HUNLEY HALL and Golf Club will be the host of the English/Welsh One-Armed Golf Championship this weekend.

Some of the country’s best one-handed golfers will be on show at the impressive Morgans Course in Brotton, near Saltburn, North Yorkshire, and Darlington’s Darren Grey will be one of the favourites.

Grey and a number of other competitors will be at Hunley Hall tomorrow to meet and greet newcomers in between playing a practice round ahead of the tournament. It is an opportunity for people with one-arm thinking about getting in to golf to try the sport.

Competition day will be the Saturday when the entrants will head out on to the course in three balls and play 27 holes of individual scores for the right to become English/Welsh champion.

Grey, who won the tournament in 2013 and 2010, said: “I’m hoping to win it again as it is local and I have a bit of knowledge of the course which should give me a slight advantage. The course is 6900 yards which isn't an extremely long course but has very steep inclines, difficult various lies on fairways, tough rough, tricky greens and conditions. It will challenge even the best golfers to stay in control.”

PRUDHOE’S Rebecca McGinley, the American Golf Long Drive winner, is heading off to America this Saturday to take part in the World Long Drive Championships taking place at Winstar World Casino & Resort.

DURHAM’S junior golf order of merit – the Mizuno Race 2 Rockliffe – reaches its exciting conclusion with the Grand Final on Sunday.

More than 120 boys and girls played more than 800 rounds of golf between them in a bid to be one of the finalists competing at Rockliffe Hall. The leading players from the 11 qualifying events will be there.

Last year Bishop Auckland’s Jessica Hall was crowned champion after beating Lily Downs (Eaglescliffe) in an exciting three-hole play-off to win the £500 Mizuno voucher. Matthew Watson (Beamish Park) won the net prize.

This year’s line-up includes Hall as well as the winner of the season-long order of merit (mixed gross) Alexandra Stevenson (Beamish), leading boys net qualifier Scott Lyons (Hartlepool) and girls net top finisher, Abbi Wheatley (South Moor).

The rest of the field is: H Hodgson (Darlington), K Wall (Houghton-le-Spring), D Salmon (Bishop Auckland), M Watson (Beamish), D Bingham (Boldon), G Gardner (Houghton-le-Spring), A Brown (Houghton-le-Spring), T Briggs (Billingham), A Neasham (Wynward), R Mackie (Houghton-le-Spring), N Winstanley (Billingham), H Bowes (Crook), E Baxter (Houghton-le-Spring), J Brown (Billingham), M Bell (Darlington), E Crang (Darlington), A Laidler (Houghton-le-Spring), O Thomas (Brancepeth Castle), L Reay (Ramside), T Skelton (Beamish), E Thomas (Brancepeth Castle), C Johnston (Beamish), J Hogarth (South Moor), G Hall (Barnard Castle), N Hammond (Beamish) and S Turnbull (Consett).

CROOK Golf Club won the NERGA & Inter grand final at Rockliffe Hall which saw 102 players battle it out for club and individual trophies.

Crook won the Inter Club Championship after claiming 239 points, which was eight points more than second placed Whitby.

Hobson’s Sean O’Brien won the individual Inter prize with 38 points, while Blackwell Grange’s Graham Parsons was runner-up despite finishing with the same number of points.

The NERGA Club champions were Malton & Norton when their 244 point total was comfortably ahead of Thirsk & Northallerton (228). The NERGA individual champion was Whitby’s Chris Noble, with Roseberry Grange’s Brian Edmundson second.

Closing date for new clubs to join next year is November 1. Contact secretary Martin Hill on martin_hill@live.co.uk or (01325) 720943 or 07775615307 for further details.