Raising money for brave Tommy

GOLF: CHADDERTON Park Sports Club is organising a golf day to raise money for a seriously-ill boy.

The aim is to provide enough to send 11-year-old Tommy Bennet – nephew of club coach Ryan Jones – on a special holiday either during or after his 18-month chemotherapy treatment for a brain tumour.

A Chadderton spokesman said: “Tommy has been extremely positive and making jokes about losing his hair, but after three sessions the chemo is already taking its toll. Most of the time he hasn’t been well enough to do any activity he enjoys.”

The golf day, at North Manchester on July 10, has already attracted 22 teams, but there is room for another. Apart from the golf, there will be a carvery evening meal, an auction hosted by BBC GMR’s Mike Sweeney, and a question and answer session with football stars Andy Ritchie, Paul Scholes and David May.

Email terry@chaddypark.co.uk for details or to enter a team.



ASHTON and North Manchester face a double-header clash in the Oldham and District Golf League cup competitions. They meet in both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ Cup semi-finals after last-eight victories.

Ashton ‘A’ defeated Saddleworth ‘A’ at Dukinfield in a particularly-close affair. The win was taken with Mike Kelly's birdie at the 20th hole.

A third club, Blackley, also has designs on a cup double as both its sides came through with 4-1 wins over Brookdale A and Crompton and Royton B.

Werneth A needed extra holes to book the spot in a tight affair with Fairfield at North Manchester.

Adam Rowbotham and Chris Cordwell made it two rounds in a row in which they have triumphed at the 20th hole.

Werneth B almost made it a fourth double-seeking club when their tie with Brookdale ‘B’ at Saddleworth was locked at 2-2. But Tony Morgan and Stuart Naismith saw the Woodhouses side through down the 19th. Oldham’s B kept their unbeaten league record intact with a 4-4 draw in a rearranged game at Castle Hawk to move into second place in the West Division.


WERNETH bowed out of the Archie Preston mixed foursomes, losing 5-2 at Rochdale. Winners of the competition in 2011, the Garden Suburb club could only register wins from Lee and Tracey Rowbotham (2 & 1) and Mark Abbott and Gail Rowbotham, who had a last-green win after being four holes down earlier in the match.