Cambridgeshire Golf Union
Great win for A Team at Great Yarmouth and Caistor
Great Yarmouth and Caister GC was the setting for the next round of Anglia League matches. In the opening foursomes Danny Loveday and Oliver Toyer immediately took a commanding lead with Toyer’s pin seeking iron play and Loveday’s immaculate chipping. They ran out winners 4&3.
Luke Ryan and Matt Pearce managed a hard fought draw. James McLaughlin and the impressive Sam Arthur coped with the challenging links course and won 3&2. In the last foursomes Andy Grimwood and Jake Plumb lost 3&2.
This meant going into lunch Cambridgeshire led 2.5 -1.5.
Opening the singles Toyer was in impressive form bogey free with four birdies on 3rd,4th,6th and 11th holes and won 5&4. Loveday was up most of the match but a fight back resulted in a A/S match. Pearce was in a high quality game birdies on 1st,5th,7th,14th and 18th still resulted him needing a 350 yrd drive and a 18th bridie putt on the 18th to halve his match.
James McLaughlin was involved in a titanic battle . The match started with 14 pars. Then a couple of birdies and Mclaughlin then holed a putt on the 18th to win 1up. Luke Ryan lost 5&3 Sam Arthur straight from an impressive performance for the juniors qualifying for the England Golf Finals started with bridies on 1st,2nd,5th and 6th and then again on 13th and 15th . He was still 2 down with three holes to go . A bridie on the 18th resulted in a halve for Arthur. What a performance !
Jake plumb was in impressive form hitting a 250yd 6iron to 15th for a birdie and a wedge to 8ft resulting in a birdie set up a 4&2 win. Andy Grimwood gained a halve and Cambridgeshire won the singles 5-3. The final result was an impressive 7.5 -4.5 away victory.
Director of County teams Graham Goodman said “ The boys really fought well again for a difficult away victory. What is carrying us through is exceptional team spirit with two wins out of two .Our next match is away at Suffolk let us continue”
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