COCHRANE CASTLE, DOWNFIELD PAIRS EARN LUXURY WEEK

FOUR SCOTS AMONG QUALIFIERS FOR 

HowDidiDo GRAND FINAL ON ALGARVE

Cochrane Castle's Alex Farmer and John Kinning, and Downfield's Graham Bell and Richard Scott are among 32 amateur club golfers from across the UK and Ireland who will head off to Portugal this week to compete in the grand final of the HowDidiDo National Match-play Championship (February 9-15). 

Four competitions, which drew a total entry of 1,400, culminate in the grand final at the Quinta do Lago resort, on the Algarve - singles, pairs, mixed pairs and senior pairs, for those aged 50 or more - with a total of 32 golfers.

All the finalists will have played up to four qualifying rounds merely to reach the regional final.

Farmer and Kinning are one of six partnerships to have qualified for the pairs final.
Bell and Scott are among the four pairs to reach the senior pairs final.
The 32 qualifiers receive an expenses-paid trip to play at Quinta do Lago, including complimentary return flights to Faro, six-nights' accommodation at the four-star Monte da Quinta Club, on the Quinta do Lago estate, and five days' golf on the South and Laranjal courses.
QUALIFIERS
Pairs: Tom Muldoon and Kevin Commins (Warrenpoint GC), Alex Farmer and John Kinning (Cochrane Castle), John Jennings and Chris Whitehead (Wychwood Park), Tony Durose and Barrie Kirton (Harborne Church Farm), Carly Bosher and Laura Watkins (Bicester), Martin Rudderham (Test Valley) and Dave Green (Freshwater Bay).

Senior pairs: Graham Bell and Richard Scott (Downfield), Tom Eadon and John Squires (Melton Mowbray), Barry Roe and Stuart Jones (Pype Hayes), Phil Bermingham and Alan Russell (Fulwell).

Mixed pairs: Eileen McMullan and Gary Catt (Richmond, North Yorks), Beth Nicholson (Garforth) and Daniel Greenwood (Scarthingwell), Elizabeth Harris-Ulph and Anthony Ulph (Buckingham), Stephen Cammack and Susan Clark (Bondhay).

Singles: Chris Wall (Middlesbrough), Carl Greenwood (Wychwood Park), Euan London (Pannal), Peter Jones (Bearwood Lakes).