Of friendship
Neil Brownhill was also out on his own in a Saturday Stableford at Styal with 42 points taking him home from Mike McGuigan 39 and Ismel Mury, Ken Mayoh and Ian Barber, all 37.
Next day in the Sunday Stableford Patrick Sharrocks posted 40 points to lead in from Jeffrey Chadwick, 37, Derek Lamb 36 and Mark Weekes 35.
In the Styal ladies Winter League Mel Hill kept up her great record with 14 points taking her one clear of Nancy Chorlton.
Former Styal assistant professional Alastair Waddell won the Manchester Alliance matchplay title for the second time in recent years beating Davyhulme Park professional
Martyn Hamer in the 2019 final staged at Ashton-onMersey GC.
Ashton will again host this year’s finals day on April 5 and Alastair, who now works at Chorlton GC, will be aiming to make it a hat-trick.
He has a bye into round two when he plays the winner of the round one match between Dave Smith (Swinton Park) and Alex Pritchard (Poulton Park).
The other round one matches sees a real bragging rights contest between Stamfor d GC pro Mark Smith and his former assistant Andrew Earlam, now the professional at Saddleworth GC with the winner going on to meet Jamie Howarth (Davenport) who is the current holder of the Assistant Pro’s
The rest of the draw in round one is Charlie Ward (Davyhulme Park) v Mark Hancock (Stand) with the winner facing Alliance Order of Merit leader Phil Archer (Poulton Park), Gary Brown (Glossop) v Matty Kay (Ashton-under-Lyne) the winner playing Graham Cox (Lymm) in round two, another local derby between Chris Bibby (Whitefield and Mark Pearson (Prestwich) the winner playing Charles le Sueur (Alderley Edge), a local derby between Gary Norcott (Stockport) and Craig Daggiit (Bramall Park) the winner playing Ollie Smith ( Ashton- on- Mersey), Ollie Pantoja (Ashtonon-Mersey) v Nick Holmes ( Vale Royal Abbey) the winner playing Martyn Hamer and finally Pete O’Neill (Swinton
Park) v Tim Maxwell (Knutsford) with the winner playing Andy Palmer (Chorley).