Mark Tyler has left Branshaw Golf Club this week after seven years as the club's professional.

Mark, from Oakworth, is to take up a new position in retail sales and custom golf club fit-ting with Direct Golf UK at Huddersfield.

Married with two young daughters, Mark, 29, is a former pupil of South Craven School.

He spent five years as an as-sistant professional at Keighley Golf Club and moved to Bran-shaw soon after qualifying as a PGA pro. At that time, aged 22, he was one of the youngest golf club professionals in the coun-try.

Bingley St Ives golfer Richard Wheatley (pictured) came a creditable fourth in the English Open Men's Amateur Strokeplay Championship at Hunstanton.

Richard shot rounds of 72, 78, 76 and 68 to finish on 294, seven shots behind winner Jonathan Lupton.

England international Lupton scored a one under par 287, finishing two shots ahead of Scot Jack Doherty and five ahead of Spanish champion Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano.

Keighley are languishing next to bottom of the Bradford Union's Scratch League 1st Division after an 8-0 trouncing at West Bradford on Friday. The in-form Chellow Dene side are seven points clear of nearest challengers Northcliffe, who had a good 6-2 win at Bingley St Ives.

In the third division Skipton lost 6-2 at Bradford, while Silsden had an excellent 6-2 win at Branshaw.

Riddlesden top Division 4 af-ter a 6-2 victory over Bracken Ghyll.

First Division: Bingley St Ives 2, Northcliffe 6 (J Mountain lost to M Cook 5 & 4, I Owens lost to S Bell 4 & 3, A Brown beat R Hillas 4 & 3, D Jordan lost to G Evans 5 & 3); Cleckheaton 6, Baildon 2; West Bradford 8, Keighley 0 (T Brushwood beat A Utley 5 & 4, M Evans beat A Houldsworth 5 & 4, P Dempsey beat I Davenport 5 & 4, P Thomas beat S Murray 4 & 3).

Second Division: Ghyll 2, South Bradford 6; Hollins Hall 4, Calverley 4; Woodhall Hills 0, Shipley 8.

Third Division: Bradford 6, Skipton 2 (M Myers beat S Al-dersley 4 & 2, J Caldwell beat R Addyman 4 & 3, C Goodison beat A Robertson 6 & 4, R Bond lost to P Pethybridge 3 & 2); Branshaw 2, Silsden 6 (J Mar-shall lost to P Davies 2 & 1, R Chester lost to A Mawson 1 down, S Smith lost to L Stott 1 down, A Fitzpatrick beat A Kkais 8 & 7); West Bowling 6, The Manor 2.

Fourth Division: Clayton 6, Ful-neck 2; East Bierley 4, Phoenix Park 4; Riddlesden 6, Bracken Ghyll 2 (M Scarborough beat P Rishworth 4 & 3, A Barraclough beat J Moreman 4 & 2, A Head lost to D Wood 3 & 2, B Dean beat D Lampkin 2 up).

Branshaw - Rouse Qualifier: 1 Brian Northrop 64, 2 Liam King 67, 3 Jason Proctor 68, 4 Paul Hollindrake 68. Ladies May Medal: 1 Pam Gee 68, 2 Irene Thornton 70.

Keighley - President's Day on Saturday was wet and windy, but competitors' spirits were buoyed up by complimentary pork pies and drinks on the 10th tee. The top 32 competitors on the day qualify to take part in the knockout stage of the President's Prize. 1 P Ward 75-12-63, 2 P Stubley 80-15--65, 3 J Constantine 79-12-67.

Sunday morning's Guthrie Trophy was also played in test-ing conditions, but the rain and wind did not deter several players from posting good scores. Early starters found the going too tough and it looked likely that Steve Cooper's net 69 might be good enough to take first prize for a while. But the prizewinners were amongst the later starters: 1 John Bibby 83-19-64, 2 Chris Cotton 89-22-67, 3 Michael Hildred 89-21-68.

The Mixed Open on Monday had a full field for a 4BBB Sta-bleford: 1 Mr and Mrs M Binns (Bingley St Ives) 41pts, 2 N Cowan (Keighley) and Mrs K Parker (Otley) 40pts, 3 I Hould-sworth (Keighley) and Mrs C Firth (Bingley St Ives) 39 pts.

On Tuesday the Ladies played Mrs Watson's flag com-petition. The winner of the sil-ver division was Norma Peace, who posted the flag just short of the 18th green Bronze divi-sion winner was Sue Lund, who holed out on the 18th.

Riddlesden - Tigers Cup Qualifier: 1 Chris Morton 68-12-56, 2 Kaz Iskauskas 72-14-58, 3 Ray Heron 72-14-58. Other qualifiers were James McLean, Richard Brown, George Han-son, Mike Neild, Michael Scar-borough, Ray Bolton, Steven Barrett, Peter Fox, Mick Starr, Jackie McGinley, Richard Simpson, Graham Seward, An-drew Barraclough.

Rabbits Cup Qualifier: 1 Tim Walsh 70-17-53, 2 Roger Spence 74-18-56, 3 Liam Shepherd 79-20-59. Other Qualifiers: John Court, Terry Wood, Brian Moul-ton, Mick Tetley, John Jickells, Steve Partington, Eric Lobley, Dale Eastbury, Jeff Pickering, Terry Busfield, Richard Ellis, Steve Clough and Terry Senior.

Silsden - Pairs Stableford: 1 Matthew Horner and Eddie Horner 75pts, 2 Roy Miller and Tony Tywang 71pts, 3 Martyn Twigg and Leonard Stott 71pts. Mid-Week Medal: 1 Ron Ford-ham 85-25-60, 2 Terry Pickard 84-20-64, 3 Les Winters 92-28-64.