Ross gets spot on the board
ROSS HAINES has fulfilled a long-term ambition of getting his name on a L’Ancresse Golf Club honours board, but even he did not expect it to be on the most prestigious of them all.
Understandably, the 45-year-old just could not stop smiling as he clutched the Appleby L’Ancresse Open trophy in the clubhouse after winning the highlight of the club’s calendar thanks to a three-under-par 67 nett.
‘It feels amazing. It’s so good to get my name on a board finally.
‘It’s been a great day, I never thought I’d get this one. I’ve not won that many competitions down here, so it’s nice to get a big one,’ said Haines, who edged out second-placed Russell Torode on countback.
‘I won an event last year, but it was one of the events that hasn’t got a board [in the clubhouse] and I was gutted about that, so yeah, it’s really good to have this.’
While Haines was wearing a permanent grin, there was the hint of tears of joy being shed by the scratch salver winner.
Perhaps it was fitting that the man who bears more than a passing resemblance to this year’s Open Championship winner Shane Lowry came out on top of the island’s elite in the 2019 L’Ancresse Open and there is no doubt that it meant an awful lot to Tom Le Huray as well as his father, local golf stalwart Bill who helps organise the competition and will be the L’Ancresse captain in 2021.
‘I think that’s the biggest one [on my CV], just for it being L’Ancresse with Dad – it means probably more to him than it does to me! But for Dad, yeah it’s big, and I’m chuffed, really chuffed,’ Le Huray said.
He shot a two-under-par 68 gross to win the scratch salver by one shot from island teammates Jamie Blondel and Danny Bisson.
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