Congratulations to Tom Maggs, Chris Coles and Liam Copp who defeated Oake Manor 2-1 in the final of the 3 Man Knock Out trophy played at Cannington. The team who also had the support of Chris Shanks, won each round, and were successful in the final.

Played in glorious conditions 59 juniors from as far a field as Guersney, South Wales and North Hants battled out for the 2011 Junior Open. 13 year old William Warman from Bath Golf Club was victorious winning the overall gross prize with a score of level par 72. Three players scored 74 with Aaron Crabb from Windwhistle coming 2nd, Chris Shanks from Farrington narrowly beating fellow Farrington player Will Hobbs into 3rd place. There were many other prizes played for on the day, Boys Handicap 13 and below: !st Jack Cook 82/69, 2nd Will Hobbs 74/69, 3rd Matt Blackman 79/70. Boys Handcap 14 and above: 1st Jack Partrider 79/63, 2nd Charlie Prosser 83/68, 3rd Jordan Spencer 98/71. Girls Handicap: 1st Aimee Sawyer 87/72, 2nd Helen Hayward 80/73, 3rd Laura Herbert 99/76.

Played only two days after the Main Course Club Championships, but played in very different weather conditions. Gone were the calm conditions and in its place were very strong winds.

Playing into the winds take an extra two clubs and with the winds three clubs less.

Scoring reflected the tough conditions. After 18 holes Will Hobbs and Tom Maggs were tied for first place on gross 59 with George Abbott in third place with 61. Will and Tom had to fight it out over a four hole play off, with Will coming out on top and winning the 2011 championship.

In the nett event scoring once again reflected the difficult conditions with Jordan Spencer being the only player to beat handicap, winning with a 73/53. In second place was Sam Marquiss 74/54 and third Josh Summers 63/55

On day one, played in pleasant sunny  conditions the Farrington juniors
posted some excellant scores with the day one lead being held by Tom
Maggs who scored a superb 8 under handicap and 4 under gross 68.

Day two started in sunny but slightly windier conditions with Tom
holdng a 6 shot advantage over second placed Alex Todd (74) and 8 and 9
shots over 3rd and 4th placed Josh Hilleard (76) and Will Hobbs (77).
As the day progressed Tom found scoring harder whereas Alex, Josh and
Will apllied pressure all afternoon. At the end of the second day, Alex
scored another very consistent gross 74 and Will an impressive 75 with
Josh Hilleard, George Abbott and Danny Farnen all scoring 79.

The two day championship was won for the second year running by Alex
Todd with a two day total of 148, followed by Tom Maggs 150 and Will
Hobbs 152.

The nett competition was equally impressive with two newcomers to the
Duchy course, 12 year old Josh Higgs winning with a nett 136 just
pipping fellow newcomer Dan Chiswell who was second with 137, with Will
Hobbs third on 138.  

 

12 Hole Trophy (Juniors v Men)

Played in atrocious conditions the annual match against the men was once again played on Easter Saturday

The morning greensomes session was won by the juniors 4 & 2 and the afternoon session of individual matchplay was won by the juniors 7 & 5, meaning the overall result for the day was a win for the juniors 11 to 7.

Shown below are all the players who played during the day and also junior Captain George Hobbs receiving the trophy from Club Captain Ali Shanks.

Friday 31 July/Saturday 1 August

Well done to George Hobbs who has won the Junior Main Course Championship for 2009. George scored a gross 79 on the first day and followed this up with an excellent 73 on the second day to win by 6 shots from Michaela Chivers. Also congratulations once again to Victoria Watts who won the net competition with two rounds of 66, 132 in total with Jacob Stapleton in second place on 135.

Photo: George and Victoria after being presented with their trophies 

On a gloriously sunny day Farrington played their under 14's junior open. In a well represented field with players coming from as far as Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire and South Wales. The overall champion was William Hobbs from Farrington, beating Scott Linden from Enmore and Mathew Wells from Saunton Sands into second and third place respectively. This crowned a good week for Will who also won the Dave Golledge Stableford and Mens Stableford competitions. Another Farrington junior, Victoria Watts won the net girls first place.

Pete Court of N&P Auto Repairs has kindly provided team shirts for the junior team.

Pete is shown presenting the shirts to team captain Stefan Golledge

Very well done to those that played and well done to everyone that played in the team during the year. 

79 juniors competed on the day, 74 boys and 5 girls, from 22 different golf clubs.
The overall gross winner was Jon Pitcher from Burnham and Berrow who shot a gross 74. Farrington juniors fared very well with Josh Hilleard, Sam Collard and James Abbott coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Division 1 handicap competition and Tom Maggs coming 3rd in the Division 2 handicap competition.
For the girls Michaela Chivers won the girls nett competition and also finished best Farrington score in the overall gross competition with a 77. In achieving this Michaela now holds the course record for the best ladies gross score ever shot at Farrington.
 

Played over two days Stefan Golledge played exceptionally well winning the Championship with two rounds of 77/76 total 153, in second place was Dan Flower 76/81 total 157 and third place George Hobbs 84/75 total 159. The net prize was won by Miles Luxton who scored 141 for the two rounds, in second place was George Abbott 143 points and third place was Chris Shanks 144 points.

Winner of the gross prize was George Hobbs with a gross 62, in second place was Dan Flower with 63 and third place was Sam Collard with 65.The net prize was won by Victoria Watts with a gross 77 net 44 in second place was George Abbott gross 66 net 49, third place was Jessica Salvidge gross 92 net 50 just pipping Aimee Sawyer gross 79 net 50.

Sunday 20 July 2008 will be a day that Harry Parfitt won't forget in a hurry. Playing in a medal competition on the executive course  Harry scored the first hole in one of his golfing career. He got his 'ace' on the 114 yard par 3 3rd hole. Well done Harry.

Well done to George and Michaela who recently represented Farrington in the South West qualifier for the 2008 Andalucía Junior Open held at South Winchester. The winning boys and girl from the competition along with the winners from each of the other area finals are sent to Andalucía  to compete in a  five day tournament. Both played very well unfortunately not quite getting to Spain, with George finishing 4th in the boys and Michaela 3rd in the girls.