WHEN Peter Burgoyne, a member of over 50 years standing, played himself in as captain of Kington Golf Club for 2004, he completing a family treble, his mother, Edith, and wife, Jane, having both served as captain of the ladies' section.

Born and bread in Lyonshall, Burgoyne was educated at Lucton School in the early 1950s and, after national service with the KSLI in Germany, he gave great service to local sport.

He played rugby for the Silurians at Kington and when the club folded in 1970 he joined Luctonians, his 25-year stint as a player, treasurer and chairman being rewarded with life membership.

Cricket was always his summer sport and he served Kington CC for 30 years as both a player and later club chairman, one of his proudest achievements being the construction of the present pavilion.

On receiving his green golf captain's jacket from retiring captain Derek Brookes, one his first tasks was to present the winning ladies' prize in the nine-hole drive-in competition to his wife Jane.

The joint drive-in ceremony saw Joan Morgan take over as the captain of the ladies' section from Chris Hughes.

Results, ladies: 1 Jane Burgoyne 45-9-36, 2 Ann Rogers 50-13-36, 3 Pam Layton 46-8-37, 4 Chris Hughes 45-7-38.

Men: 1 David Lees 36-6-29, 2 Phil Price 38-8-29, 3 Mel Hughes 37-7-29, 4 Kevin Powell 37-6-30, 5 Murray Mackintosh 38-7-31, 6 Mike Richards 39-7-32.

n Belmont have held the last of their seven Winter League pairs stableford qualifying rounds with the top 16 pairs, based on the aggregate of their best five scores, going into the hat for the knockout stages.

Results: 1 Kevin Smith and Wayne Gwynne 47 pts, 2 Roger Smith and Derrick Hancock 47, 3 Sean Pockett and Kevin Pockett 46, 4 Stewart Thomson and Gary Tutty 46.

Seniors' pairs better-ball stableford: 1 John Driscoll and Tony Ball 46, 2 Alan May and Mick Loader 45.

New Year's Day stableford: 1 Dennis Pritchard 37 pts, 2 Ken Shurmer 36.

Belmont ran a modified stableford during the holiday period with double points on the five-par threes.

Results: 1 Manny Eistel 53 pts, 2 Neil Powell 50, 3 Steve Wall 49, 4 Lennie Andrews 48.

Seniors' pairs aggregate stableford: 1 Martin Burton and Colin Rowan 79 pts, 2 Fred Brace and Brian Turner 75.

n Husbands and wives found themselves in opposition at Hereford-shire GC as couples changed playing partners for the New Year's day mixed foursomes stableford.

Results, (0-19): 1 Tina Bell and Cliff Mawby 41 pts, =2 Sue Mawby and Neil Bell, Margaret Hyland and Peter Griffiths 37; (20+): =1 Jean Turner and Richard Howe, Penny Portch and Frank Hart 37, 3 Marian McGoran and Jeff Williams 36.

n Richard Maloney snr and John O'Leary will surely attract the attention of the Leominster handicap secretary after both posted 46 points in the December stableford.

Results, division 1 (0-12): 1 Wilf Arrowsmith 37 pts, 2 Nigel Morris 36, 3 Terry Bufton 35; division 2 (13-18): 1 John Ford 39, 2 Dave Pugh 38, 3 Mark Lane 38; division 3 (19-28): 1 Richard Maloney 46, 2 John O'Leary 46, 3 Steve Homes 40.

n Three ladies have qualified for the quarter-finals of Hereford Municipal's winter pairs competition after the completion of the qualifying stages.

Qualifiers, group 1: David Davies and Andrew Vivian 7 points, Sharon Helps and Kieran Helps 7; group 2: Andy Bowen and Lesley Turbett 9, Steve Horton and Edward Webb 6; group 3: Shaun Vivian and Jack Larkin 6, Phil Green and Colin Morgan 4; group 4: 1 Malcolm Keddie and Amy Warley 9, Dave Wooles and Duncan Smith 9.

n Ivor Ballard fired a nett 70 (96-26-70) to win the Brockington December medal, three shots clear of runner-up Brian Jones (90-17-73), with Peter Boughey a further two shots adrift (89-14-75) in third place.

n Former Ross-on-Wye club captain Lou Whitton made the most of the sunshine and blue skies when the seniors played their postponed Christmas stableford competition - the first attempt was abandoned due to fog - when he posted a winning 38 points over the shortened 16-hole course.

Results: 1 Lou Whitton 38 pts, 2 Pat Curtis 37, 3 Terry Savage 36, 4 David Every 35, =5 Ted Smith, Chris Malsom and Cliff Price 34, =8 Fred Stott, David Whitehead, Roy Jones and Peter Spacey 33.

n David Park, Hereford-shire's leading PGA professional, has travelled out to Dubai for some warm weather practice in preparation for the first European Tour event of 2004, in South Africa, starting on January 15.

From Dubai he will fly direct to compete in the South African Airways Open which will be played over the Somerset West course at Erinvale, and the following week he will move on to Johannesburg to play in the Dunhill Champion-ship at Houghton Golf Club.