Steve buzzes home at Carlyon Bay

Occasional player Steve Buzza won his first West pro-am at Carlyon Bay with a three-under-par 69 over the hotel’s hill-top course at St Austell.

But the 28-year-old Clifton Hill Golf Range teaching professional, in his fourth year as a professional, was denied an outright win by James Ruth (China Fleet), who is enjoying a highly successful season now he has settled down to life as a PGA assistant.

Ruth won for the third time this season after successes at Minchinhampton and in the Fourball Championship with Paul Hendriksen (Dinnaton) at Teign Valley. He made six birdies and dropped three shots.

Buzza, who started his career at Exeter after representing Wales in University Home Internationals, kick-started his round with an eagle three on the 11th after making a double bogey at the sixth and followed with four birdies and two bogeys, returning in four-under 33.

Adam Frayne (Yelverton), Lee Thompson (Dudsbury), Gary Lenaghan (Trevose), Michael Watson (Wessex Golf Centre) and Paul Turpin (Carlyon Bay) shared third on one-under 71 as the only other players to better par.

Hendriksen, who finished level in eighth, led the winning team on 17-under 127 followed by Richard Sadler (Killiow ) on 129 and Andy Beal (Salisbury & South Wilts) on 130.  Jabez Foard (Carlyon Bay) and Andy Searle (Wrangaton), who has just passed his first-year exams, were a shot further back.