JAMES Wilkinson won the first HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour event staged by Caversham Heath last week.

The Penrith Golf Club member shot a four-under-par final-round 69 to win the 54-hole championship with a score of -10.

Wilkinson finished one ahead of Mark Laskey (Brockey Hall/Team Honma) and Richard James (Aberdovey Golf Club), collecting £10,000, a brand new Motocaddy S1 Lithium trolley, Bushnell Tour X Range Finder and Bolle Sunglasses.

He said: “It was tough. The wind was blowing a gale, but I got stuck in and tried to stay patient."

Caversham’s Barney Wytchard failed to make the two round cut, as did Tom Wilde (Castle Royle), James Brockington (Henley), Michael McIntyre (Mill Ride), and Jack Owen (Sherfield Oaks), The winners of the Pro-Am (played off 90 per cent full handicap with the two best scores to count) were Caversham Heath members Steven Plyler (5hcp), Eric Mumm (20hcp) and Darren Coleman (14hcp), accompanied by their Pro Neil Fenwick, with a score of 90 stableford points.

  • CALCOT Park’s Professional Team excelled themselves with Assistant PGA pro Alex Lodge and his partner, club vice-captain, Maureen Rogers, taking first place in the Professionals and Ladies Foursomes Challenge Tournament.

They had two rounds of nett 69, totalling 138, to win an event in which 40 people competed.

Lodge and Rogers were seven shots ahead of the runners-up, Paul Newman and Karen Thompson, from East Berks Golf Club in Crowthorne.

Another of Calcot Park’s Assistant PGA Professionals, Lewis Bird, finished in third place, on countback, with his partner, Chris Green, scoring a nett total of 146.

Among the prize winners was Calcot member, Djura Macrae-Stowelwinder and her partner, Guy Woodman from Stoke Park, who won the best scratch prize for the morning round with a gross 76.

Newbury & Crookham members James Foster and Linda Hunt (75) had the best afternoon gross score.

In the nett competition, Giuseppe Licata and Deb Organ (Cirencester), shot 72 in the morning, while Burnham Beeches pair Darryl Fraser and Maria Brown carded 72.5 in the afternoon.