Falmouth Golf Club Junior section have been given £200 towards an £8,000 goal after securing a place at the Home Nations Championship Final in Scunthorpe next year, the first Cornish team to do so in 26 years.

The team consisting of James Smith, Alex Minter, James Dempsey, Isaac D’Bue, Will Sercombe and Archie Fox finished runners up by just the one shot in the English final of the Junior Team Golf managed competition in October.

However, the Falmouth prize for coming second is a spot in the Home Nations Championship Final to be staged in February next year at Forest Pines Spa & Golf resort nr. Scunthorpe when the team will face winners and runners up from Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

At a meeting of the Finance and General Purposes Committee on Monday night, Junior Organiser Mick Fox told councillors that the cost of the six night stay and travel was eight and a half thousand pounds but the juniors were asking for £200 from the council towards that.

"We have applied for the grant to get as much funding as we could for this tour," he said. "We happened to stumble across qualifying for this just by a matter of chance by entering a competition and ended up qualifying for the quarter finals and then we qualified for the finals. We qualified at the final, we came second, became the first Cornish team to represent England in 26 years. We've just gone down every avenue for funding so the parents don't have to put their hands in their pockets, they are prepared to but we just wanted to get as much money from different sources as we could."

He said so far they had raised nearly four thousand pounds with the golf club going to put £500 in and the ladies section £200, he also said they would be going out to play some fund raising competitions.

Falmouth mayor Councillor Steve Eva said every year the golf club gives a round of golf for four as a prize which raised money for the mayor's charity do.

"We have supported the football, rugby and cricket," he said. "It is about time we supported the golf club as well."

Councillors voted unanimously to grant the request

In the, the six juniors from Falmouth Golf Club English Final, which was staged a long way from home, over the parkland championship course at Romanby Golf & Country Club, Yorkshire. And what’s more we will be able to see some of the action soon as the event was televised by Sky Sports who will in time broadcast highlights.

Normally the Home Nations Final would be staged in Portugal but a decision was made by the organisers to stage this in England because of the uncertainty surrounding foreign air travel and potential quarantine restrictions etc.