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"HOLA ESPANA"

GRAHAM MOORE recently invited 4 of his most prominent Development Programme juniors to Marbella (Costa del Sol) Spain, whilst he was working there with his Adult Schools.

To test their abilities on European soil, as Graham knows only to well conditions outside the UK are very different.

Lewis Jackson aged 9 H’cap 28, Emma Goddard H’cap 27 aged 11, the Great Britain & Ireland Team player for 2003 Wee-Wonders World final in Virginia USA and the ever consistent duo of Sam Platt H’cap 20 and Daniel Rowlands H’cap 26 aged 11 & 10 respectively.

They played a 72-hole tournament over two courses, La Siesta Golf Course @ Calahonda and Greenlife @ Elviria.

Lewis Jackson, won with a score of 24 under par, Sam Platt come close second on 20 under, Emma Goddard & Daniel Rowlands scored 11 under & 10 under respectively.

Moore quotes " All enjoyed the experience, they did not wont to return home. For all of them to score under their handicaps was a tremendous achievement for their first ever experience on European soil.
The concentration of all four for the 72-holes was remarkable considering their tender age.
The way they played impressed the owners of the Greenlife resort so much, that they have all been invited back to play in a Costa del Sol Junior open event, which I have been asked to co -ordinate with Greenlife for the weekend of 31^st January 2003 –2^nd February 2003.

The good news also is that I have an option to take up to another 8 juniors to make a team of 12 representatives from Graham Moore Int. Golf Schools/Junior Academies & Vale Royal Millennium Junior Golf Club members, who knows this could be an Annual event. Once again it goes to show the depth & development schemes that are in place with Graham Moore Int. Golf Schools and that we are now starting to receive the respect that I feel the juniors deserve".

GRAHAM MOORE INTERNATIONAL GOLF SCHOOLS

JUNIOR ACADEMIES PRESENTATION 2002

At the recent presentation for the 2002 Graham Moore International Golf Schools Junior Academies.
Graham Moore announced that again in 2003 the Academies were increasing to another one for the 4^th year in
succession at their Northwich based academies.

The winners at Northwich in 2002 included Daniel Rowlands (10) & Sam Platt (11) the ever-consistent duo who won
their academies convincingly Henry Bennett (13) who again showed outstanding grit in the final skills event, George Buckley (15) and Craig Barclay (13) had already won prior to the final event with excellent results throughout the year.

Daniel Mather (9), James Greenwood (12) and Ryan Heaher (10) won their respective academies at the last
event with no more than 3 points separating the top three in each academy.

The Chester based academies were again exciting with three of the four going down to the final event
Andrew Ridge (14) won his by 7 points in the end. Daniel Goodwin (12) by 3 points and Michael Malcolmson (12)
by 6 points, Adam Charnock convincingly won his by 23 points.

Moore quotes" The results achieved by all academy members both in side academy activities & outside in 2002
has been outstanding. Fine performances on a national scale, during this season were achieved by all the Academy
members who competed in the golfing society of G B, Moortown Masters, Leeds – this is a very prestigious national tournament that features all the best juniors in the country. I am proud to say that Sam Platt won the best nett in his age group and he came third overall in the gross category. Henry Bennett came second in both the nett & gross categories in his age group. Michael Malcolmson was 4^th, Dan Rowlands was 5^th and Simon Gillam and Josh Hardman also had creditable finishes. In the Buchanan Cup at Delamere Forest Golf Club, Academy members stole the show occupying all 3 top positions - Michael Malcolmson won with a fantastic score of 49 stableford points, Josh Hardman came second with 40 and Michael Tierney came third with 36 points.

Sam Platt and Emma Goddard had fine performances in the PGA’s Wee-Wonders national Final held at Foxhills, Surrey on 8^th September. Sam Platt finished 7^th overall out of the original entry of 2 000 juniors. Emma finished 5^th overall and qualified as the highest placed under 12 years old girl to represent Great Britain & Ireland in the Wee Wonders World Championships in Williamsburg, Virginia, in the USA, which is to be held in July/August 2003.

