An Anglesey sailing club official will be presented with an RYA Volunteer Award by HRH The Princess Royal, President of the RYA at One Great George Street, London on Friday, 22 November. Caroline Tebbutt will receive the RYA Community Award for Outstanding Contribution. The RYA is boating’s national governing body and the Volunteer Awards are […]
A new wheelchair accessible powerboat will now call Anglesey it’s Home, after being officially launched by new owners, outdoor activity centre SEAS at the Conway Centre. Sussex-based charity The Wheelyboat Trust, which turns 35 this year, launched its 200th wheelchair accessible powerboat, a Coulam Wheelyboat V17, at the Conway Centre in Anglesey. Named Phil Braden after the late Royal […]
North Wales sailors came away as Welsh champions after they braved some testing weather conditions in the sea off Mumbles in the 2019 Welsh Regional Championships. Around 80 of the best young sailors in Wales took part in the Welsh Regional event, part of the British Youth Sailing Championships with similar trials being held all […]
Photo courtesy of Joe McCarthy National charity The Wheelyboat Trust will launch its 200th wheelchair accessible Wheelyboat, which will be used in North Wales, at this year’s Southampton International Boat Show. The new Wheelyboat, named Phil Braden after the late RYA Cymru Wales chief executive who passed away earlier this year, will be officially handed over by The […]
There are nearly 1,000 more golf club members in Wales, as well as a rise of more than 50% in children getting the chance to play golf, according to the latest School Sport Survey. Wales Golf has welcomed the facts and figures which highlight the initial successes of the new vision and strategy ‘Everyone’s Game, […]
Wales international Jane Rees found the fairways to success as she claimed her sixth Welsh Seniors title, in both open and closed events, in Pwllheli. The Welsh Open Senior Ladies Championship win sets the Minchinhampton player up well for a return to the North West Wales coast for the British Seniors in Royal St David’s, […]
Mountain Ash golfers won the Welsh Team Championships for the first time in their history, battling the elements as well as opponents in St Pierre. The Cynon Valley club had not got past Round Two in more than a decade, but turned round a semi-final deficit at the halfway stage against hosts St Pierre and then claimed a tight […]
Scotland’s Andrew Davidson is celebrating the biggest win of his career after coping with the weather and opponents in Prestatyn to win the Welsh Open Stroke Play. The 25-year-old from Fife beat fellow Scot Stephen Roger at the second play-off hole, after they both finished the regular event four shots clear of England’s William Dodds […]
Wales Boys Euro Team Wales golfers enjoyed some of their best performances in recent years in the European Team Championships, with the Men’s Girls and Boys teams all challenging strongly. Wales Girls Euro Team The men finished sixth in Europe, the first time they have reached the quarter-finals since the early 2000’s, the Boys secured […]
Seasoned bowlers and some snobby seagulls alike were pretending not to notice the – ahem – somewhat variable standard of some of the bowlers in the Annual Bowling Competition hosted by Llandudno Rotary at Craig-y-Don Bowling Green on Tuesday 23rd July. Six teams from the Rotary Clubs of Ruthin, Colwyn Bay, Llanfairfechan and Penmaenmawr […]