Yorkshire golf: George Muscroft, Ruth Skaife-Clarke and Ivor Roy claim Harrogate Union match play crowns

Harrogate Union's match play men's, women's and seniors' champions 2016: Otley's George Muscroft, Harrogate's Ruth Skaife-Clarke and Knaresborough's Ivor Roy.

Taylor had come through his semi-final against multiple past champion Mark Buckley (Ilkley)in identical fashion by winning with a last-hole birdie.

In the final, Taylor led by a hole at halfway, but was pegged back at the 16th and then three-putted the 17th for a half before Muscroft grabbed the title with a finishing flourish.

Muscroft had recovered from losing the first three holes of his semi-final to defeat club-mate Liam Shaw 3&2.

In the 36-hole ladies final, six-time winner Ruth Skaife-Clarke (Harrogate) was up against the defending champion Julie Parry, of Rudding Park.

After 18 holes Ruth had used her seven-shot handicap difference to devastating effect and was nine up.

Champion that she is, Parry rallied, winning the 19th and 29th holes, but Skaife-Clarke won the next hole and the match, 8&6, to get her hands again on the trophy she first won 20 years ago in the inaugural year.

In the men's seniors' final, Ivor Roy, Knaresborough's general manager, played Bedale's John Webster, whose name was the only one on the trophy having won the competition in each of the three previous years that it has been running.

Roy quickly established a two-hole lead, which he held until Webster won the 16th. Roy's response was to birdie the penultimate hole to win 2&1 and claim the title.