The First Official Society Golfing Events were held in 1927
The Seniors took to the links as a Society for the first time in March 1927 for a match at Rye.
In July the first Seniors Meeting was held at The Addington where John Beaumont Pease, later Lord Wardington, won the opening scratch medal with a fine 71, which might have been even better as he played the first nine in 32.
Later in that first year the Seniors faced their most distinguished opposition when they played the Gutty Club at Royal Mid-Surrey. The Gutty Club team could claim eight Open Championship titles through JH Taylor, Ted Ray and Sandy Herd and two Amateur Champions in Roger Wethered and Robert Harris. Unsurprisingly, the Gutty Club won despite using the old-fashioned gutty ball.
