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Birmingham golfer Felicity Johnson claims first tour title

FELICITY Johnson claimed her first title on the Ladies European Tour with a two-shot victory at the Tenerife Ladies Open.Read

Team spirit aids Warkwickshire golfers to victory

WARWICKSHIRE golfers are riding high in the Midland League.Read

McEvoy returns to old Copt Heath haunts

THERE’S a secluded area right in the middle of Copt Heath golf course that Peter McEvoy is still inclined to regard as his own. It was here that, as a lad, he would practise wedge shots for hours and it honed a skill that helped to take him to the very pinnacle of amateur golf.Read

Peter Baker on course to rejoin European Tour

PETER Baker continues to consolidate his bid to rejoin the European Tour next season and cannot wait to get back among the big boys – and the big money.Read

Departing Nicholas has American dream\n

HARBORNE Golf Club bade farewell to star member Alison Nicholas yesterday as she embarked on her own mission impossible in America.Read

Elizabeth Mallett wins English girls Under-15 golf championship

WARWICKSHIRE’S Elizabeth Mallett came from two shots behind to win the English girls’ Under-15 championship at The Wiltshire.Read

THE Jacklin golfing family is gathering in force at Nailcote Hall next week when the former Open and US Open Champion once again hosts the British Par 3 Championship.

As well as Tony himself, he has his wife Astrid and his two sons, Warren and Sean, with him for a rare family get-together, rare because Warren is club professional at the Baden club in Germany while the rest of the clan live in Florida, where 17-year-old Sean is making waves as an amateur.Read

LICHFIELD’S Robert Rock admits he is going into his third Open Championship in the best form of his career – but the loss of his beloved driver has knocked his confidence.

The 32-year-old is enjoying his best-ever season and is 13th in the Race to Dubai standings after finishing as a runner-up in three events this year.Read

LICHFIELD’S Robert Rock admits he is going into his third Open Championship in the best form of his career – but the loss of his beloved driver has knocked his confidence.

The 32-year-old is enjoying his best-ever season and is 13th in the Race to Dubai standings after finishing as a runner-up in three events this year.Read

LICHFIELD’S Robert Rock admits he is going into his third Open Championship in the best form of his career – but the loss of his beloved driver has knocked his confidence.

The 32-year-old is enjoying his best-ever season and is 13th in the Race to Dubai standings after finishing as a runner-up in three events this year.Read

Warwickshire wizardry helping Open golfer Rory McIlroy

VISITS to an old converted barn in the depths of Warwickshire have helped Irish sensation Rory McIlroy in his meteoric rise into the top echelons of world golf.Read

Peter Baker's new stance for the Open

FOR a month or more Peter Baker had been playing first-class golf but his putting “was awful.”Read

Teen bids

for OpenRead

Atherstone’s Steve Webster two shots off French Open lead

ATHERSTONE’S Steve Webster moved into contention for the French Open in Paris – one week after spending five hours in hospital because of an eye injury.Read

Duo take on amateur golfing legend Peter McEvoy

IT WAS an experience they will never forget all their golfing lives.Read

Worcestershire captain Armstrong in bid to reach county elite

THERE’S a new spirit breezing through the Worcestershire team as the first match of the Midland League season nears – and a lot of it is due to a new captain who has never played in the first team.Read

Midland golfer Robert Rock loses Irish Open play-off

MIDLAND golfer Robert Rock did not win the Irish Open yesterday but he collected the £440,000 first prize in one of the most dramatic finales ever seen on the European Tour circuit.Read

Midland golfer Robert Rock loses Irish Open play-off

MIDLAND golfer Robert Rock did not win the Irish Open yesterday but he collected the £440,000 first prize in one of the most dramatic finales ever seen on the European Tour circuit.Read

Rock eyes up more success in Dubai

ROBERT Rock, who left his teaching job at a Lichfield golf range in 2003 to try his luck as a tournament professional, finished tied second in the European Tour’s BMW Italian Open at Torino.Read

A HEAVY metal rock star, born in the back streets of West Bromwich, is piling a big part of his fortune into a magnificent golf course around the mansion he bought near Bridgnorth.

This unlikely marriage between musical mayhem and the tranquility of golf has been the long-held dream of KK Downing, a leading member of Judas Priest since the band was formed in Birmingham in 1970.Read