About Us

The WAGS was born about 91' - 92' in a bar in Central Hong Kong called The Friar Tuck, which has since been turned into a Thai restaurant. So far the WAGS has avoided that fate, but with the annual tours to Thailand and two Thai lady players it's starting to get a Thai feel.

Rated as one of the most sociable of the golfing societies, currently the Wednesday Afternoon Golf Society has around 80 members with a high proportion playing in the monthly medal competition and competing for the annual trophies, and nearly all playing the nineteenth hole whether they have played or not.

Members have been known to play on other days of the week too. In fact, Fridays are our most popular day, but we decided on Wednesday as it was more of a talking point.

Leading lights at the outset were Bruce Dunlop, Chris Hutchings, Carl Huckstep, David Hoare, Ian Wood. Others from early days (and I can't remember if they were original) Glenn Haley, John Green (he who set up China Jump), Rod Hall, John Alsop, Neil Heywood, Rob Barker, Les Wong (a very Chinese looking guy from Liverpool with a very broad Liverpudlian accent and no Cantonese whatever). Simon Frazer held WAGS' highest ever honorary handicap of 54 (we were those kind of guys and anyone could play).

Early anecdotes include Chris Hutchings, the Captain at the time being christened the Stoat (I think by Haley) for being a crafty ****'er who you could never count out of the frame, Ian Wood who on one of our Philippines tours managed to get a hole in one at Wack-Wack but with his provisional ball (good par Ian) and getting the Minah bird at the Matabunkay Beach Resort to say wanker each time we said Rodney Hall. We also got our first lady member (at the time an associate partner of a leading HK law firm) and her visiting friend from the UK to put on a Firehouse bikini and dance on the stage in the Firehouse (the old one) in Manila, I leave out her name for obvious reasons.