MORE THAN 180 golfers played for the Pete Littern Trophy at Oake Manor Golf Club, raising a fabulous amount of more than £5,000 for the Captains Charity, which is the Children’s Hospice South West.

The competition was organised by the Acorns Golf Society, who are a group of golfers within Oake Manor Golf Club, mainly founder members of the club. Pete Littern was an Acorns member but unfortunately was a victim of Covid.

The competition was played in teams of four and the top three teams all scored 102 points but on count back the winners were Harvey Piper, Francis Barnsley, Bobby Jones and Robin Koolhoven. In second place were Mike Bright, Matt Bright, Edward Winter and Glyn Pearce while in third place were Bernard Reed, George Rollinson, Steve Plowman and Mark Rollinson.

There were spot prizes on 16 of the holes and an auction for free rounds of golf for four people at Saltford was won by Club Captain Richard Goodman, Came Down was won by Kevin Gratton and Lyme Regis was won by Alan Cleland, while Ashley Gains won the raffle for a free 4 Ball at Exeter Golf and Country Club.

The Acorns would like to thank all the competitors, the Pro Shop, Green Staff and all the sponsors who gave so generously.

In other news, in the Sunday Stableford Competition Ben Gamlin was the winner with 43 points, Paul Avey came second, also with 43 points while Michael Bell was third with 41 points.

Shane Bordier won the Ladies Sunday Stableford Competition, scoring 37 points with Patricia Frazer in second place with 36 points and Kayleigh Avey in third place also with 36 points.

On Monday the Seniors played for the Past Captains Trophy. Patrick Francis was the winner with 40 points, also winning division 2, Chris Mann was second in that division with 38 points while Malcolm Homes was third, also with 38 points. Jeffrey Copp won division 1 with 40 points while Mike Eastmond came second with 36 points and Paul Scribbins was third, also with 36 points.

On Tuesday the Ladies faced the challenge of playing a Stableford Competition from the men’s yellow tees, some 500 yards longer than they normally play but that did not seem to affect the scoring. Tamsin St George won division 1 with 40 points, Karen Grabham was second with 39 points while Liz How came third with 38 points. The overall winner and winner of division 2 was Pat Snelling with a superb 43 points, Sandra Lawrence was second with 38 points while Pam Kinnear came third with 47 points.

On Wednesday there was the annual Fred Land Trophy Competition, teams of three with two score to count. The winners were Antony Keitch, John Ashton and Tim Gamlin with 87 points while in second place were Peter Male, David Male and Clive Large with 86 points and Mark Tydings, Robert Cornish and Jonathon White were third, also with 86 points.

Meanwhile Noah Jones, playing off a handicap of two, won the recent Wednesday Midweek Stableford Competition, scoring 41 points. Second in Division One was Chris Flack with 39 points while Richard Beesley came third, also with 39 points. Ryan Warfield won Division Two with 41 points, with Joel Savage in second place with 39 points and Tom Richardson in third place, also with 39 points.