WARING SEEKS SECOND ENGLISH TITLE WITH BROMBOROUGH COLLEAGUES
Paul Waring, the newly crowned English champion, will seek
to win another national title when he lines up with his Bromborough
team-mates in the Champion Club tournament at Brancepeth Castle
Golf Club, Durham, on 26th - 27th August.
Waring won the English Amateur Championship after six arduous
days over his home course last month and is due to make his
full England debut in next month’s Home Internationals
at Royal St George’s, Sandwich. However, the immediate
target is the Champion Club crown and Waring will be assisted
by team-mates Damien Scholes and Simon Taylor.
The line-up of champion clubs from each English county is
high quality with former international John Kemp and senior
cap David Lane also in the field.
Kemp heads a strong John O’Gaunt team with Mark Wharton
and county champion Michael Round, while Lane, a former British
and English seniors champion, will tee-off with his Goring
and Streatley colleagues from BB&O.
A team from Northumberland has never won the Champion Club
title but Sandy Twynholm, beaten in the semi-finals of the
Scottish Amateur Championship last month, will aim to bring
his Morpeth squad first past the post this time.
Steve Sansome, last year’s English Mid-Amateur champion
and beaten finalist in the British Mid-Amateur at Muirfield
recently, is in the Birstall team from Leicestershire, while
Chelmsford carry the Essex flag, their team containing county
champion Lloyd Kennedy, who recently won the Faldo Commemoration
Jug for the second successive year at Welwyn Garden City.
Tavistock, last year’s champions at Sandwell Park,
are not defending the title. They were replaced as Devon champions
by East Devon, who have a strong line-up in Kevin Harper,
Paul Newcombe and Jason Rowbotham.
The Champion Club is decided on aggregate over 36 holes of
stroke play, with all team members’ scores to count.
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