Bedale

Leading scores 60.3 John & Barbara Webster, Roger Parry and Julie Standen (3.7hcp), 62.4 Mike Ingram, Derek Harle, Mark Fletcher, and Kevin Scott (6.6hcp) also Alan Court, David and Jane Robinson, Mike Mayman (4.6hcp) and Stephen Black, Noel Winstanley, Bill and Tim Waters (4.6hcp).

Harrogate & District Union 3rd Division Championship

Played at Romanby Golf Club on a day of rather cold and damp conditions Bedale B team of Andrew Fallows 90, Les Morley 91, Nigel Edson 92 and Bob Holmes 106 making a total score of 379 posted a leading score early in the competition which remained until practically the end when they were beaten into second place by Pannal. In the individual scores the 90 posted by Andrew Fallows again remained in top spot until beaten by Pannal who returned an individual 89. It is also worth noting that Les Morley and Nigel Edson occupied third and fourth place in the best scores. Well done Bedale!

Red Cross Cup No. 2

The previous weeks round was washed out due to heavy rain therefore it was a welcome relief to enjoy a Tuesday nights golf this week. Leading scores: 45 points David Beardsworth (18), 42 points Sam Johnson (11) and Chris Stubbs (13) card countback. 41 points Mark Fletcher (17).

Ladies May Medal and Health Perception Competition

Two competitions played on the same day with Julie Standen winning the Health Perception Competition as well as Division 1, well done Julie! Julie will now represent Bedale Ladies in the next round to be played at Bedale on the 12th July.

Division 1: 67 Julie Standen (16), 77 Mavis Burton (10), 79 Shirley Bibby (20) and Jackie French (17), card countback. Division 2 Margaret Burleigh (28), 78 Margaret McMahon (23), 83 Dorothy Hill (22). Division 3: 75 Valerie Sutton-Wayne (35), 78 Elizabeth Lawson (30), 79 Wendy Mitchinson (31).

Seniors

A white tee medal to test those of riper years this week with card countback required to identify the positions- 77 Cameron Gough (17) and Alec Crow, 78 David Hoult (14) and Alan Wilkins (15).

Junior Stableford

Close scoring requiring card countback for the top five places who were 34 points David Winterbottom (26), Mathew Johnson (11), Robert Court (29) James Johnson (34) and Darren Brown (11).

Harrogate and District Union

Tables at May 15

Ackrill Player of the Year: T Hesketh Oak 20; G McFarlane Pan 20; A Driver Otl 20; R Bellerby Rom 15; D Sleight Kna 15.

Teesside & District Union

Inter Club League

The vagaries of the schedule threw up a mouthwatering match on the first night of the league as Seaton Carew, runners-up for the last three year's played host to the present champions, Bishop Auckland. By coincidence the same fixture started the season last year when a close match in which neither side could gain an advantage proved to be the springboard for the Bishops record breaking undefeated season. This time, however, Seaton, determined to go one better in the league than previous years, were in no mood to give Bishop Auckland any chance of a victory and bring to an end the unbeaten run. Seaton started the card well with Hugh Hamilton beating Jamie Birkbeck, gaining revenge for last year's defeat and although Bishop Auckland came back with two points from a win by Nigel Dodd and a point from the halved game between Graharn Milne and James Harper, three further wins from Chris Chalk, Rob Clark and Andy Wood meant the scratch section games ended 9-3 in Seaton's favour. Bishop Auckland started the handicap section card in better vein with Philip Graham winning, but with four wins out of the next five games from Ian Rowe, Guy Sowerby, B Robertson and K Diamond, and the fifth being halved, Seaton Carew finished with nine points from the handicap games and thus an 18-6 match win inflicting the first defeat in the league on the Bishop Auckland side for over a year.

Eaglescliffe went to newly-promoted Cleveland hoping to bounce back after losing their title last year with the young Eagle Ryan Riley now firmly established in the side's number one spot- llowever, Jason Jones, playing number one for Cleveland, is no mean player in his own right as his record proves, and his win over Ryan was only one of five for the Cleveland scratch section players on the night. Kevin Fawcett, Tom Coulson, Gary Watson and Adam Best all took their games with only Jim Wharton replying for the visitors, the scratchpoints ending 10-2 to Cleveland. Eaglescliffe's handicap section players have a reputation when it comes to losing points and this night was no exception with Roland Todd and Wayne Trotter winning for Eaglescliffe, it looked as though they may claw back-some of the scratch points deficit, but Cleveland replied with victories by Craig Brown and Chris Wall and with the other two games halved, the handicap points were shared 6-6, leaving the match result 16-9 to Cleveland, a nice start to life in the first division.

Inter-Club league results May 12: Division One: Cleveland 16, Eaglescliffe 8; Saltburn 16, Darlington 8; Seaton Care 18, Bishop Auckland 6.

Division Two: Blackwell Grange v Richmond postponed; Billingham 15, Middlesbrough 9; Hartlepool 20, Catterick 4.

North Durham Union

Division One

Beamish 8, Chester-le-Street 6; Durham 13, Houghton 1; Consett 13, Heworth 1.