EVESHAM Golf Club's mixed Christmas competition - a Dropout Texas Scramble - saw the trios of Carol Yates, Alan Dufty and Roger Smith and Peter Lawrance, Jenny Marston and Laura Day at the top of the tree!

Perfect weather provided ideal conditions for the morning and afternoon events with a gross score of 77 lifting Yates, Dufty and Smith to top spot after the morning round.

The winning trio later in the day were five shots better off and the same number ahead of their closest rivals.

Results - Morning: 1 C Yates, A Dufty, R Smith gross 77, net 71.3; 2 Graham Byng, Neville Ashman & Jean Homer 78, 73. Afternoon: 1 Lawrance, Marston & Day 72, 69.1; 2 Enid Walker, David Millward & Richard Curnock 77, 71.