LSW 2026 Order of Merit Update (Post–CX Trophy): Following Round 8, Mark Cameron (204 pts) stays out front as the only player over 200, while Jean Paul Cuvelier (196 pts) carded 25 at CX to leapfrog Todd Hooper (193 pts) into 2nd place—leaving the top three separated by just 11 points! Big movers into the $60k top-15 prize money include Simon Acton (14th, 100 pts) with a joint-best 29 points on the day, William Glover (9th, 133 pts), and Mark Elliott (T10, 131 pts),

[21:34, 15/10/2026] Simon Acton: LSW 2025 Order Of Merit(OOM)

Final Top 10 Standings based on cumulative points this year:

🥇 Dallas Reid 🏆 🏆

🥈 Simon Acton
🥉 Sehee Kim 🏆 🏆

4. ⁠JP
5. ⁠Darryl Mckeown 🏆
6. ⁠Mark Elliot 🏆
7. ⁠Nick Gikas
8. ⁠Trevor Connelly
9. ⁠Stephen Ahmoye 🏆
10. ⁠Mark Cameron

*🏆 Tournament wins
[21:35, 15/10/2026] Simon Acton: LSW 2025 – Season Summary

⛳️ Jan 7th @ HKGC New 🐉 🆕
🏆‘Slazenger’ = Anton Eilers

⛳️ Feb 20th @ Macau GCC 🇲🇴
🏆‘PGA’ = Sehee Kim

⛳️ Mar 18th @ Shek O 🦩
🏆‘President’ = Stephen Ahmoye

⛳️ Apr 16th @ HKGC New 🐉 🆕
🏆‘Rob Henderson’ = Dallas Reid

⛳️ May 16th @ HKGC New 🐉 🆕
🏆‘Dave Edwards’ = Nick Allen

⛳️ Jun 3rd @ HKGC New 🐉 🆕
🏆‘Jens Munk’ = Eric Desgouttes

⛳️ Jul 4th @ Macau GCC 🇲🇴
🏆‘Strokeplay’ = Craig Fowler

⛳️ Aug 5th @ HKGC Eden 🐉 🍎
🏆‘Tiger’ = not played due to Black Rainstorm ⛈️

⛳️ Sep 1st @ HKGC Eden 🐉 🍎
🏆‘Eddie Lopes’ = Dallas Reid

⛳️ Oct 14th @ Shek O 🦩
🏆‘CX’ = Darryl Mckeown

⛳️ Nov 17th @ KSC South 🏝️ ⏬️
🏆‘Heritage’ = Mark Elliot

⛳️ Dec 11th @ HKGC Eden 🐉 🍎
🏆’The LSW’ = Sehee Kim

🎄 🎶 On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love (LSW) gave to me…. 🎶

1️⃣2️⃣ Months since Gary 🏌️‍♂️

1️⃣1️⃣ Trophies playing 🏆
🔟 Places scoring 🙌
9️⃣ Winners different 🥇

8️⃣ Faces new 😀
7️⃣ Ballot successes 🎟️
6️⃣ Shek O members helping 🦩

5️⃣ COURSES PLAYED 🗺️

4️⃣ Past Members honoured 🙏
3️⃣ Trips on ferries ⛴️
2️⃣ Double winners 🏆 🏆

And… Sixty Years of Heritage in H-KAY 🤩

🎉 What a fantastic year – the 61st for LSW – with great courses, competition and connections (new & old) !!

🎁 Gift yourself a 2026 membership by replying to David’s email (sent 6th Dec) by Monday 15th Dec / tomorrow!!

Best wishes for the season,
The Committee

Please see attached notice of AGM and Proxy voting form for the 2025 AGM

https://lswgs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025__16_May__AGM_Meeting_Agenda.pdf

https://lswgs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/VotingProxy-_for_use_by_LSWGS_members_-_20254026.pdf

Please welcome our new membership secretary John Harris.  Many thanks to our outgoing secretary Vance Lee for his efforts.

Please welcome our new Match Secretary Mark Cameron who will take over from Raaj Shah.  Many thanks to Raaj for his dedicated efforts over the past several years.

The 25th and final edition of this epic event was held 27th Nov-1st December 2023.  For further details go to Our Trophies and History page.

The R&A/USGA have released their usual triennial rules review.  There are a few minor changes you should be aware of.

Click on this link to go to the USGA site explaining the 5 key changes.

https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/articles/2022/11/key-rules-of-golf-changes-2023.html

“One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.” – Bobby Jones.

Please find attached a list of clubs around the world where LSW or BSW members have memberships and have indicated a willingness to invite other LSW/BSW members to play there if visiting.

If any members wish their clubs to be added to this list, please contact the Communications Officer (or anyone on the Committee) to have yours added.

https://lswgs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/LSW-and-BSW-Overseas-Clubs-June-2021.pdf

Our June 2^nd event coincided with the AGM and a committee meeting at which various points were discussed, amongst others relating to matches.

At this competition we had a large number of players who had not sent their payment confirmations through to both the match secretary and the treasurer in time before the event, altogether concerning 17 out of 36 players. As our outgoing treasurer pointed out, it is important for all players to do so, as it is rather cumbersome to reconcile this when we are short of green fees after the event.  In addition, some members had not paid at all before the event.

In future, players who have not sent through their payment advice to the treasurer and the match secretary  before 6pm the evening before the match, will not be eligible to win prizes at the competition and will not be awarded OOM points.

We are looking at ways to further simplify the process for everybody, even though it is currently not difficult at all. Many members have stored the account number in their payee list and the two email addresses in their contact list. Screenshot and email takes about 30 seconds.

Attached match form now shows in red where I had to make corrections to scorecards. The most common problems are:
1. No overall gross score: You need this yourself for registering in GHIN!
2. Gross Scores not adjusted for WHS: Every time I send out notes to players before the comps, I specify clearly that in stableford competitions you need to adjust your score to a net double bogey on each hole. Do it correctly as you walk off the green and you are fine. Most members know how this works and there is a ton of material on the internet in case you have questions. Carel also posted a note in the LSW WhatsApp chatgroup today.
3. Correct stableford points for each hole. Do note the playing handicaps of the player you are marking. A simple way to help you is if you circle the holes where your player gets a shot.

As of the next event, incomplete scorecards will not be accepted after the match, and this also goes for illegible scorecards of which we had a couple this time.