Boys Division 1 – Monmouthshire
The second Division 1 Medal of the season was held at Monmouthshire Golf Club, in the shadow of the Blorenge Mountain, saw Jack Davidson (Llanwern) shoot an impressive gross score of 68, ahead of Callam Morris (Monmouthshire) with 74 and Joseph du Feu (Celtic Manor) 76. Callam won the Nett prize with a score of 66 beating Jack on countback.
This event was also the qualifying round for the Boys Matchplay Championship.
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Division 1 Monmouthshire 2012
2012 Junior Opens
The dates for the following Junior Open’s have been announced:
- Dewstow – 6th June 2012
- St. Mellons – 2nd August 2012
- Newport – 9th August 2012
- Monmouthshire – 10th August 2012
- Woodlake Park – 21st August 2012
See ‘Entry Forms’ page for more details.
Boys Division 2 – Alice Springs
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Division 2 Alice Springs 2012
Gwent v Glamorgan
County Match Report: Gwent I v Glamorgan I – Channel League
Newport Golf Club: Sunday 22nd April 2012
The foursomes matches commenced in warm sunny weather which soon became overcast and accompanied with a cold tricky wind which lasted all day sometimes with rain and occasional hail. The top two games lost their foursomes by small margins and the partnership of Chris Dinsdale and Mitchell Reid turned the tide for Gwent by winning their game against the Glamorgan pair of Chris O’Neil and Ian Flower. Neil Oakley and Jonathan Davidson had a fine 4 & 3 win against Mark Baird and Zach Gould. Richard Tayler and Alistair Mason also won the final foursomes game to give Gwent a 3-2 lead at lunch.
The afternoon singles saw Chris Dinsdale, Joe Vickery, and Rhys Barber winning the top three games to get Gwent away to a great start. Chris Dinsdale’s match with Richard Hooper set up one of the most exciting finishes of the day. Their match was all square after the 15th and Chris birdied the 16th to go 1 up. Richard Hooper sank a putt across the green on 17 to bring the game back all square. Both players were on the 18th green in 2 and it was on Chris to putt first from some distance. He duly holed his putt and Richard Hooper missed his to give Gwent their point. Luke Thomas of Glamorgan must consider himself most unlucky to lose his match against Joe Vickery as their match was all square going down 17 when Luke’s approach shot to the green from a long way back hit the steps on the side of the green and his ball careered out of bounds leaving him one down with one to play. The 18th was halved in birdie 4’s and Joe took the game 1 Up.
Another fine game was that between Gwent’s Mitchell Reid and Glamorgan’s Zach Gould. This was Zach’s first game for Glamorgan for over a season and the pair were evenly matched. Mitchell finally won the game with a 1 Up win to gain a point for Gwent.
Neil Oakley ground out his game with Mark Baird and won on the 17th hole after ramming a putt into the back of the hole to give Gwent the vital point they needed to win the match by 8 points to 7.
This was an excellent Gwent victory over a strong Glamorgan team.
Gwent v Glamorgan
Cock ‘o’ North Tee Times
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Tee Times
Wiltshire u18 v Gwent u18
County Team Report: Wiltshire U18 v Gwent U18 – Junior Channel League
The Wiltshire Golf Club – Wednesday 11th April 2012
The Gwent U18 team who were without their Captain Oliver Mottram and Otto Mand who were representing Wales against Ireland in Cardigan got off to a wonderful start by winning the morning foursomes by 4 games to 1 at the Wiltshire Golf Club.
The Wiltshire team fought back in the afternoon singles to take the points by 5½ to 4½. Gwent won the match overall by 8½ points to 6½. Notable performances by Dan King, Nathan Humphreys, Joshua Heseltine-Smith, and Joseph du Feu saw them go through the day undefeated. Joe du Feu having recently returned from Spain with the Celtic Manor Juniors recorded a substantial 4 & 2 victory in the singles.
The team picture does not show Jack Davidson who had to leave immediately after the match to represent the Wales U16 team in a match against Yorkshire U16 at Wrexham the following day.
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Wiltshire u18 v Gwent u18
Boys Division 1 – Llanwern
The first Division 1 event of the year was held at Llanwern where the best gross was recorded by Daniel King of Newport with a 71 with 34 on the back 9 from Joseph du Feu of Celtic Manor who carded a 35 on the back 9. Joseph took the nett prize with Daniel second and Will Donald of St. Pierre third.
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Division 1 Llanwern 2012
Duncan Putter
The first of the Golf Union of Wales ranking events was held over the links at Southerndown, which saw a home victory for Ben Westgate (Trevose / Southerndown) with a total score of 280 which included a third round score of 66.
Second place went to Luke Thomas (Pontypridd) also on 280, and third to Craig Adams (Farrington) on 282.
The best placed Gwent player was Otto Mand (Greenmeadow), who finished in a tie for 14th place with a score of 292. The only other Gwent players to make the cut were the St. Pierre duo of Richard Bentham and Oliver Mottram.
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