WORCESTER Golf and Country Club have another fully-qualified PGA professional on their books.
Ian Henry, who has just graduated in sports science, coaching, equipment technology and business management at Birmingham University, will be joining the club’s current professional Graham Farr.
Henry, who is 22 and has been at the Boughton Park club for five years, rounded off a successful week by lifting the Derek Greey Cup.
The trophy, a winter alliance pro-am competition, was played over eight venues, including The Worcestershire, Redditch and Stourbridge.
Henry took eight different teams of four to the courses and lifted the cup for the first time and also became the first professional from Boughton Park to win the trophy.
Meanwhile, Mike Darby will be joining Farr in the PGA Pro-Am qualifier at Little Aston in June after recording the lowest nett in the May monthly medal.
The winners of the qualifier travel to Las Vegas to compete in the final. Darby represents the club thanks to a 79-13-66 score to top Division Two. In second and third place on countback were Stewart Wilson (77-11-66) and Jeremy O’Keefe (78-12-66).
Scratch handicapper Lee Richardson recorded the competition’s lowest gross with a 69 in Division One, but finished in third place behind Pete Griffiths (70-5-65) and Tony Sanders (72-5-67).
Five players recorded nett scores of 71 in Division Three but James Quinn headed the pack to win his first medal with 87-16-71.
Club captain Phil Macdonell was second with 87-16-71 and Lucian Delorenzo finished third with 89-18-71.
The junior medal was won by Jordan Glover with 91-32-59. Nicholas Hall-Annison (99-33-66) was runner-up and Christopher Colenso third on 84-17-67. Jordan Hick recorded the day’s lowest gross score with 76, playing off eight handicap.
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