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Centenary Championship finale goes to Coventry
Thursday 21st September 2006 - Sutton Coldfield Golf Club - Bainbridge Shield final. The 36 holes of this competition is usually 'reserved' for late October, and played in late Autumn conditions. For the Centenary year, this knockout between the 52 clubs of the Warwickshire Union was played to this finish a month early, so that the winners Coventry can be featured in the Centenary Book (make sure you get your copy). This is the story of the final.
Its Maxstoke in the Cup
The Warwickshire GC – Saturday 23rd April 2005. If the final was made by the fantastic support that Stratford-on-Avon GC brought along for their first appearance in a Warwickshire Championship final for over a decade, Stratford Captain John Pitts was very magnanimous in defeat saying ‘The better team won’ as his team, a mixture of youth and experience went down 3-0 to Maxstoke in the Warwickshire Cup final. For Maxstoke, missing three of their best juniors who were at Moor Hall for the 4 Counties, the win was very satisfying.
Another Coventry win
The Bainbridge shield has not left the City of Coventry in recent years and today, at a glorious Sutton Coldfield GC, Coventry Finham returned the huge trophy to their clubhouse after it was a few miles across the city at Hearsall for 2003-2004. With some spectacular golf, David Hayes and Matt Cryer were nine under par in beating the Maxstoke team of County Juniors Ben Stafford and Rob Browning by 6& 4
The Bainbridge 2003 – It’s a Home Win!
No other club, since 1979, has provided the two finalists for the Bainbridge Shield, the oldest Warwickshire Trophy. Twenty-four years ago, for the first time it was Coventry Hearsall and for the 2003 final, between the ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams from Hearsall, the morning 18 was watched by a player from that final. There was a good gallery but with weather conditions deteriorating as the day went on, great golf was not possible.