MORE than 70 golfers gathered at Brean on Saturday to help raise funds for the three chosen captain’s charities of BARB, Freewheelers Blood Bikes and Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance.

A hole out eagle from 65 yards by Adam Cox at their penultimate hole helped to secure victory in the keenly fought competition. 

Cox joined forces with the Lismore clan as he teamed up with father Peter and his sons Byron and Scott. 

The quartet scored a very impressive 92 points aided by that five-point haul for Cox on the 10th. 

They won by two points from Tony Richards, Murray Parsons and another father and son duo in Russell and Matt Shaw. 

Third place was claimed by a team named Multinations that included Englishmen, Irish and Scots in the form of Mel Brown, Nigel Hodges, John Cullinan and Graham Foy as they returned 87 points. 

The fourth and final prize on offer went to Lyn Bird and Trevor Pitt alongside John & Beverly Cranley on 85.

The day was all about raising money for the charities with various ways of achieving that happening throughout the day. 

Following the prizegiving was an auction of various items and, when the money was totalled up, a figure in excess of £2000 was found to have been raised by the golfers over the day which is an amazing effort and will be gratefully received by the three beneficiaries at the presentation evening early next year.

Ian Adams and Tony Groves handed in the best scorecards in Sunday’s Monthly Stableford. 

On a day when the course more than held its own they both had 38-point hauls to win Division’s Two and Three respectively. 

Groves enjoyed the biggest winning margin of the day as his nearest challenger was Nigel Ellis five points behind. 

Adams had a closer call as a single point separated him from John Cullinan in second. 

The top flight saw the closest result of the day with a countback required to split Leighton Jenkins and Mark Penfold. Jenkins just got the nod on the better back nine score.

The Edmondson twins once again topped a leaderboard as they tasted success in the Seniors Open Pairs event on Thursday. 

Ron and Don only needed 64 strokes to compete the round and once their handicap allowance was deducted the nett score of 59.5 was the best of the day out of the 29 pairs competing. 

They beat Barrie Tucker and Brian Read into second place as they posted a nett 61.

Tucker and Read’s held an advantage 0.7 of a stroke over the third placed duo of Barrie Yearsley and Mike Allen with Enmore Park pairing of Phil Cootes and Barry Smith taking the final prize on 63.5.

The second round of the Seniors Eclectic was claimed by John Procter with an impressive nett 64. 

He won by four strokes from Ron Edmondson and Roger Phillips. Edmondson had the better back nine to take second ahead of Phillips. 

The following day Chris Stephens led his team into battle in their final away game of the season when they travelled to West Somerset to take on the Minehead Warreners. 

They had defeated the same opponents by five games to one at Brean earlier in the season and impressively matched that same scoreline in the away match.

UNUSUALLY for Enmore Park Seniors, they embarked on back-to-back home matches with very contrasting results. 

Firstly, they entertained the seniors from the Saunton club and captain Graham Pain led the way, with partner Jeff Saunders, winning by a stunning 7&6.

All eight Enmore pairs registered a score as other winners were Mike Taylor/Chris Topps (5&4), Carl Netto/David Pascoe (2&1), Jim Potticary/Ben Gliddon (2&1), Ray Lukeski/ John Earp (2 up). 

Added to this, there were three half-point pairings, namely, Tony Pomeroy/ Peter Scott, Keith Calvert/ Kelvin Tutill and John Newell/ Doug Read making the final score Enmore 6½, Saunton 1½. 

If the result against Saunton was a stunner, the next day’s golf brought Enmore Seniors down with a bump, losing at home to the Henbury seniors 7-1.

Enmore’s only winning pair was Steve James with David Pascoe.

Enmore Ladies took part in the Archer Cup, a medal competition, which was won by Michelle Orriss with a nett 67, ahead of runner-up Eileen Binding with 71.

The nine-hole competition was won by Ann Whyte, with Patricia Hill the runner-up.