The Royal Oak, Hail Weston a formal offer for the Royal Oak. The offer was not accepted. HWCPS made another, significantly higher, offer in 2015, but this was also rejected. After several years of negotiations, a group of villagers (and members of HWCPS) got together in 2016 to make a fresh bid to buy the Royal Oak, and on 31 January 2017 the sale finally went through. Renovation and restoration work began in the following weeks, with the assistance of roughly 50 volunteers. The Royal Oak reopened on Friday 19 May 2017. The Royal Oak, Hail Weston The Royal Oak is an 18th-century public house
Oak Island Golf Club counterpart, the Oak Island Women’s Golf Association (OIWGA) is an equally active group that conducts year-round weekday (Wednesday) and weekend (Saturday) morning competitions. Tournaments held during the year include the mixed couple Sadie Hawkins Day contest in March, the Member-Member team event in April and the two day Women’s Championship Stroke Play competition in September. A combined Linkster/OIGWA team event is held in October while the final event of the year in December is followed by an awards luncheon. Carved out of a maritime forest, the course is built through four residential communities: single family homes in Oak Island Estates