It’s a very busy start to the season proper with Warwickshire Boys taking on Worcs. There is the Warwickshire Ladies Club Championships from Wednesday 5th through to Friday 7th and the European Tour is ‘In town’ at the Marriott Forest of Arden – and you can see the first Junior Order of Merit Tables next Wednesday, plus the Men’s 1sts take on Somerset in a friendly … for more info click

Paul Casey, fresh from his recent 6th place finish in the US Masters, has confirmed that he will compete in The Daily Telegraph Damovo British Masters at the Marriott Forest of Arden on the May 6-9, 2004. Casey, now ranked World 26 following his exploits at Augusta in one of the most exciting Majors of recent times, will be joined by three of the recent greats of European golf boasting a total of 6 US Masters' titles between them - Nick Faldo (3), José Maria Olazábal (2) and Sandy Lyle (1).

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.

Having secured second place in the first round of the qualification from the Midland and East Anglia region of the 2004 Nick Faldo series with a 79 at a wind blown Brancaster, Jack Sant (Ladbrook) went one better with a fantastic 73 over the Dukes at Woburn and now tops the leaderboard at U15s level. In 4th place in the U16s is Steve Mumford (Coventry Hearsall) after his own 72 on the famous course

With five players in the County squads, plus the recently ‘retired’ Peter Holt (not so retired as you will read later), the Coventry team was regarded as the favourites for the 2004 Warwickshire Cup final, the fifth year of the trophy, and they fully justified this position with some outstanding play.

FUERTEVENTURA, Canary Islands (AP) _ Christian Cevaer shot eagle-twos on the first and 16th holes Sunday then safely parred the last two for a 69 to win the Spanish Open by one stroke. The 34-year-old Frenchman, a psychology graduate from Stanford University - Tiger Woods' alma mater - fired in a 137-yard pitching wedge at the first and holed a lob wedge from 53 yards at the 16th to set up victory over three players, Ricardo Gonzales of Argentina, Peter Hedblom of Sweden and David Park of Wales.

FUERTEVENURA, Canary Islands - David Park of Wales may struggle to hold off the rampant Argentine Ricardo Gonzalez in the final round of the Spanish Open on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura of Sunday. The 29-year-old London resident could only muster a one-over-par 71 in Saturday's third round and Gonzalez closed him down with a 64 that shared the honours for the day's best round with another Welshman, Bradley Dredge. Park, still one shot clear after beginning the round four ahead, will have to rediscover his putting touch in the last round after leaving several putts inches short on Saturday.