Coxmoor’s all-girls team bids for Junior Champion Club title
7th August 2013Ninety six promising young golfers will descend on England Golf headquarters at Woodhall Spa for the Junior Champion Club tournament being played over the Bracken Course on 10th and 11th August.
The junior club champions from almost every county will be on parade in the 36-hole Stableford competition with the best two scores each day from every three-strong team to count.
Once again, the field contains a number of girls, which has been a feature of the event in recent years, while there is one all-girl line-up. That will be the squad from Coxmoor representing Nottinghamshire with sisters Rebecca and Lauren Williams and Rhiannon Linacre.
The team from Bridgnorth won the title for Shropshire and Herefordshire last year while that county’s representatives this time is the Wrekin, which is fielding a strong side containing Harry Burt and Will Enefer.
Enefer is the county’s boy and youth champion and has played in the McGregor and Carris Trophies this summer, finishing seventh in the former at Seacroft.
Two years ago, the title went to Whickham from County Durham and flying the Durham flag this time will be Beamish Park, while just one county, Gloucestershire, has triumphed twice in the Junior Champion Club tournament and their entrants this time will come from Gloucester Golf Club.
BB&O’s hopes will be in the hands of Stoke Park, whose team contains John Gough, who has enjoyed a number of successes on the Nike Futures Tour this season.
Suffolk, who won the first Junior Champion Club event in 2002, are sending Felixstowe Ferry whose line-up includes George Copsey, a member of the Suffolk junior team, while Channels representing Essex, have brothers Henry and Callum Blanks and Lily May Humphreys.