WARING SEEKS SECOND ENGLISH TITLE WITH BROMBOROUGH COLLEAGUES - 23rd Aug 2005

Paul Waring, the newly crowned English champion, will seek to win another national title when he lines up with his Bromborough team-mates in the Champion Club tournament at Brancepeth Castle Golf Club, Durham, on 26th - 27th August.

Waring won the English Amateur Championship after six arduous days over his home course last month and is due to make his full England debut in next month’s Home Internationals at Royal St George’s, Sandwich. However, the immediate target is the Champion Club crown and Waring will be assisted by team-mates Damien Scholes and Simon Taylor.

The line-up of champion clubs from each English county is high quality with former international John Kemp and senior cap David Lane also in the field.

Kemp heads a strong John O’Gaunt team with Mark Wharton and county champion Michael Round, while Lane, a former British and English seniors champion, will tee-off with his Goring and Streatley colleagues from BB&O.

A team from Northumberland has never won the Champion Club title but Sandy Twynholm, beaten in the semi-finals of the Scottish Amateur Championship last month, will aim to bring his Morpeth squad first past the post this time.

Steve Sansome, last year’s English Mid-Amateur champion and beaten finalist in the British Mid-Amateur at Muirfield recently, is in the Birstall team from Leicestershire, while Chelmsford carry the Essex flag, their team containing county champion Lloyd Kennedy, who recently won the Faldo Commemoration Jug for the second successive year at Welwyn Garden City.

Tavistock, last year’s champions at Sandwell Park, are not defending the title. They were replaced as Devon champions by East Devon, who have a strong line-up in Kevin Harper, Paul Newcombe and Jason Rowbotham.

The Champion Club is decided on aggregate over 36 holes of stroke play, with all team members’ scores to count.

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