50th WECU Congress

The Tropicana :: Weston-Super-Mare :: Easter Weekend 1997

At least as far as weather was concerned, there can scarcely have been a better weekend for any of the preceeding forty nine congresses than this WECU Golden Anniversary. The sun shone brilliantly throughout as temperatures on the sea-front threatened to reach 20 degrees C at times - in March!

  Under the glass of the Tropicana, play was pretty warm too as Gavin Wall set a hot pace in the early rounds of the Open, forcing those in his wake to play for wins wherever possible.

 

 

In the end Wall took the money, Baker the WECU trophy and Thompson the British Championship entry!

  Cole, Rudd and Beaumont finished 4th= on 4 1/2

 

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