TWO men from Landrake are among six players from Cornwall who will be competing in the Short Mat Bowls Players’ Tour UK Open in Bromsgrove on the weekend of August 20 and 21.

Dennis Shorthouse (ranked 206) faces a tough draw in Group 11 where he will face SMPT number two ranked player Dimitri Payne (Belguim) and 27th ranked Sam Harvey (27) (Wales). 

And Richard Kerr (115) faces Tommy Dahlgren (36) (Swe), & Ken Sleat (81) (Eng), Michael Collister (315) (IOM), Christer Nordin (333) (Swe) and Wendy Ford (N/A) (Eng) in Group 20.

Other Cornish representatives at the event will be Peter Hore (Holmans), Elise Daniell (Holmans), Tom Westlake (Treviscoe) and Nigel Nicholls (Newlyn Trinity).