The third, currently in his second year, was introduced
by the golf county manager for Sussex where he
was in the under-16 team. The fourth recipient also
hails from the Sussex junior squad and currently
plays off a handicap of five. Each bursary boy is
likely to become in time the Captain of Golf.
Jack Keating, now studying Politics and Economics
as an undergraduate at Aberdeen University, is a
talented natural sportsman who has won tennis
tournaments in Scotland and could equally have
pursued tennis to the same level as his golf. Jack’s
father, who builds golf courses for a living, was
himself injured while on the tortuous route to
becoming an Olympic swimmer and consequently
always instilled in Jack the importance of having a
secure academic background on which to fall back.
Robert Moore brings
valuable insight into
how to compete and
win, having represented
Great Britain at hockey
in three successive
Olympic Games.
Jack enjoyed very much playing on the testing,
chalk-based parkland course at Hockley. He feels
he owes a particular debt of gratitude to Shaun
Macey who, as Acting Master-in-Charge of Golf
prior to Rob Moore’s appointment, was instrumental
in his receiving the bursary. In Jack’s own words,
‘Mr Macey lit the spark for me through his enthusiasm’;
in 2014 he also led a team including Jack to an
impressive second place finish in the ISGA European
Championships. Jack is not seeking to become a golf
professional, but his ambition is to be the best ever
amateur from Winchester. He hopes ultimately to
play in the Amateur Championship.
There has been a strong personal plus to the bursary
Jack received – he has been able to build a valued
friendship with the Sanders family. It is clear that
the most effective donations are those where the
donor feels passionate about the benefit that his or her
generosity bestows, and is able to monitor personally
how it changes both the School and the lives of those
it assists in the succeeding years. This was manifest
in John Singer’s donation of the Steinway piano to
New Hall, the establishment of the Duncan Louis
Stewart Natural History Society Fellowship and of
the Golf bursary instituted by John and Richard
Sanders. As an honorary member of the Old
Wykehamist Golf Society, the Head Man believes
he can wear the best tie of all the sporting clubs!
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