Monthly Archives: July 2015

The South used this match at Cockermouth Golf Club on Tuesday 28 July to blood some youngsters with more established team members. The Cockermouth golf course sits in the foothills of the Cumbria Mountains 3 miles above the town and has fantastic views of Scafell Pike, Skiddaw and Bassenthwaite Lake. Lying in the Lake District National Park one of the conditions is that there are no sand bunkers, only grass. The course itself has super heathland grass and the greens are large and beautiful to putt on. The officials, members and staff could not have been more…

On Monday 27 July the South Juniors travelled to Linden Hall Golf and Country Club, Morpeth, to play the return fixture in the Northern Counties Federation League against Northumberland Juniors. The boys were in confident mood having narrowly won the first match at Dumfries & County a fortnight earlier. The early evening practice round on Sunday 26 July was curtailed by the forecast of heavy rain and four of the boys played the front nine and four the back nine and compared notes for the match. The course was long, particularly from the green to the next…

The South Junior team recorded their first win in their first match of the season in the Northern Counties League against Northumberland after a titanic struggle. On a dry overcast day on Sunday 12 July at a pristine Dumfries & County golf course the eight man team eventually overcame their stubborn opponents with six of the afternoon eight single games going to the eighteenth green. In the morning foursomes the Under 16 Kirkcudbright pairing of Nathan Watson and William Squires recovered from losing the first hole to be 2 up at the turn, thanks to a Nathan…