Battye comes out top during Meltham’s feast of good golf

FOUR-HANDICAPPER Alex Battye won the Captain’s Prize at Meltham GC – but needed a countback to get the better of Phil Rostron.
By Chris Stratford
Published 13th Jul 2015, 20:13 BST
Meltham GC caterer Ashley Crampton pictured at the club's Summer Ball.Meltham GC caterer Ashley Crampton pictured at the club's Summer Ball.
Meltham GC caterer Ashley Crampton pictured at the club's Summer Ball.

Battye shot a net 66 in the second round for a net 139 aggregate, the same as Rostron’s whose second round was a net 68.

In third place, just one shot back on 140, was Mark Johnstone.

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The competition was held over consecutive weekends, with all prizes donated by this year’s club captain Jim Hemmings.

Three hundred golfers competed, including in the concluding men’s open fourball better ball in which the winning pair were two visitors, Dennis and Michael Roebuck, who amassed 45 pts.

The final two days’ play were punctuated by the highlight of the club’s social calendar, the Summer Ball, with caterers Ashley and Hayley Crampton – new to the club at the start of the year - again impressing with the standard of their fare.