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.

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 scoreboard says Warwickshire 10.5, Worcestershire 4.5 but that was not how things looked with 9 holes to go in the afternoon singles. In defence of the Midland League Boys title, this was a great start and it was a fantastic finish by our Boys Team, captained by Mens Trials winner Ben Stafford.

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.

Ben Stafford was 3 down and had four birdies in his next five holes – and was still 2 down. Sam Foster put 10 birdies and an eagle ‘on the board’ against his two Sunday opponents. There were over 25 ‘red numbers’ from Warwickshire Juniors just on Sunday afternoon as our County equalled the record of Gloucs from the 70’s.