MICHAEL Watson (Wessex Golf Centre) won the 46-team Players’ Championship Pro-Am with a return of seven-under-par 64 at Cumberwell Park.

Four birdies on the way out and four more at the 11th, 12th, 17th and 18th were enough to sneak ahead of joint clubhouse leaders Scott Drummond (Skills Group) and Matt Dearden (Vale Resort).

Drummond also made eight birdies but dropped shots at the fourth and 15th. Dearden’s flawless 65 included four birdies and an eagle at the 12th.

Former West Assistants champion Nick Korynevsky, a Cumberwell member who now works for Callaway Golf, also made eight birdies over a course he knows so well to share fourth with Adam Frayne (Yelverton) on five-under 66.

Charlie Cossins (Orchardleigh) and Toby Hunt (St Mellons) shared sixth on 67.

Seventeen of the 46 players broke par on a perfect warm, sunny day for scoring.

Richard ‘O’Hanlon (St Kew) led the Grenke team of Gary Standon, Richard Maunder and Peter Maunder to the team prize on 92. They beat the A J Removals team of Kieran Bye, Liam O’Mara and Adam Jolly, led by James Hanham (Bath) on countback.

Alex Blewett, a Cumberwell assistant, won his first cheque by piloting Ashmead Roofing into third on 90. The trio of Mo Mousley, Si Mealing and Mark Swift pipped Watson’s Turier Scales team on countback.

Watson, winner of four events in recent weeks, and Dudsbury Masters winner Chris Gill (Newquay) languished in joint 51st in the Cumberwell Park Players’ Championship.