Bill Renison continued on the committee until his death in 1992 and a new strokeplay event called the Bill Renison Trophy was begun in 1979. This is a medal competition for teams of 3 Colts with prizes for team and individual scratch and handicap scores. Unless one becomes Captain of one of the
local golf clubs, there are few opportunities for most people to play most of the other courses in the area, and it goes without saying that there is fantastic variety and high standards on offer. Membership of the Colts team offers a wonderful opportunity to not only play these courses but also enjoy Ryder Cup-style matches – with the added bonus of meeting other golfers with similar interests and enthusiasms. Former Colts often tell me what fun they had playing in these matches in their younger days. As a well known Club Secretary on the Golf Coast recently said, “We played our Colts golf in the 1970s and friendships were formed that last to this very day. We still talk about things we used to get up to. I have only ever been asked to leave a Clubhouse once and that was after a Colts match - a snooker ball somehow found its way through a closed window and landed on the putting green!”
The Club has had many very successful Colts
teams over the years and has won the Challenge Cup on 16 occasions, still double the number of any other Club. Southport and Ainsdale (8), Hillside (6) and Hesketh (5) are the next best, and more recently Prenton (6) has had a very good run in both competitions. Southport and Ainsdale has also been the most successful in the Bill Renison Trophy, winning the team scratch trophy on 12 occasions. Sadly our team has only won the latter trophy on one occasion in 1985 when it was played at Royal Liverpool. It has been a great disappointment that, in spite of our excellent organisation of Juniors which has helped produce so many good players of Colts age in the past 20 years, our Colts team has not reached a semi-final since 1996 or a final since 1993. But let’s not be downhearted. It is a splendid
sight to see so many former Colts still playing to single figures long after they were no longer eligible for our team. What’s more, teams tend to go in phases and I am quietly confident that, in the future, Royal Liverpool Colts will once again achieve the successes of the past! n
Another historic item from the Hoylake trophy cabinet: the Colts’ Cup
A snooker ball somehow found its way through a closed window and landed on the putting green!
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