Foes come face to face

Littlehampton on April 14 have the chance to avenge last year after both teams cleared the first hurdle with ease on Saturday.

Worthing won 7 - 4 at Bognor Regis while Littlehampton's 9 - 2 passage at Hollingbury Park produced an expected result.

Last May at Littlehampton, Worthing won 6 -5 to enter the semi-finals of Sussex's premier golf competition. Littlehampton who went through to the final at Worthing's expense in 2004.

Since then both teams have hardly changed.

Fuller report in this week's Herald

RESULTS, 1st round:

Slinfold Park beat Royal Eastbourne 7-5;

Cottesmore beat Holtye 8-4;

Eastbourne Downs lost to Willingdon 10.5-1.5;

Hollingbury Park lost to Littlehampton 9.5-2.5;

Singing Hills beat Seaford Head 7-5;

Copthorne beat West Chiltington 11-1;

Avisford Park lost to Dale Hill 7.5-4.5;

Crowborough Beacon beat Hill Barn 10.5-1.5;

Eastbourne GP beat Hassocks 10.5-1.5;

Bognor Regis lost to Worthing 7.5-4.5;

Mannings Heath lost to Cowdray Park 6.5-5.5;

Royal Ashdown Forest lost to Haywards Heath 8-4;

West Hove beat Chartham Park 11-1;

Wellshurst lost to Brighton & Hove 9-3;

Rustington beat Mid Sussex 7-5;

Cooden Beach lost to Seaford 6.5-5.5;

Waterhall lost to The Dyke 12-0 (at The Dyke);

Boars Head lost to Ifield 11-1;

Pyecombe beat Selsey 11.5-0.5;

Sweetwoods Park beat Tilgate Forest 9-3.

2nd round (April 14):

Piltdown v Eastbourne GP;

Cottesmore v Sedlescombe;

Willingdon v Cowdray Park;

Slinfold v Sweetwoods;

The Dyke v Highwoods;

Brighton & Hove v Lewes;

Pyecombe v East Sussex National;

East Brighton v West Sussex;

Rustington v Seaford;

West Hove v Dale Hill;

Chichester v Ifield;

Ham Manor v Singing Hills;

Crowborough v Peacehaven;

Littlehampton v Worthing;

The Nevill v Haywards Heath;

Copthorne v Foxvbridge.