Golf: It turned into a marathon day at Hawksworth, but Mark Cook and Karl Curran finally took the Bradford inter-club foursomes trophy back to Northcliffe.

They repeated their 1996 success, but only after being taken to extra holes in both the semi-final and final.

First in a ding-dong encounter with East Bierley's Paul Cutler and Matthew Thompson they had to go to the first extra hole before clinching a place against Baildon's David Beever and Matthew Roche. The Baildon pair had enjoyed a much easier passage against Alasdair Clarke and Mark Buckley from Silsden, getting home 4 and 2.

The final proved another tight affair with never more than one hole in it. And after the match stood all square after six holes, they matched each other par for par over the next nine before the parity was eventually broken.

A three at the 16th gave the Northcliffe pairing the edge, only for Beever to sink a five foot putt on the 17th for a four to level.

Roche showed great nerve on the 18th green when he sunk a four-footer to halve the hole after Cook had left a 25-foot putt dead.

Beever and Cook both found the rough with tee shots on the first extra hole, but their partners made the green. Curran was left with the tougher putt, but he rolled to within inches from 40 foot to take the match to the second hole.

That was where it all went wrong for the Baildon pair. Beever landed in the trees to the left from the tee, leaving Roche to chip out on to the fairway. Their third shot hit sand and, despite a poor edge of green chip by Cook, Curran's 25-foot putt to clinch par finished less than a foot away to secure the title. Beever missed his putt from 12 feet in an attempt to send the tie to a third extra hole.

It was Cook's third win in four finals after he partnered Mark Evans to success in 1995.

The earlier individual finals were more straightforward.

Ian Martin, from Baildon, added another trophy in his club's Scratch League championship winning season by beating Keighley's Phil Wood 3 and 2 in the final. Wood's slim hopes were all but ended at the 15th when he took two to get out of a fairway bunker and lost the hole to go dormie three. Earlier Martin had beaten West Bowling's Russell Simpson by the same margin in his semi-final.

Chris Goodison seemed to be making home advantage count against Wood in the other semi-final but let a two-hole lead slip and was beaten on the last.

Home advantage did pay for James Kirkbright, though, in the junior matchplay as he beat Bingley St Ives' Richard Wheatley 4 and 3. In the semi-finals Kirkbright put out Calverley's Andrew Quinn 5 and 3 and Wheatley beat another Calverley youngster Darren Rands 3 and 2.

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