The Royal Golf Club’s team of PGA Professionals continued their winning streak in this year’s annual Professionals’ Challenge with a great 11 under par score of 61.
The team, consisting of general manager DJ Flanders, senior teaching professional Tim Backhouse and teaching professionals Chris McDonnell and Craig Brown got off to a slow start after only birdying four out of the first nine holes.
Nevertheless they made up for it on the final nine holes with a superb seven birdies.
The Texas Scramble tournament attracted a field of 100 players and saw competitors trying to better the Pros’ team score. Out of the 25 teams that took part in the challenge, the pro’s managed to beat 21 teams, only losing to four. The winning amateur team was DHL who scored 59.7 nett.
“We didn’t have the best of starts,” said Backhouse. “We were a little out of touch and haven’t played much competitive golf recently but we had a strong run on the back nine. Congratulations to the DHL team who achieved a great nett score.”
Results:
Winning Amateur Team: Ed Daly, Adrian Morgan, Gary Owen, Andy Love (59.7 nett).