WORCESTER Golf and Country Club held its captain’s dinner and presentation evening.

Club captain Ian Savage was kept busy handing over a total of 16 trophies.

Youth came to the fore with two of the younger members, Jack Humphreys and Simon Gerard-Jones, picking up four trophies between them.

Sixteen-year-old Humphreys capped a fine season by lifting the Club Cup and the prestigious Hallmark Trophy. Gerard-Jones, aged 19, bagged the Smith Cup, which is awarded to the player with the best gross in the July medal competition and also the medal eclectic.

In addition, Gerard-Jones was awarded the EGU gold medal for the best nett in a regional competition, played at Hagley GC.

Scratch golfer Lee Richardson picked up a trio of trophies, winning the scratch medal, retaining the scratch cup and also the club championship.

Another player to retain a trophy was Rob Humphreys, who held onto the Peter Reynolds Bowl. The evergreen Ken Murton added the Norman Duggan Cup to his collection of trophies.

Barry Freeman won his first trophy at the club when he picked up the President’s Cleek and Dave Lannie picked up the Burrows Cup for recording the best nett in the October medal competition. Mike Braddock gathered up his first trophy, winning the Veterans’ Cup.

In the pairs awards, Chris Kyte and Don Hooper lifted the Chairman’s Cup, while Matt Norton and Ashley Watkins won the Jubilee Bowls.

Duncan Macpherson and James Moverley were winners of the Maclaren Shield with the Hogg Bowl going to Martin Lewis and Stewart Wilson.

Meanwhile, in the November stableford competition, Chris Kyte, playing off six, topped Division One with 38 points, followed by Andy Abbott (six, 37). Michael Veale (21) finished top of Division Two with 38 points.