GUY WILLIS, assistant professional at Fulford Golf Club, has passed his Professional Golf Association final examination and is now a full professional.

Willis, 21, a former pupil at St Peter's School, York, worked in the pro shop at Boothferry under Stuart Wilkinson for two years before joining Fulford three years ago as an assistant to Bryan Hessay.

Willis now plans to coach, and play in Futures Tour tournaments. He will also attend the 36-hole qualifying competition for the Master Card Tour to be played at Wynyard Hall, near Middlesbrough, on March 30-31. The top 40 from that go on to the final qualifying event at Hawkstone Park, Shropshire, on April 13-16.

He also hopes to take part in the Open Championship regional qualifying competition again this year. He narrowly failed to go through this first stage last year.

Fulford Golf Club play York (Strensall) in the second round of the Mail On Sunday national competiton at Fulford tomorrow (10.30am) and are represented by Peter Foulger (5 handicap), Steve Jackson (8), Rob Thornton (5), and Matthew Kelly (1).

KNARESBOROUGH Golf Club's five-day members have one week left to enter their knockout competition, a new event for the coming season.

The entry sheet will be in the professional shop until Sunday, March 28.

The Men's Open is back on the club's calendar on September 3.

More than half the starting times for the seventh Am-Am in aid of the Martin House Hospice for children have been taken up.Kilnwick Percy Golf Club season opens officially tomorrow with the captain's drive-in.

David Jacobs, Christine Gillyon and Mark Smith will take to the first tee supported by their respective vice-captains. That will be followed by a Texas scramble with a shot-gun start.

Neil Smith meanwhile has won the winter stableford series.

His six highest scores amounted to 262 points to put him ahead of second-placed Andrew Thompson on 249 and Chris Gunby in third on 240.

In the new golfer division Mick Addinall won with 232. Robert Yellowley's 220 tally earned him the top junior under 16 years of age, while Vivien Howson won the ladies' division on 229.

JEAN McKenzie won the silver division and Sue Bellion the bronze in the Malton and Norton Golf Club ladies section's medal championship.

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