Thetford Golf Club
Kings of the four-ball
Glenn Beardsall and Graham Sloan are clearly four-ball better-ball specialists - for the second time they won the Winter League round with a cracking score of 43pts.
However, they are not so proficient when it comes to foursomes, which accounts for the other half of the overall competition. In their two rounds so far they have scored just 15 and 29pts!
They have two more chances to improve on their scores in the remaining rounds of the Winter League, with the best two scores in each format counting.
In Sunday's fourth round Beardsall/Sloan returned a back nine of level par for 23pts, to beat Robert Bentley & Paul Garnham on countback. Bentley's birdie at the 18th gave that pairing 21pts on the back nine - but not quite enough.
In the overall table previous leaders Steve Burridge & Michael Smith came in with 39pts as their advantage was cut to a single point by Ross Sanford & Rob Taylor, who had 41. It is very tight at the top with just three points separating the top four pairs.
Roll on round five, which is a foursomes round on Sunday January 27.
Winter League round four scores: 43pts Glenn Beardsall (14) & Graham Sloan (11) and Robert Bentley (13) & Paul Garnham (8); 42 Rafe Ashby (11) & Tony Brooks (11); 41 Ross Sanford (4) & Rob Taylor (5) and Neil Elers (9) & Ashley Forbes (11); 40 Tim McAlinden (11) & Derek Sullivan (14), Kevin Cooke (7) & Paul Pearce (5), Peter Croker (8) & John Ward (8) and Bryan Muggeridge (8) & Jon Olpin (17).
Overall after four rounds: 144 Burridge/Smith; 143 Sanford/Taylor; 142 Cooke/Pearce; 141 Ian Farnham (5) & Andrew Horsburgh (5); 139 Richard Alger (7) & Paul Hensby (13); 138 Dean Scott (5) & Gary Scott (7); 137 Elers/A Forbes.
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