LAST Friday evening saw the Brean Golf Club winners from the 2017 season collect their awards at the annual presentation night at The Tavern at Brean Leisure Park. 

Around 100 members and guests enjoyed a superb carvery and then settled in to watch the winners collect their spoils. 

The event culminated with 2017 club captain David Porter presenting the final cheque of almost £6,000 that the club members had raised to his chosen charity for the year, Cure Leukaemia. 

Former club member Richard Griffiths, who is now based in the West Midlands, accepted the cheque on the charity’s behalf and explained how the funds raised would help them in the battle against the blood cancer. 

Griffith’s son Tom contracted the disease when he was just four years old but after three years of treatment he beat the disease, so he was also present with his mother and father to receive the cheque.

Among the prizes was the Clubperson of the Year, which this year was awarded jointly to cousins Dan and Tom Broom, who completed five gruelling challenges last summer, on their bikes and feet, to raise almost £1,000 for the captain’s charity. 

Dan Reason was named Most Improved Golfer after his significant handicap reduction during the calendar year on his way to winning a sizeable haul of trophies on the night. 

The Golfer of the Year went to Matt Shaw for his amazing achievement of winning two different club championships in 2017 - at Weston-super-Mare and Brean. 

As always the final presentations were to the Men’s and Ladies Club Champions, and both were first-time winners – Lyn Bird (Ladies) and Shaw (Men’s).

BREAN Golf Club seniors captain Chris Stephens got his year off to a successful start as he was part of the winning trio in the AGM Shotgun Scramble that followed the Drive-In. 

He teamed up with Murray Parsons and Tony Romeo to return the winning score of 56.8, and second place was decided on a countback.

Newly-installed club captain Mike Carter joined Steve Bateman and birthday boy Stewart Garrett to edge out Brian Read, club chairman Tony Roper and Pete Dunn with the better back nine after both teams had nett 57s. 

In the Ladies event the new members secretary Linda Edmondson joined forces with ladies captain elect Lyn Bird and Beverly Cranley to win by just over a shot from captain Sue Wright, Lesley Millard and Millie Jones.

The previous day, John Cullinan made his first appearance of the year at Brean and promptly won his first event. 

The left-hander topped the scorecharts in the Winter League Stableford, which was contested on the temporary greens due to the frosty conditions. 

He scored 43 points to head home two players who finished one point behind on 42. Murray Parsons and Pete Dunn were the owners of those scores, with Parsons taking second on a countback.