Fern makes history in PGA Assistants' Championship Qualifier

FROM THE PGA E-BULLETIN

Fern Grimshaw has written herself into the golfing

history books by becoming the first

woman to qualify for the final of the

Powerade PGA Assistants’ Championship in

its 80-year history.

The 23-year-old, pictured right, who is based at Wessex Golf Centre where she is coached by PGA Cup player

Jon Bevan, secured a spot in July’s final, which

is also supported by FootJoy, with a one-over-par
72 at the West Region qualifier at Cirencester.

Grimshaw is in her first year of PGA training

having graduated from Bethune Cookman

College at Daytona Beach, Florida, where she

was a winner on the American college circuit.

She was one of 14 assistants from the region

to make it through to the grand final at East

Sussex National from July 28-30 with Torquay’s

Thomas Hiscock and SkyCaddie’s Jack Hamblett
leading home the qualifiers after 67s.
Alexander Blewett (Cumberwell Park), David
Callaway (Milford) and Kevin Harper (Sidmouth)
shared third spot with 68s.
Hamblett, who was five-under-par going into
the 18th was left to reflect on what might have
been after double bogeying the last hole to end
level with Hiscock.