Dear Member,
We are looking forward to a busy weekend of Club activities featuring the Golf Club Championships for men and women on Saturday as well as Family Day for families with young children between 11am and 3pm on Saturday in the sunken garden.
Congratulations to Jonny Perkins and Cathy Staveley on their appointment as Golf Vice Captains for 2026 – I am sure they will be a great support to Bob and Jo respectively.
Bring your family and friends to enjoy this special day at the Club with awesome activities and entertainment for children of all ages with music, delicious buffet and refreshments.
Adult Member £20 | Junior Member £23 | Adult and Junior Guest £28.
All tickets include a meal from the buffet. Juniors aged 2 and under enter for free.
Book now at Reception or give the team a call on 020 8480 4200
The Function Rooms are now open for Member use to complement the Members’ Bar.
Once again, we have received many favourable comments from the functions held there for Members and guests culminating in a well-attended and hotly contested Curry and Quiz on Wednesday and the Evening with Henry Patten last night where over 100 people attended to listen to how he won his Wimbledon and Australian crowns and to see the wonderful Wimbledon Men’s Doubles Trophy close up.
Work has now begun on refurbishing the Bridge Room and completing the Garden Room Bar which will service the Bridge and Garden Rooms. This work is due to be completed at the beginning of July. That leaves the Bar Terrace extension to be completed in early August. When all the snagging has been finished and Members have used the three areas as designed, we will review the scheme to see if any tweaks are needed.
Six potential contractors are due to submit their tenders by 20th June, and we anticipate a report from the Contract Administrator the following week so we can give an update at the AGM on 30th June.
We will then be in a position to survey the membership with a consultation document on how the facility will be operated, costs of building it and how the whole golf operation will be improved by making the Short Game Practice Area, IGC and Golf Shop its central focus.
The Working Group has decided on the priorities for the Club to approach the Council with a pre-application meeting and these have been ratified by the Tennis Committee. We will be looking to convert courts 4-6 to five padel courts with a cover and then relocate the three clay courts with floodlights to courts 26-28 which are currently grass. We could even squeeze in three clay courts and four pickleball courts in that area. We will also look to trial the taping up of pickleball courts more regularly on court 1 in the ITC during the winter months to ascertain the demand for this emerging sport. The Outdoor Pool sunbathing area will be extended and a new play area for children aged 6 to 12 will be installed to complete the family provision in that area. This proposal will be drawn up and shown to the Council for comment before we submit a formal planning application.
Click here for the proposed options for the Council to consider
Congratulations to our Women’s First Team on winning the NPL Doubles’ title recently at St George’s Hill LTC – the trophy is in the new trophy cabinet at the top of the Clubhouse stairs. Our Men’s Team also performed really well but just lost a tight final to Stoke Poges LTC.
Tennis pictures from: Women winners and men’s runners up in NPL Doubles Champs at St George’s Hill LTC on Sunday 26th May.
The Ladies’ Team is Freya Christie, Mariam Bolkvadze, Alicia Barnett and Eden Silva. Not pictured- Alexia Wilson, Lara Bakhaya and Laura Deigman (c). The Men’s Team is Nick Brookes, Michael Shaw, Nik Snapes, Oscar Weightman and David Stevenson.
We are delighted that Satomi Watanabe – who has reached her highest-ever World Ranking of #7 – has been voted by PSA Pro Players as co-winner of the ‘Spirit of Squash’ award for 24/25 season.
Professional squash player Satomi Watanabe recently finished her three-year course at Roehampton University, receiving a 2:1 in Sports and Exercise Science.
While in the UK Satomi combined studies with squash, training and playing on the PSA tour. Alongside her studies, Satomi was supported by Roehampton Club, receiving coaching from Tiago Goriely and competing in our teams, including winning the Women’s European Club Championships three years in a row.
This Sunday 15th June we have some exciting tennis for Members to enjoy with some of the world’s top juniors on show as Roehampton Club Teams attempt to win their respective divisions.
A head-to-head match that decides the south east regional division. Featuring junior Wimbledon doubles finalist Isa Lacy, top 50 junior in the world Allegra Korpanec-Davies, top 10 14&U National and world ranked 18&U junior Hermione Korpanec-Davies, former ladies’ Club champion Izzy Townsend and former world ranked player Steph Cornish.
A unbeaten men’s side who are top of the county division play some of the counties top junior and university players. Roehampton Club team featuring. Former Club Champion Joel Cannell, former junior club champions and world ranked juniors Matthew Ground and Lucas Ebert, top 50 in world O35 player Bojan Jelovac and county men’s players Henry Beesley, Nicholas Nugent and Paul Midgley.
Our youngest boys and girls take on Esher tennis academy who are one of the strongest junior club in UK in the ITC with sponge balls on a mini court. Will feature the county level juniors who are at the start of their journey representing Roehampton Club. Many of the juniors have been selected for county squads.
Best wishes,
Marc
