This year the Lee Westwood Golf Tour National Final was held at Gainsborough Golf Club, home of PING’s European Custom Fitting Centre. The event was held over 2 days (23rd & 24th October), with 60 competitors competing over 36 holes on the Karsten Lakes course to decide the 2017 national champions.
The overall gross winner with a total score of 141, (72, 69) was Lee Westwood Golf School student James Mack, followed by Robert Holden who returned a total score of 148. It was a tight race for the overall nett competition, but Julia Kerrigan took the title on countback from Ella Hammond-Baveystock and James Bennett, with a total score of 136 (8 under par).
2015 overall winner Tom Riley claimed the U21 nett title with consistent 1 over nett rounds on both days.
Robert Holden won the U17 gross competition, with a score of 148, with Nathan Newton as runner up with 149.
In the girl’s gross competition, Ella Hammond-Baveystock won with a score of 150, followed closely by Julia Kerrigan with 152.
Robert Holden, Charley Allsopp, Immy Leeder & Megan Evans took the nearest the pin competitions, and Ben Bolton sunk 6 8ft putts in a row to become putting champion!
A big thank you to PING’s European Custom Fitting Centre for allowing our finalists exclusive use of the fitting bays to test some of the clubs and PING equipment. In the yardage challenge, both Tom Cotterell & Harry Shaw managed to land their balls within 10cm of the target.
It was great to see so many of our past and present students participating in the event, and congratulations must also go to Louis Martin and Eden Inglis for finishing in the top 10 gross and nett.
Another fantastic event; with one parent commenting ‘Julia has woken up and still can’t believe what happened! Once again I would like to thank you and all the staff for running an excellent event; she’s already looking forward to next year’
We can’t wait to see the tour grow in 2018 under our new branding – watch this space for more details!
