Midland 4 Counties Boys Match Play Tournament 2009 between

Gloucestershire, Worcestershire,Warwickshire & Staffordshire

County Junior Representative's comments

Gloucestershire Juniors came 2nd at last weekends Midland 4 Counties Boys Tournament (the oldest four counties boys tournament in the country), narrowly missing out to Warwickshire.
The weekend started well wish a convincing 5.5 v 2.5 win over Worcestershire, with some great golf played.  Spirits were high that evening ready for what was obvious to be the key match in the morning against Warwickshire, which we correctly assumed would decide the winners of the tournament.
The match started well with Gloucestershire 5-3 up after 9 holes then slipping to 4-4 after 13 holes but eventually running out of steam to loose 2.5 v 5.5.  Whilst extremely dissapointing the Gloucestershire juniors came out fighting in the afternoon to record a convincing 5 v 3 win over Staffordshire to finish the tournament in 2nd place.
 It would be wrong to single out any individual performances as the weekend was a real team effort with all the boys playing their hearts out and contributing to the team spirit and the results.
It was unfortunate that due to the congested fixture calender that we had already played 36 holes on the Friday (winning againt Somerset in our u18 league) as by Sunday the boys were clearly running out of steam.

MarkPowell

Glos V Worcs