off-island golf

Two of Peel’s former junior members, Ana and Lea Dawson, are having great success off the Island - both with golf and their education - and are making the most of amazing opportunities.

Ana is playing and studying in America at Memphis University. After settling in she has been travelling across the United States representing the team every two weeks, gaining a fourth place finish in Missouri.

The team have six tournaments in this part of the season and will shortly travel to Augusta (not Augusta National unfortunately) where they are looking for a good finish to help them make the national finals in May.

Ana will be spending the summer at Peel on the practice field and putting green, as well as playing in the Ladies Amateur Championships in the UK.

Lea is attending sixth form at Rossall School near Fleetwood and is part of their golf academy. Rossall is the leading independent golf school in the UK and Lea is travelling all over the UK and abroad representing it in tournaments.

She also competed in the Faldo Series at Al Ain Country Golf Club inDubai recently, having qualified for a second year in a row. Lea finished seventh in the under-16s competition after shooting rounds of 75, 78 and 77, finishing +14 for the tournament.

Six-time major winner and former world number one Faldo spent the week with the competitors, which was a great experience and something Lea was very grateful to be involved in.

She is also representing England in the Home Internationals Schools at Celtic Manor this weekend before heading to St Andrew’s, Fairhaven, Delamere Forest, Formby and Pleasington to name a few before the summer season.

Peel Golf Club is rightly very proud of the ongoing success of the Dawson sisters and wishes them continuing good fortune for their future careers.

HELEN DICKINSON