SANSOME DEFENDS LOGAN TROPHY AT DELAMERE FOREST
Steve Sansome from Leicestershire will be defending the title
when the English Open Mid-Amateur Championship for the Logan
Trophy takes place at Delamere Forest Golf Club in Cheshire
on 19th - 21st August.
Sansome (Birstall) won the championship a year ago at Fairhaven
when a closing round of 66 gave him a 54-hole total of 211,
four strokes better than Cumbria’s Nicky Bell and seven
ahead of Roger Smithies from Lancashire.
Bell and Smithies are again in the field along with many
of those who finished in the top ten last year. The field
also includes several other former winners as well as a number
of ex-internationals.
Among the former champions is Robert Godley (Hillside), the
winner in 1993, Charlie Banks (Stanton on the Wolds), who
triumphed three times in a row from 1995, Barry Downing (Hallamshire),
the 2000 winner, and Stephen Crosby (Gorleston), joint winner
with Francois Illouz from France in 2002.
The former internationals include Banks as well as Roger
Roper (Wike Ridge), the 2004 Scottish Mid-Amateur champion,
and John Kemp (John O’Gaunt), who was capped in the
2003 Home Internationals.
The field of 132 also includes Devon stalwart Graham Ruth
(Tavistock), the father of current England international James
Ruth. Graham, who gave up county golf earlier this year, made
an immediate impact on the mid-amateur scene by finishing
runner-up in the European Championship in Bled, Slovenia,
in early June.
Others who will tee-up at Delamere Forest include Stewart
King, the secretary at West Lancashire Golf Club, Ian Barker
(Burhill), who led Surrey to the English County Championship
last year, and Iain McKenzie (Hallamshire), brother of touring
professional Malcolm McKenzie.
The Logan Trophy is open to players over 35 years of age,
is played over 54 holes with a cut after 36, the leading 45
players and ties going through to the final round. The Championship
was inaugurated in 1988 when Peter McEvoy was the first winner.
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