CHESTERS AND GRIFFITHS DEFEND LOGAN TROPHY AT HAYLING
 Nigel
Chesters and Paul Griffiths (pictured left - photo courtesy
of Tom Ward), joint winners last year, will defend the title
when the English Open Mid-Amateur Championship for the Logan
Trophy takes place at Hayling Golf Club in Hampshire on 25th
- 27th August.
The pair tied on 212, four under par, on a dramatic final
day at Delamere Forest last August and are likely to be among
the front-runners again this time.
Two more former champions are also competing, Steve Sansome
from Leicestershire, winner in 2004 at Fairhaven, and Yorkshire-based
Barry Downing, champion at Ponteland in 2000.
The field of 132 also includes a trio of England senior internationals,
David Lane, Jonathan Marks and Michael Wigley. Lane, 65, is
a former British, English and Scottish seniors champion, while
Marks, 64, won the English seniors title in 1998.
Both represented England in the European Seniors Team Championships
in Finland earlier this month, while Wigley, 57, earned his
first seniors cap in last year’s Seniors Home Internationals
in Ireland.
Among the younger challengers will be several regulars on
the amateur circuit including Martin Young from Hampshire,
a former winner of the Lagonda Trophy, Craig Buttivant and
Steve Barwick from BB&O, and Dorset’s Giles Legg.
Other competitors include Devon stalwart Graham Ruth (Tavistock),
the father of England international James Ruth, Michael Anthony
from Sussex, third last year, and Ian Barker (Burhill), who
captained Surrey to the English County Championship in 2004.
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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