I had great pleasure in escorting 3 juniors today in the Kenilworth Junior Masters.
I had 1 lad namely Harry Lord aged 12 from Rossendale who I'd escorted last year and was also a winner when off 23 but today he was off 14 so he has obviously had a good 2013 season coming down 9 shots. I also had a local lad namely Rocco Luca also aged 12 from Coventry (Finham) who was off 15 and my 3rd junior was a young girl called Ffion Tynan aged 11 who was playing off 8
Ffion lives in Wales but plays out of Minchinhampton Golf Club.
We were off the yellows except for Ffion obviously and some of the blocks were set right back almost encroaching on the whites on some tee boxes so the course was playing quite long but we went round in 3.5hrs due to the quality of golf on display. I think the fast greens caught them all out today or we would have had a few more birdies and pars but tee to green was a pleasure to watch.
The attitude of these juniors was excellent, especially if they hit a poor shot, it was just a shrug of the shoulders, walked up to the ball and hit it again and were still putting for par! I think Ffion went in about 5 bunkers and not only came out 1st time on them all, but sand saved 90% of them :clap:
I came across a Tweet later from Ffion announcing that she had won Best Girl (gross), which was thoroughly deserved. That's 2 years on the run I've had a winner in my group :thup: In that tweet there was a link to her own website and what a prospect we have in this young junior golfer, I think I may have just escorted the next Charley Hull.
The overall winner and Junior Masters today was 13yr old Luke Bartram also from Rossendale Golf Club who shot an amazing 73, 3 over gross :whoo:
Here is Ffion's website, you heard her name here first, I'm positive we'll hear it again in the not too distant future.
http://www.fifigolf.com/
I had 1 lad namely Harry Lord aged 12 from Rossendale who I'd escorted last year and was also a winner when off 23 but today he was off 14 so he has obviously had a good 2013 season coming down 9 shots. I also had a local lad namely Rocco Luca also aged 12 from Coventry (Finham) who was off 15 and my 3rd junior was a young girl called Ffion Tynan aged 11 who was playing off 8
Ffion lives in Wales but plays out of Minchinhampton Golf Club. We were off the yellows except for Ffion obviously and some of the blocks were set right back almost encroaching on the whites on some tee boxes so the course was playing quite long but we went round in 3.5hrs due to the quality of golf on display. I think the fast greens caught them all out today or we would have had a few more birdies and pars but tee to green was a pleasure to watch.
The attitude of these juniors was excellent, especially if they hit a poor shot, it was just a shrug of the shoulders, walked up to the ball and hit it again and were still putting for par! I think Ffion went in about 5 bunkers and not only came out 1st time on them all, but sand saved 90% of them :clap:
I came across a Tweet later from Ffion announcing that she had won Best Girl (gross), which was thoroughly deserved. That's 2 years on the run I've had a winner in my group :thup: In that tweet there was a link to her own website and what a prospect we have in this young junior golfer, I think I may have just escorted the next Charley Hull.
The overall winner and Junior Masters today was 13yr old Luke Bartram also from Rossendale Golf Club who shot an amazing 73, 3 over gross :whoo:
Here is Ffion's website, you heard her name here first, I'm positive we'll hear it again in the not too distant future.
http://www.fifigolf.com/
