Hertfordshire rally to win English boys
title at Berwick
FROM THE ENGLISH GOLF UNION WEBSITE
Despite trailing from the foursomes, Hertfordshire bounced back to win the English boys' county championship in style at Berwick-on-Tweed Golf Club, their first title in 17 years.
They lifted the championship for the first time since 1993 with a 6-3 victory over Cumbria while Gloucestershire completed a 7-2 win over Derbyshire to clinch runners-up spot.
After finding themselves 1-2 down at lunch, Hertfordshire showed true grit by winning five of the six singles, a performance that underlined their class and their desire to keep the title in the south-east for another year.
“I’m overwhelmed,” said Herts captain Chris James. “The boys were terrific this afternoon. They have shown their true character from the time they won the south east qualifier through last week’s South East Foursomes which they also won. That gave them the confidence coming here.”
The Hertfordshire hero was Luke Colgate, who completed a 100% record by winning all six of his games, the only player to do so, battling back from 3-down in his single with Cumbria’s Dan Park to record a 2 and 1 victory.
“The singles were outstanding with some tremendous golf and I am so pleased for Luke. This win will be a tremendous boost for Hertfordshire junior golf as the under 16s won their league last week and we are hoping the under 14s do likewise.”
Apart from Colgate there were fine victories for team captain Tomasz Anderson, Will Chambers and Nick Ward.
Cumbria, who finished third in their first Finals, claimed a consolation victory through their boy cap Seb Crookall-Nixon.
Gloucestershire knew they had to beat Derbyshire and hope that Cumbria could do them a favour by beating Hertfordshire. They did the former handsomely but were denied the latter as Hertfordshire turned the tables.
After dropping just half a point in the morning foursomes, the South West Champions came out with all guns blazing in the singles and soon had two in the bag when Tyler Hogarty overwhelmed Jack Cope 7 and 6, while Sam Sullivan almost matched that with a 5 and 4 win over Alex Weare. Those two successes meant Gloucestershire couldn’t lose but they had to wait a while as Craig Young gave Derbyshire a point with a 2-hole victory over Sam McPherson.
So it was left to Oscar Sharpe to see Gloucester over the line with a half against Nick Newbold while Louis O’Regan and Alex Palomeque completed the job with one-hole and 2 and 1 victories respectively.
Gloucestershire president Martin Pettit was full of praise for his team. They played excellently and the morning foursomes was almost 3-0,” he said. “Then we took four-and-a-half games in the singles and made Hertfordshire fight all the way. We are regretting the first day foursomes when we lost all three which arguably proved costly.”
Results, news updates and interviews are available on the Championships Section of the EGU website, www.englishgolfunion.org.
title at Berwick
FROM THE ENGLISH GOLF UNION WEBSITE
Despite trailing from the foursomes, Hertfordshire bounced back to win the English boys' county championship in style at Berwick-on-Tweed Golf Club, their first title in 17 years.
They lifted the championship for the first time since 1993 with a 6-3 victory over Cumbria while Gloucestershire completed a 7-2 win over Derbyshire to clinch runners-up spot.
After finding themselves 1-2 down at lunch, Hertfordshire showed true grit by winning five of the six singles, a performance that underlined their class and their desire to keep the title in the south-east for another year.
“I’m overwhelmed,” said Herts captain Chris James. “The boys were terrific this afternoon. They have shown their true character from the time they won the south east qualifier through last week’s South East Foursomes which they also won. That gave them the confidence coming here.”
The Hertfordshire hero was Luke Colgate, who completed a 100% record by winning all six of his games, the only player to do so, battling back from 3-down in his single with Cumbria’s Dan Park to record a 2 and 1 victory.
“The singles were outstanding with some tremendous golf and I am so pleased for Luke. This win will be a tremendous boost for Hertfordshire junior golf as the under 16s won their league last week and we are hoping the under 14s do likewise.”
Apart from Colgate there were fine victories for team captain Tomasz Anderson, Will Chambers and Nick Ward.
Cumbria, who finished third in their first Finals, claimed a consolation victory through their boy cap Seb Crookall-Nixon.
Gloucestershire knew they had to beat Derbyshire and hope that Cumbria could do them a favour by beating Hertfordshire. They did the former handsomely but were denied the latter as Hertfordshire turned the tables.
After dropping just half a point in the morning foursomes, the South West Champions came out with all guns blazing in the singles and soon had two in the bag when Tyler Hogarty overwhelmed Jack Cope 7 and 6, while Sam Sullivan almost matched that with a 5 and 4 win over Alex Weare. Those two successes meant Gloucestershire couldn’t lose but they had to wait a while as Craig Young gave Derbyshire a point with a 2-hole victory over Sam McPherson.
So it was left to Oscar Sharpe to see Gloucester over the line with a half against Nick Newbold while Louis O’Regan and Alex Palomeque completed the job with one-hole and 2 and 1 victories respectively.
Gloucestershire president Martin Pettit was full of praise for his team. They played excellently and the morning foursomes was almost 3-0,” he said. “Then we took four-and-a-half games in the singles and made Hertfordshire fight all the way. We are regretting the first day foursomes when we lost all three which arguably proved costly.”
Results, news updates and interviews are available on the Championships Section of the EGU website, www.englishgolfunion.org.
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