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| Juniors to the fore in Mens Trials 2004-04-25 | |||
| It was Junior 1-2 plus one of the younger members of the 1st team who took the honours in the 2004 Warwickshire Mens trials, held at Sutton Coldfield GC on Sunday 25th April. Ben Stafford is building an impressive golfing CV, started by his Midland Boys Championships win two years ago, and added to with the Boys and U21s Matchplay win last year. Today, he took the Mens Trials. | |||
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| Ben is a very impressive golfer, who hits lots and lots of greens. His putting has been a weakness but work on the greens throughout last year and over the Winter meant he had a putt on the 16th at Sutton to go –7 and to have a chance at the course record. Stafford missed that putt and bogied the long par three 17th but finished with a solid par four for a 67.
That score beat the 70 from Andy Sullivan, a round which confirmed the Purley Chase star’s recent form – a win at the 2004 Schools and second in the boys Trials. Andy finished off what was about the worst score he could have managed with a 7ft birdie on the last.
It would be some time before either Stafford’s 67 or Sullivan’s 70 would be challenged on what was a perfect day for golf. Scott Cronin (Maxstoke) came in with a 71 closely followed by Richard Cresswell (Sutton) with the same score.
It was Nuneaton golfer Paul Randle who had a chance to overtake the two juniors. He actually had 8 birdies in his round and started birdie, bogey, birdie, bogey. Included in the mistakes was a double. All of this added up to a 70 and 38 points.
One of the stories of the day was from Anthony Gascoigne. Anthony was a Professional up until last year. He hasn’t been too well but since last Spring things have been slowly getting better and now reinstated as an Amateur, with much better health, he is looking forward to restarting what was a pretty impressive Amateur Career, one which showed lots of potential. Today’s round, really his first of the year was a 73, off a one handicap. Anthony collected Ben Stafford’s first prize as ben had to work – to support his golf game now he has left school!
A picture gallery is available in Warwickshire Mens | Championships | Trials | Pictures
Leaderboard
Ben Stafford (Maxstoke) 41 points 67 gross
Andy Sullivan (Purley Chase) 38 70 Paul Randle (Nuneaton) 38
Scott Cronin (Maxstoke) 37 Richard Cresswell (Sutton) 37
Andy Jones (Ladbrook) 36
Other scores of interest
Chris Evans 34
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