English Golfing Union

A coaching grant available to golf clubs helped to develop more than 41,000 new and improving players last year.

Matt Haines beat his England and Walker Cup team-mate Tommy Fleetwood at the 37th hole to win the Spanish Amateur Championship at La Canada.

Matt Haines and Laurie Canter are the stars of the week, winning the Spanish and South African Amateurs respectively. Both won their 36 hole stroke play qualifiers and carried the burden of being the number one seeds right through the match play stages to victory.

Somerset county player and England A Squad invitee Laurie Canter secured the biggest win of his career when he won the 108th South African Amateur Championship in East London.

England internationals Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Haines will meet head-to-head today in the 36-hole final of the Spanish Amateur Championship at La Canada.

Online Entries will be available for players whose clubs have registered to the EGU's Centralised Database of Handicaps (CDH). Players should speak to their club to obtain their Unique CDH ID number before entering any Championship online.

British and English Boy Champion Tom Lewis has been included in the four-man England team to defend the European Nations Championship in Spain next month.

England’s growing network of golf volunteers was celebrated at a tribute dinner during the County Golf Development Conference at the National Golf Centre, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, on Tuesday, 23rd February.

Chapel-en-le-Frith Golf Club in Derbyshire has been awarded the prestigious GolfMark Club of the Year Award, which is supported this year by Cobra Golf.

Matthew Southgate, Tom Lewis and Jamie Abbott record top ten finishes in the Portuguese Amateur Championship, the opening event on the 2010 Titleist FootJoy EGU Order of Merit.

Two England internationals have been named in a strong Continent of Europe team to play Asia/Pacific in the biennial Sir Michael Bonallack Trophy in India in April.

After the final round of judging the top three clubs who will be contesting the GolfMark Club of the Year Award have been released.

The English Golf Union (EGU) and English Women’s Golf Association (EWGA) are delighted to announce that Cobra Golf will be supporting their GolfMark Award Programme throughout 2010.

Elwyn Ellis, a past President of Cheshire, has been installed as President of The English Golf Union (EGU) at its Annual General Meeting at Woodhall Spa.

The English Women’s Golf Association (EWGA) and the English Golf Union (EGU) have agreed to take the next steps towards a potential merger which would let the country’s amateur golfers speak with one voice.

Following recent discussions with Gemini Network Media, intelligentgolf has agreed that their online tee time booking software will interface with the One Golf Network central marketing database.

Matthew Southgate (Thorpe Hall, Essex) and Josh White (Chipstead, Surrey), will represent the English Golf Union (EGU) in the annual Mexican Amateur Championship and International Pairs Tournament at Club Campestre Monterrey in Monterrey City on 18th – 21st March.