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Fixby duo making progress

FIXBY progressed through the first round of the Yorkshire Inter-club Foursomes with Richard Broadley and Brad Tupman scoring a 2&1 win over Hessle at Moor Allerton. Read

INDELIBLE SHOW!

HELEN SEARLE, at the age of just 15, made an indelible mark on the county golf scene this week by reaching the final of the Yorkshire Ladies championship and laying claim to being the youngest player to be selected for the Yorkshire team that next month defends the Northern Counties title. Read

Battling Helen so close to title win

HELEN SEARLE’S brave and gallant bid for the Yorkshire Ladies championship came to an end after she gave English champion Naomi Edwards a few scares by taking the Curtis Cup player to the penultimate green in a fascinating final at Alwoodley yesterday. Read

Everything happening for Helen in county championship

HELEN SEARLE, the 15-year-old from Fixby, was the talk of the Yorkshire Ladies golf championship at Alwoodley yesterday as she produced battling qualities to reach today’s semi-finals. Read

Heath enjoy a first team title in 18yrs

CROSLAND Heath claimed their first Halifax, Huddersfield Union Team title in 18 years in winning the Division Two Scratch Championship at Elland. Read

Suspect device

THOUGH the PGA have given the green light to the use of electronic GPS distance devices in all their tournaments, it is a different matter in the amateur game. Read

CHIPS off the old blocks . . .

Clive Crawshaw, Mark England and Matthew Colcombe followed their fathers into the Halifax, Huddersfield Union side for the annual match with the St Annes Old Links club which brought another resounding win for the Union men on the Fylde Coast, by 15-9. Read

TOUGH TEST FOR MEAR

EXAMINER matchplay champion Andrew Mear faces a huge test in the opening round of this year’s tournament when he tackles Halifax, Huddersfield Union player Edward Battye. Read

Saxton triumphed

A ROUND in the rain and a lesson with Deanna Rushworth proved the perfect preparation as Ian Saxton triumphantly lifted the Halifax, Huddersfield Alliance’s prestigious Page Trophy at Crosland Heath yesterday. Read

Whitworth writes Page of history

SIMPLY the best! That’s the apt description of Andrew Whitworth’s Page Trophy victory in the final Halifax, Huddersfield Alliance competition of the season. Read

It was too good to miss: Seaton

It was too good to miss: Seaton

TIM SEATON, a former Cambridgeshire county champion, is the new club manager at Fixby where he takes over from the retiring Sue Dennis. Read

Hanson ties during debut

CHRIS HANSON finished a shot adrift of the joint winners in the opening Yorkshire PGA event of the season, the Links Challenge at Bridlington Links where the Crosland Heath tournament man shot one under par 71. Read

Shaw claims top spot on countback

ANDY SHAW finished ahead of the pack in the Halifax, Huddersfield Union trial at Fixby which team boss Chris Mear ran as a medal round to help prepare his players for the Yorkshire Inter-Union Team championship, a stroke-play event that will be staged at Fixby on September 14. Read

Hanson ready for Yorkshire’s finest

CHRIS HANSON aims to put a week’s work in the sunshine of Southern Portugal to good use on the East coast of England when he takes on Yorkshire’s best in the Links Challenge Trophy, the first Yorkshire PGA event of the season, at Bridlington on Tuesday. Read

Well done Dan, the Fixby marathon man!

DAN STOCCHERO tuned up for the Halifax, Huddersfield Union squad’s pre-season warm-up at Fixby tomorrow in the toughest manner possible - by running the London Marathon. Read

Who is the best?

AN initiative launched by the PGA and Glenmuir aims to find the top junior section in Britain and Ireland. Read

Returning trio make difference

HALIFAX, Huddersfield missed Sam Bridges, Matthew Colcombe and Jamie Bower as they came up against the powerful Harrogate side in their opening Yorkshire Junior Inter-Union League match at Ripon City and bowed 22-14. Read

Portugal chance put on extension

THERE is still time to enter this year’s Examiner Matchplay Golf tournament! Read

Who has the best junior section?

AN initiative launched by the PGA and Glenmuir aims to find the top junior golf section in Britain and Ireland. Read

Fixby gearing for title tilt

THE long haul towards the Yorkshire Team championship at Middlesbrough in August gets under way with North and South qualifying rounds for the Division Seven event at Saltburn on Tuesday and at Wath on Thursday. Read

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