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July 2012 / Issue 212
News in Brief HAREWOOD ON TOP AT HEYTHROP Harewood Downs won both the Scratch and Handicap Championships at Heythrop Park on June 29. The team of George Bell and Paul Heselden, playing off a combined handicap of two, shot rounds of 75 and 73 to finish five shots clear of Craig Buttivant and Jake Haines (Gerrrads Cross) in the Scratch Championship and four clear of Simon Hopkins and John Wilks (Burford) in the Handicap Championship.
LETCHWORTH CHAMPIONS Letchworth Golf Club have qualified for National Club Championships at Stoneham in September, after winning the Hertfordshire finals held at East Herts on June 24. Dave Tandy, Ben Harman, and Carl Best combined to score 219 points to win the 18-hole event by 10 shots, taking the county title for the first time since 1959.
Shergo strikes again Surrey youngster Shergo Kurdi marked himself as a rare talent again last month, after bagging not one, but two holes-in-one, and breaking the junior course record at a local club. The ultra-gifted eight-year old from Chertsey aced the 9th at Foxhills Golf Club in a friendly game, and then aced the fourth hole at Longniddry Golf Club in Scotland during the finals of the 2012 US Kids European Championships. Shergo finished 17th in his age category in the tournament, which attracted children from all over the world, finishing on nine over par for 27 holes. His second round one-under par 35 was the second best round of the entire event. Earlier this month, Shergo broke the junior course record at Crowlands Golf Centre in Essex, shooting a score of three-under par gross. Shergo is already building an impressive trophy cabinet, after a succession of wins in the Trailblazers Junior League, a series of tournaments held around the south east for
children aged between five and 12. He won four times last season, and currently lies second in the 8-10 year-old Order of Merit table behind Sussex’s Alfie Hutton, after winning events at Blacknest and Wildwood in recent weeks. Last month saw Shergo have a lesson with one of the world’s best coaches, Pete Cowen, during the GolfLive event at the London Club, while he also stole the show at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, where he hit balls on the range in front of tour stars Justin Rose and Matteo Manassero. Shergo’s father, Antonio, a keen amateur player who has been overseeing his son’s golfing development, says that his son was trying to putt before he could walk, and started hitting clubs when he was 18 months old. “We realised he had a special talent when he had just turned six, and we took him to join a group lesson at our local range,” said Antonio. “The golf coach there refused to teach him, because he was worried about interfering with the talent he had.”
Robert Busher (right) receives his Faldo Series trophy from David Thompson, Club Captain of Old Fold Manor
Busher ends wait for Faldo glory Robert Busher of Salisbury & South Wilts was victorious in the Faldo Series UK Championship at Old Fold Manor Golf Club in Barnet. The 20-year-old was competing in his sixth Series event in as many years, and was delighted to make his first final after two level par rounds of 71. “I can’t wait to meet Sir Nick and compete at the Grand Final,” said Busher who will compete in the World Amateur Golf Ranking event at Lough Erne Resort on September 1113. “It’s extra special because I’ve been playing on the Series for so long.” Jack Singh-Brar (Boys’ U16) from Bramshaw and Nick Ward (Boys’ U18) of Brocket Hall also booked their places in the Faldo Series Grand Final, to be hosted by six-time Major Champion Nick Faldo at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland.
Nice drive, Damian! Hole-in-one winner Damian Pitts collects his new Volvo S60 from event organisers Business Rescue Centre managing director Kevin Aston
A keen amateur bagged a new Volvo S60 at a corporate golf day in Watford last month, when he hit a hole-in-one. Damian Pitts bagged the £30,000 car when he aced the 166-yard 15th hole at Chartridge Park Golf Club during the Business Rescue Centre’s annual corporate golf day. Damian, a litigation manager with
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Hertford-based law firm Breeze & Wyles, won the brand new Volvo S60 D3 R-Design, despite playing in the middle of a summer storm. “I think that the adverse weather conditions may have helped,” he joked, after picking up the keys to his new car. “I have never hit a hole-in-one in my life, and this was certainly the time and place to do it!”
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