MATCH Report:   First match of the season in  the Channel League and a close game with Cornwall where the final score didn't reflect the competitive nature of the matches. At one point in the morning foursomes Wiltshire were up in 4 and down in only 1 before this turned round and we looked like going into lunch with the score reversed before a great fight back by Garry Slade and Jordan Smith, winning the last two holes to take a half ensured the scores were closer at lunch, Wiltshire 2-3 down. 
In the afternoon a flying start at the top of the order saw Ali James overwhelm his opponent 6/5, Tom Ruddle win the last for a 1 up  victory and Yoshio Takeuchi, always ahead, close out his match 4/3. Three points from the top three matches but then things went wrong. The next three matches all lost by a single hole and the momentum was with Cornwall who then closed out all of the remaining matches for a 10-5 victory.

The Channel League side before the match. L-R Ben Amor, James Evans, Jordan Smith, Garry Slade, Yoshio Takeuchi, Jason Beint, Dave Bauer, Paul Green, Tom Ruddle, Ali James, Kevin Phillips (Captain)

Special mention for 15 year old Ben Amor from Marlborough playing his first match at this level. In the morning, all square playing the last, both teams missed the difficult last green, shortsided left but Cornwall got up and down to win one up. In the Afternoon, Ben was all square with two to play until his opponent rolled in a 20 foot putt to win 17. Ben rose to the challenge with a similar length, downhill putt to birdie the last before his opponent holed from 15 feet to match the birdie and win 1 up. Agonising to watch but it will not be long before Ben wins at this level.