Glamorgan CGU

Final Hurdle proves a Bridge too Far

The challenge of finishing the season on the highest of notes was just too much and Somerset inflicted the County's first defeat in the 2009 Channel League. The 8.5 to 6.5 loss was a disppointment on the day but shouldn't dtract from the overall excellence of a Channel League win.

(Mix metaphors? Me - never))

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Gareth Phillips breaks Course Record at Glamorganshire in winning the Baffie and the Carling C2 Order of Merit

Gareth Phillips (Creigiau) won the Glamorganshire Baffie, with a course record of 63 in the morning round.

Gareth's season-long consistency was rewarded by his winning the Carling Order of Merit by over 20 points, with County Captain Richard Hooper in second place with Wenvoe's Leigh Ivory third

Baffie Report

Order of Merit Final Table

Sunday 20th: County Win Inter - Counties by 34 Shots

With seven rounds in the 60's, including James Frazer's course record 63 the County dominated the Welsh Inter-Counties Championship last Sunday. The victory margin of 34 was incredible enough but the team performance is put into perspective by two analyses: 1) if the rules had been such that Glamorgan discarded the lowest score and kept the other 5 whereas everyone else kept the 5 lowest and discarded the highest we would still have won by 20 strokes, 2) the team score of 282 was better than the best 5 lowest scores am and pm of all other teams in the Championship! A team performance that must be unprecedented.

Team scores:

Richard Hooper (Neath) 67/66 133

James Frazer (Pennard) 63/70 133

Luke Thomas (Vale) 67/68 135

Gareth Phillips (Creigiau) 75/68 143

Nick James (Wenvoe) 75/66 141

Brent O'Neill (Radyr) 72/72 142

Sunday 13th: COUNTY WIN SEALS CHANNEL LEAGUE TREBLE

Gloucestershire's defeat by Cornwall meant the County secured their first Channel League title for over 10 years. If results had gone against us we could have lost out. However the team will be all out to maintain its unbeaten record in the last match against Somerset . All associated with the team and especially the Captain are "Cock a Hoop(er)" with the victory. Of course this particularly applies to Richie Evans as in many ways it is the "team that Richie built" that brought success, and Richie himself is still fully involved as a player.

With the U-16's winning their Channel League and the Seniors theirs it is a significant 2009 treble for the County.

Wenvoe Castle 11/09: Dave Clifford (Vale) wins County Mid-Am

Dave Clifford (Vale of Glamorgan) with a superb round of 70 won The County Mid-Amateur Championship over the Wenvoe Castle course yesterday

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Channel League: Neath 06/08: Win over Cornwall keeps County on track for Title

Another solid team performance meant a 9.5 to 5.5 victory over Cornwall at Neath. The team are now one win away from emulating the Seniors' feat.

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Table as at 07/09:

Mid Amateur Start Sheet.

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Channel League - Remarkable comeback sees County defeat Glos.

Chipping Sodbury 30/08: The Channel League title looked a bridge too far when the team trailed Gloucsetershire after the morning foursomes 5 - 0. Whatever the team had for lunch (or the "hair drier" treatment from the Chairman) worked wonders and an 8 -2 margin in the singles meant the County triumphed 8 games to 7. If this isn't some sort of record it ought to be!

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Channel League - County defeat Devon at East Devon

The County kept its Channel League hopes well alive with an away victory against Devon last Sunday. Team photograph:

Entry Form for Mid-Amateur now Available

The Mid-Amateur Championship is open to all members of affiliated clubs who are over 35 and 9 handicap or better, there are gross and nett prizes. This year's event will be at Wenvoe Castle Golf Club on Friday September 11th.

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Welsh Home International Team has six from County

The Welsh Team for the Home International series to be held later this month at Hillside has six Glamorgan players. Joining automatic choices Nigel Edwards (Whitchurch) and Welsh Champion Luke Thomas (Vale of Glamorgan) will be County Captain Richard Hooper (Neath), Open Youths Champion Alastair Jones (Radyr), James Frazer (Pennard) and Rhys Pugh (Vale of Glamorgan) who still has two years in the junior ranks.

Congratulations to all - but particularly Richard, Alastair and Rhys on gaining their first full International caps.

01/08/2009:Welsh Championship Southerndown

Luke Thomas (Vale of Glamorgan) wins Welsh Championship

02/08/2009. Luke Thomas the former Pontypridd player now playing at the Vale of Glamorgan beat 4th seed Rhys Enoch of Truro 3 & 2 to become Welsh Amateur Champion of 2009.

