As you can see from the Team Sheet, we lost our annual match against Smoerset. However it was a very good work-out and highlighted the importance of short game and putting in general

The professionals have been and gone and on Monday 24th, our best amateurs will try to follow in the footsteps of our past Champions who have had so much success in all parts of the game. They will be playing 36 holes at Ladbrook Park and the defending Champion Rob Steele (Kenilworth) will be all out to defend his title against one of the strongest fields for years.

If you click on 'Junior Order of Merit' (Left), you will see the first update of the JoM for 2004 and heading the table is Andy Sullivan from Purley Chase after a win at the Schools and Runner-up places in the Boys and Mens Trials. Only 15% of the JoM points for 2004 have been distributed so far, so Andy has a long way to go and lots more golf to play if he is going to claim the JoM title.

For Warwickshire golfers, this was a special week. It was a chance (the only one this year) to see what was an excellent field in a European Tour Event and what made things even better was that one of our ex-amateurs Paul Broadhurst was one of the ‘stars’ for the week. Paul is already a proven winner and his 5th place at the Forest a sign he is returning to top form. He played the last two rounds in the company of his very good friend Barry Lane, the eventual winner. This is Lane’s reflections on his win, but first, what about the Marriott Forest of Arden. What sort of week did they have?

A trio of ‘golden oldies’ was leading with the final round to go at the Daily Telegraph Damovo British Masters. Monty was on the fringe of contention, playing without thinking of goals. From the final groups 22 players were within six shots of the lead held by Paul Broadhurst, playing a long Arden course in perfect conditions. No mistakes would be the requirement for the day plus taking advantage of any good approaches ….

It was a day of reckoning for Paul Broadhurst. Could he keep hitting fairways as he had done for the previous three round/ Would his aggressive putting, a carry over from his amateur and early professional times be rewarded? This was his story.

The sole representative of ‘our’ guys left in the DailyTelegraph Damovo British Masters is Paul Broadhurst, looking to play significant ‘catch-up’ after injury has prevented him from playing for eight weeks. With a pretty impressive fairway hitting percentage (by necessity as the Forest bears more than a passing resemblance to a US Open course), Paul was out in match 32 and lying in a £25 000 or so prize money placing –