FORMER Curtis Cup player Emma Brown caught the eye of English senior women's captain Angela Jones merely by turning 50 and gaining eligibility for veterans golf. In the space of 10 days she metaphorically shouted in Jones's ear, too, by winning the Yorkshire veterans' championship at her first attempt before claiming her fourth county ladies championship, at Richmond and Alwoodley respectively. The former British ladies champion from Malton & Norton defeated Lindrick 19-year

Family members of Leeds Rhinos legend Rob Burrow visited The Oaks to support a marathon fund-raising effort by the 2021 captains Michael Clark and Sue Randall. Inspired by Burrow’s fight against Motor Neurone Disease, rugby league fans Clark and Randall raised £5,000 for the MND Association by nominating it as their joint Captain’s Charity. Various fun events were held throughout the year, including playing 36 holes a day for seven days, culminating in the Captain’s Finale

Yorkshire golfers dominated an international field of under-18s competing for the acclaimed Fairhaven Trophy, with Romanby’s Ben Brown taking the title. A second round, course record-equalling 66 gave Brown breathing space in the 72-hole strokeplay competition at the Fairhaven Golf Club on Lancashire’s ‘golf coast’. He ended up on -10, some 5-shots clear of fellow Tyke, Dylan Shaw-Radford of Huddersfield GC. The two teenagers had edged ahead of the pack going into the final d