Taunton + Pickeridge Golf Club Junior Section

The day dawned bright and breezy for the annual Walker Cup Better Ball match between the Junior and Senior sections of T&P. There were 4 pairings of Juniors and Seniors competing, with each section fielding a strong team and the results reflected this. The Juniors won 2 of the matches, lost one and halved the other, thereby winning 2.5 - 1.5 and retaining The Walker Cup for a second year. Thank you to everyone who volunteered to play and very well done to our team of 8 pictured below with the trophy.

Seb and Jack played Greensomes together today for Somerset U12's against Gloucester U12's in a Friendly fixture. There were 4 matches altogether and the result was 2:2. Bet that was a hot one!!

Well done to Ben for winning Junior Gross Championship yesterday for the 2nd year running. His score also put him very near the top in the Mens' Gross Championship too. A great achievement. The Junior Nett was won by George Hutchings but we will have to get a photo of him with his trophy at a later date.

Today was the 32nd Charity Pro-Am at T&P with monies raised going to this year’s nominated charity - Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. The day was dry, albeit a tad chilly for July and some great scores were posted.
The Junior team were Freddie Jarrett, George Hutchings and Joe Tutcher, along with their PGA Professional for the day Sam Scrivens from The Mendip GC. These 3 juniors won their place in the team by having the best aggregate scores in our 3 Pro-Am stableford qualifying competitions in April, May and June. We hope you enjoyed the experience and had a great day!

From L-R
Joe, Sam Scrivens, George, Freddie

We had a great day for the Junior Open on Sunday 9th and a very respectable field of 36 players in the 18 hole medal after a slow start to registration. We hope you all enjoyed the course and the company of your fellow players and look forward to welcoming you back in 2025. Registration will be live to book from 1st January !!

The Gross Champion was T&P player Ben Newman who was awarded the Junior Gross Trophy and also the Andrew Hayes trophy for best T&P Junior Open gross score of 77.

The Nett Winner was Henry Bright of Woodbury Park GC who scored a 68.

Here they are being awarded their trophies.

Full details of all the results are on the Junior Open page of the T&P junior website. www.tpgcjuniors.co.uk

T&P Junior Open underway. Blessed with the weather too. Hoping for some good scores!

TAUNTON & PICKERIDGE GOLF CLUB JUNIOR OPEN

JUSTIN ROSE TELEGRAPH JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER

Sunday 9 June 2024:

Tee Times and Playing Partners:
09.40 Nicholas Locke,Tate Sinfield-Day,Thomas Gendall
09.48 Ben Newman, Alfie Sully, Finley Pyke
09.56 Henry Bright, Seb Childs, George Hutchings
10.04 Theo Jones , Jack McMeekin, Alfie Vaughan

10.12 Cooper Baker, Oscar Alexander, Lewis Walters

10.20 Oscar Smyth, Ollie Roach, Xander Rickford

10.28 Zach Rickford, Owen Roach, Lewis Wickham

10.36 Isla Catto, Georgie Powell, Megan O’Neill

10.44 Alexander Leonard, Joshua Murphy, Jack Isaacs

10.52 Rhys Pugh, Oliver Aston Lincoln Aston

11.00 Harriett Isaacs Freya Keirl Reece Tucker

Competition format:
18-hole Medal; 95% Handicap Allowance; the boys play off the Blue Tees and the girls play off the Gold Tees. The girls receive a 3-shot adjustment.
Ties will be decided on a countback on the last 9, 6, 3 and 1 holes of the round in that order. If a tie still arises, it will be decided on the last 9, 6, 3 and 1 holes of the first nine holes of the round by the same method. If still tied, a sudden death card play-off will be held over the 4th, 17th and 18th holes, then sudden death over the 18th hole as many times as required.

Arrangements for the day:
On arrival:
please report to the Registration Desk in the Clubhouse Lounge
a member of the Junior Team will ask you to confirm your Handicap Index before signing you into the competition; s/he will then print a label detailing your name, course and playing handicaps and attach it to your scorecard
your entry fee included a post-golf one-course meal (including a soft drink), and your menu choice will be taken at the Registration Desk. If you have any Dietary Requirements, please let us know when you check in.
if you are entering the Justin Rose Telegraph Junior Golf Championship Qualifier, we will need to take some details prior to you teeing off

No later than 5 minutes before your tee time, please report to the Starter at the first tee who will go through the Local Rules with you.

The on-course Refreshment Buggy will be selling snacks and drinks so you may wish to take a small amount of cash with you. Toilets and a water fountain are available at the Halfway House. Another water fountain is situated between the 5th and 13th tees.

On completion of your round:
agree scores with your Marker before entering onto the Club V1 system; the PSI (Player Score Input) terminal is situated in the Hallway beside the Men’s Changing Room; PLEASE REMEMBER TO SIGN YOUR OWN CARD AS WELL AS THE CARD YOU MARKED!
return your scorecard to the Registration Desk
if you have recorded a “2”, you will receive a sleeve of golf balls

Prizegiving and prizes:
for more juniors to have a chance to win a prize, our Junior Open policy is if you win a gross prize, you cannot win a nett prize
the prizes are vouchers to spend in the Pro Shop; if you don’t want to buy anything on the day, an account will be created for you
we aim to present the winners with their prizes at approximately 2.45 – 3.00pm

Finally, given the inconsistent weather conditions, please bring waterproofs, caps, sunglasses and sun cream!

If you have any questions or need help on the day, please ask a member of the Junior Team or the Clubhouse Team. We hope you enjoy your day!

Information for Parents
Postcode for Sat Navs: TA3 7BY what3words turn for Pickeridge Lane: whoever.corrosive.cultivation
Professional Shop 01823 421790

As per our Open Poster, a polite reminder that no caddies are permitted. This is also a Telegraph Junior Championship rule.

Taunton & Pickeridge Golf Club adheres to the Somerset Juniors Golf Spectator Code of Conduct: ​​
Do not walk within 25 metres of the players. (We don’t want any allegations that they have been offered advice and the player may be penalised if you do.)
As well as not giving advice, do not offer information to players on Local Rules or Rules of Golf. Please leave that to the referees/officers in charge.
Act as a forecaddie. Keep a distance far enough ahead of the players as not to interfere with the player’s shot. Keep to the sides of the fairways.
Keep away from any ball in play.
Ball spotting and searching: by all means help but please try to avoid trampling down long grass.
Please do not touch a ball if it might be a player’s ball.
Do not carry or handle a player’s clubs or equipment. (The player may be penalised if you do.)
Keep still and quiet and do not use a camera when a ball is being played.
Parents/carers/family members of competitors taking occasional informal photographs with mobile devices of their own child, ward or family member at a SLCGA/Junior League event do not need to register their details with the administration of that event. If such photographs include other children (e.g. at a prize presentation) they should not be publicly displayed or published on social media unless the prior permission of the parents/carers of all the children in the photographs has been obtained.
Ensure your mobile phone is switched off.

Thank you for your cooperation.

19th May was a busy day for the T&P Junior Section. We had a team at Yeovil playing in a Somerset South Division league match and 2 teams at Saltford playing in their Junior Open and also the Somerset Junior Club Team Championships.

At Yeovil we scored 15 points from the matches our 4 juniors played in which puts us 2nd in the league table at the moment, 1 point behind Wheathill. Archie was 2nd in Category 1, George was 1st and Freddie 2nd in Category 2 and Cooper was 4th in Category 3. Well played all of you. Here is George being presented with his memento for winning Cat 2.

Great success all round with Finley and Ben both going round the course at Saltford in a score of 78 gross. Finley won on countback and the boys were 1st and 2nd in the Open Gross competition. Here they are receiving their awards.
Thanks to all the T&P juniors who represented the club that day- Ben, Finley, Alfie, Morgan, Thomas and Seb.

After a glorious weekend the rain returned in style today and Junior Club Night was a wash out. The Pro-Am Qualifier due to take place today will now happen next week - Monday 20th May.

This young man got a hole in one on 12a yesterday. Congratulations Cooper. We are sure it won’t be the last. Here he is on another occasion recently being awarded a prize for being placed in a league match. Good things in store….

Just over a month to go until The T&P Junior Open on Sun 9th June. Tee times still available to book. See poster below for how to enter. Great course, great welcome, great prizes!

T&P hosted the first league match of the season in the Somerset Junior Golf South Division on Sunday 21st April. Well done to all the players representing T&P, Yeovil, Wheathill and Long Sutton. There were juniors competing in all 3 categories and the results are that Yeovil go into the 2nd match in the lead with 14 pts. Wheathill have 13, Long Sutton 11 and T&P 10 so it is very close. Here are some of the T&P players being presented with their awards for being placed in the results.

We are looking forward to hosting the first Somerset Junior Golf South Division league match of the season on Sunday 21st April. Let’s hope for a dry day and some good golf. Please see the tee times below:

We held an indoor coaching session on Thur 21st March in the clubhouse with chipping and putting games, followed by a meal and then some coaching on the rules of golf, etiquette and scorecards. Thank you to our Head Professional, Jason Avery, for running the session and to Dean and his staff for helping set up and clear away afterwards. It was great to see the Juniors after a long, wet Winter and we look forward to the start of the Junior season on 8th April.

It was also an opportunity to recognise Cooper Baker for being the Most Improved Fox Cub of 2023 as he missed the Presentation Awards in November.

Despite the rain, sometimes hail, rolling in from the West this morning, the annual Captains’ Drive-In took place today at T&P. Well done to Alfie Sully, the 2024 Juniors Captain, for smashing his drive down the middle of the 1st fairway with an audience looking on. He was followed by Emma, Ladies Captain, Barry, Seniors Captain and Mike the Club Captain with all 3 keeping their nerve and delivering great drives.
Roll on the season and some dry, warm weather!

The date of our Junior Open is getting closer. Surely it will have stopped raining by then? We are proud to also be hosting a Justin Rose Junior Golf Championship Qualifier that day
To enter, go to our website(www.tauntongolf.co.uk) and from the menu click on golf and then open competitions.

Well how about that! A hole in 1 today on the 10th for Seb, one of our talented Junior members. Really well done!

Fed up with the rain and wind? Dreaming of a round of golf in great conditions. Entries are now open for our Junior Open on 9th June. Sure to be a good day. Get signed up soon. See you in the summer! ⛳🌞

Looking for a great place to play golf on a sunny Sunday next June? Entries go live from 1st January for our Junior Open 2024. See poster below for details.

We were lucky with the weather for our Christmas 9 hole competition on Thurs 21st and it was great to see some of our juniors playing. Only 2 temporary greens and tricky conditions with the gusting winds.
Here are the stableford results. Congratulations to Lewis and Freddie. Your winnings for coming 1st and 2nd will be transferred to your pro shop accounts soon.

Stableford points:

Lewis Walters 19
Freddie Jarrett 18
George Hutchings 17
Tate Sinfield Day 16
Cooper Baker 16
Joseph Tutcher 15
Charlie Jones 15
Archie Austin 14
Seb Childs 10
Alfie Sully 10

Looking for a great place to play golf on a sunny Sunday next June? Entries go live from 1st January for our Junior Open 2024. See poster below for details.

