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The golf season is here! |
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This weekend sees the final competition of a busy Easter holidays for Warwickshire Juniors with the Junior Team defending the Four Counties at Broadway. You can find full results for the Boys Trials on the site (details below) as well as our feature report on Rob Browning's win. The Mens Trials Start Sheet is also on the site and for the European Tour watchers, once again we have reports from famous golf journalist Biran Creighton - this weekend from Seville - on the exploits of Messrs Whitehouse, Webster and Broadhurst. |
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Another year - a different golfer. |
| Last year started badly for Andy Sullivan when he missed playing in the McEvoy, and matchplay success for the Boys 1st team apart, it was not a good year – a lack of confidence and a rising handicap. Andy stayed on in education, starting a two year College course last Autumn, unlike many of his fellow Junior Team members who opted for more time for their golf. For Sullivan though, quality rather than quantity and a belief that 2003 was just one of those years saw the Purley Chase star return to winning ways by 3 shots over the field with a 71 at Henley, just one shot off the Amateur Course record. |
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Continuing on from 03 – Browning wins Boys Trials |
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Last year, Rob Browning had his best ever few months of golf. He did not win a County trophy but in October 03, his golf was rewarded with the Order of Merit title, courtesy of winning the JoM Championship and a few junior opens along the way. Yesterday, he could have had the Henley course record but fell away over the last 6. At Stoneleigh, Rob kept his game for the full 18 and took the Boys Trials. |
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Recognise the name? |
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If you read this feature you will be able to enlarge this photo of the winners names engraved on the McEvoy Trophy. J D Rose was leading the Masters last weekend. M Pilkington has as European Tour pedigree and eleven years ago our own Steve Webster was winning at Copt Heath, the start of a successful amateur career before going on to almost continuous high placings on the European Tour Order of Merit. A Warwickshire name will not be on the trophy this year. |
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The McEvoy and the 4 Counties Team |
| The week after Easter is always the date of the McEvoy trophy, 72 holes played over Copt Heath and open only to the best Boys in the Country. This year, the cut off point for handicaps was the lowest it has ever been and only three of our Juniors had made into the field, with Jak Hamblett, Boys Captain having to withdraw from both this competition and the 4 Counties, through injury late last week.
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