In the morning round Luke pulled back to go into lunch only 1 down. With some class play he then established a 3 hole lead only to lose 11 and 12 and his lead was reduced to 1. With an eagle on 13 and a solid Par on 14 the lead was back to 3, only for Luke to hit a poor drive on 15 - back to 2 again. Both hit tee shots towards the gorse on 16 but Luke's ball was found and Rhys' wasn't. Rhys was unable to overcome the mistake giving Luke the Championship 3 & 2.

Luke proudly displays the Championship Cup

Luke's victory is well deserved, after 2008 where Luke would admit himself that hewasn't playing to his potential he persevered, worked hard, and County coaching and fitness sessions through the period have helped him re-discover his form and hopefully another Welsh cap.

Team Handicap Championship Postponed

In spite of valiant efforts by the Grove's greenkeeping staff the Team Handicap Championship was postponed. It will now be played on Sunday October 4th.

All clubs - including those who were not able to make the original date - will be eligible to enter.

Tee-off Times for Handicap Team Championship

Tee - off times for Sunday's Team Handicap Championship at The Grove.

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Carling C2 Order of Merit

Morlais Castle 05/07: Local Player Wins Morlais Castle Bowl:

Fighting off a strong challenge from clubmate Kevin Williams, Jonathan Williams headed a field of 50 entrants to win the fourth Carling C2 Order of Merit event of 2009.

Standings after Morlais Castle Bowl

Southerndown 21/06: County Championship- James Frazer is 2009 Champion with record lowest aggregate of 136

James Frazer (Pennard) with two superb sub-Par rounds of 69 & 67 won the 2009 County Championship by 5 shots from the previous Champion Richard Hooper (Neath). Gareth Phillips (Creigiau) was third and Leigh Ivory (Wenvoe Castle) fourth.

James receives Trophy from County Chairman Mike Evans

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2009 Carling C2 Order of Merit

Following his victory in the first two OOM events and his third place in the County Championship Gareth Phillips (Creigiau) has a four point lead in the 2009 Carling C2 Order of Merit. Richard Hooper (Neath) has finished runner-up in all three events so far!

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Entry Forms now available on the Entry Form page

Radyr 31/05/06 Alastair Jones Wins Welsh Youths

After a tense last round battle Alastair Jones (Radyr) just held off the challenge of fellow Glamorgan player Nick James (Wenvoe Castle) and Curtis Edwards to win by 1 shot. Nick, leading by 1 going into the last round needed a Par 4 at the last to force a play-off. On the green in two he left his first putt short and couldn't make his next leaving Alastair who had recovered well from an opening 75 the winner.

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Gareth Phillips wins first Carling C2 Order of Merit

Gareth Phillips (Creigiau) won the Neath Bell to gain maximum points in the Carling C2 Order of Merit.

Details to follow.

Entry Forms Available

Downloadable / Printable entry forms are now available for the County Championship

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Vale of Glamorgan 03/05: Gwent defeated in Channel League

The hoped-for improvement arrived at the Vale of Glamorgan with a 9.5 to 5.5 defeat of local rivals Gwent. Leading 3-2 after the foursomes the middle order singles had much the better of things and the County ran out comfortable winners.

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Channel League: Gower 20/04 County so near against Wiltshire

Richard Hooper's "baptism" as Captain in a Channel League was so-nearly a victory

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County Defeat Brecon & Radnor

New Captain Richard Hooper made a good start to his term as Captain leading the Team to a 9.5 to 5.5 victory

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Richard Hooper (Neath) is new County Captain

After three years of exemplary effort Richard Evans of Langland Bay stepped down as Captain of the County. He is replaced by current County Champion Richard Hooper of Neath. Richard, a former golf bursar at St Andrews University who plays off +2, has been a regular in the County team for a number of years and gained his County Colours last year.

Richard is very keen to build on the improvements in team spirit and morale and to show that the last results of 2008 were not typical of what the team can produce.

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Juniors

2010 Season gets under way with the Spring Meeting at the Grove

The first event of the 2010 season will be the Spring meeting - an 18 hole medal at the Grove on April 7th.

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2009 Junior Report

Roger Jones, the President and Chairman of the Juniors Committee has produced a report of the County's 2009 activities and achievements.

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Under 16 Welsh Inter Counties Team Championships - Pontypool

The County retained the title won at the North Wales Club last year, in torrential rain

and very high winds at Pontypool Golf Club. Ryan Thomas and Matthew Charlton

won the Foursomes title, whilst Jack Bush had an excellent 72 in the singles only to

be pipped for the singles title by Adam Tuft of Flintshire who shot a 71.