Ping Europe have once again agreed to increase their support for Graham Moore International Golf Schools Junior Academies in 2003 for the academy expansion.

Rick Stanton & Dave Fanning of Ping Europe have been tremendous supporters of my activities for many years and for all the Academy participants to have a chance of winning a quality product as Ping is outstanding.

Many thanks Rick, Dave & Ping Europe from Maria, myself and all Academy members.

The expansion year is due to the commitment from all Academy members and the development structures that are in place.

Academy members are now achieving the accolade they deserve on a national & international basis and I’m certain the results received so far are the tip of the iceberg and better results are still to come.

"THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN"

Seven of Graham Moore’s Junior Academy & Development Programme pupils competed in the inaugural Graham Moore & Greenlife Golf Junior Open 2003 near Marbella on Costa del Sol recently.

Six of the Seven finished in the top 11 of the nett section of the event. The seventh member Simon Gillam aged 10 retired injured on day 1, but returned on day 2 to win the second day 1^st Nett prize scoring 10 under par for the day.

Sam Platt & Emma Goddard both aged 11 stole the show in the Gross section of the event finishing 1^st & 2^nd respectively score 137 & 139 over the 2 day event.

Their closest rival being 9 shots behind Emma & 11 shots behind Sam.

Sam & Emma were also first & second respectively in the daily individual gross scores. .Sam’s score just beating Emma on each day by 1 stroke.

Emma had her victory over Sam by having the nearest to the flag on day 2 with 314cm

Sam & Emma finished second & fourth in the overall 2 day nett event, Emma on this occasion having the upper hand.

Emma also won the best nett on day 1 with a 12 under par 42

Neil Williams aged 10 was the next highest placed Graham Moore International Golf Schools /Junior Academy in representative in a creditable 7^th place in the two day overall nett section.

Daniel Rowlands aged 10 finished 8^th , Sam Barnett aged 11 finished 9^th, Lewis Jackson aged 10finished 10^th.

Moore quotes "All of Graham Moore International Golf Schools /Junior Academy members played exceptionally well and all 6 who completed 2 days finished in the top 9 positions of the gross section of the event, but against the juniors with the Spanish system handicaps which varies a little from the UK it was a little more difficult, but again all finished in top 11 places

Neil Williams with his first visit to Spain, played remarkably well, Simon Gillam’s unfortunate injury on day 1 saw him only compete on day 2 and win the daily nett prize @ 10 under, who knows if he had been able to finish day 1. This was also Simon’s 1^st taste of competing in Spain.

Tremendous composure was shown by Lewis Jackson & Sam Barnett who were unlucky on round 1 to come back and take the best nett and best gross respectively on day 2 in their divisions.

The ever-competitive trio of Emma Goddard, Sam Platt & Dan Rowlands once again showed their true colours.

All the juniors were pulling each other along and the camaraderie shown by all was a credit and very humbling for me to witness

They are all tremendous ambassadors for Graham Moore International Golf Schools & Junior Golf."

Coach Graham Moore & Peter Millhouse with winners of 2003 Greenlife JuniorOpen- Marbella Costa del Sol

VALE ROYAL MILLENNIUM JUNIOR GOLF CLUB

"ANDREW BUCKLEY SCOOPS TITLE @ FINAL EVENT"

Andrew Buckley aged 12 finishing 2^nd in the final event of Vale Royal Millennium Junior Golf Club 12 event Winter Series and clinched the overall Order of Merit from long time leader Lewis Jackson aged 10 who did not compete in the tournament as he was representing Graham Moore Int. Golf Schools/Junior Academy Team, playing in the inaugural Graham Moore International Golf Schools & Greenlife Junior Open in Costa del Sol, Marbella.

Andrew also won the EYG Order of merit at Knights Grange for the 6 events played there

Lewis had compounded enough points in the Graham Moore Int. golf Schools Order of Merit at Hartford prior to the last event to win by 5 points for the 6 events played there.

Presentation of all the winter events took place at the Oaklands Hotel Gorstage last week.

