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Home Counties vs NZ

February 27th 2018

The 2017 Home Counties vs NZ match was again very close , with NZ taking out the Open competition by only 1 point and Home Counties winning the Veterans by 4 points.  NZ also took out the Women's and Junior Sections, with the Women's Team posting a record score of 2958.  



 

Home Counties Match

The Home Counties Match is shot at the Inter-Island match annually.  Initially it was only an Open match, first shot in 1998, but is now contested between Open (20 + reserves), Women,  Junior and Veterans teams (all 10 + reserves) .

The "Home Counties" are the counties of England that surround London, and are called that as they were the counties where Members of Parliament could travel home after the end of the Parliamentary Session.  The counties generally included in the list are Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex.