Ross Golf Club’s latest ’major’ in their 2018 golfing calendar, the Spring Medal Scratch and Handicap event attracted 108 men members, and for 14 year old Junior player, Jay Greig, will always be remembered with much fondness representing his first success in an adult competition.

Jay also joins two other teenagers to complete a hat-trick of Juniors players at the Ross Club who have won adult majors recently namely Rhys McGinley in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and Timmy Fycun in the Gordon Blake Cup.

Further evidence that the investment in young people policy, introduced by the Ross Club in 2012 when they appointed Head Professional Tim Hall and his ’School of Golf Team’, is very much alive and well.

On this occasion Jay’s gross 84, net 64 medal round which included 6 pars was a model in consistency and resulted in a massive cut in handicap to 20 as he strives to continually improve himself to emulate the example set by his elder brother Liam, a 5 handicapper who is the Ross Club’s Juniors Captain. Jay lives in Gloucester, educated at the Beaufort Cooperative Academy, and as he develops further clearly has much to look forward to both on and off the golf course.

Runner-up on the handicap front was 17 handicapper, Hugh Elliott, with a net 70, followed by 14 handicapper Tony Biggs also with net 70, and Tim Rigden and Michael Bradburn enjoying creditable outcomes with net 71’s each. Other highlights were the net 72 by Michael Williams and net 73’s by Colin Stanbridge and Shaun Sturge.

On the scratch front the day’s best performance was by 1 handicapper, Martyn Walker, with a gross 74, followed by fellow 1 handicapper Harvey Hancock with a gross 76, and 5 handicapper Mathew Humphries with a gross 77.

Alastair Watkins gross 78 resulted in his handicap being reduced to 4 on a day when the degree of difficulty in achieving low scoring was reflected in the course’s standard scratch being 1 over its customary gross 72 par.