L’Ancresse Golf Guernsey Juniors v Jersey La Moye Tom Le Huray.
SATURDAY was a bittersweet one for Colin Le Huray, head of the Guernsey Junior Golf Club.
On the plus side, he watched Tom, his elder son, play some superb golf to beat Jersey island player Chris Young 2 and 1, but with La Moye winning the other two head-to-head encounters the GJGC lost the CI area final of the Hampshire Greenjackets 2-1.
To cap Le Huray’s obvious disappointment, he then lost on a toss of a coin for home advantage in the Bailiwick final of the Hampshire Sevens competition and will now have to take his juniors to Alderney, the Ridunians having defeated L’Ancr-esse 4.5-2.5 in the northern isle, also on Saturday.
Beating La Moye was always going to be a difficult task for Le Huray’s young trio and, to be fair, they pushed the Jersey trio hard before finally losing out on the penultimate green of the third and final match.
It was only when Josh Ozard finally edged past a dogged Dan O’Brien on the 17th green, that La Moye were sure of their progress in the competition which, unlike the Hampshire Sevens, is played off scratch.
By the time Ozard wrapped up the win, team-mate Harry Steele had walloped Craig Shorto, the Guernsey captain, 8 and 7, only for the match to be squared by Tom Le Huray, who had to dig deep into his repertoire and stay strong mentally to overcome Young 2 and 1.
Steele won the first four holes against an out-of-sorts Shorto, while Le Huray recovered well from being two down at the same stage to Young, a player whom he had lost to on the only previous occasion they had played and who is good enough to have made his full senior inter-island debut on the same course last September.
Le Huray squared the match at the 10th and went ahead two holes later when Young three-putted the 12th. A highlight of the back-nine run-in was Le Huray’s birdie downwind at the par-five 14th, which was very nearly an eagle.
Le Huray then won 15 with a par to double his advantage and was within a whisker of winning 3 and 2, but he saw his birdie putt at the 16th slip by and then he lost the hole to par when he missed the return.
But a winning four at the 17th secured Le Huray a fine win, achieved with the assistance of island football boss Steve Ogier on his bag.
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