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Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Junior Open Day a success for young golfers
Young golfers braved rain and wind for a successful Junior Open Day competition. The annual event at Trefloyne Manor Golf Club drew 47 enthusiastic players from across South West Wales on Spring Bank Holiday Monday, May 26. Advertisement Despite the weather, the competitors, ranging in age from four to 18, participated in five different competitions, including 18-hole Order of Merit Medals and Stableford games, as well as 9-hole and 5-hole games for the youngest entrants. Club captain Eifion Price managed the start of the day, which saw 17 boys compete for the Order of Merit Medal. Harri Atyeo from Haverfordwest took the top spot with a net 70. Following closely was Cai Hartnell Jones from Cilgwyn, who carded a net 76. The girls' Order of Merit Medal was won by Sophie Lawrence from Glyn Abbey, with a net score of 86, narrowly beating Laci Reynolds from Haverfordwest. Advertisement In the Yellow Tee Stableford, Trefloyne's own Liam Bain emerged as the first home champion of the day, scoring 45 points, nine points ahead of his nearest competitor, Osian Wyn Jones from Cilgwyn. The 9-hole Mixed Stableford competition saw Trefloyne youngsters excel once more. Kayla Arthur seemed poised for victory with her 16 points but was just edged out by Will Morgan's 17 points. The youngest competitors, aged four to 11, played the 5-hole Mixed Stableford in the ever-worsening rain. Tomos Lloyd Davies from Carmarthen claimed victory, with Beau Curtis from Haverfordwest following closely behind. Advertisement Despite the heavy rain, all the young golfers finished their rounds with smiles on their faces. After drying off, the players gathered at the Manor for the prize presentation and some well-earned refreshments. Trefloyne Junior Organiser Meurig Evans and all the club members who supported the event received hearty rounds of applause. Competition prizes were awarded, with the longest drive going to Mia Bagagiolo from Glyn Abbey, and Cai Hartnell Jones taking the nearest the pin prize. The event was a testament to the young golfers' resilience and love for the game, and it concluded with everyone looking forward to next year's competition. Advertisement As an interesting footnote, it was a particularly good week for Trefloyne's Liam Bain. A week after the Junior Open, he not only won the longest drive at the Haverfordwest Junior Open but also took the Boys 25–54 Handicap Stableford with an impressive 49 points. His handicap has since been adjusted, dropping by about 10 shots. Josh Richards, another Trefloyne golfer, also performed well in the same competition, securing third place with 40 points.
The Guardian
15-05-2025
- General
- The Guardian
Country diary: A wildfire has killed off (nearly) everything wild
A thick blue haze hangs over the valley – Cilgwyn has burned again. Dead fingers of blackened heather snap underfoot, and each step kicks up a cloud of ash. 'Deliberate ignition' was the given cause of the last major fire here, in 2021. Before that, in 2018, another threatened to engulf the village, a kilometre west of Eryri (Snowdonia). Who was the deliberator of this one? I shouldn't speculate. As a teen I searched here for boulders to climb, but today I'm picking over the hill's smoking bones. Gone is the heather, the bilberry, the bog mosses, which usually soften the place. Detritus now dots the ground, things usually hidden by the gorse: cans, rusty wire, a perfectly symmetrical piece of sheet metal looking like an ersatz butterfly. I feel something hard under my shoe: a golf ball, perfectly toasted. The most promising of the bouldering stones stands out in the char. A broad, squat monolith, its rough shoulders are festooned with lichens of green, grey and crimson. Quartz white in a sea of soot, it floats, raft-like, with its living cargo. The surfaces of smaller rocks are fractured from the flames that swept over them. If they ever held much life or harboured any climbing holds, they don't any more. Wildfires have always been a fixture here, but they sound a more troubling note now. Spring and summer are arriving early, and nature is forced to adjust, with birds building their nests weeks earlier too: Corehedydd y Waun (meadow pipit) and Clochdar y Cerrig (stonechat) are among them. I wonder how many had nests here already, after such a dry and warm spring in a very wet part of Wales. Time has passed since the blaze. Kneeling down, I notice a burrow exposed by the fire: probably a mouse's. It would be a miracle if its inhabitant was spared. But regeneration is already under way; tiny green shoots are peeping out to check if the coast is clear. The burn halted at the edge of a path. The compacted dirt and exposed gravel were firebreak enough to hold it at bay. Stepping over the hearth into the land of the living, the earth softens. Is that birdsong I hear? Under the Changing Skies: The Best of the Guardian's Country Diary, 2018-2024 is published by Guardian Faber; order at and get a 15% discount
