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Shack attack earns fifth

MOSSOCK Hall pro David Shacklady has secured himself starts at a handful of Challenge Tour events next year after finishing fifth at the PGA Play-Offs at Notts Golf Club.Read

Links is driving force

SOUTHPORT Old Links reinforced their reputation as the emerging force within local inter-club golf with a four point victory in the SDGA Handicap Team Tournament played over their home course.Read

Still time to tee off in golf day to support Hettinga House

THEY are teeing off again at Ormskirk Golf Club to raise funds for Jospice.Read

Harwood hits hole in one

PETER Harwood is busy celebrating after sinking a hole-in-one at Hurlston Hall Golf Club last Wednesday.Read

LANCASHIRE UNION OF GOLF CLUBS

Autumn Meeting (at Manchester GC): Doug Botterill (Bolton Old Links) 38pts; David Tetley (Blackpool NS) 37; Derek Stott (Rochdale) 35; George Brown (Rossendale) 34; David Landy (West Lancashire) 34; . Eric Williams (Childwall) 34 }Read

ROYAL Birkdale’s Florentyna Parker enjoyed a clean sweep at the Junior Solheim Cup to help Europe to a 14-10 success.

The teenager, who is based in Germany where her family live, had a 100 per cent record from the match against the best young players from America.Read

TOMMY FLEETWOOD was part of the Great Britain & Ireland team that won the Jacques Leglise Trophy.

The home side had to withstand a late fightback from the Continent of Europe, who took five of the eight singles on day two.Read

DAVID SHACKLADY owed a double debt of gratitude to his pal Simon Edwards after capturing the Lancashire PGA Championship for the second time in four years at Morecambe.

The 40-year-old Mossoch Hall attached professional, who qualified for the Open at Carnoustie earlier this year, said: “He gave me a lesson before the last round of the Lakes Classic and I went on to win that and his advice stuck with me. But I should have won more comfortably because I putted atrociously.”Read

LAURA BOWMAN (Formby Ladies) won the gross prize in the 18-hole competition when the Lancashire Ladies County Golf Association held a card-marking day at Royal Lytham Short Course. She shot 93 and won after a card play-off with Katie Joyce and Isabel Lockwood.

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DAVID Shacklady, with more than 200 assorted professional victories to his name, added another when he won the Hydro Hotels Lakes Classic at Windermere.

The 40-year-old, attached to Bickerstaffe club Mossock Hall, competed in the Open Championship at Carnoustie in July after qualifying with a course record nine-under-par 62 at Montrose.Read

LANCASHIRE UNION OF GOLF CLUBS

Lancashire County Foursomes (at Preston GC): 1st, John Carroll /Matt Denton (Huyton & Prescot) 71+67=138; Michael Hunt/Jack Brooks (Pleasington) 73+71=144; Simon McNab/David Marsh (Chorley) 68+79=147; Gavin Brown/Mark Horton (Grange Park) 74+74= 48Read

LANCASHIRE Boys swept aside the Cheshire challenge in the Mixed Age meeting at Ellesmere, collecting a big interval lead, enough to withstand a partial recovery by Cheshire in the afternoon.

Sean Towndrow (S&A) with Reece Cranfield (Haigh Hall) won their match 2&1, while James Bolton (Harwood) and Andrew Marsh (Hesketh) won on the 18th.Read

HESKETH Golf Club this week plays host to some of the country’s leading club golfers.

The Southport links is the setting for the finale of the English Champion Club Tournament.Read

Parker in full Flo for glory in Cup

The Royal Birkdale teenager, who is based in Germany, gained an automatic place in the European team despite playing in only two of the five qualifying competitions.Read

Slattery on a tightrope

FORMBY Hall’s Lee Slattery continues his tightrope walk over keeping his Tour card.Read

Glory for Fleetwood

For the first time, both teams were composed of boys and girls and the morning foursomes proved extremely close, England edging it 2-1 with one match halved.Read

Claeys is new capt at Formby

He used to play football for Maghull and says: “I started to play golf when I became too old for football, when I could not run as much.”Read

Connor crowned at Royal Birkdale

Connor returned 72+77=149 to win by one stroke from county colleague Kelly Tidy (75+75), also a member at Manchester and Royal Birkdale.Read

Shacklady ready to rock again

The Ormskirk player, who made it through from regional qualifying to play in the Open at Carnoustie, closed with a 69 at the PGA North event in the north east to go with rounds of 70,73.Read

Open and shut case for David

BY his own admission: “I was struggling and unfortunately could not find out what it was,” David Shacklady delivered the verdict on his Open Championship experience at Carnoustie.Read

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