BRIDGWATER College Golf Academy, from left, Ron Macrow, (director), Matt Kippen, Warren Knight, Ben Ashton, Max Smith, Scott Bellinger, Alex Clapp, Ryan Brewer, George James.
BRIDGWATER College Golf Academy qualified for the National Finals of the College Championships after a nail-biting afternoon in the sixth and final tournament of the South-West FE Colleges' Tour at Churston, near Torquay.
They began the day joint leaders of the handicap section with Hartpury College. Gloucester. The three points they secured by finishing fourth were enough to squeeze out Hartpury and Duchy College, who had been a point further back.
Bridgwater's top two players Matt Kippen and Alex Clapp delivered again with gross rounds of 72 and 74, nett 71 and 70 respectively.
An improving Scott Bellinger had an 80, nett 75, and was joined by Ryan Brewer (81-74), Warren Knight (83-77( and Ben Ashton (92-79).
With Duchy, South Devon and Bridgwater having started first at Churston, the late afternoon became very tense as, first, Duchy faded then Hartpury also failed to post a score to stop Bridgwater from qualifying for the nationals as South-West champions in the handicap division.
Bridgwater College Golf Academy director Ron Macrow said: "This has been a wonderful performance by the squad. They have worked hard at developing their game and a focal point of the programme this season has been all about performance on the course in strokeplay events.
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"The squad know that they have much work still to do on their personal and team effort and I am confident they will meet this challenge head-on."
The National Finals are at Stonebridge Golf Club, Birmingham later this month.
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