes	Bernard Gallacher & Pat Garner	[45]
1986	Ronan Rafferty & Roger Chapman	1 up	Maureen Garner & Mary McKenna	[46]
1987	Ian Mosey & Warren Humphreys	3 & 2	Gillian Stewart & David Huish	[47]
1988	Carl Mason & Andrew Chandler	5 & 3	Maureen Garner & Mary McKenna	[48]
1989	Andrew Hare & Russell Claydon	4 & 3	Vicki Thomas & Julie Wade	[49]
1990	Corinne Dibnah & Dale Reid	7 & 6	Tracey Craik & Peter Hughes	[50]
1991	Jeremy Robinson & Wayne Henry	4 & 3	Bruce Critchley & Robin Hunter	[51]
1992	Richard Boxall & Derrick Cooper	3 & 2	Paul Sherman & Paul Page	[52]
1993	Andy Beal & Lee S. James	2 & 1	David Wood & Lloyd Warwick	[53]
1994	Anthony Wall & Steve Webster	2 up	David Howell & Gary Harris	[54]
1995	Richard Boxall & Derrick Cooper	2 & 1	Iain Mackenzie & Malcolm Mackenzie	[55]
1996	Luke Donald & Michael O’Connor	2 & 1	Julie Forbes & Gillian Stewart	[56]
1997	Julie Hall & Helen Wadsworth	4 & 3	Jeremy Robinson & David R. Jones	[57]
1998	Warren Bennett & David Fisher	4 & 3	Richard Hodgkinson & Philip Carr	[58]
1999	Liza Walters & Richard McEvoy	5 & 4	Bill McColl & Stephen Shields	[59]
2000	Carole Caldwell & Richard Caldwell	2 & 1	Johanna Head & Samantha Head	[60]
2001	Clare Lipscombe & Stewart Little	2 & 1	Trish Johnson & Jamie Spence	[61]
2002	John Kemp & Mark Wharton	1 up	Glenn Ralph & Tim Spence	[62]
2003	Ross Fisher & Simon Griffiths	4 & 3	Pip Elson & Jamie Elson	[63]
2004	Ross Fisher & Simon Griffiths	6 & 5	Joe Templer & Richard Campbell	[64]
2005	Paul Jenkinson & Gary Lockerbie	2 & 1	Chris Rodgers & Barry Monks	[65]
2006	Danielle Masters & Ben Evans	2 & 1	James Morrison & Colin Roope	[66]
2007	James Mason & Neil Walker	2 up	James Freeman & Robert Steele
2008	Craig Cowper & Neil Reilly	1 up	Rachel Drummond & Matt Haines	[67]
2009	Stiggy Hodgson & John Stansbury	3 & 2	Tom Shadbolt & Mark Laskey	[68]
2010	Neil Reilly & Craig Cowper	1 up	Charlotte Wild & Nikki Foster	[69]
2011	Sebastian Crookall-Nixon & James Atkinson	1 up	Hayley Davis & Scott Godfrey	[70]
2012	Jess Wilcox & Greg Payne	3 & 1	James Little & Liam Bond	[71]
2013	Phillip Archer & Sam Walker	19 holes	Steven Tiley & Ricki Neil Jones	[72]
2014	Annabel Dimmock & Steven Brown	1 up	Inci Mehmet & Oscar Granström-Livesey	[73]
2015	Charlotte Austwick & Jack Clarke	1 up	Matthew Southgate & Simon Wakefield	[74]
2016	Sophie Lamb & Marco Penge	5 & 4	Lewis Atkinson & Scott Marshall	[75]
2017	Graham Powell & Henry Smart	5 & 4	Ryan Harrison & James Johnson	[76]
2018	Cancelled due to snow
2019	Linn Grant & Maja Stark	2 up	Joe Sullivan & Louis Hirst	[77]
2020	Lily May Humphreys & Will Percival	1 up	Ben Holden & Roger Chapman	[78]
2021	Cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic
2022	Lottie Woad & Rachel Gourley	6 & 5	Jimmy Ruth & Paul Hendriksen	[79]
2023	Cancelled due to snow
2024	Harley Smith & Dylan Shaw Radford	5 & 4	William Shucksmith & Darryl Gwilliam	[80]

Source:^[81]

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