ROSS Golf Club’s Annual Layton Cup is competed for by the men seniors members (60+) and the champion each year emerges from the total of his best three stableford points rounds, in a six rounds event played throughout the summer.

The fourth round attracted a massive 100 member entry and enabled 11 handicappers, Charlie Walker and Graeme Laws to top the final score-sheet, delivering 43 point totals in fine style. They both recorded 10 pars each with two birdies for Charlie and three birdies for Graeme.

With Charlie negotiating the more challenging homeward bound holes more tidily, he took the bragging rights on the day on count-back, with both earning a one shot handicap reduction. Graeme’s first hole-in-one recently, when representing the Ross seniors team in a friendly match at the Cotswold Hills Golf Club near Cheltenham, reflects his current good form and consistency.

John Tecke, who is also enjoying an effective season, was in third place with 41pts. He was followed by Phil Macfarlane and David Haggar, with 40 pts each, David Whitehead and Paul Meddings with 39 pts and a host of 38 pointers, headed by Jim Hamilton, Mike Lawrence, John Palmer, Tim Lewis, Peter Chapman and Bill Knapper. After four rounds John Palmer, with 113 points heads the table for the Layton Cup, and for the Eclectic Cup linked with the 6 rounds format, Charlie Walker has taken the top spot.

Another hole-in-one achiever at the Ross Club was 16-year-old Cam Haines, a six handicapper, who is one of the Club’s many aspiring Junior Academy players, whose perfect ace occurred on the seventh green recently.