Bramhall host President’s Day
THE Order of Merit for the Manchester and District Alliance sees consistent play over a big programme of competitions between September and May given a rich reward on President’s Day which will be played at Bramhall Golf Club on Wednesday May 3.
The professional’s OoM is the top trophy for the Alliance winter season and also at stake will be the Assistant Professionals’ OoM and the Amateur OoM.
When the season resumes shortly at Tytherington there will be close to another 20 competitions giving points for the respective OoM’s.
Going into the mid-season break the leader of the OoM was Phil Archer (Birchwood) who has a healthy 46-point lead over Chorley assistant Andy Palmer.
In the Amateur OoM, sponsored by Denton professional Mike Hollingworth, the Alliance treasurer Vinny Doyle (Leigh GC) leads by a slender eight points from the consistent Jimmy O’Reilly (Swinton Park).
A Texas Scramble at Reddish Vale was won by the top team of Graham Davies, Steve Bardsley and Paul Loughman with 45 from John Devenney, Crispian Logue and Mike Short 46.3 and Ryan Jackson, Ryan Swift and Louis Covell 47.4.
In a Sunday Stableford at Vale Andy White won a cpo on 40 points from Paul Bruckshaw, two more than Ivan Kennedy.
The Wednesday Stableford at Vale was led in by Wasif Yousaf with 39 points ahead of Paul Dononhue 38 and Andy Young 37.
A Por’s Wednesday Stableford was taken by the appropriately named Frank Frost with 43 points, one more than Anthony Phillips and John Schofield.
Busy times at Vale saw a Two from Three Stableford taken by Mike Short, Dave Hollington and Vinny Costello with 74 points putting them clear of Bill Graty, Pete McDermott and Colin Leigh who won a cpo on 71 from Bill Coll, Eddie Burke and Alan Malone and in the pro’s Running Stableford Richard Howard was first past the post after winning a cpo on 40 points with John Northrop.
A 12-hole Stableford at Marple was led in by Robert Wilkinson with a very creditable 34 points seeing him home by a point from David Wilson, John Deakin and Trevor Stopford.
The January medal at Marple had division one seeing a logjam on nett 41 with the cpo going in favour of Craig Murray from George Jones, Stuart Henderson and Paul Podolanski.
It was much more straightforward in division two with Walter Derry posting 39 to finish one shot clear of Vaughan Wolstenholme, John Deakin, Trevor Stopford and club legend Wally Rogers.
Marple ladies played a singles Stableford and Glenda Conway was first past the post with 33 points, one more than Sheila Leigh, Julie Gavin and Elaine Jones.
Stockport’s men enjoyed the challenge of a Five Club Stableford and none more than Neil Russell who strolled to victory with 36 points, six more than Tim Heald.
A Winter medal for Hazel Grove’s men was won by Richard Cain with nett 50 from Stephen Volp 51, Kenneth Thorman 52 and Andrew Vause and Thomas Bell, both 53.
Grove’s ladies played two singles Stablefords with the first one being taken by Elizabeth Russell with 28 points from Janice Hare 25 and Deborah Wilson, Karen Rodgers and Kathleen Edwards, all 23. In the second one Deborah Wilson was a clear winner with 25 points from Kathryn Wardle-Davies 20.
With all of the current national revelations about child abuse in sport the Cheshire Union of Golf Clubs wish to announce that they are confident that the child protection schemes they have in place have prevented and will continue to prevent any abuse in their 100plus member clubs.
County secretary Steve Foster said: “We have had our child protection schemes in place for several years which complement individual club policies. We have always ensured that the procedures we have in place provide excellent support for junior golf and club junior organisers and it is much more stringent than in many other sports.
“But we will never be complacent about child protection and will always be looking to implement any new ideas that can reinforce our current guidelines to ensure juniors and their parents that they can enjoy their golf in a safe and secure environment and we will be contacting our clubs to see if they need any help in any matters regarding this at any time.”