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Juniors are filling up the Bognor trophy cabinet
The junior section at Bognor have made an excellent start to the season. Here's the details from Downview Road and all our other local golf clubs.
They are operating under new organiser Ian Stoneham and with
17-year-old Gary Maskell as captain.
Eight teams of four took part in the Overton Salver competition at Bognor.
The winners were Bognor A – Gary Maskell, Louis Harrison, Jordan Vincent and Tom Stoneham with a total net score of 277.
Bognor B – Jack Bingham, Jason Cullen, Dan Hoare and Daryl Wollers – were second on 298. Hill Barn were third on 299.
Other teams taking part were Addington Court Croydon, Ham Manor, Selsey, West Sussex and Worthing.
Bognor Club member Peter Mitchell provided the salvers for the winners.
Ten juniors took part in the John Penn Trophy. The winner of the main trophy was Gary Maskell with a nett 68, playing off five. Second was Jordan Vincent, third Daryl Wollers.
In the 19-36 handicap bracket the trophy was won by Tom Stoneham with a nett score of 61, Ryan Maskell was second and Matt Wood third.
Club member John Penn sponsored the event and provided the trophies.
The Bogey Shield was played in very windy conditions. Ryan Breach was the winner with +4, Cullen was second level, and Vincent third –1.
In the West Sussex League the home game against West Sussex was won
4-1, and the away match at Hill Barn was halved. Those taking part in the two matches were Maskell, Harrison, playing off five, Hoare, playing off nine, Bingham, Vincent, Cullen and Stoneham.
The juniors have registered for the National Skills Challenge. This is designed to help juniors improve all parts of their game.
In the first round Stoneham scored 37 points and Cullen 36. There will be a further round later in the summer and the juniors with the highest overall score nationally will be invited to the final at Woodhall Spa, home of the EGU.
Tom Stoneham and Jordan Vincent were selected to play for the West Sussex under-15 team in the Inter Region competition at Willingdon Golf Club, Eastbourne. With 38 points Jordan had the highest score.
Gary Maskell, captain for 2010, has won eight and halved one of his last nine matches. His two older brothers, Liam, handicap five and Shaun, handicap six, also play for the Bognor scratch team, and all three have played for the county at various ages.
n A total of 59 ladies played in a stableford.
There was an added incentive for those more than 70 to win the Elliott Methuselah Trophy.
Results: Silver Div: 1 Max Musgrove 41, 2 Bridget Samuels 40, 3 Jan Ostrom 38, 4 Sue Crossen 37 ocb, 5 Chris Puddicombe 37. Bronze A: 1 Berit Smallcorn 39, 2 Marge Fenwick 36 ocb, 3 Jacqui Humphreys 36. Bronze B: 1 Mary Hardy 35 ocb, 2 Yvonne Potter 35, 3 Beryl Payne 34.
The winner of the Elliott Methuselah Trophy was Mary Hardy with 35 points on countback. Barbara Evans had a hole in one on the 111-yard par-three fifth.
* A well-attended ladies' invitation was held at Bognor. The format was four-ball better-ball.
Results: 1 Chloe Court & Mariene Briance (West Chiltington) 42pts, 2 Chris Puddicome & Cheri Grew (Burhill) 38 ocb, 3 Gill Harries & Margaret Simpson (Blackmoor) 38 ocb, 4 Sophie James & Joy Lomax (Ham Manor) 38 ocb. Best front nine: Jane Russell & Sally Williams (Cowdray) 21 ocb; Best back nine: Lynda Searle & Pam Wells (Littlehampton) 20 ocb.
CHICHESTER
The club's ladies division-three team continue to do well. Their latest match away to Littlehampton resulted in a 3-3 draw.
The team comprised Maggie Brand, Jeannie Blackman, Marion Swayne, Jean Barnett, Rosemary De Maurier, Lesly Hance and Maggie Martin-Prudhomme.
EWGA June medal (Tuesday) results: 1 Dot Collyer 79 nett ocb, 2 Caroline Hawkes 79, 3 Jean Davies.
Saturday stableford: 1 Sharon Burton 37pts, 2 Nicky Hood 35, 3 Vron Bicknelle 34 (ocb).
Joan Davies Rose Bowl results: 1 Terry Payne 37pts, 2 Dot Collyer 36 (ocb), 3 Lesly Hance 36.
COWDRAY PARK
The seniors hosted Bognor Regis for a quick return match. The home side ran out 6-2 winners to keep up their fine home form this season.
New to most players was the revamped ninth hole, which poses a whole new problem, especially from the back white tee of 200-plus yards.
