TEAMS from Enmore Park claimed both first and second places when the club hosted their Ladies’ Open Bowmaker which attracted 84 players from all over Somerset as well as from Devon, Gloucestershire and Dorset.

Thankfully, after a rather dreary start, weather-wise, the drizzle stopped and the sun came out, ending in a lovely day that culminated in a very handsome list of prizewinners.

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Top of the leader board were Christine Hannam, Lorraine Taylor and Diana Webster who carded 81, just one ahead of second-placed Eve Bolton, Tracey Clapp and Jane Driver.

Enmore Park’s Carol Howe, Alison Greenslade and Alison Marchant with 41 also won the best back nine holes of the round.

Enmore Ladies recently played an Interleague match against Minehead which they won 4-3, thanks to Marilyn Turrell, Anne Elliott-Rose, Julie Blumgart and Jackie Bull all winning their matches.

Enmore won their mixed friendly against Mendip 4½-3½.

Four of the matches went to the 18th, including that of Sheila Bowden and Danny O’Loughlin who were beaten by a chip from well off the green going down for three on the Par 5!

As ever, a good meal was enjoyed after the match. 

The Annual Ladies/Gents Invitation was played on Sunday afternoon at the end of which the greensomes format was won by Annette and John Rigler with 41 points.

Second place went to Julie and John Stafford with 39 on countback from Alison Marchant and Paddy Maclennan.

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BREAN’S Avalon League Division 3 title-winning team had one final fixture to fulfil this season. 

Each of the six divisional winners of the Avalon League met up at Tall Pines to compete for the Western Daily Press Trophy on Sunday. 

Starting after the worst of the rain had passed through, the team of ten competed in the betterball stableford aggregate event. 

With all five scores counting, the Brean team opened with a 40-point total from Murray Parsons/Russell Shaw and then improved it by a superb 44 from Steve Bateman and Eamonn Wynne. 

This was followed by a couple of steady 37-point returns from Ron Edmondson and Jason Kidley and Roger Vaughan and Tony Richards ahead of the clinching score from the final pair. 

Dan Broom and Leighton Jenkins produced a best of the day card of 45 to edge the Brean team past the Division 1 winners and defending Champion of Champions Vivary Park by a single point to secure another trophy in 2018 for Brean Golf Club.

Jason Cracroft won his first ever competition at Brean the previous day as he handed in a stunning nett 62 in some awful weather conditions. 

He beat his handicap by seven and also the rest of the Division Three players by six as Paul Bacon was his nearest challenger with 68. 

Cracroft saw his handicap promptly reduced by three strokes as a result of his success. 

Adam Cox led the way in Division One with a nett 66 and his gross 76 was also not bettered either. 

He beat his fellow 10 handicapper Roger Vaughan by two shots to take the top spot. 

Division Two honours went to Ian Adams with a nett 67. Like Cox, he held a two stroke advantage over the runner-up, who was Nigel Hodges. 
Hodges had to hold off Roy Fletcher on countback.

Only two Seniors beat their handicaps in the September Seniors Medal. 
Gail Mason was the winner of the September Ladies Stableford competition with a score of 31.