Whitgift School golf has never been as strong. Thanks to the School’s unique onsite-based ‘golf-for-all’ academy programme, officially opened by HRH The Duke of York, KG, two years ago, the scheme has helped produce hundreds of enthusiastic and talented golfers. There are currently over ten boys with handicaps of 7 or below, and trophies have been coming in thick and fast, both in school competitions and boys’ individual championships.
 
The School's golf captain and England Futures U18  player, Tom Bloxsome, has continued to display great promise after his success in America when representing the GB Independent Schools Golf Association winning the Junior Scratch competition at Wentworth and The Carmalite competition at the London club. The overall winner at Wentworth, with a net 62, was fellow Whitgitian Joe Carmody-Firth who previously in the season also won the Surrey Schools U18 and the Surrey U16 Boys Championships.  Most recently Carmody-Firth won the end-of-season Surrey Golf Union Junior Masters competition by an incredible 6 shots.  Along with Harvey Byers, who got through to the Junior Boys World Championships in Pinehurst USA, George Mullins a newly selected South of England U16 player and James Beck have all won a large number of senior and junior club championships and medals this year. It came as no surprise that the Whitgift team have begun this season unbeaten in the four matches played so far.
 
National team success was halted at The Shire Golf Club in the ISGA Championships earlier in the summer when thunder and torrential rain flooded the course during the senior boys’ competition. All three Whitgift boys were very well placed but not before Byers won the U13 trophy and the Whitgift team won the Junior Team Title.