SWCGA Boys Championship

SWCGA Boys Championship Tehidy Park GC - Wednesday 11 July 2012

This year’s championship was played at Tehidy Park GC, a rather lush parkland course lying not far from the coast of SW Cornwall. Although the area had suffered the rain that we had all experienced, remarkably the course showed few signs of it and, indeed, with rain squalls all around the area that day, Tehidy saw only one short shower. Two rounds are played with the best five scores in each round counting towards each county’s scratch total.

Our team comprised Billy-Joe Bugden, Fraser Dawson, Jordan Howlett, Dominic Knight. George Long, Harry Mann, Tom Parsons and Oliver Stocks. Unfortunately Billy-Joe suffered some shoulder damage whilst warming up and, though he played a first round to see how things might go, he was unable to contemplate the 36 holes and sensibly withdrew. The scores for the two rounds were as follows:

            Fraser Dawson        75  73        148
            George Long           76  73        149
            Harry Mann             75  75        150
            Dominic Knight        79  76        155
            Jordan Howlett        79  81        160
            Tom Parsons           81  81        162
            Oliver Stocks          87  82        169

In the individual stakes Fraser came 9th, George 11th and Harry 16th. The individual winners were Matthew Pearson (Burnham & Berrow) 139, Harrison Greenberry (Exeter G&CC) 144 and Harry Flower (Woodbury Park) 145. All day there were only four sub-par rounds, the best being 68 by Pearson in the morning.

We came 5th in the team championship with the resulting scores for the best five as shown below:

            Devon              368  362    730
            Somerset         370  373    743
            Wiltshire           377  370    747
            Gloucester        373  381    754
            Dorset             384  378    762
            Cornwall          389  390    779

Our average score per round was five over par compared with Devon’s average of two over par. Every Dorset player playing two shots better per round would have given us second place. I would say that would not have been a lot to ask for! Pleasing to see was the second round play of both Fraser and George in particular, and the steady two rounds from Harry. However once again we tasted disappointment.

Support for the day was excellent with Andy Parsons and Derek Bugden looking after the boys, and the SWCGA President, Ian Clark and Ian Hulse and myself there all day. Thanks to them and thanks to the boys who tried very hard and spared the time from their various examinations to play!

For Round 1 scores click here.

For Round 2 scores click here.

For the 36 hole totals click here.

For the final team scores click here.

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