GOLF SHORTS

THERE was a tie for top spot in the professionals awards at the county golf Alliance meeting at Kirby Muxloe.

Bob Larratt (Kibworth) and Craig Shave (Whetstone, above) both notched 38 points for their two-under-par rounds.

They finished one point clear of Micky Chambers (Market Harborough) on 37 pts, with two players tied fourth on 31 pts – Callum Relf (Lutterworth) and Matt Hinks (Glen Gorse).

Forest Hill amateurs Garry Latter and Andy Brunson were first overall with their 44 points haul, with Larratt and David Mayfield (Rothley Park) runners-up on 43 pts and Chambers and Martyn Goode (Scraptoft) third with 42 pts.

Shave and his father Gary, a Cosby GC member, won the pro/am award with their 42 pts tally, while Wayne Handford (Luffenham Heath) and Ken Bell (Scraptoft) on 40 pts took the am/am prize.

CRAIG Shave (Whetstone) finished runner-up with his four-under-par 67 card in a Midland PGA tournament – the Rotary Charity pro/am – at Copt Heath GC.

Shave tied second with Jason Wilkes (Staffordshire), one stroke behind the winner Simon Lilly (Staverton Park).

After teeing off on the 8th hole in the shotgun start format, Shave had a total of five birdies, including one on the par five 7th, his final hole.

Matthew Cort (Beedles Lake) shot 72 and took a share of ninth place.

BUT Cort, below left, had better luck in the final Golfing Days pro/am tournament of the summer series at Willesley Park GC, where he finished joint top.

Cort fired a three-under-par 66 and shared first place with Northamptonshire’s Simon Lilly (Staverton Park) and Lewis Atkinson from Essex.

Now the 12 leaders in the Order of Merit run in conjunction with this series, including Cort, will play in a final event at Enville GC, Staffordshire.

At Willesley Park, Cort birdied the second hole to go out in one-under 34, and the 14th and 15th holes to come home in two-under 32.

There was a four-way tie on 68, one pro on 69, with Ben Hall (Rushcliffe) at East Leake, and Sam Broadhurst, son of two-times Senior major winner, Paul, both round in 70 to tie in ninth place.

George Woolgar (Chesterfield) led the winning team on 87 points on countback from Atkinson and his team, with Richard Hughes (Coalville) and his line-up in third place on 85 pts.