An excellent turn out of 18 teams gathered at Beverley & East Riding Golf Club for the East Riding Junior Team Championship
Many clubs fielded two teams and Hainsworth Park joined Cottingham with three teams each. Hopefully this shows further resurgence of Junior golf in the region.
Two out of three scores in each team were to count in the team competitions with the dry and windy Beverley playing at its 'links like' best.
Reports from the course included 'very wayward' and 'carnage' as many players struggled to keep the ball on the fairway. The gusty conditions certainly made it dificult on the Westwood, but the scores returned showed many of the juniors coped well with the squally afternoon.
The nett team championship was a close affair and the winners of the Frank Barratt Trophy were Scarborough North Cliff Golf Club with a 130 total - edging out Cottingham 3 by one shot on 131, with Beverley 2 third on 135.
Above - Neil Barratt presented the trophy to Edward Francis of Scarborough North Cliff Golf Club who also won the best nett of the day with a 60.
Jack Burt (below) of Cottingham took home the best individual gross with an excellent 74 one ahead of Huxley Sawyer of Cave Castle 75, with home player Seth Fairburn third with a 76
With Huxley's 75 added to Jack Walls 80 ( Tom Adcock 81 the non scorer) Cave Castle won the Gross Team event and the TR Leak Trophy by four shots on 155 from Tom Hinks 78, Bobby Beasley 81 on 159 for Hull 1 (George Pepper with a 85 was the non-scoring team member).In third place was Ganton with 160.
ERUGC President Dave Greenwood presented the Gross trophy to Huxley Sawyer (above) of Cave Castle GC and vouchers to all of the prizewinners at his home course.
Scarborough North Cliff GC will now represent the East Riding Union in the Yorkshire Junior Club Team Championship at Catterick Golf Club. Good luck!
Many thanks to all at Beverley & East Riding Golf Club for hosting the event, members for giving up a few hours tee times and welcoming the competitors, officials and families to the club so warmly. Thank you to Alex and the team for the excellent food, Dave Jackson and his team for preparing the course and to Ian Jeffrey for organising the whole event so well via the Golf Genius system. Players were sent on their way, on time as always, by ERUGC starting stalwart Andy Pittaway.
| Team nett | ||
| Scarborough North Cliff | PH | Score |
| Edward Francis | 30 | 60 |
| William Ward | 18 | 70 |
| Robbie Palmer Jenkinson | 25 | NR* |
| TOTAL | 130 | |
| Cottingham3 | ||
| Elliot McLaughlin | 18 | 65 |
| Zac Budd | 17 | 66 |
| Archie Bean | 16 | 71* |
| TOTAL | 131 | |
| Beverley 2 | ||
| Will Bentley | 14 | 63 |
| Archie Russell | 19 | 72 |
| Ava GDonoghue | 36 | 73* |
| TOTAL | 155 | |
| * discarded score | ||
| Team Gross | ||
| Cave Castle 1 | Score | |
| Huxley Sawyer | 75 | |
| Jack Wall | 80 | |
| Thomas Adcock | 81* | |
| TOTAL | 155 | |
| Hull 1 | ||
| Tom Hinks | 78 | |
| Bobby Beasley | 81 | |
| George Pepper | 85* | |
| TOTAL | 159 | |
| Best indivudual nett | ||
| Edward Francis Scar NC | 30 | 60 |
| Best individual gross | ||
| Jack Burt | 74 |
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