Mcevoy Back On Home Turf ; Copt Heath Are Hosting This Year's Birmingham Mail Champion of Champions Tournament and Here Peter Mcevoy, Who Cut His Golfing Teeth at the Club Before Going On to Become Britain's Best Amateur of Modern Times, Takes Peter Ricketts On a Whistle-Stop Tour of the Course and the Old Days...

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THERE'S a secluded area right in the middle of Copt Heath golf course that Peter McEvoy is still inclined to regard as his own. It was here that, as a lad, he would practise wedge shots for hours and it honed a skill that helped to take him to the very pinnacle of amateur golf.

"This was my own little world," he said. "This is where I would play 500 wedge shots - as a start to the day's practice. If anybody else came to use the patch I would feel almost affronted."

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Mcevoy Back On Home Turf ; Copt Heath Are Hosting This Year's Birmingham Mail Champion of Champions Tournament and Here Peter Mcevoy, Who Cut His Golfing Teeth at the Club Before Going On to Become Britain's Best Amateur of Modern Times, Takes Peter Ricketts On a Whistle-Stop Tour of the Course and the Old Days...

Even now, half a century later, McEvoy still covets this patch of land and as we toured it he recalled the hours and hours of shot making that became almost an obsession with him.

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