Our superb Junior team, after the inspiration of coming so close at last years County Championships finals, were tantalisingly close to a return to the premier team competition for Juniors in England. It all came down to a hatful of chances, spread over the whole team of six, for a crucial putt to drop as we lost by just once shot to the 2004 qualifiers Shropshire & Herefordshire!

Saturday and Sunday 22nd and 23rd April 2006 - Boys 4 Counties - Cleobury Mortimer GC. Having rewritten the record for successive wins in 2005, Warwickshire Boys re-wrote the record again with an emphatic 3-0 defeat of Worcs, Gloucs and Staffs and our team included some impressive play to let any opposition know that the very best golf will be needed to beat another year of highly talented Warwickshire Juniors.

This feature contains the draw for the 2006 Boys Trials, the full results sheet from the 2006 Schools and the announcement of the Junior Team going for a sixth consecutive triumph in the 4 Counties, a round-robin match between our County, Gloucs, Staffs and Worcestershire. Also included is the complete results sheet from the 2006 Schools.

This is a report on the opening Juniors match from last weekend. The match was played at Whitefields GC on a very cold and breezy day. Warwicks won the morning foursomes 4 1/2 to 1 1/2. Winners were Chris Dougill and Rory Kirwan, Steve Mumford and Andrew Geraghty, John Paul Banbury and Rob Bardsley, Steven Butler and Sam Newey.

When Yorkshire took the morning foursomes against Gloucs, and Warwickshire lost 2-1 to Essex, any hopes of the County Championship title coming to our county were gone. Yorkshire would end up demolishing the Gloucs singles and win 8-1 overall in that match, meaning that the many visitors from south of London could only hope for their Juniors to take the prestigious trophy by beating Warwickshire. But, once again facing many players who have played for England, our players came out on top in the individual part of the match - and what golf there was played.

D2 - County Chamionships - Having lost the morning foursomes 0-3 against pre County Championships favourites Yorkshire, there was very little hope of actually taking the overall match, such is the depth of the 'Roses' county with many England players in their squad. The overall win did not happen but Warwickshire managed to take the singles 3.5 - 2.5 to still be very much in with a chance of taking the English title.

Junior English County Championships 2005 - Little Aston GC On Day 1 of the County Championships Warwickshire were drawn against annual 4 Counties opponents Gloucestershire (early each season) - and the result was as per the last five Spring meetings of the Junior Teams, a win for Warwickshire.