MICK Huggins and Norman Vernalls won the Daily Mail Foursomes at Ravenmeadow and Perdiswell Park on an autumnal day.

They handed in a respectable nett 65.0 off their team handicap of 15 as 50 players formed 25 pairings.

Both players had already taken podium places earlier in the week and they finished two shots ahead.

There were seven pars, a birdie and only two double bogies as Huggins and Vernalls battled through a workmanlike round with 31 on the front nine and a 34 on the way home.

Playing off 13, Brian Price and Bob Henry took second place with 67.0 as nine pars and a birdie were hit by three double bogies or worse.

Julian Bateman and Adrian Tinker finished in third after returning 67.5 with the pair playing off 14.5 and managing seven pars.

Jamie Newton and Tommy Hayes, playing off eight, took the fourth and final podium place with 68.0 thanks to seven pars, a birdie and an eagle two on the challenging fourth hole.

With nett 64, Steve Baylis (7 handicap) took the monthly medal on count-back after carding the better back nine score of 31 with 12 pars, two birdies and just four bogies.

Peter Brown (18) had to be content with second after finished tied with Baylis on 64. 

Brown’s eight pars set his round up but one double bogey and one triple restricted him to 32 on the back nine.

Huggins (17) returned 65 to take third place after dropping in five pars and a birdie on the 18th but carding a triple bogey on the eighth.

Vernalls took fourth on count-back when he handed in 66 as four pars, two birdies and a better last six holes pushed tied finisher Jan Schutte off the podium.

A depleted field of just 25 players competed.

One-shot playing handicap reductions were awarded to the four podium finishers.

Guest player Oliver Walker (3) left fellow competitors in his wake when he recorded 42 points to win the midweek stableford after 11 pars and five birdies. 

Schutte (17) continued his rich vein of form with 37 to take second place.  John Wilkinson (14) took third with 36 and Fred Hackett (21) was fourth with 35 as 12 players competed.

Sue Price (26) took the win in the ladies’ 18-hole stableford with 33 points despite managing just one par.

Jane Wood (36) pushed the winner hard with 32 for second position.

Jane Rowland (28) took third with 31 and Sue Clissett (35) came home in fourth on count-back with 30 from Magdelen Coomber.