Ganton Golf Club provided a stern test for the country’s best amateur men golfers before yielding the prestigious Brabazon Trophy to the third Yorkshireman in the past four Championships. Hallowes left-hander Sam Bairstow played stunning golf all week to deservedly win the English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship with a total of -11 (273), just 2-shots off The Brabazon record low score. He followed fellow Tyke champions Ben Schmidt at Alwoodley in 2019 and Nick Po

Anything his Howley Hall clubmate could do, Dan Gavins could at least match. After Marcus Armitage won a nerve-shredding maiden European Tour event with a final round -7 to leapfrog the field in The Porsche European Open, world no 453 Gavins repeated the feat. Starting the final day of the ISPS Handa World Invitational in Northern Ireland seven shots back, Gavins carded an excellent 65 to leave him sitting in the clubhouse on -13 and dependent on the closing performances of f

Richard Norton breaks course record at Beverley – here’s how it happened... My round on Saturday nearly didn’t happen because when I arrived it was raining. Four of us were going to just play 13 holes as a fourball and then have a drink and then watch the rugby, but because there were five of us we changed our plans. As a result, I played with my usual partner, Jim Clark, in a 2-ball. Jim had already paid and then the rain eased off so we decided to play. I started nicely wit

By Chris Stratford Huddersfield Golf Club brought down the curtain on a summer of outstanding success by completing a clean sweep of all the scratch competitions on the Halifax, Huddersfield and District Union of Golf Clubs’ calendar. On the same day that Adam Walker was becoming the second Fixby member to claim a Yorkshire championship in 2021, Aron Schnacke and James Skirrow lifted the Halifax-Huddersfield foursomes title in the final at Crosland Heath. Walker had partnered

Alwoodley bared its teeth when the county’s cream of the amateur crop arrived to contest the 2021 YUGC Amateur Championship at the end of August. No players managed to finish the 72-hole battle under par but Doncaster and England teenager Josh Berry (pictured) had just enough in the tank to hold off Rotherham’s Charlie Daughtrey and Ollie White (Pannal). Berry finished on +5, a shot ahead of the chasing pair, who were in turn a shot ahead of Wath’s George Mason and Ben Rhodes