Junior Golf at Belton Woods is fully supported by Belton Woods Golf Club and DeVere Belton Woods. With the objective to grow and develop children in golf and sport, within a safe and fun environment.

Belton Woods are working towards achieving the national Golfmark award, which is one of the highest standards in Junior golf coaching.

JUNIOR NEWS, RESULTS & EVENTS 2010

Wednesday 18th August, despite a great performance our Junior Team just missed out on the South Linc’s title by 3 points to Spalding GC. Our finals team of Ryan Smith, Jake Craddock, Jono Stapleton & Josh Stevens outplayed the other finalists Burleigh Park and Thorney Lakes, but were not quite able to overcome Spalding, despite taking 4 of their matches down the 18th hole. Congratulations to Jake, Ryan, Jono & Josh (pictured below), also to our other key players during the league matches, Junior Captain Chris Haynes, Matt Haynes and Matt Hemstock, and also to Junior Organiser Allan Haynes for a great summer of Junior golf results.

Thursday 12th August brings another day of success for Belton Woods juniors in the final round of the four match Lincolnshire Imps Junior Tour played at Martin Moor. Winner of the overall Order of Merit, and Lincolnshire Imps Tour Champion is Matthew Hemstock, in joint second place on the tour list was Alexander Hemstock. Alex also won the Tour Trophy for the 10 - 11 year old age category. Belton Woods Juniors would like to thank Joan Would for her time and effort in running the Lincolnshire Imps tour event.

Pictured below are Alexander (left) and Matthew (right) having received their winners trophies from LUGC County Junior Organiser John Hodge.

Wednesday 11th August great success for the Belton Woods Junior Team as we secure a home victory to win the South Linc’s Junior League title. Led out by Junior Club Captain Chris Haynes, this is a great achievement from Allan Haynes and the team in what has been a mixture of experience in Chris & Matt Haynes and “new blood” with several of the new players performing very well. Nine year old Jake Craddock on his return to Belton Woods especially so.

Wednesday 4th August Belton Woods Junior team are now joint leaders with Belton Park on 49 points. the final round of the junior League Matches is the home tie on Wednesday 11th August.

From the match at Blankney Matt Haynes won 1, halved 1, lost 1 giving 9,7,6 shots another outstanding performance from Ryan Smith winning all 3 matches. When Junior Organiser Allan Haynes spoke to Josh Stevens on the eleventh he was losing all his matches but he turned his game around to finish in the same position as Matt Haynes. Lastly was our young Jake Craddock winning one match 7&6 and halving the other and taking the other free points from no show Blankney giving us 17 points so we now are on the same points as Belton Park both on 49. Hopefully home advantage next Wednesday will do it,

On another note Chris Haynes played at Woodhall Spa in the Presidents day shooting a 1 over par round earned him first place in the under 18s and 2nd place in the main event, another great result form Chris

Monday 2nd August Belton Woods Juniors Alex Doig (9), Alexander Hemstock (11) and Matthew Hemstock (11), all competed in the 3rd round of the Lincolnshire Junior Imps Tour at Boston Golf Club. Played over the first 10 holes in testing rainy conditions Alex Doig scored an excellent gross 48 net 34 to win 1st place in boys Congu handicap category, hitting 7 fairways and 17 putts. Alexander Hemstock won the 10 & 11 year old, 29+ handicap category, with a gross 51 shots also hitting 7 out of 10 fairways and 19 putts. Matthew Hemstock finished just outside the prizes in 4th place, but still earning good points towards the overall Tour Championship. Pictured below are Alex Doig (left) and Alex Hemstock (right) having received their trophies from LUGC President Peter Rogers

Please see www.lugc.co.uk/little-imps-tour/ for more details.

Saturday 31st July, congratulations to Chris Haynes who along with Ged O’Reilly won the Belton Park invitational with 44 points

Tuesday 27th July, Alex Doig, Alex Hemstock and Matt Hemstock competed in the second round of the Lincolnshire Little Imps tour at a shortened Holme Hall golf course near Scunthorpe. Alexander came 2nd in the 10 - 11 yo age category with a gross score of 48 and putted brilliantly with 15 putts over 9 holes but not able to collect the prize due to winning restrictions. Matthew now with a handicap of 24, came 2nd in the best nett category with gross 40 nett 28. Alex Doig finished just outside the prizes in his age category.

Sunday 25th July Junior golfer Ryan Smith scored 41 points in the men’s stableford coming 4th overall getting his handicap cut to 18.6, Chris Haynes coming 3rd in division 1 with 39 points.

23rd July 2010, Congratulations to Levi Desmond for an excellent 4th place finish in the recent English Boys Open Amateur Championship, The Carris Trophy, held at Woodhall Spa on 20th, 21st & 22nd. From a field of 215 players this is a great achievement, and Levi had rounds of 70, 75, 74 & 70 to finish at -3 for the competition.

Also on the 23rd July our Junior Team of Matthew Haynes (0.7), Chris Haynes (2.0), Josh Stevens (21) and Matt Hemstock (24) played the first round of the South Lincs Junior League match at Belton Park, coming away joint second with Sleaford on 13 points.

5th June 2010, continuing success for our Junior golf section with Alexander Hemstock (left) and Matthew Hemstock. The two 11 year olds both saw success in the first round of the Lincolnshire Junior Imps Golf Tour, held at Spalding Golf Club on Wednesday 2nd June.

