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4/ 6/2008

STYAL Golf Club’s talented 10-year-old junior Nathan Schmidtke won the inaugural Altrincham Preparatory School (APS) Golf Championship at the Ringway Golf Club.

Over the last three years, APS boys have taken advantage of Ringway’s junior teaching programme taking lessons in both technique and etiquette from the club’s team of professionals.

But this was the first year APS ran a school tournament with 22 Year Five and Six pupils marching the fairways.

Nathan won the event with a score of 42 for nine holes, just seven over par with an astonishing points tally of 46.

Nathan, who is a junior member of Styal Golf Club, said the secret was ‘to keep cool, calm and collected particularly on the greens’.

The event was organised by APS Year Six teacher David Aden.

He added: "Golf is all about fair play and we believe that instilling the etiquette of this wonderful game is a great educational lesson for our boys."

Back at Styal, Steve Whitby was the main man in a Sunday Singles Stableford with his 38-pointer seeing him clear of Richard Aldred (37).

Michael Hewitt was the leader in a singles Stableford at Styal with his 67 taking him clear of Ged Harrison (69) and Peter Chorlton and Steve Walker (both 71).

Wilmslow’s men played for the Alderley Cup and rounds of 69 and 70 saw Jamie Stewart home by a shot from Tom Sibley and DP McLeod.