Eggo shows the class as Royal end Juniors hopes

The Guernsey Juniors, who have enjoyed a fair degree of success in the competition in recent times having reached the CI final in both 2007 and 2008, will look back on a couple of rubbers that could have gone either way. But, in the end, experience told at a bitterly cold L'Ancresse.

Five of the matches reached the 17th, but only one of those went the way of the youngsters.

That was thanks to a fine individual performance from Tom Dawson who saw off a member of those 2007/8 junior teams, Elliott Corbin.

In the first match out that absolutely flew around the course, debutant Fergus Moriarty went even further than the regulation 18 in his encounter with Vince Aylward.

However, the junior could not match his outstanding opening drive down the first the second time around and Aylward took the spoils on the first extra hole.

With the RGGC's Shaun McDade and GJGC captain Will Davidson both producing solid golf throughout to enjoy convincing 4 and 3 victories over Sam Le Huray and Roland Mills respectively, the match boiled down to three tight rubbers.

There was no one you would rather have in one of them than Bobby Eggo and, once again, he showed exactly why – despite a gallant effort on the part of Luke Blondel.

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