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The 2025 season continues with Friday night rollups, internal competitions and interclub matches all in full swing.  A fantastic start to our Herts League campaign (matchplay format, 3 singles & 2 greensomes) saw 3 early away wins at East Herts, Brookmans Park and Essendon during April and May, followed by 2 home wins in June over Brookmans Park and Essendon. The result of these matches is Cainhoe Wood juniors are well-placed at the top of their group, with one group match left to play (East Herts at home in Aug). The Vale league (singles matchplay) has also begun and a competitive 3-3 home draw with Leighton Buzzard (24 May) was followed by the visit of local rivals and current Vale champions The Millbrook (13 Jul) which saw the Cainhoe team (Jayden Slender, Kaiden Greenwood, Sam Dobson, Matty Beeming, Sam Dunn and Rory O’Riordan) perform very well to secure an impressive home win over a very experienced team by 4-2.  Two weeks later (27 Jul) it was the turn of a very strong Woburn team to visit and another well-deserved home win (4.5-1.5) in this league by a team of Jayden Slender, Kaiden Greenwood, Joel Platt, Jacob Schouten, Sam Dobson and Luke Lehri.  Three more matches are planned in this league through August and September. 

 

The Bedfordshire Interclub was held this year at The Bedfordshire GC (14 Jun), with 17 teams of three from 8 different clubs contesting the event, using a combined stableford score from all players.  Jayden Slender, Joel Platt and Jacob Schouten comprised one team and Kaiden Greenwood, Sam Dobson and Matty Beeming, the other. Despite great efforts from both teams on a tough day for scoring Cainhoe were off the pace in this event which saw the home team narrowly losing out to Leighton Buzzard on countback, both scoring an impressive 116 points.  Our Tavistock Trophy campaign (strokeplay, 2 gross 2 nett from teams of 6) saw the team drawn against John O’Gaunt (JOG) and Stockwood Park; the first match away at JOG (21 Jun) saw a very good performance by the home club to secure emphatic wins over both Cainhoe Wood and Stockwood. Our home leg played the following week (28 Jun) saw a much closer affair but Cainhoe were pipped by JOG on the day, a result which sees JOG progress to the final.  The final fixture was played at Stockwood Park (26 Jul) and all 6 Cainhoe players shot to around handicap or better with the pick of the team being a superb nett 62 from Rocco Lehri.  Our local rivals South Beds were also kind enough to offer us a friendly match (Jun 8) and some of less experienced junior players enjoyed a great day out in Luton, and a 6-2 win in a singles matchplay format.  There have been 7 internal competitions run to date (6 stableford and 1 medal), with wins for Matty Beeming (twice), Sam Dunn, Harley Endersby, Lukey Buxton, Josh O’Shaughnessy, Jayden Slender and Joel Platt.

 

Our 2025 Captain Jayden Slender has also seen individual success playing in the recent Beds Schools Golf Association Handicap event held at Aylesbury Vale GC. Jayden played some impressive golf to achieve a superb 42 points to win the event. In addition, there was more Schools golf success for our Juniors at the High Handicap event played at Cainhoe (14 Jul) where local knowledge saw Rocco Lehri win the Boys individual event (with an amazing 53 points) and also the team event for Redborne Upper with Sam Dunn (35 points), whilst Martha Burr returned a fantastic 42 points to secure runners up in the Girls event.  Lukey Buxton also won the first 9-hole Beds County Golf rookie event, held at Stockwood Park (20 Jul), shooting a gross 32 (over 9 holes, with 2 birdies).

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