St Paul’s golf team beat Kings College Wimbledon on Wednesday 25 November, in the second round of HMC Foursomes Golf, Knockout Tournament.
The match, which took place at Royal Wimbledon Golf Club, was tense with some outstanding play seeing the first two pairs come in with one loss, one win. As darkness fell, the third pair came back from a poor start, 4 down to halve on the 18th hole and played on into a 19th hole. With tremendous precision, Ramon Menon sunk a 25 foot putt to win the match for St Paul’s.
The whole team, which included Leo Groos, Tom Eterovic, Hyun Mo Yang, Chris Smith, Lucas Moore and Ramon Menonplayed extremely well and go through to the semi-finals against Bradfield in the Spring Term 2016.
Just before half term, the golf team put in another spectacular play, again beating KCS in the Independent Schools Golf Association, Matchplay Tournament. The team will now face Hampton in the semi-finals in spring.
We’re excited to share recent student achievements: Eighth Formers excelled at the Junior Rowing Championships in Canada, Fergus and Rohan (Sixth Form) reached the U15 National final, Shiv Ahluwalia (Sixth Form) qualified for the Junior European Open in Cadiz, Sasha Georget-Roukline (Upper Eighth) was selected for Team GB at the FIE event in Amsterdam, and Aditya Bhimalingam (Sixth Form) placed fourth in the National Youth Junior Bouldering competition.
Shiv Ahluwalia (Sixth Form) won the European Junior Championship qualifier at The Caversham on 18 August with a one-over-par 73, securing his spot at the 32nd Junior European Open in Cadiz, Spain, in partnership with Sky Sports, this November