Star performer for the second straight match was Gordon Batchelor, who won 6&5 again, this time with partner Mike Burgess, while the lead match, involving team captain Mike Hancock & in-form Alan Godfree was won 5&4.
Results (Cowdray names first): Mike Hancock & Alan Godfree beat Gary Steventon & David Turner 5&4; Jan de Vries & George Crouch beat Roger Selway & Alan Fitzgerald 2&1; Derek Smith & Clive Strudwick lost to Peter Purnell & Mike Wadley 1dn; John Smith & Wally Mitchell beat John Owen & Derek Sheath 2&1; Ian Heustice & Walter Acott lost to Ian Simpson & Jim Morris 2&1; Roger Poat & Dave Imlach beat Tony Wells & Peter McCormack 2&1; Mike Burgess & Gordon Batchelor beat Clive Millett & Don Corbett 6&5; John Kitchener & Barry Overington beat John Woodhead
& Hugh Diaper 3&2.
* Eight Cowdray Park seniors took part in the Ham Manor Invitation Open, hoping to replicate the success of last year when Allen Sibley and Graham Evans finished first and second.
Conditions were testing with the fairways rock-hard and a very strong wind blowing in off the Channel.
Cowdray's honour was upheld by seniors' vice-captain Peter Burton, who scored an excellent 35 points in the over-70s section to win first prize - this while he awaits extensive knee surgery.
* Almost 100 Cowdray Park seniors took part in the June stableford and, with the course playing very fast, good scoring was the order of the day.
Among the first groups out, Frank Cheevers and Neville Gibbons both scored 39 points and set the benchmark.
Later, seniors' vice-captain Peter Burton, building on his success at Ham Manor the previous day, took the lead on countback.
It looked as though he was going to celebrate again until Cliff Davis, a relative newcomer to the seniors' section, came in with 42.
In the last group, another relative newcomer, Phillip Currie, returned his best score at the club with 39 and earned fourth place on countback.
A raffle raised a further 171 for the captain's charity, the Sussex Snowdrop Trust.
During the day seniors' captain Wally Mitchell presented popular veteran David Manning with his winning prize from the club captain's charity raffle – a seven-day holiday for two in Jersey.
The stableford results mean the leaderboard for the seniors' Carter Trophy has changed significantly.
Consistent Graham Evans, who has scored points in five of the seven
competitions, joins Phil Harrison at the top of the tree with 40 points.
Frank Cheevers' consistency is rewarded with third place, while newcomer to the senior ranks this year Cliff Davis has rocketed from nowhere to sixth after finishing second and first in recent events.
PETWORTH DOWNS
The club held their inaugural early riser competition with the restriction of only using four clubs to play 18 holes.
The first players teed off at 5am in perfect conditions and in stableford format. The sun rising over the first tee made for a difficult sun obscured first shot.
Star player John Pafford gained the winning points and also birdied the ninth, tenth and 17th holes.
Results: John Pafford 39, Peter Kowlessar 31, Brian Ford 30, Neville Kinch 30, Graham Worsfold 28, Paul Robinson 23, Tony McClusky 20, Geoff Martin 20, Micky Hughes 19, Bog Hughes 18, Maurice Black 9.
June stableford results: Brian Ford 40, Bob Hughes 38, Gilbert Allan 36, Dean Lyall 36, Michael Barrett 35, Peter Fordyce 33, Paul Henshaw 29, Ian Long 27, Graham Worsfold 24.
Every Wednesday evening during the summer, Petworth Downs are holding a roll-up nine-hole competition. It has been running successfully for five weeks.
AVISFORD PARK
On Saturday, July 24, a week after the Open Championship at St Andrews, Avisford Park will participate in the National Golf Club Challenge, the largest amateur golfer charity event to take place in the UK.
The challenge will bring together hundreds of golf clubs and thousands of golfers to compete, have fun and to raise funds for the Help for Heroes charity.
Lee Westwood, one of the challenge's patrons, has given his full support to the national fundraising initiative, saying: "Together we have the chance to change the lives of those who have sacrificed and endured so much so we might live full and free lives.
"Many brave men and women have suffered often the most horrendous injuries in the line of duty and these heroes deserve our wholehearted support in July."
The 2010 National Golf Club Challenge winners will be presented with the Lee Westwood Cup, a stunning golf trophy, commissioned and donated by Wedgwood especially for the competition.
To find out more, contact Sarah Chitty on 01243 554611 or go to www.ngcc.at/avisfordpark
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