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Excitement at The Rock

THEY’VE got the Ryder Cup at Matfen Hall. But before the North-East tourist industry goes into meltdown mode, we should explain it is the actual trophy which is going on show there. Read

Curry works for a last-32 place

MICHAEL Curry, a greenkeeper at the Brancepeth Castle club, came from way down the reckoning at Royal St George’s yesterday to join Northumberland champion Chris Paisley in the last 32 of the English Amateur. Read

Wright’s accurary earns heat triumph

PAM Wright, from the Matfen Hall club, won the Northumberland heat of The Journal Trophy with a nett score of 78 at Dunstanburgh Castle that was two shots over the competition scratch score on a wild, windswept day. Read

Tarren books spot in final

CALLUM Tarren, one of the youngest county players in the history of Durham golf, enjoyed a highly productive weekend. Read

Porteous handed England chance

GARRICK Porteous, picked out earlier this month as the best of Northumberland’s young prospects by county captain Kevin Cademy-Taylor, was yesterday selected to play for England in next month’s Boys Home Internationals in Wales. Read

Forward thinking pays off for hope

COUNTY Durham secretary Graham Hope last night put emergency plans into operation after a second successive wash-out at the Darlington club meant the first two rounds of the matchplay championship were rescheduled for today. Read

Prize quandary is easily solved

EVERY Saturday morning during the golf season, Open Championship referee Desmond Duffy is posing two questions. Read

Event attracts quality line-up

WHEN De Vere Slaley Hall agreed to host the return of The Journal Champion of Champions Tournament – as well as organise and administer it – they unashamedly admitted they wanted the kudos involved from putting on “a real event”. Read

‘Youth is key to new glory’

TOM Flowers, the most experienced golf administrator in the North-East and Cumbria, last night warned County Durham captain John Kennedy: “You can’t buy success.” Read

Win for Beamish Park

EMILY LOWTHER, the sales manager with Journal Trophy sponsors 1st Tee Golfing Holidays, is a member of the Beamish Park side who have won the Anderson League for the fourth year in a row. Read

Don’t be too macho to need rescuing

THE main thing club golfers can glean from the Open was that so many of the world’s best were using rescue clubs this year. Padraig Harrington, for instance, had three of them in his bag for one of his rounds. Read

Craig chasing ‘Tiger slam’

CRAIG Goodfellow’s reputation as one of the most spectacular golfers ever to grace the PGA North-East North-West region’s circuit, in terms of pure ball striking, was enhanced as he won their 36-hole strokeplay championship at Ponteland yesterday. Read

Storm’s challenge is ended

JUST when you think things can’t get any worse, they often do – and that was certainly the case for Graeme Storm as he crashed to a second round 80 at Carnoustie yesterday. Read

Storm clouds gather

GRAEME Storm’s Open Championship dream turned into something of a nightmare of Jean Van de Velde proportions. Read

Who’ll be a winner?

THERE are three questions to consider on the eve of the Open Championship. Read

Faldo is just not helpful

NICK Faldo may be one of the game’s great players but Graeme Storm was less than impressed with the six-time Major winner on the eve of the Open Championship. Read

Around with Alan Hedley

THE world’s top players called it Carnasty the last time the Open was there in 1999. Read

Dance back in old title routine

STEVEN Dance picked up where he left off when he returned to Ramside Hall this season, winning the club crown for the fourth time in five years to battle through to The Journal Champion of Champions tournament. Read

What's laid on at Slaley Hall

THE Journal Champion of Champions tournament is an 18-hole scratch amateur tournament which will played over The Priestman course at De Vere Slaley Hall on Sunday September 9. Read

Price cut at Matfen

MATFEN HALL are doing well in the bright ideas department. They were to host a golf day for Paul Collingwood’s benefit year tomorrow – but now he’s been made England’s one-day cricket captain, they were asked this week to postpone it. Read

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