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2:52pm Thursday 1st May 2008
GOLF
BISHOP'S Stortford Golf Club faces its first Thornton Cup challenge on Saturday with a new captain in place.
Gordon Campbell takes over the role of the club's scratch team for the year and kicks off his reign in the home meeting with Gosfield Lakes.
Newcomer to the scratch team is 14-year-old Lee Wilson. The teenager, who is currently playing off a one handicap, recently qualified as a member of the England U16 and U18 regional squads.
Earlier this month the scratch team won a friendly match against Saffron Walden and had a comfortable 9 to 2 home win against East Herts on Saturday.
And Campbell is cautiously optimisti about the team's chances this season.
He said: "Golf is a tough and unpredictable game but the team are generally playing well.
"We have got off to a good start and have the advantage of playing the first two games at home."
In a very busy month, interrupted by the recent poor weather, the Bishop's Stortford Golf Club men's golfing season swung into top gear with three major competitive events.
They were: The Summer Tournament, the Trautmann cup, and the penultimate captain's qualifying monthly medal.
These popular events all attracted entries approaching 100 contestants and in all cases the top six scores were par or better.
In the junior medal, Lewis Chalk had a sparkling round. Playing off a handicap of nine, Chalk dropped only three shots to par to turn in a six-under par 65 net to sneak the win on count back from Simon Rolando.
Playing in the Hertfordshire Boys County Championships at Mill End Green, Levi Smith - this year's junior vice-captain - produced two sparkling rounds with a combined score of 151 to finish in fifth place in the U16 section. Smith's handicap is now down to five.
THE approach of the first anniversary of the triple killings in Plaw Hatch Close, in Bishop’s Stortford, saw the community, local police and councillors come together in a show of unity to try to brighten up the neighbourhood.
AN organic garden has been grown at a school to assist children with their learning.
NEW arrangements for the accident and emergency department at Princess Alexandra Hospital and the nearby Walk-in-Centre have been introduced.
Essex police have today confirmed the identity of a man whose body was found on public ground in Harlow last month.
ATHLETICS: UNFAVOURABLE conditions faced seven athletes from Harlow Running Club as they competed in the High Ongar 10km race.
SIX-A-SIDE FOOTBALL: FREE kits are to be given to all new teams that enter the new league starting at Passmores School, Harlow in a sponsorship deal arranged by league organisers SoccerSixes.
The BBC's Director-General defended the decision to award pay rises to the corporation's executive directors despite a year of job cuts and phone-in scandals.
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