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South Wales Boys U15/16 Team Championships at Builth Wells

The County won the U16 team event for the second successive year,whilst it also

retained the Colin Payne Trophy for the overall team winner

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Under 16s retain Channel League Title

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Boys' Home Internationals Day 2:

Wales lose narrowly to favourites Ireland

Taking a 3-2 lead from the foursomes Wales Boys just lost out to Ireland when anchorman Rhodri Harston lost on the last: as the day before so near!

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Day 1:

County players contribute to Wales holding England.

Debutant Jack Bush had a fine singles win and with Rhys Pugh & Patrick Mullins' wins in the foursomes to help the Welsh Boys hold England to draw on day one of the Boys' Home Internationals at Hankley Common. The match could well have been a Welsh win but Ross McLister lost the 17th to go down 3&1 in the last singles for England to snatch a draw.

Uncapped County Juniors Perform Well in Welsh Boys' Championship

That two Glamorgan Boys reached the Semi -Final of the Welsh Boys is nothing new (sadly that they were both uncapped by the GUW is also nothing new) so congratulations to Jack Bush (Morlais Castle) and Craig Melding (Neath). Craig lost in the Semi to the eventual winner (Christopher Nugent) but Jack repeated his South Wales Boys' victory over Michael Evans to reach the final where he gave Nugent his closest match before going down by 2 holes. Jack's success follows closely on his triumph in winning the South Wales Boys' Matchplay Championship. Hopefully these performances have put both Craig and Jack into the forefront of the selectors' minds when they pick the Boys' Team for the forthcoming Home Internationals.

Both Jack and Craig feature heavily in the County Junior programme and in fact if it hadn't been for the County funding Juniors below GUW Squad level Craig would not have received any coaching in the Winter of 2008/09!!

Junior Championship - Morlais Castle - July 1st

Ryan Thomas (Vale) is 2009 County Junior Champion

Ryan Thomas with rounds of 70 and 73 won the County Junior Championship with rounds of 70 and 73 for an excellent one over par aggregate of 143, beating fellow Vale of Glamorgan team mate Lewys Bishop by 2 shots to take the title. Another Vale player, Tim Harry was in third place also with 145.

The excellent condition of the course and (except for the almost oppressive heat) fairly ideal weather conditions produced some excellent scoring with the CSS being one under SSS for both rounds.

Remarkably all the first four places were taken with U/16 and, in Tim's case an U/14 player.

Spring Meeting Langland Bay

James Sharpe (Caerphilly) with a gross 72 won the Spring Meeting held in fine conditions at Langland Bay on Wednesday

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Seniors

Creigiau 04/09:Seniors win Senior Channel League with a Quality Performance

The Seniors' team proved their strength by defeating a strong Devon side 11 games to 4 at Creigiau. The recent rains had left the course playing long but all players contributed to a very sound team performance.

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Royal Porthcawl GC 18/08: Big win over Gwent in Seniors' Channel League Sets up Devon Clash.

A solid performance against a somewhat weakened Gwent side saw the County take 11 game points and set up a must-win match against Devon at Creigiau on September 4th.

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Cardiff GC 13/08/09: Keith Stimpson (Wenvoe Castle) wins County Seniors' Championship

Keith Stimpson (Wenvoe) won the County Seniors' Championship Cardiff Golf Club with a fine score of 71. Runner-up was Nigel Jones (Cardiff0 with a 77. Graham Harcombe (Southerndown was 3rd. Scoring proved extremely difficult, borne out by the fact that Competition Scratch Score was Reductions Only (73 for reductions there can be no increases applied).

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Second Success for Seniors' Team

Glamorganshire 31st July: in what proved to be a "weather window" the Seniors recorded their second Seniors' Channel League victory with a convincing 91/2 to 51/2 win over Somerset.

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Seniors open Channel League account with win in Wiltshire

Thursday 17th July: Playing Wiltshire Seniors at Wrag Barn the Seniors' team edged ahead in the morning foursomes 2 - 1 and just held on in the afternoon to register their first win of the 2009 Seniors' Channel League.

Seniors' Championship Entry Form

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Radyr 21/06 Seniors defeat Shropshire & Herefordshire

Playing the unusual format of 9 hole greensomes and 18 hole better ball the Senior team beat a strong Shrops. & Herefords. side 20 - 8 at Radyr

County Lose first Seniors' Channel League Match

The Seniors' team lost its opening 2009 Seniors' Channel League match against Gloucestershire at Bristol & Clifton 8 - 7.

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Glynneath 01/05: County defeat Brecon & Radnor

Playing the first County match at Glynneath for many years the Senior team beat Brecon & Radnor Seniors 8 - 2.

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