Beccles Golf Club wins Tolly Cobbold Trophy for first time
"We are certainly the smallest club in Suffolk without a doubt, and I'd even say maybe in the UK more than likely, I don't know any smaller clubs than ours," said Mr Hagger, who was a non-playing captain for the final. "So to go out and win the thing, it's a great achievement and there was a lot of emotion."
Mr Hagger believed it was the first time the club had ever got past the second round and once they had reached the semi-final, he said, they wanted to win the whole thing."Everyone was writing us off," he continued."Thorpeness were the favourites [in the semi-final], they'd won the competition the previous year and had a very good record in the competitions."So we were the massive underdogs in that, but we pulled it around."That was the same with Ufford Park - they had a good record and won the thing in 2017."They'd been semi-finalists before, so again they were hot favourite to win the match."
The final was tight and Mr Hagger said "at some points it did look a bit worrying".However, he said there was a "big drive" from the team and they ended up winning by five holes."Just to win it by five holes is tremendous," Mr Hagger continued. "We all disappeared to Wetherspoons in Beccles, which is where the guys have been going every time we won a match, just to have a celebration because it's been such a great thing just to win."We've got some special people at Beccles and without them we wouldn't have a golf club."We wanted to win it for them, that was a big motivation for us."
The Tolly Cobbold Cup is competed for by clubs affiliated to the Suffolk Golf Union.
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