Joanne Morley Junior Challenge
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This now well established event will
take place as usual at Joanne's home club Sale Golf Club |
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To Enter The 2008 Competition Players Must
Be Under The Age of 16 on The 1st January 2008
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Further details will be appearing on the
website in due course and junior organisers should contact Geoff Garnett via
the website or by Telephone on 0161 881 7550 for further details
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WGTB is proud to have been associated
with Joanne Morley for the past seven years in her annual Challenge for Juniors
which is now a fixture in the list at her home club Sale.
Joanne has always been keen to develop
her professional career in helping the development of junior golf and this is a
theme she is looking to continue when she finishes her distinguished playing
career which is a shining example for up and coming junior golfers.
She began her career at Altrincham
Municipal Golf Club as a 14-year-old student at Ashton-on-Mersey High School who
was very keen on sport excelling in tennis and swimming. But with the
encouragement of her mum Jean she quickly developed her love for golf and soon
showed an amazing talent, before moving to join Sale Golf Club.
There the amateur honours flowed with county junior
titles and then full county success, which developed at regional and
national level. |
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2007 Winners With Gill
James of Hookers Golf |
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presented at the Sale Golf Club and their ladies are proud to play for the
Joanne Morley Solheim Cup putter each year as one of their ‘major’ competitions. |
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Joanne was European, British and English
ladies champion reaching a handicap of plus five and the highlight of her
amateur career was to play in the victorious Curtis Cup team at Royal Liverpool
in 1992.
She took the plunge into professional
ranks in 1994 and did well on the European Ladies Tour, winning the German Open
and was selected for the Solheim Cup team which played at St Pierre against the
USA.
Her career path then saw her aim high for
the LPGA Tour in America and she has pursued her career there with a good level
of success for the past eight years playing against the likes of Annika
Sorenstam, Si Re Pak and Karrie Webb on a regular basis.
While Joanne’s career has seen her
travel to every golfing corner of the world there is nothing she likes better
than to return home to Sale and meet up with her old friends and generally chill
out. But she is always on hand to help out and support with any junior cause in
the region and her commitment to her annual Junior Challenge sees her playing
with and encouraging the talent of the future.
The thanks of WGTB and junior golfers in
the area go to Joanne for her help and we look forward to seeing her in October
at Sale with the finalists who make it through to the big day.
