Golf: Ravenmeadow and Perdiswell Park cup won by David Brace

He won the George Knight Memorial Cup with 18-hole efforts of 63 nett and 68 for a total of 131.

Collis Fisher (67+66=133) was second with Tony Solomon (64+71=135) third.

Brace had finished second in round one and seventh in the second which involved 48 players and was won by Matt Price (13 handicap) with 63.

Fisher (26) was second with 66 while Barrie Hope (8) edged out Richie Ryder (6) for third on countback with both on 67.

Price earned a handicap reduction to 12 after carding a birdie on the 11th, 10 pars, six bogies and a double bogey on the 12th.

Andy Young won 3&2 against Dennis Morse in the Fred Gough seniors' singles matchplay final.

Young’s route to the final started with a qualifier against Bob Wood then he bulldozed his way past Tony Cooper, Phil Rowland and Phil Lane.

Morse defeated Brian Hodgetts, Geoff Edge and George Postans on the way.

Hodgetts and Edge (22.2) won a club greensomes with 64.8 nett from Mike Sanders and Peter Brown (18.4) on 65.6, Alan Gladwin and Clive Brown (24.6) on 67.4 and Leighton Hine and John Hine (15) on 68.

Only 14 pairs competed with the winners getting seven pars alongside four double bogies and a quadruple on the eighth.

A ladies' stableford was won in style by Gerry McLean (32) with 42 points.

Mary Finn (25) was second, Sue Cowen (31) third and Janet Richardson (31) fourth with all three separated by countback on 34.

McLean won by eight points after carding five pars and recording 21 points on both halves of the course.

A no-return for zero on the fourth and four single-points scores did not prove too costly as her handicap was cut to 29. 

Ravenmeadow and Perdiswell Park seniors won 4½-1½ at home to Sherdons in the new three counties round-robin.

Ed Nicklin and Brace won 2&1, Mick Huggins and Malcolm Stanley 2&1 and Malcolm Shepherd and newcomer Mark Cound 3&1.

Martin Hucker and Joe Jackson halved as did Lane and Jim Staunton and Dave Phillips and Roger Jones.