Heath picked to take on new French test

HUDDERSFIELD GOLFER SELECTED BY ENGLAND GOLF

HUDDERSFIELD’S Charlotte Heath has been selected to represent England in an international championship.

The 17-year-old, who is a member of the England Golf national squad, will play in the French Under-21 Women’s Championships.

The five-day tournament, which runs from April 18-22, is being held at St Cloud.

And Heath will be joined in the field by fellow England squad members Emily Brennan from Staffordshire, Lily May Humphreys of Stoke by Nayland, Caley McGinty from Gloucestershire, Caitlin Whitehead from Carus Green in Cumbria and Mim Rhodes of Somerset.

Heath has won the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters and was a semi-finalist in the British Girls’ Amateur Championship.

England Golf squad members will also be represented at the Italian Women’s International at Is Molas Golf Club next weekend and the Scottish Under-18 Girls’ Championship at St Andrews Eden Golf Club next month.

GORDON Abernethy of West End Golf Club has been enrolled as the 72nd Halifax and Huddersfield Golf Unions President at their Annual General Meeting.

He becomes the seventh West End member to have this honour.

The outgoing president, John Lawrence of Bradley Park and Marsden, presented Abernethy with his badge of office for the coming season and also announced that Andrew Taylor of Crosland Heath would be president elect for the following season.

Lawrence also announced this season would be his last as the Unions’ secretary, a position he had held for 21 years.