Collins’ cup success

Canterbury Golf Club’s Caroline Collins showed her class to win the Ladies Autumn meeting, the Ethel Brook Cup.

She was two shots clear of Sue Jones, the only other player below par.

Collins returned a gross 80, net 68, and was relieved to pull the round together after starting with two double bogeys. Another followed at the seventh but she birdied the ninth and dropped only two shots on the back nine. Alyson Wreford finished five shots back and second in Division 1, a shot ahead of Ali Ord and fourth placed Jenny Rutherford.

Ord won the Mary Edmondson Scratch Salver for the lowest combined scratch scores in the Summer and Autumn meetings, adding an 80 to her 85 in July for a total gross total of 165 to win on count back from playing partner Rutherford. Gillian Soutar was third.

Alan Moore joined a growing list of first time winners this season when he fired a personal best gross 78, net 65, to win the Jack Snell Trophy by one from Chris Brown on Sunday. Moore had never before broken 80 in a competition round but beat his previous best by three, to edge out Brown, whose only blemish was a double bogey on the 14th. Dan Cooke was third. David Divers bettered his best competition score at Canterbury by four shots, shooting a gross 83, net 64, to win Monday’s Seniors Newing Bowl medal by two from Richard Jaworski. John Mcneil called it ‘personal triumph’ after recovering from long term health issues to win his first competition at Canterbury with his best recorded round, a gross 84, net 63, for 44 points in the previous Monday’s Seniors Stableford. Amos Brazier, aged 13, scored his best Canterbury competition round, a gross 84, net 67, to win both the Junior Jack Snell gross medal competition and the Bill Cryer Cup for his net score, on Sunday.

Richard Wallis, meanwhile, says he is close to the form of his life as he targets the pinnacle of his golfing year, the PGA Professional Championship at Trentham Golf Club early next month after a fourth win in as many starts last Thursday. Canterbury GC teaching professional Wallis won back to back Pro-ams at Knole Park in Sevenoaks and Hankley Common in Surrey last week and the PGA Southern Open title and the Langley Park Pro-am the week before. “I’m probably not in the form of my life but it’s not a million miles away,” he said.

“I’m about thirty under par for my last five rounds and it’s sending out a signal to everybody ahead of my big one.”

Caroline Collins won the Ethel Brook Cup