WILTSHIRE beat GLOUCESTER 5 1/2 to 3 1/2 on the first day of County Week. The pairings of Jo Shorrocks/Hannah Turland and Sue Sutton/Bridget Cartright took points from the morning foursomes. In the afternoon singles, Sue halved and wins from Jo, Bridget and 12-year old Kyra Horlock secured the victory - the first against Gloucester for years.

Dorset beat Somerset 5 1/2 - 3 1/2 and Cornwall beat Devon 5-4 in the other two matches.

On Day 2, Wiltshire lost 6-3 to Cornwall but went on the beat Devon 5-4 on Day 3. They now play Dorset (Thursday - 8.15 & 13.20) and Somerset (Friday - 8.45 & 14.10)

Come to Dudsbury (Dorset) 12-16 May to support County Captain, Bev Dolman, and the squad : Hannah Turland, Jayne Long & Di Gritt (Tidworth), Emma Breen & Karen Gosling (Marlborough) Jo Shorrocks & Kyra Horlock (Hamptworth), Gill Loughrey (Wrag Barn), Sue Sutton (Ogbourne), Sarah Carvell (Broome Manor) and Bridget Cartright (Upavon).

MAY 2008
Hannah Turland added another Wiltshire title to her belt when she beat fellow Tidworth member, Di Gritt, in the final of the Chartex sponsored Scratch Knock-out. Kingsdown's Ros Tomlinson won the handicap event.
FULL STORY & RESULTS

APRIL 2008
Hannah Turland, 13, is Wiltshire's youngest ever County Champion after beating Jo Shorrocks at Hamptworth on 20th April. The tremendous birdie-filled final went to the 37th hole! Sarah Carvell won the second flight, beating fellow Broome Manor finalist, Sophie Newman. RESULTS

MARCH 2008
June Poffley, North Wilts’ Junior Organiser, has received a national award in England Golf’s inaugural Volunteer of the Year awards. One of only five recipients, June received her award for club development, in recognition of many years hard work.
Full story - www.wiltshiregolfpartnership.com

FEBRUARY 2008
Tidworth's Hannah Turland, 13, has been selected to represent England in the Scottish Under 16 Open Strokeplay Championship at Craigielaw CG in Scotland on 10 & 11 Apil. Hannah will be a member of the 3-strong team competing for the Nations Cup.

FEBRUARY 2008
New Coaching dates have been organised with County Coach, Claire Waite. Coaching is open to any lady member of a Wiltshire Club. Places are filling fast so if you would like to book, download details here. DETAILS (WORD FILE)

OCTOBER 2007
Wiltshire Girls ended the playing season with a 'Wear It Pink' adult and junior bowmaker, at Marlborough GC during October Half Term. With pink prizes for all, the overall winners were Ogbourne's Sarah Carvell, Charlotte Lucas from Hamptworth and Kingsdown's Anya Thethy.

Past County President & Captain presented the awarde for the Most Improved Girl of 2007 to Kyra Horlock from Hamptwrth. Runner-up was Sam Masters from Broome Manor.

SEPTEMBER 2007
Do you want County Coaching? The summer sessions with county coach, Claire Waite were so popular that new dates have been arranged for October & November.

SEPTEMBER 2007
Tidworth have won the Scratch Knockout for the third year running after beating North Wilts in the final at Marlborough GC. FULL RESULTS & PHOTOS

SEPTEMBER 2007
Upavon's Bridget Cartwright & Lynn Chivers completed a foursomes double by winning the County Autumn Foursomes at Upavon and beating North Wilts duo, Joan Toogood and Irene Tomkinson at Marlborough to win the County Foursomes Knockout. AUTUMN 4SOMES....KNOCKOUT   

AUGUST 2007
Marlborough's Emma Breen has retained the Wiltshire Girls Championship played at Kingsdown GC on 28th August. Emma had two birdies in her last three holes to finish on three over par 76, just one stroke ahead of Hamptworth's Kyra Horlock and English Under 13 Champion, Hannah Turland. Kyra beat Hannah on the back nine to take the Under 13 Wiltshire title. Kingsdown's Ellen Farrow took the Under 15 title with a gross 82.

