LITTLE Charlie Daughtrey got a big cheer – when he won a top honour at The Star and St John Sports Award.
The seven-year-old golfer holed the Amateur Sporting Achievement Award, sponsored by The Sheffield Telegraph. Editor David Todd helped to present the award.
Charlie, of Phoenix Golf Club in Brinsworth, Rotherham, finished third in the US Kids World Championship, on the same Pinehurst course to stage the US Open in 2005 - automatically qualifying for next year's World Championships.
But he came first at the Awards and told the audience: "I want to be a professional golfer – like Tiger Woods!"
The glittering Edge Telecom sponsored Sports Awards, hosted at Sheffield's Ponds Forge by Christa Ackroyd, recognised sporting excellence of all kinds – with the spotlight also on amateurs and business, as well as OIympic heroes, football superstars, boxing idols, cricket legends and other sporting greats.
Other Amateur Sporting Achievement Award finalists were:
Emma Pickering: The Doncaster woman achieved her dream this year, winning the equivalent of an Olympic gold – she netted the individual title at the World Ladies' Angling Championships in Hungary, landing just short of 400 fish in two days. She also clinched the Ladies' Fish 'O' Mania live on Sky Sports.
Carol Wolstenholme: The 62-year-old Stannington runner won two gold medals at the European veterans' championships in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters. An admin clerk at Sheffield's Northern General, she has been running for more than 30 years and does 40 miles a week with the Hallamshire Harriers.
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