Overall Order of Merit sponsored by Graham Moore Int. Golf Schools

1^st Andrew Buckley 75 points
2^nd Lewis Jackson 72 points
3^rd Jonathan Winward 58 points

Hartford Order of Merit sponsored by Graham Moore & Maria Alzo-Miquel

1^st Lewis Jackson 38 points
2^nd Andrew Buckley 33 points
3^rd Corrie Topliffe 28 points

Knights Grange Order of Merit sponsored by EYG

1^stAndrew Buckley 42 points
2^nd Jonathan Winward 37 points
3^rd Emma Goddard 34 points

The 6 event Tiger Winter Series dedicated for the youngest club members was competed by 15 players & was won by Josh O’Sullivan aged 9 with 45 points, seconded by Tom Rowlands aged 8 with 31 points & 3^rd Rob Britton aged 6 with 26 points.

The Matchplay event was won by William Reid with Jonathan Winward the defending Champion as runner up.

Club Chairman & PGA Professional Graham Moore quotes " The commitment we have from all our club members is exceptional considering the average age of members is 10 ½ years old. To have over 60 players competing in the Winter Series in all weathers just shows their keenness. The event was closely fought and over 63% of competitors attained Order of Merit points. For the forthcoming season Vale Royal Millennium Junior Golf Club will be playing against 6 Northwest clubs on a home & away basis these include Royal Liverpool, Bramhall Park & Eaton.

To have such prestigious clubs as these offering to play us is very humbling and shows now that the clubs in Northwest have accepted the Worlds 1^st & still only remaining Junior Only Golf Club.

The Introduction of an Adult & Junior Summer Series has been accepted with interest with over 25 pairs of parents & adults friends of members families entered to play so far.

The 54 events scheduled for the club members has also had 67% response so far.

You can see that Vale Royal Millennium Junior Golf Club is very proactive and has a large playing membership.

We are here to stay !!!! "

Winter Series Presentation 2002 at Oaklands Hotel

"2003 JUNIOR ACADEMIES SWING INTO ACTION"

The ever expanding Graham Moore Int. Golf Schools/Junior Academies network began it’s 2003 season during the February School half term.

The 5 Academies in Northwich & 2 Academies in the Chester area again are completely full and a waiting list for 2004 with 20 plus juniors on for each venue is in operation already.

Moore quotes " Once again the Northwich based Academies have expand due to demand which has been created with the National & International success of the Academy members. The structures that I’ve put in place are now reaping the benefits that all of GMIGS/JA members deserve.

The support that Ping Europe have given me again in 2003 due to the Academies expansion is very rewarding & humbling for me to be linked with such a prestigious company in the Golf industry."

Graham Moore international Golf Schools also has other activities for juniors in the Northwest area during 2003.

Anybody interested in the activities of Graham Moore Int. Golf Schools please contact Graham Moor

"Moore’s Team are Introduced to H.R.H. Prince Andrew"

Graham Moore P.G.A Golf Professional, Graham Moore International Golf Schools Staff and Junior Academy starlets were introduced to H.R.H. Prince Andrew recently at the Open Golf Championship @ Muirfield.

Moore quotes, "It was fantastic for my Staff and Academy starlets present at the Open to be introduced to His Royal Highness Prince Andrew.

Maria Alzo and I have met His Royal Highness on numerous occasions before, but for the remaining staff of Paul Cunningham, Laura Keogh and Robert Fletton it was a day that they will all remember.

The interest that His Royal Highness showed in my work and my team was very humbling to me, the Academy starlets present who also were thrilled to meet His Royal Highness Prince Andrew were Sam Platt (aged 10), Daniel Rowlands (aged 10), Tom Rowlands (aged 7) and Lewis Jackson (aged 9).

His Royal Highness took time out to watch Sam (as featured on the attached photo) and was amazed that I had only been coaching him for 2 years in which time he has reached a handicap of 27.

I stated that Sam was one of only twenty of his ability that I coach. His Royal Highness quoted to Sam that, ‘you will win a lot of events with that swing’. Sam at this point was speechless.

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