GOLF NEWS - The County Team Championships and lots more

David Morgan - Thursday, 8 June, 2006

This week sees the Centenary Mens Matchplay Championship take place at Copt Heath, with one of the strongest all round fields in its recent history as the draw includes nearly all the best of the younger Warwickshire golfers. The eight players involved qualified from the Centenary Warwickshire Amateur as did Maxstoke Park GC (pictured) for the English Club Championship - the full results of teams from the Amateur is available plus a poster for club notice boards on last week's Midland League matches.

CLICK HERE for the full results of the Team competition from the Centenary Amateur

Maxstoke will go to Stoke Park (the old Stoke Poges) in early September and Maxstoke team Captain Antony Gascoigne has had experience of the Finals a number of times before -

'We have qualified before four times in a row, up until three years ago. I went one time with Sam (Walker) and Tom (Whitehouse). We came third that year, in 1997

'How difficult it is depends on the course and obviously the quality of the teams playing, but its always tough to win.

'Hopefully we will have our best team - Ben (Stafford) and Rob (Browning) should be OK and I will do my best to be able to play. If one player wasn't available, we could of course go for Ben Senior but he finds it difficult to get weekdays off and the first round is on the Friday.'

The Mens Club Team Championship is a gross competition. The Boys Club Team Championship is now nett so the winning team from the Centenary Boys Championship can now be won by higher handicap golfers. Do make sure that your club has at least one team in the Boys Championships. They need to be entered as individuals before they can play in the Championships itself.

Last year saw mixed results for our 1st and 2nd Teams. Features are posted on this site about both matches but for those who don't have regular access to the web, why not download a special poster giving the score details?

Its available in PDF form so download and print it for your club notice board.

CLICK HERE for the 1st Round Midland League results poster

If you would like your own Centenary memento CLICK HERE for the catalogue of the special Centenary Clothing endorsed by the Warwickshire Union. You simply choose from the catalogue you can donwload and order from your Club Professional.

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