Milton’s ‘champion’ youngsters claim prestigious county golf title

And late call-up Matty Mills became the first Milton member to win the ‘Irish Cup’ for the best nett morning round of any of the 58 competing players at Northampton Golf Club.

Mills, who played off 25, but who has now been cut to 22, recorded a nett score of 66 for 42 points to win by a single point.

The efforts of Mills, Milton’s junior vice-captain Euan Herson, who shot a nett 69 off a handicap of six for 39 points and Kai Raymond (29 points) enabled a B team which also included Charlie Pearce, to win the prestigious ‘Champion Club’ prize.

Other excellent Milton morning performances came from Herson and Jacob Williams (3 handicap) in the gross competition. They both shot 76 to be joint leaders going into the second round.

Williams started the aftrenoon round slowly, but rallied to shoot 74 to finish one shot behind the winner Mark Stockdale of Overstone Park. Herson was in touch until halfway after a birdie blitz over the front nine, but eventually finished fourth, and third in the nett score event.

Rylan Thomas finished a creditable eighth in the gross competition.

Milton finished with five boys in the top 20 of the nett competition as Pearce and Gabriel Bowden shot splendid rounds of 71 and 70 in the afternoon session.

Shivani Karthikeyan (84 & 80) finished second in the Girls gross competition despite not scoring as well as normal.

Maliha Mirza’s nett 74 was the fifth best score of the girls competition, a terrific achievement for a County Championship debutant.

Mirza was also part of the Milton C team alongside Rajeev Rajani (35 pts), Jake Leeds (33pts) and Bowden (30pts) who amassed 98 points which was only six points fewer than the A team of Williams (36pts), Thomas (34pts) and Karthikeyan (34pts).

The B team won the event with 110 points.