HUDDERSFIELD sisters Amelia and Imogen Covell will join Crosland Heath’s Rochelle Morris and West End’s Helen Searle in the Women’s English Open Strokeplay Championship, which gets under way at Alwoodley tomorrow.
The Huddersfield quartet will be part of a field of 120 players including past champions and internationals descending on the prestigious Leeds-area course for the championship.
All competitors will play 18 holes tomorrow and Wednesday, with the field then cut to the top 36 (and ties) who go forward to play the 36-hole final on Thursday.
Meanwhile, this year’s Junior Matchplay final with be an all-Calderdale clash between West End’s Brad Hardcastle and Halifax’s Jamie Smith.
And the two promising prospects, who are teammates in the Halifax, Huddersfield Union’s Junior team, will now battle it out for the title at Bradley Park on Sunday, September 25.
Huddersfield clubs had only three players in the quarter-finals, where two of those fell, 15-year-old Ben Kaye losing two down to Hardcastle, while Fixby’s Gary Moolman was beaten by Marsden’s Ethan Shaw, by one hole.
Shaw was then himself beaten by one hole on his own course in the semi-finals by Hardcastle, while Smith, a two-handicapper from Ogden, who had enjoyed a 7&6 victory over Crow Nest Park’s Jake Campbell, had a similarly convincing win over Saddleworth’s Danny Lyness by 6&5 in the second semi.
Smith goes again tomorrow in the senior PS Cockroft Trophy, when he goes out in the same three-ball as Lightcliffe Tankard winner Nick Marsh from Elland and Huddersfield’s Aaron Schnacke.
