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from Alan Williamson Watson's win "old-old-boys" tournament with a woman on the team.After gap of 23 years Watson's won the Cyril Gray Golf Tournament at Worplesdon on Saturday beating on the way, Fettes 2 1/2 to 1/2 and playing a woman for the first time in the tournament. Mrs Jill Nicholson, nee Hutton was persuaded to play and along with Alan Williamson played off the men's tees and secured a half against the Fettesian second couple with Jill holing a twenty footer on the last to win the hole. Watsons then went on to beat Epsom 2 - 1, Rossall 2-1, Stoneyhurst 2 1/2 to 1/2 in the semi final and Old Merchant Taylors 3 -0 in the final. The team consisted of Alan Williamson, Michael Grosset, Peter Binns, Alastair Brown, Alf Cattanach and Douglas Neave, with Jill Nicholson playing in the first round and Michael Grosset replacing her. The Cyril Gray is played for annually between the 32 schools who joined the Halford Hewitt most recently and the players must be at least 50years old The other trophies are the Bernard Darwin for the most senior 16 schools and the Mellon for the next 16. |
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