Tournament History
Cast your mind back if you will to the late winter of 2002 and think about where you were for a minute…
Perhaps you were into your second month of post-Christmas gym membership, cranking up Daniel Bedingfield’s recent number 1 smash ‘Gotta Get Thru This’ as you powered through your final set of curls? Or curled up yourself in front of the TV in your lycra onesy awaiting the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City? Or maybe like Stokes you were sat alone with your copy of New Scientist, contemplating your existence following the near hazardous asteroid ‘2005 YU55’ which had passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976?
What you probably weren’t doing was hitting an 85 within the magnificent wooded countryside of the High Weald at Tilgate Forest to go 1-up* in the inaugural MAJIC (The Michael and Justin Invitational Challenge)
*For all golf-spotters out there, the season finished 4-4 and 89 was the worst winning score that year.
These were truly pioneering days, taking in such illustrious and acclaimed venues as Wycombe Heights, Gatton Manor, Hoebridge International Golf Centre, Silvermere, Austin Lodge and Coulsdon Court, instilling in these two young golfers a desire to challenge, compete and ultimately prevail that has laid the groundwork for the International golfing jamboree that we celebrate today, 9 men competing to raise the prestigious Claret Jug.
All it took was the addition of two like-minded souls with the initials A and D to turn the M and J International Challenge into the MAJD International Challenge and in 2005 MADJIC was born.
The Michael Anthony Dave Justin International Challenge.
The Founders in Ireland and with the Original Trophy
