Jones on target to go low in Alliance

Oct 30 2007 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Daily Post

MIKE JONES, from Upton-by-Chester, handed in a card in the Liverpool Alliance at Warrington which could have been regarded as a new course record, except that Alliance winter golf rules allow preferred lies on the fairways.

His round of 64 for a 43 points total and top place in the individual section included eight birdies and his second nine of 31 just one bogey.

Heswall’s Chris Sands, playing in the last group and coming in just before dusk, was second with 42 points in a round that included five birdies and an eagle at the 296 yard par-4 10th, where he reached the green and holed a very short putt.

Martin Edge and Bill Sum from Hesketh won the pro-am with 44, one point clear of three partnerships, Karl and Jonathan Portelli from Frodsham, Upton’s Mike Jones and Peter Bostock and Chris Sands and Karl Tatler of Heswall.

Edge was grateful to his amateur partner on the front nine as Sum gathered all 22 points.

But the roles were reversed on the second nine when all 22 points (three birdies/one eagle) went into Martin’s column on the scorecard.

Gavin Dillon of Huyton and Prescot with Nick Hibbs from Hindley Hall won the am-am, one point clear of the Huyton and Prescot partnership of Terry O’Hara with Ray Kenny.