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The GM Edwards Seniors Scratch Competition at Bromborough on Tuesday saw a best Nett score from Cheshire Golf's Treasurer Dave Kimpton! The overall winner was Gareth Bradley pictured with his Trophy. A grand day.

DELAMERE Forest Golf Club has hosted the Cheshire Boys Championships for over 30 years and once more they provided a magnificent stage for a superb contest.

The quality of the golfing talent on view was amazing and reflected the hard work put in by the CUGC in developing junior golf and a great advert for the work the county has put in over recent years to support Junior Golf.

The boys showed their golfing talent and also their friendship and impeccable golfing etiquette throughout the enthralling 36 holes.

Setting the pace was Shane Clayton of Delamere Forest, who had won the Cheshire Boys u16 title at Pryors Hayes GC a couple of weeks ago.

He posted a magnificent gross 66 to have a big lead going into the second round. He kept up his momentum in round two with another great score of 67 for a winning total of 133 which left him eight shots clear of Cheshire team stars Dean Lenahan (Wilmslow GC) and Will Furness (Ringway GC).

Shane could be the first boy to win the u16 and u18 titles in the same season and has the county archivists checking the records over the 62 years it has been held.

The 62nd Boys County Championship began at Delemere Forest Golf Club this morning.

Congratulations Cole Self on your selection for the Great Britain and Ireland Team taking on the Continent of Europe this weekend in Ireland in the Jacques Leglise Trophy. Good luck Cole from all of us at Cheshire Golf!

Congratulations to Morgan Bollan on your selection for the Great Britain and Ireland Team taking on the Continent of Europe this weekend in Ireland in the Junior Vagliano Trophy! Good luck from all of us at Cheshire Golf

Cole Self (Ringway) is through to R2 of the R&A Boys' Amateur Championship with a 3&2 win over Germany's David Suentzenich this morning. Well played!

Cole Self (Ringway) is leading The 2026 R&A Boys’ Amateur Championship after two rounds today! Good luck tomorrow, and good luck to Dean Lenahan (Wilmslow) who also made the cut today.

Fabulous performance by Shane Clayton (Delamere Forest) at Conway / Faldo U16's. 3rd by a shot. Well played!

Stamford Golf Club could not have been more welcoming, what a great club to hold a matchplay event on, Cheshire Boys and their helpers arrived in glorious sunshine with views in every direction and although their clubhouse does not usually open on a Monday, they were there to greet both teams with bacon baps. Their Club Captain Clive (featured in photo) came to do the starting, though he sadly had to rush off and missed some outstanding golf from the 20 young men out on the course.

The foursomes started badly for the home county and at one point Cheshire were behind in all 5 matches, but there were some great fightbacks, with Captain Matty Griffiths and Joseph Dodd-Berry scrapping hard for a half on the last green, Ellis Courtnell and Wilf Simcock as well as James Clark and Josh Hockenhull both won 2&1. Then Jack Barnes and Callum Woolley came in with a win by 3&2 to give Cheshire a comfortable 3.5:1.5 lead at lunchtime.

With help from Peter Barber as our coach the boys set off again in the afternoon but once again as their matches passed the halfway stage it was not looking good for Cheshire. However, having lost the first 2 matches, Joseph produced a wonderful finish on the 18th to put Cheshire marginally ahead. Things then went bleak with only Josh winning from the next four matches to finish leaving Cheshire trailing by 6.5:5.5. However, the last 3 matches featuring Jack Barnes, Callum Woolley and Lawson Yates all went Cheshire’s way giving them victory by 8.5:6.5.

Thanks go to the parents who enable the boys to get to these matches and all those including our President Marjorie Griffiths who came to support, also to Mark Smith the Stamford Club Professional who helped in so many ways on the day and as Andrew Henshall the team manager put it, after the match: “Cheshire now have the opportunity to be Northern Counties Boys League Champions for only the second time if we can beat Yorkshire over at Wheatley Golf Club on Monday 17th August.”

A great win against wonderful opponents and friends from Lancashire Golf who are back to being a hard team to beat after a couple of fallow years.

Well done to all the team featured in the photograph.

Morgan Bollan competed in her third Home Internationals representing Wales this week 👏🏼

Morgan enjoyed another strong week, contributing points in both foursomes and singles for Team Wales.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England — Both foursomes and singles matches tied 🤝
🇮🇪 Ireland — Wins in both the foursomes and singles ✅
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland — A foursomes loss, followed by a singles win in the afternoon to round off a great week 👏🏼

Morgan finished the week unbeaten in all three singles matches with 2 wins and a draw, continuing her unbeaten record in International and Women’s County singles matches this season.