DAINTON Park Golf Club’s new club captain Trevor Sewell finally held his drive-in competition at the end of February after two previous attempts were washed out with the awful heavy rain in the first two months of the year.

150 golfers entered the Captain’s Drive-In Stableford and Division One was won by Nathan Brown with 38 points. Division Two went the way of Peter Layland with 39 points and, with the same score, Phil Sheppard topped Division Three. There were 12 twos on the day.

With the generosity of the members, £429 was raised in the drive and chip predictions and £540 for the car parking space raffle- a fantastic start to Trevor’s fundraising year!

All of these proceeds are going towards Trevor’s charity, a brilliant cause named The Ricky Grant Day Unit at Torbay Hospital.

As well as the main Stableford competition, there were two fun competitions on the day.

Those in attendance were tasked with guessing the distance of Trevor’s drive off of the first tee and his chip onto the 18th green.

The new captain hit a lovely shot down the lefthand side of the fairway. The total distance was 144 yards and the winner was Sam Ward-Griffith, winning a £50 pro-shop voucher.

Julie Pirongs won a bottle of whiskey for her correct guess of Trevor’s chipping attempt.

Also at Dainton Park, the new lady captain Ann Johnson held her drive-in, the weather also delaying her efforts too.

£111 was raised for the Ricky Grant Day Unit, the same charitable cause as Trevor.

Ann drove the ball 110 yards off the first tee managing to keep it on the fairway in very windy conditions watched by other lady members. The winner of the yardage raffle was Sarah Martin winning a bottle of champagne.