PROMISING young Belmont golfer Gregg Morgan has been invited to join the Wales Golf Union national junior squad for winter coaching.

The 17-year-old former Kingstone High School pupil, now playing off a handicap of scratch, has earned his place in the Wales squad after an outstanding season in junior golf.

Morgan won both the Shropshire and Hereford-shire junior match play and stroke play titles, the Midland Schools Cham-pionship, and represented the England Schools against Scotland and Wales.

A regular member of the twin counties junior team for the past three years, he has been invited to captain the team in 2002.

Now following a B tech sports science course at Hereford Sixth Form College, Morgan hopes to follow in the footsteps of fellow Herefordian David Park, who represented Wales at all levels, before making a career in professional golf.

n Herefordshire GC players took advantage of the holding greens to produce some excellent scoring in the re-arranged Lee Cup, a competition open to all winners and runners-up during the season.

Jason Plant posted a fine 76-14-62 to take the trophy, two clear of Jon Devereux, 65-1-64, who was runner-up on a card countback from Graham Slade, 71-7-64.

New ladies' captain Jo Ware invited the men to join her section for the annual drive-in competition, with all entry fees going towards her charity fund. This proved to be successful with 87 competitors playing in the 13-hole stableford which preceded the drive-in.

Results, ladies: Glenda Sandford 33 pts; men: Ken Baker 31; ball retrieving prizes: Chris Crisall and Ann Wheatstone.

October stableford, silver: 1 Val Hancock 36 pts, 2 Sylvia Topley 36; bronze A: 1 Glenda Sandford 36, 2 Glynn Hall 35; bronze B: 1 Ann Evans 38, 2 Di Morris 27.

n Kington ended their summer season of competitions with the Broth Trophy, a better-ball stableford in which the pairs were drawn before starting on three different tees.

The 68 golfers enjoyed an exceptional day of late October sunshine on Bradnor Hill with shirt-sleeve order being preferred by most of the field.

Results: 1 John Thomas and Kevin Powell 50 pts, 2 Glyn Wictome and Nick Layton 48, 3 Michael Clegg and David Haley 46, 4 Hywel Jones and Ken Hill 45.

The Hargrove A team got the better of the B team as both club sides contested the first round of the Shropshire and Herefordshire winter foursomes competition.

They went through 4-1 over the two legs when they won the second leg 3-0 after sharing the first match 1-1. David Morris and Matthew Weaver beat Shaun Galliers and Ryan Cadwallader 3 up, Stewart Franks and Ed Deasey beat Nigel Scott and Brian Morgan 3 up, and Darren Richards and Alan Williams beat Hywel Jones and Lee Wilson 5 up.

The A team meet Hawkstone Park in the second round, with the B team taking on Leominster in the first round of the Plate competition.

n Twenty-five teams contested Leominster's Texas Scramble medal competition for teams of four.

Results: 1 Rob Pugh, Tony Pugh, Steve Codd and Martin Pierce 55.1, 2 Kevin Gibbons, Wilf Arrowsmith, Brian Faulkner and Dave Stephens 56.2, 3 Brian Bengry, Peter Wilson, Alan Griffiths and Sean Abberley 56.6.

The start of the seniors' round robin winter series involving Leominster, Sapey and Burghill Valley was greeted by torrential rain and the match at Sapey was abandoned after nine holes because of waterlogged greens.