Sunday saw Falmouth Golf Club’s Mail on Sunday team taking on a strong St Austell side in an away leg.

It is a national competition and is played in the format of five singles matches. Lead off man for Falmouth was last year’s captain, Henry Churcher. His match was a very close contest and after losing the 16th and halving the 17th, Henry was one-down on the 18th tee.

But he managed to win the last hole, with a shot and secured half-a-point for the team. Second out was rising star Marek Churcher, who went into an early lead and was three up by the eighth hole. He maintained his form and secured his point four-and-three.

Falmouth’s middle man Glenn Fortune, was battling hard, but went three down after the 13th. The chips were down, but he summoned all his skills and won four holes in a row to go one-up after 17. He coolly secured a half on the 18th to win his match by a point. The final two members of the team Duncan Ayres and Colin Ross lost close matches, to give a final score of two-and-a-half to two-and-a-half. This resulted in a sudden death play-off and Falmouth selected the ever reliable Colin Ross for the job. He ended up playing the opponent he had just lost to over 18 holes, but it was a fresh start on the first.

After both drives and good approach shots, Colin had to putt first. He calmly rolled in his birdie and the St Austell player missed his under the pressure to give Falmouth a hard earned victory on the first extra hole. Falmouth's Captain Mike Hodges was overjoyed at the unlikely away win and described it as a ‘fantastic result’.