Charlotte Leathem is another outstanding product of the superb junior development programme at Styal Golf Club.
She is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Styal’s European Tour star David Horsey, who was also a graduate of the Styal junior section becoming the first Cheshire player to play in the Walker Cup.
He followed that by winning the European Challenge Tour and then enjoyed a great first season on the European Tour in 2009.
Fourteen-year-old Charlotte is a student at Wilmslow High School and has enjoyed her golf at Styal for the past five years, where her dad Andrew is a former club captain.
Her dedication and talent has seen her handicap drop to five and help her become a regular for Cheshire junior girls and also a member of the winning Cheshire team to win the Matthew Brown Cup in Minorca.
Charlotte is looking forward to being the first girl to be the junior captain at Styal in 2010 as she also looks to reduce her handicap substantially during the coming season.
Andrew Leathem said: "Styal’s director of golf Glynn Traynor is doing a fantastic job as her coach following in the footsteps of David Horsey who he trained previously.
"She has been selected for England junior training at Rudding Park and is also enjoying on-going training with the Cheshire A squad at the Adlington facility.
"Charlotte has been entered for the British and English U15 championships and she will be looking to enter as many top competitions as possible to help her reach her ambition of dropping her handicap to two during the year.
"She gets great support from the staff and members at Styal where she plays most of the competitions with frequent success."
Winter League action at Styal saw Division One honours taken by C Fenn with 37 points, one more than Steven Fenn, and Bob Mannia led in Division Two with 34 points, one better than Darren Jones.
In the Styal Seniors Winter League A Markham was the top man with 42 points with Archie McPhail, Peter Chorlton and John Kemp one point off the pace.
Winter League action also for Styal ladies with the latest round seeing a tight finish as Nancy Chorlton won a cpo on 38 points from Veronica Almond and Pat Chadwick.
Macclesfield ladies played their Spring Meeting and Anita Hall eclipsed the field with 41 points seeing her eight ahead of Sheila Jackson, Grace Hickson, Margery Sennitt and Susan Gibson.
In round six of the Simister Cup at Alderley Edge three players shot a 66 with the countback seeing A Hall first past the post from S Corfield and M Williams.
A ladies Stableford at Alderley was won by Frances West with 34 points from Anne Greenhough (33) and Celia Berent (32).
Shrigley Hall’s men completed their Winter League with Richard Burrow posting 40 points to win by one from Martin Firth.
The overall aggregate winner was Stuart Feargrieve on 117 from John Phillips (116) and Martin Firth, Andrew Stubbens and Andrew Barstow (all 115).
The race for the Manchester and District Golf Alliance’s coveted Order of Merit hotted up at rural Peover as Tim Maxwell, the former pro at Mottram Hall, made the short trip for his home club of Knutsford.
Tim posted the top individual pro score of 36 points to overtake former Merit leader David Smith of Swinton Park.
He also picked up the top pro-am prize with his club colleague Fraser McKenzie giving great help on the way to a winning score of 42 points.
In the am-am section the winners were from Regent Park in Bolton, with Paul Donelan and Barry Redman in top spot on 40 points.
Next in was Blackley pair Alan Lane and Julien Robinson, from Alliance captain Brian Hopkins and his Shrigley Hall partner Graham Sutcliffe.
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