The annual Quadrangular match took place on Thurs 26th Oct with teams of four made up from Seniors, Juniors, Ladies and Club Committee. Better Ball with 2 scores to count off 85% of course handicap. The winning team of Berni, Carol, Gordon and George scored a massive 95 points - well done to them!
Here they are with Club Captain, Kevin Jackson

I said we had been busy!
On Monday 23rd T&P were represented in the Junior Team Golf Home Nations Inter club Championships England Final,( a bit of a mouthful to be sure) at The Players Club, Bristol. As the South West regional winners we were playing against other regional winners from all over England to determine who will then play against Scotland, Wales and Ireland in a Home Nations Final next Spring. There were teams from The Midlands, South East, North East and North West as well as ourselves from the South West - 8 in all.
Conditions were very wet and the going was tough. Enfield Juniors from South East region were the winners so very well done to them. The team scores ranged from 373, Enfield, to 414 and T&P came in with a very good score of 389 ranking us 4th out of the 8 teams. It is a great achievement to reach the England Final and the Junior team here at the club are very proud of you all. Here is the team on the day and thank you the others who played in the qualifiers to help us get there. Also a huge thank you to Claire, Peter’s Mum, for being there with the team on the day
From left to right are Morgan, Alfie, Peter Theo, Finley & Ben

What a busy weekend the Juniors had last week, playing on both Sunday 22nd and Monday 23rd in Finals matches.

As the West Division League winners, we were in a final against the East Division winners, Wells Juniors, at Long Sutton on Sunday to determine the overall champions for 2023. On the day it was Wells who scored highest playing individual stableford and they take home the shield. Well done to them!
Thank you to the team of T&P Juniors who gave their all on the day and to the other juniors who played in previous league matches to get us into the final. We had a good season.
From left to right are Corey, Ben, Peter, Tate & Lewis.

Well done T&P Juniors for a great effort today in the Somerset Junior Golf League Final, coming Runners Up to Wells. You will all have played your socks off, we know.
Now onto tomorrow and the Home Nations Team Golf England Final Players Club, Bristol.
Good luck to Peter, Ben, Morgan, Finley, Alfie & Theo who are representing T&P.. Hope the day, and the experience generally, are wonderful.

Good luck today Team T&P @ Long Sutton in the Somerset Junior Golf League final. You can do it!

Following the Somerset Golf Union Under 14 Assessment Day at Mendip Spring on 8th Oct we are delighted to announce that some of our T&P Juniors have been selected for Winter coaching in the U12 and U 14 squads.
Well done to:
Jack Legg & Seb Childs on getting into the U12 Futures Squad
Lewis Walters and George Hutchings on getting into the U14 Development Squad
Tate Sinfield-Day on being selected again for the U14 Squad.
These squads will form the basis of the teams playing in county matches in 2024. Well done to you boys.

Also, on Sunday 1st October at the 2023 Presentation day for U12’s and U14’s Tate Sinfield-Day won the U14’s Player’s Player of the year award and Finley Pyke won the U14’s Coach’s Player of the year award.

It has been a really busy weekend for The Junior Section. We played in the south west regional semi finals of The Junior Team Golf Home Nations Championship at Launceston on Saturday 30th against teams from Wrag Barn in Wiltshire, Bramshaw in Hampshire and Exeter, Devon and ended the day winning in cold and windy conditions. It was a superb achievement by the team and we go through to the England National Final which is being played at The Players Club, Bristol on Mon 23rd October. Here is a photo of the team from yesterday. Sadly Finley Pyke had to leave early so he is missing from the photo. Well done lads and also to Berni, who walked round with them in the cold, windy weather.

Ben, 2nd from left, had the 2nd lowest gross score of the day with 78 and Alfie, in the middle, had the lowest nett score of the day with 69.

Last match of the season in the Somerset Junior Golf, West Division League and it was played at Burnham & Berrow today. We fielded a full team of 5 players and played individual stableford against players from B&B, Oake and Worlebury. At the end of today we were announced winners of The West Division for this season and play off against the winners of The East Division, Wells, on 22nd Oct to determine the overall Somerset Junior League winners for 2023. Well done to all the Juniors who have played in this season’s matches and helped us secure this great win. Today’s team are pictured below. Congratulations to Peter McGivern who came 3rd in Category 1 (HI -18.4)with a superb 38 points and to George Hutchings and Seb Childs who came 3rd and 4th respectively in Category 2 ( HI 18.5-36.4)