Played over 9 holes of medal stroke-play, Matthew (right) won the 10-11 year old category with a gross 44 and also won the overall lowest nett score of the day with 29. Although he did not receive the prize due to winning restrictions, Matthew also topped the statistics of the most number of fairways hit with 6 fairways from 9 holes.

Alexander won his medal for the lowest number of putts on the day with an excellent display of his short game skills needing only 18 putts over the 9 holes and narrowly finishing outside the top prizes by two shots with a gross 54.

Aimed at promoting Junior Golf in Lincolnshire, there are a further three rounds to be played on the tour at Holme Hall GC, Boston GC and Martin Moor GC from which an overall Order of Merit winner will be decided.

Please see www.lugc.co.uk/little-imps-tour/ for more details.

During May Josh Stevens, Jonno Stapleton, Ryan Smith and Alex Doig continue to feature regularly in the results of our Men’s Sunday and Wednesday Roll up competitions

April 21st Ryan Smith won the first Wednesday night club roll up with an impressive 19 points.

April 18th and more good news Jono Stapleton won last weekends Men’s Stableford with an excellent 41 points and securing and handicap reduction. Josh Stevens again scoring well.

Early congratulations go to Matt Haynes (2.1) for another outstanding level par round in the men’s individual medal competition on Sunday 3rd April. During the same competition Josh Stevens scored an outstanding net 64 to win best nett and reduce his handicap form 27 to 23.

Matt Hemstock also reducing his handicap this weekend from 33 to 30 with a fine gross 49 on the front of the Woods

We have also just enjoyed our first friendly competition of the year. A well organised an adult junior greensome played on Easter Saturday, arranged by Allan Haynes. Well supported by around 10 pairs made up of fathers, sons, grandfathers, friends as well as someone who just happened to be free. Winners Easter Eggs were donated by Allan Haynes and entry moneys went toward winning golf balls.

A pairs greensome where both players tee off, the best drive selected and then alternate shots played until the ball is in the hole. 18 holes played with half the combined handicaps

In 1st place after count-back with 37 points Alex Hemstock & Mike Jamieson

In 2nd place 37 points Josh Stevens & Tony Hills

3rd after count-back on 35 points was Lewis Beck & Danny Botherway

4th on 35 points Ryan Smith & Matt Haynes

Below are some of the highlights of our 2009 year of Junior golf

Matt Haynes the 2009 Junior Club Champion

Matt scored an excellent gross 75 net 72 on the Woodside course to be the new Junior Club Champion, his score also put him into second place at the half way stage of the Mens’ club championship, closely followed by brother Chris one shot behind.

Junior 9 hole Champion Ryan Smith (11) shot a gross 46 (net 34) playing off 23 including a great birdie 3 on the 3rd hole stroke index 1.

Best net score in the Junior 9 hole was shared by early starter Josh Mackey and match 1 player Tom Palframan.

Except for one bad hole from Josh he would have returned an outstanding score, even so I have a feeling our Handicap Secretary will be pleased to put his scissors over his handicap.... chop chop chop.

We are fast running out of superlatives to describe one of our newest members. Eagles Champion Jake Craddock (8) scored a truly magnificent gross 44 (net 31) on the Front 9 of the Woodside course playing off a handicap of 25.

A good second place was won by Matthew Hemstock (10) with a gross score of 53 (net 36) playing off 34.

Alex Hemstock and Charlie Cann sharing 3rd in the Eagles.

Junior presentation was Thursday 1st October.

Some of our our “class of 09”

Great professional coaching, regular club nights and supportive parents.

All of these lads could become very good young golfers.

Always remember it’s a tough game, just when you think you cracked it, it comes back to bite you.

A selection of photo’s from our afternoon in the sun, can you “spot my golf swing.com”..??

Belton Woods was so packed, they even laid on a hot air balloon to get a better view of our rising golf stars.

Please see more photo’s below, as I try to restructure this page slightly.

Tom (below) slides one low under the trees, Matt (lefty) drains a testy swinging 3 footer, Alex (above) uses mum as target practice.

Early starter Josh (below) went out with the men to help sharpen his Spurs, only he can tell you about the frightening 4th.... but which was worse the hole score or the football score, stick with it Josh we are all United.

Only 2 holes to play and the pressure mounts, the par 3, 8th, a testy 170 yards, late afternoon and stunning views across the course. At several hundred feet above, our courses must have looked spectacular.

Back to the action..... as the last group play from the 8th tee. Tom, (above) posts a straight one just short of the bunker, a great chip over sees him safely on the green. Matthew hits a cracking 5 wood splashing straight into the bunker on the full... that could be nasty, but a great shot from a tough stance puts him to 10ft. Charlie, leaks one into the bushes on the left but a great chip out puts him at the back of the green for 2. They can smell the cola and crisps waiting for them in the 19th.

Now really, how great does the course look, 8th tee looking back down 7 and across to 1st green lakes.

The galleries were packed around the 9th green, with hotel guests leaning out the their windows applauding some great shots around the green. The resident pro’s came out to see them all off and the parents came to see them all home, what better way to spend a sunny Saturday afternoon

Everyone played with good manners and good etiquette. Some rules questions on the way round showed all these guys were well aware of the importance of honesty and integrity. All the parents should be proud.