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GOLF: Phillips to the four yet again?
THE first Wiltshire title of the season will be decided at Kingsdown tomorrow when the county's leading players contest the 60th Wiltshire Foursomes Championship.
South Wilts county players John Haugh and Alan Mutch are defending the title over the 6,445-yard Corsham course.
At High Post last year, they won the championship for the first time with a fine 36-hole score of three-under-par 137, just one stroke ahead of foursomes specialists Kevin Phillips and Tom Burley.
Phillips, the Broome Manor club captain, and ex-West of England champion Burley (Henbury), won the championship five times between 1999 and 2006.
Burley is giving tomorrow's championship a miss, so Phillips has joined forces with his Broome Manor vice-captain Mick Gregorace.
Other leading contenders include 2004 champions Miles Mackman (Broome Manor) and Sam Elkins (South Wilts), county captain Alistair James and his brother Charlie (Cumberwell Park) and the Marlborough partnership of ex-county captain Jeremy Tomlinson and teenager Jack Hiscock.
Tomlinson has his name on the championship trophy three times.
He twice won the title with Marlborough professional Simon Amor in 1990 and '91 and with Welsh international Adam Campbell (Marlborough) in 2003.
Kevin Phillips will go to Kingsdown tomorrow in buoyant mood.
He got his year as captain as Broome Manor off to a cracking start by lifting his club's Winners' Plate. But it was a close-run thing.
The 40-year-old Swindon scratch-man shot a splendid round of one-below-par 70 in bitterly cold weather for a nett 70.
But he had to survive a card play-off with teenagers Michael Cox (6) and Wesley Rawlins (8) before he could collect the Plate.
Phillip's 70 was the day's best gross, two better than Wiltshire and South Western Counties champion Sam Matton (+1).
Phil White won the club prize for high-handicappers as he scored a nett 71 playing off 23.
9:36am Saturday 29th March 2008
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