A dash back to see his coach after his opening round propelled Alex Fitzpatrick to a record winning score in the Yorkshire Amateur Championship. The Hallamshire member spread-eagled the field with a scintillating 23 under par total of 265 to win by 13 shots, adding the men’s title to the boys’ championship he won earlier this year. Fitzpatrick struggled to find the fairway in his opening round of 69 and relied on his iron play which has been nothing short of spectacular all y

HUDDERSFIELD golf professional Dan Konyk smashed his way to victory in the American Golf UK Long Drive Championship. Konyk, 40, rolled back the clock to produce a series of enormous drives – including one of 430 yards to take down the reigning U.K. champion and several European Tour champions. It was his fourth win in the event and came 18 years after his first. Dan reigns supreme yet again in the U.K. Konyk was scheduled to go on and represent American Golf and the U.K. in

Yorkshire set a new record in powering their way to victory in the English Boys’ County Championship, beating Berks, Bucks & Oxon 7-2 in the final day’s title decider at Northamptonshire County Golf Club. In the three-day round robin, also involving Staffordshire and Somerset, the Tykes were in impressive form, conceding just 4.5 points in their 27 games. The classy performance gave them their first title since 2012, their eighth overall and wiped out the memories of last yea

“ATTEN-SHUN! Eyes front! For-ward …. march!” Actually, there’s nothing at all military-style about the folk at Sandburn Hall Golf Club – quite the contrary. You can’t even hear the distant drift of commands to the troops at the nearby Strensall Army Camp on the outskirts of York. Still, the analogy is quite apposite in the current exciting circumstances. With military precision, the modern club and recreation complex has embarked on a six year improvement programme to ‘future