LATEST NEWS: 9th Aug 2007
Kingsdown's Portia Abbott beat Tidworth's Hannah Turland 4 & 2 in the final of the County Championships at West Wilts. PICS & MATCHPLAY
DOWNLOAD FULL RESULTS (Word file)

8th Aug 2007
Hannah Turland, Becky Lockley, Portia Abbott and Sophie Newman reach semi-finals of County
Championships. MATCHPLAY RESULTS

7th Aug 2007
Nikki Edwards leads qualifiers with gross 72-78 on first day of County Championships at West Wilts GC.
MATCHPLAY DRAW & TIMES

NEW Knockout competitions
Two new county events have been launched - a singles scratch knock-out and a handicap knock-out. Sponsored by Chartex Ltd, they will run from September 07 to May 08. DOWNLOAD ENTRY FORM

JULY 2007
Jo Shorrocks from Hamptworth is the 2007 South West Champion! Jo beat Gloucester's Sian James on the 18th hole at Burnham & Berrow on 19th July to take the trophy. The first Wiltshire winner in memory!
On her way to the final, Jo had knocked out England player, Jo Hodge, Devon's Julia Norman as well as Wiltshire's own Claire Hobbs. FULL RESULTS

JULY 2007
Kyra Horlock from Hamptworth is off to the USA to represent England in the US Kids World Championships. Kyra won her age group event in the Wee Wonders finals at St Andrews last year and was featured on TV when she outputted Tiger Woods in a Texas Scramble at Wentworth!

JUNE 2007
In a tightly fought match against Hampshire Girls on a rainswept High Post, Wiltshire just lost although there were good wins for Emma Breen (Marlborough), Emma May (Kingsdown) and Catherine Ludlam (High Post), playing in her first County match.

JUNE 2007
13-year old Hannah Turland from Tidworth Garrison has been selected as a reserve for the England Team to play in the European Young Masters at Golf de Bondues, France, from July 26-28.

JUNE 2007
Despite good wins by Hamptworth 11-year olds, Kyra Horlock and rookie, Charlotte Lucas, Wiltshire lost their first girls match of the season against Somerset at Saltford 4-2.

JUNE 2007
Wiltshire 2nd team got off to a good start to the season winning their first match away against Monmouthshire. The team had three rookies including Kingsdown junior, Ellena Farrow who pulled off a resounding 7/6 win. A strong performance in the singles by Gloucester meant they lost their second match. FULL STORY

MAY 2007
Although ending up with the wooden spoon at County Week, the Wilts team scored some great wins. 12-year old Hannah Turland beat ex-Curtis Cup star Vicki Thomas and Ogbourne junior Sophie Newman came up trumps against Gloucester no. l player Jo Hodge. FULL STORY

MAY 2007
CLAIRE HOBBS from Cumberwell Park shot a gross 82 to win the Scratch Cup in the County Spring Meeting held at Chippenham on 8th May. Chippenham players dominated the other prizes with Jacqui Stephens winning the Handicap Cup (net 71), Jean Myles winning the bronze scratch award (gross 96) and Jane Sharpe the bronze handicap cup (net 73). FULL RESULTS

APRIL 2007
Wiltshire drew 4-4 in their foursomes match against Dorset at North Wilts on 12 April. But Dorset had past Wiltshire Captain, Sue Dix to thank for the final point of the match. Sue stood in at the last moment when Dorset went a player down! FULL RESULTS

APRIL 2007
Kyra Horlock from Hamptworth, Katie Warren from Wrag Barn and Alex Feltham from Kingsdown were all winners in the County Girls stableford competition held at Wrag Barn on 10th April. Kyra won the Silver division prize with 35 points, Katie took Bronze honours with 39 points and Alex won the 9 hole event for girls without handicaps.

APRIL 2007
Wilthire have made a winning start to the season beating the High Post men 10-5 in their first match of the season at High Post on Saturday 7th April. The team, captained by a delighted Bev Dolman (left) won the foursomes 4-1 and the singles 6-4. Full Details & RESULTS

FEBRUARY 2007
Golf professional, Claire Waite, the former English & British Amateur Champion and Curtis Cup player whose golfing home as an amateur was Ogbourne Downs, has been appointed Wiltshire's 1st team squad coach for 2007. FULL STORY

JANUARY 2007 (Updated)
A Partnership between the ladies (WLCGA), men(WCGU) and Wiltshire PGA has been formed to help develop golf in Wiltshire. Club forums will be held around the county in February. Full Details   
New website at: www.wiltshiregolfpartnership.com

NOVEMBER 2006
Wiltshire has been chosen as one of three counties to pilot a new England/County golf coaching programme for girls in 2006 /2007. The joint venture means an investment of some £5000 in girls in the county that show the potential to be top county and national golfers of the future.

Thirteen girls from across the county have been selected for the new England County Birdies squad, for girls aged around 10 to 13, and for the more advanced 'Eagles' squad for older girls up to around 18. Full Details