Jack’s the lad

GOLF:

WERNETH golfer Jack Suttie produced a brilliant finish to lift the James Waterhouse Trophy — and equal the course record in the process.

The scratch player finished with three birdies to score 61 and claim a two-shot win in the club’s major board competition.

It is the second time Suttie (20) has equalled the course record set by fellow scratch player Lee Rowbotham in 2003.

It was a week of fine scores by the low-handicap players at the Garden Suburb club with Paul Rowbotham returning to scratch after his nett 63 took the top prize in a midweek medal round.

And that score even included a two-shot penalty for playing the wrong ball in the fading light at the penultimate hole.

Suttie served notice of what was to come by also scoring a 63, but missed out on a card play-off.

Lee Rowbotham pushed his father all the way as he netted a 64 that also returned him to a scratch handicap.



MARTIN Beaty turned back the clock to book his place in the Golfbreaks.com PGA Four-ball Championship final alongside his Crompton and Royton partner Jordan Flint.

The High Barn duo topped the leaderboard at Woodsome Hall Golf Club in Huddersfield, carding a nine-under-par 61 on the way to a two-shot victory.

They pipped Mark Sheppard (Darland Golf) and Jon Bevan (Rhos-on-Sea), David Corsby (Fleetwood) and Martin Edge (Hesketh) and Gareth Lewis (Royal St David's) and Gareth Jones (Sandiway).

Martin and Jordan will join six other qualifiers in the £28,750 finals which will be held at Forest Pines Hotel in Lincolnshire from October 2 to 4.

Crompton professional Beaty was delighted to rediscover his best form, and his partnership with his assistant, Flint, was enough to shake off the competition.