MONMOUTHSHIRE golf club men recently competed for two of the oldest trophies in the club - the Kennard Cup (1896) for handicaps of 12 and below and the Machin Cup for 13 plus.

In the former, the younger members dominated with Callam Morris showing his game is improving rapidly by posting a gross 71 (net66) to win by two shots from Dan Haile.

Overall Results

Callam Morris 71-5 = 66

Dan Haile 77-9 = 68

James Collins 74–5 = 69

Connor Phillips 78– 9 = 69

Mark Ford 80–11 = 69

The Machin Cup was won by Roger Tod with an 88–19 = 69 winning on countback from

Huw Gilson 82-13 = 69.

The Monthly Stableford was won by Darren Best who returned 39 points with Mike Bloor and Connor Phillips returning 38. Kevin Williams, Jamie Saunders and Tom Davies all beat par with 37 points.

The Juniors played a competition on Bank Holiday Monday for the Fred Williams Cup. In very windy conditions Lewis Jones returned 37 points followed by Callam Morris 35 and Joel Wright 34.

For the younger juniors there was a nine hole competition in which Toby Mayo earned a cut in his handicap by returning 21 points and new members William Morgan 17 points and Dylan Bull 13 points (on countback from India Lesbirel, Owain Jones and Charlie Lesbirel).

MONMOUTHSHIRE Ladies Section have enjoyed a mixed bag of results lately.

The Welsh team championship first round was played at Newport golf club against Llanwern. It was a close match with Monmouthshire losing three games to two, and just missing the opportunity to progress to the knock out stage of the competition in Cardigan.

The mixed team playing in the Ping challenge were narrowly beaten when playing St Mellons at Pontnewydd golf club, a notoriously difficult venue.

St Mellons were able to field one couple who had been members of Pontnewydd for years and this swung the balance for their team who ran out winners two matches to one – Chris and Sandra Belcham being the winning pair for Monmouthshire.

The league results are a little disappointing for the first team. After winning promotion to Division Three last season the team has lost the first three matches played so far.

However, team spirit is excellent and there is hope for an upsurge for the rest of the games. The second team are faring better, having won one, halved two and lost three matches.