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Thursday, December 15thj 2005 with your sports team of Edward Lee, Chris Boden, Phil Simpson and Adrian Capstick Kirsty celebrates best-ever year By Edward Lee
KIRSTY Taylor has just enjoyed the best season of her professional golfing career. A maiden Ladies Euro
pean Tour victory helped Clitheroe GC honorary member Kirsty to her best-
•' ever finish on the LET order of merit. And now Kirsty, current
ly competing in Mauritius, can look forward to anoth er major challenge. Laura Davies, arguably
the most successful British lady golfer in the history of the game, and Kirsty will represent England in the 2006 Women’s World Cup of Golf in Sun City, South Africa, in January. Other players in the 20-
nation event include world number one Annika Soren stam who pairs up with
\p- Liselotte Neumann for Sweden. This will be the second
Women’s World Cup of Golf and the competitors will play three rounds of betterball, foursomes and strokeplay for a $l.lmillion purse. The tournament takes place at the Gary Player Country Club from January 20th to 22nd. Kirsty finished ninth in
BEST YEAR: Coach Jane Forrest and golfer Kirsty Taylor at Lee Valley Driving Range (B18110.5/4e)
the order of merit, the top- ranked English player and a place ahead of her World Cup partner, to qualify for the big date next month. And it all comes just a
few short months after her first LET win in 10 years at the at the Wales Ladies’ Championship of Europe today. The 34-year-old, who
opened with a Tour record 61, started the final round four shots ahead of the field. She suffered a few
moments of doubt before posting a 75 for a 14-under total of 274, three shots better than two of Britain’s best, Davies and Trish Johnson. "At times, it has been
frustrating," admitted the player who had two career second places, most notably at the 2000 Weet- ablx Women’s British Open. "Ten and a half years -
it ’s a long time. At the moment, I feel absolutely numb." Jane Forrest, another Clitheroe honorary mem
ber, coached Kirsty as an amateur and has coached her throughout her profes sional career. Also coach to the Lan
cashire girls team, Jane gives lessons at the Lee Val ley Driving Range in Rish- ton as well as at White Hills in Skipton. And she has helped Kirsty to scale new heights
with the aid of the very lat est technology. At Lee Valley along with
fellow professional James Webster she uses a four- camera teaching room which has enabled Jane and her star pupil to com pletely analyse Kirsty’s swing. Jane said: “Kirsty has
done very well this year. To win a Tour event is a mas sive achievement and so is finishing in the top 10 on the order of merit. “ I have worked with
Kirsty on and off through out her amateur and pro fessional careers and she deserves the success she has had this year.” Looking at the new
coaching, set up, Jane added: “Working indoors is something completely dif ferent. “Most people want to
work on their swings in the winter, but being wrapped up in waterproofs with cold hands on a windy driving range or practice ground is not much fun. “ I know a lot of people
want to have lessons on the range because they want to see the flight of the ball. “ I now believe that actu
ally watching the ball can be a distraction when you are trying to rebuild or fine
Tommy expects Trophy progress By Adrian Capstick
“WE’RE going to win it,” that is the ever optimistic prediction of Clitheroe manager Tommy Lawson, ahead of Sunday’s FA Trophy First Round tie against Barrow. The Blues boss is adamant that
there will be no need for a replay as he aims to have the game cut and dried, paving the way for their next big game at Burscough on Wednesday. And he is confident of beating the
FA Cup giant-killers too. However, his preparation to play
the Conference North side hasn’t been ideal. Lawson has an “horrendous injury
list” to contend with, will probably have five players missing from action on Sunday and can’t bring any more in to replace them. Tony Evans, Gary Jackson and
Chris Whittingham have all been ruled out unfit, Brian Holmes is cup tied and fellow right back Michael Howey has been sent back to South- port, as Lawson wasn’t happy with his level of commitment. He is, hoping that Adam Birchall
will have recovered from his midweek bout of flu and he says that Simon Garner is 50/50 on making a return
RESPONSE: Craig Sargeson from the ankle injury he sustained at
Goole. However, Lawson insists that his
side is far from threadbare and will bounce back from Tuesday night’s 4- 3 UniBond Challenge Cup exit to Kendal Town. He said: “No one wants to get beat,
and to score three goals at home we’d expect to win. Any team in this lea^e would be stretched with the injuries we have as we don’t carry a massive squad, but it is not a crisis.” “We have players that can play
against the best. I rested Craig Sarge son in the first half against Kendal as I don’t think he’s done it over the last few games, but he came on and react ed in the right way. “He proved a real threat and we
need that now every time he plays. Craig seems to need competition for places to perform, and I was pleased with his input when he came off the bench.” He wasn’ t too pleased with his
defence though: “ I was disappointed, like Saturday at Goole we dominated the game, but we were punished with one or two defensive mistakes from lads that have been playing well over recent weeks. “ Ian Kearney didn’t do it, he had a
real off-night, but we were playing one of the top sides in the division and we more than matched them.” And he has asked for a more ruth
less streak in front of goal following Gareth Evans glaring miss that could have seen Clitheroe level at 3-3: “We were trying to walk the ball in
to the back of the net when we should have been much more selfish. “ There’s no way Paul (Rogers)
should have passed to Gareth in that one-on-one situation, Gary Jackson wouldn’t have passed it and I certain
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ly wouldn’t have done. “ It’s only my own take on it, but it
was Paul’s goal to score and he should have buried it. You’ve got to feel sorry for Gareth, I know he was embar rassed by the miss but it shouldn’t have been his goal to score. “And it’s just a fact of football that
those sort of things change games.” The Trophy game is a big occasion
for the locals and is a first in many ways for the club. 'They have never reached this stage
o f the competition and have not played on a Sunday before. It will also be the first game con
trolled by new Barrow boss Phil Wil son, who joins the Cumbrians from fellow CorJerence North side Lancast er City. Peter Collinge’s suspension for a red
card at Goole hasn’t come through yet, so he should feature. For any fans interested in making
the trip to Barrow, there will be space on the team coach on a first come, first serve basis, priced at £5 per head. The coach leaves from Shawbridge at 10-30 a.m. Sunday morning, kick-off 2 p.m. Meanwhile, Mark Gidlow has
resigned from his duties as vice-chair man at the club due to personal prob
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tune a swing. "We can now work with
people indoors and immedi ately show them where they are going right and what they are doing wrong. "The four camera angles
provide instant feedback enabling pupils to under stand and feel their own swing. It is then easier tc establish new muscle mem ory. "Golf swings can be com
pared with others, the swing plane plotted and swing speed measured. A record of the swing is saved to CD and print outs given to the player. “ It really is a great teach
ing and learning aid for all standards of player from beginner to professional." ■ THE men’s and ladies’
sections combined at Whal- ley GC on Sunday to play f the Club Mixed Nine-Hole Turkey Shoot. Five couples were tied on
22 points, with a card play- ) off giving victory to Roger | Altham and former Curtis | Cup player Kim Andrew. Second were Mike Con
roy and Janet Sharp, with Brian Cooke and Dick Fer- ley third. The club is indebted tc
Ladies’ Secretary Lorna Slinger for ensiming the day was a success.
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