Third time lucky for in-form Wickings

Saturday 26th September 2009, 2:58PM BST.

La Moye champion Bob Wickings

FORMER Island golfer Bob Wickings won the La Moye Club Championship last weekend.

It was third time lucky at the St Brelade course for the 52-year-old Airline Services manager who defeated under-18 Island golfer Chris Young, the current junior captain at La Moye.

Wickings, who won 2 and 1 said: ‘Obviously I’m delighted to have won the Championship at last; it was a good match and Chris played very well too.

‘I managed to score four birdies on the back nine and that was the difference between us in the end. Chris is a good player and his day will come I’m sure.’

Wickings, who is vice-captain of La Moye, won the third hole to go one-up only for Young to sink a tricky six-foot putt on the sixth for a birdie to go back to all square.

Wickings won the eighth to lead again only for Young to make the match all square again at the ninth.

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