Richardson Trophy

The Richardson Trophy is a matchplay team event which is participated in by all six Northern Counties of England, i.e. Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Durham, Northumberland and Cumbria. Each County plays the other 5 counties every year in daily matches and seven players per team.

One year there are 3 home matches and the following year there will be two home matches for each County. The matches are hotly contested and winning the Trophy is the Jewel in the Crown for the winning County. To read more about the history of the Trophy, click here.

Lancashire vs Cumbria

Our first Richardson Trophy match of the year was an away fixture on 9th of May at Seascale Golf Club. The weather was beautiful, sunny and dry, and the course was running very fast. The match was exciting and ended with a hard fought draw with the teams sharing the points 3½ - 3½.

Lancashire vs Northumberland

We had a very windy and challenging links golf day for our match against Northumberland at Royal Birkdale. The match was not going our way on the front nine, but a great fight on the back nine saw the 'red roses' finish ahead by six games to one. The weather gods were on our side, as it stopped raining just as we started to play and rained heavily again afterwards. Heavy rain in those high winds would have been very unpleasant! Thanks to the team for a spectacular back nine performance.