New kid on block takes title

Eighteen-year-old Ben Martin, who plays off plus one, had to contend with wind and rain in the competition on the lower course when he defeated Nigel Harrington 4 & 3.

Ben's family moved to Worthing from Trinidad where they had lived for the past 20 years, and he spent time at a golf academy in Florida before joining them in Sussex in May.

In Trinidad, the family home was on a golf course, where Ben started playing at the age of six. Before he left, he had won the biggest championship there, the Trinidad and Tobago Open, three times.

For full story see Sporting Odds, West Sussex Gazette July 16