Founder and Chairman of Toys ‘n’ Playthings, Tiger Rory Naish (also known as Malcolm) tells us about yesterday’s hugely successful Teddy Simmons Fence Club Golf day.
The beautiful morning of Thursday 13 June saw 60 of our industry’s finest golfers taking to the fairways at Oakdale golf club in Harrogate for this year’s Fence Club event. With trophies to win all was set for a great day.
Started in 1952 by Teddy Simmons the proprietor of toy trade magazine ‘Games & Toys’ it has remained a popular trade golf day raising thousands of pounds for the Fence Club’s various charities. And winner of the Fence Club’s ‘Teddy Simmons’ cup was none other than local born Club member, Mark Collinson.
Winner of the Men’s cup was Simon Cotton, MD of the HRH Group that owns Harrogate’s Yorkshire and White Hart hotels. Playing off 19, his score of 39 points was enough to secure the top prize.
The Fence Club welcomes more and more lady golfers to its golf day and this year’s winner was Galt’s very own Jacqueline Taylor-Foo coming in with a score of 34 points.
The evening dinner was once again a joyous meeting of toy trade friends. Steve Wells ran the auction that, along with the raffle, raised an amazing £28,000 for the Club’s charities.
From a personal point of view, it was also great to see Jo Hall, ex buyer for Woolies and Toys R Us. Jo was visiting from Phuket in Thailand along with husband Brian.
Our thanks to all those members who donated some amazing auction prizes and to those present last night who put their hands in their pockets with such willingness.
