Season ending narrow defeat for Mens Challenge team

Beds Mens Challenge team v Essex Mens Challenge team. 

The Bedfordshire Challenge team hosted Essex in the final match of the season at Aspley Guise & Woburn Sands GC on Sun 10 August, knowing that only a win would extend the league to the final match between Essex and Middlesex.  As always, Essex brought a team packed with talent, including recent English Amateur quarter-finalist Will Wright.  Nonetheless, the Beds team started strongly in the morning foursomes with wins for Kyle Faulkner & Joe Kirby and Jon Marlow & Jordan White, both 2&1, with a further half secured by the scratch pairing of Paul Kenna & James Stocks, which saw Beds with a 2.5-1.5 lead at lunch. The afternoon singles were typically tight affairs although Jon Marlow secured the first home point of the afternoon with an emphatic 4&3 win over Ben Horton, but Essex secured three valuable points with Paul Kenna, Ross Hamilton and James Stocks unable to add to the Beds total, but George Garnham did then secure a valuable half against Ben Humphrey to ensure the outcome remained in the balance. Subsequently a 2-hole victory for Kyle Faulkner on his home track meant the overall result came down to the last two matches on the course, and in the end the final putts on the 18th green. Jordan White’s putt came up just short to see his match halved and Wright holed his final putt to hold off a gallant Joe Kirby by 1 hole to see the narrowest of Essex wins by 6.5-5.5.  Another very competitive performance from the Challenge team in what has been a positive season for all who have played.  

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