Gloucestershire Golf Union
South West Schools Results
Please see below for the results for the South West Schools Championship and onward progression to the English Schools National Finals.
We had an amazing day at Forest Hills G C, even though the weather was not kind to us, especially having had a delayed start of 40 minutes due to fog, for the start of the day!
It was really good to see that all 54 of our qualifying players made the event.
Many thanks to Gavin Butcher, general manager at Forest Hills, and his team, for their help in organising the day - Jean Hosford, Tina Roberts and Jamie Dick. Thanks to Jamie for also supporting the prize balls for the day. Jean was on hand, throughout the day, as always, buzzing around and making sure we had everything we needed. Thanks to the whole bar and catering team for excellent food and service. Thanks to the members of Forest Hills for allowing us the use of their course.
A massive thank you to Paul Gibson and his team for presenting the course in wonderful condition. The players thoroughly enjoyed it on the practice day, in the sunshine, and still enjoyed it during the main event, even though the weather conditions were very challenging. A number of people referred to the course as a little hidden gem!
As usual, we had the assistance of our brilliant referees, Bernie Powell, Allan Slater and Patrick Wood who did a great job for us. Thank you all so much for supporting the schools golf, once again.
Thanks to my right hand man, Gary Ward, for starting - always more of a challenge with a delayed start and bad weather!
Thanks to our team managers: Grant Russell,(Cornwall), Paul Cloke,(Devon), Gavin Rusling,(Dorset) and Stuart Wells (Somerset) for their help in organising their counties for the tournament, and stand-ins for the day - Steve Chapman (Cornwall) and Gideon Hugo (Dorset) and my other right hand man, Pete Langford (SGS College and Avon Schools). We have a great team spirit in the South West Schools region so thank you all for that!
Thank you to Glos County President, Ian Hughes, for supporting us throughout the day, and to Glos Immediate Past President, Dereck Butler, and Ian for supporting our Glos and Avon players on the course. Ian also presented the prizes.
The full results can be viewed at this link: Results (englishschoolsgolf.org)
Details of the winners and onward progression are as follows:
Boys Gross Champion - Jaxson Perry (Avon, The Kendleshire, Winterbourne Academy)
Boys runner-up - Oliver Drewitt (Dorset, Ferndown)
Boys 3rd place - Ben White (Dorset, Ferndown)
Girls Gross Champion - Summer Carash (Glos. Minchinhampton, Cirencester Deer Park School)
Girls runner-up - Mariella Buchanan (Avon, Long Ashton, Backwell School)
Girls 3rd place - Scarlett Phillips (Dorset, Broadstone)
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Boys team champions - Dorset (Rhys Cartwright-Perry (Sturminster Marshall); Oliver Drewitt (Ferndown); Zac Mudford (Lyme Regis); Ben White (Ferndown)
Girls team champions - Dorset (Honor Johnson (Broadstone); Scarlett Phillips (Broadstone); Evie Brown (Broadstone)
Those players who have qualified for the ESGA National Finals at Stanmoor G C (Middlesex) on 24th June (practice day 23rd June) are:
Boys
Jaxson Perry (Avon) - TBC
Oliver Drewitt (Dorset) - available
Ben White (Dorset) - available
Miles McMurdo (Devon) - available
Zac Mudford (Dorset) - not available
Charlie Pearce Ward (Avon) - available
Ash Millington (Avon) - not available
Troy Young (Somerset) - available
Archie Tolman (Somerset) - TBC
Oliver Tripp (Somerset) - available
Reserves
Rhys Cartwright-Terry (Dorset) - TBC
Oban Webber (Cornwall) - TBC
Josh Murphy (Devon) - available
Girls
Summer Carash (Glos) - not available
Mariella Buchanan (Avon) - available
Scarlett Phillips (Dorset) - available
Honor Johnson (Dorset) - available
Hannah Reynolds (Devon) - available
Reserves
Isabelle Tarr (Devon) - available
Libbie Dezis (Avon) - TBC
Many congratulations to all the players on their successes and to those who have made the onward progression, representing their counties.
Where players are not available, we will offer places to those, next in order, within the results.
Dawn Ward Honorary Secretary Avon and Glos Schools Golf Associations
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