Partridge lands top senior award
Golf Swimming
Wildernesse golfer Richard Partridge capped a winning season by being named as England Golf’s top senior man for 2015. The Irish and Scottish senior champion and England international claimed that winning the England Golf Order of Merit had been the pinnacle of a superb season. Partridge, who was 8,002 points clear of Ian Attoe, said: “To be constantly to the fore throughout the season against some impressive foes is extremely gratifying and something of which I am very proud and I will be hoping to continue next season.” Partridge was also runner-up in the Welsh championship, though he described it as the one which got away, having held a four-shot lead with eight to play. He described his England selection for the European Championship and the Senior Home Internationals as a great honour.
Nick Workman triumphed in a playoff against Martin Goodwin to claim the first ever Poult Wood Golf Challenge. The Challenge ran each weekend at the Tonbridge course between April and October with players accumulating points each time they played and their 12 best scores deciding their final position. After more than 450 rounds across 56 days and in excess of 13,500 Stableford points being scored it all came down to finals weekend which saw Workman win after a play-off. Royal Tunbridge Wells Monson members visited Portsmouth for the Swim South East Winter Short Course Championships. The event attracted the best seniors and juniors from across the South East. Annabel Guye-Johnson led the way for Monson with a gold, silver and two bronze medals. Her gold came in the 100m breaststroke in a new shortcourse best 1min11.32sec. She claimed a bronze medal in the open final, took the junior gold as the fastest under-17 swimmer and took fourth place in the open 50m breaststroke and the junior silver, lowering her Kent junior record to 33.11. Guye-Johnson also finished fifth in the open 200m breaststroke final, taking junior bronze, after a huge PB in the heat. Simon Newton won gold in the junior 100m butterfly in a new PB of 57.89, finishing sixth in the open final and setting a new PB in the 50m event. Callum Ryan was fourth in the 50m and 100m breaststroke, missing an open bronze by 0.02sec. Thomas Leman, 13, swimming in the senior championships for the first time, went top of all three ASA national age group rankings for breaststroke while Erin Humphreys and Josh Cruz set PBs and Stephanie Andrews also competed.