Sunday 5th June 2011 - Sherwood Forest Golf Club vs Nottinghamshire. We kicked off our quest for the hat-trick of league wins with a visit to the wonderful Sherwood Forest Golf Club. This season has seen the second team reduced from 12-a-side to 10-a-side, but given the talent in my squad I was confident that we would hit the ground running.

Sunday 27th March 2011 - Harborne Golf Club vs Leicestershire. The second friendly this season, for the Warwickshire seconds, was held at Harborne GC on Sunday 27th March 2011. I had some of my 'big guns' from last season back at my disposal, but others were either unavailable or had been snaffled up by Dave for the firsts (two players being called up to the firsts in the week running up to the match!)

Sunday 20th March 2011 at Kingsthorpe Golf Club vs Northamptonshire - Our first friendly match of the season was held on Sunday 20th March against Northamptonshire at Kigsthorpe G C. We were greeted by a beautiful Spring morning and the weather remained very pleasant for the whole day

Sunday 5th September 2010 at Maxstoke Golf Club vs Worcestershire - The fourth match of the league season saw us pitted against one of our main challengers for the league title, Worcestershire. A victory would see us crowned as champions and I was sure I had selected a team that was strong enough to achieve the task.

Sunday 6th June 2010 - Uttoxeter Golf Club vs Staffordshire. The seconds' quest to retain their league title started on Sunday 6th June at Uttoxeter GC. 4 squad members had gone over for a practice round the day before and found the golf course to be very tricky. Fortunately Antony Gascoigne burnt the midnight oil and produced a crib sheet for all of the Warwickshire team. This attention to detail was to prove valuable for those who had not played the course previously.

Team Warwickshire 2nd's v Worcestershire 2nd's at Stourbridge Golf Club on Sunday 4th October 2009. Needing just 4.5 points from a maximum of 18 points available on the day to claim the Midlands League 2nd Team title, some teams would have thought that they only had to turn up and they would 'fall over the winning line'.

Team Warwickshire 2nds v Derbyshire 2nds at Maxstoke Park on Sunday 6th September 2009 - It could be reasonably assumed that with both of the Coventry Hearsall pairing of James Bromley & Sam Foster being accountants (one fully qualified the other a trainee) that a rudimentary understanding of numbers is a given. One of the more bizarre incidents in county golf proves that this is most certainly not the case!