Over in the Grand Final of the Gulf Air Pro-Captain Challenge, Nuneaton's Craig Phillips and Liam McHugh eventually finished 7th behind Bush Hill, and in Spain, at their Amateur Championship, Andy Sullivan missed by four on making the Matchplay stages of one of Europe's most prestigious events outside the UK.

SULLIVAN LOOKING FORWARD TO SPANISH - NUNEATON DUO WELL-PREPARED FOR MIDDLE EAST ASSIGNMENT - Having 'warmed up' in the 21 deg of Portugal, at their Amateur Championships, but not played as well as he would have liked, Andy Sullivan today starts his quest for Spanish success.

Copt Heath GC - Thursday 12th February. WUGC President John Duncombe gave a warm welcome to a substantial representation of the Junior Organiser of the 51 Union Clubs. Our President started with his own thoughts on the Juniors coming second in the English Championships, in part due to the County infrastructure, and just as importantly the work done by Club Junior Organisers - 'We are hugely grateful for the work done'

Friday 28th November 2008 - Copt Heath Golf Club - President John Duncombe welcomed 190 guests to this year's Annual Dinner, with Guest of Honour Roy Case, President of the English Golf Union. It was an evening when our Country celebrated success which was so close to being outstanding.

The NEC Golf Show was hailed a massive success by exhibitors and visitors alike with a host of famous faces predicting big things for its future.

The 2008 Bainbridge Final - Sutton Coldfield GC - Friday 30th October - Maxstoke have (very surprisingly) not held the Bainbridge Shield, the Counties premier interclub scratch competition, for 26 years, since the days of Tony Allen. 'Considering the quality of golfer they have produced, its an amazing fact,' said WU president John Duncombe. That wait is over.

Midland League 2008 - M5 for the 1sts - Handsworth GC - Sunday 26th October - The arget was a minimum of a 12-3 win, if the Midland League title was to return to 'Bear Country' . That was always going to be difficult and our final opponents Derbyshire were in no mood to make lfie easy. That showed in the morning foursomes result.