Charity Golf Day 2026

Gerbils Golf Society

The birth of Gerbils Golf Society was on the 9th March 1996, when four people started a 'Saturday Pairs' match play tournament.

By 1999 the numbers had increased and included Charlie Prior (who subsequently became the Society’s President) and we still play for the 'Charlie Prior Shield' in his honour. We called ourselves the 'Wayne Kerr’s Golf Society' (we loved a laugh and joke), that year we started trips to France until it became too expensive.

By 2002 our numbers had increased further and in addition to our normal Stableford matches at Poult Wood we continued the twice yearly “Society Days” at local courses.

In 2010 we moved to Lullingstone Park Golf Club, Orpington and played there for the next nine years and our numbers continued to swell.

In 2013 we looked for a new name. Some of our members played against a Police Golf Society who called themselves 'The Rats'. They called us Gerbils, which is how our current name came to be. Our numbers declined drastically mid-2019 and we moved to Corinthian Golf Club. To give something back to society, we started a Charity Golf Day which produced a profit of over £1650 for Prostate Cancer UK.

The Covid pandemic affected us badly. In 2021, we started a Saturday swindle (fondly named the Gwindle by Trevor Blain the only original Gerbil and also a member at Corinthian GC) and it is still flourishing to date.

The Charity Golf Days, with the invaluable help from our sponsors, have gone from strength to strength. In 2020, £3,500 was raised for Prostate Cancer, in 2021 over £4,000, in 2022 £6,000 and in 2023 £10,000 was raised. To be more inclusive and to encourage more ladies to play, it was decided to split what had been raised between Prostate Cancer UK and Breast Cancer UK. To date the Gerbils Golf Society Charity Day's have raised a total of £20,350 for Prostate Cancer UK.

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