TWELVE months after a heartbreaking final-hole defeat in the Club Championship, Stuart Wills finally got his hands on the trophy after a three-hole play-off with Murray Parsons.

In a similar situation to 2014, a player lost a multiple shot lead on the 36th hole of the two day event, as Parsons found water from the tee to give Wills a second chance.

In the playoff another errant drive into water by Parsons gave Wills an opening hole advantage he would never relinquish over the next two holes - and get his name engraved on the trophy for the first time after many years of trying.

Parsons, like the victor, is amazingly yet to win the trophy and seemed in control until his late blip, where he lost three shots to club captain Wills on the final two regulation holes.

Hopefully his time will come this time next year.

The weekend had a bit of everything weather wise from sunshine, wind and some heavy rain to start day two.

The course stood up excellently to the deluge and Robin Williams and his team of ground staff battled against the elements to produce the course in great condition for the premier club event of the calendar year.

Following home the duo who contested the play-off, was 2013 winner Dan Broom in third ahead of defending champion and day one leader Steve Bateman.

Alongside the Gross event was a nett competition and the winner was John Mardon who followed his level par opening salvo with a stunning nett 63 compiled in the worst of Sunday morning's weather.

Making that score even more remarkable was the fact his opening tee shot went out of bounds and he opened up with a triple bogey 7.

Runner-up to him was in-form Barrie Tucker who produced two steady rounds to end three shots behind and ahead of third placed man Roy Fletcher.

Ron Vine took fourth spot on 142.

The Ladies event got reduced to just 18 holes thanks to the heavy rain – and Ladies captain Suzanne Hatfield comfortably retained the title she won 12 months earlier making it a 'captain's double' as both her and Stuart now hold their respective club championships in their term of office.

The Seniors Phil Fudge Trophy produced some of the lowest scoring of any Seniors event at Brean this year.

No less than six players scored a nett 64 or better on a day when level par only just crept inside the top ten.

The winner with a stunning nett 61 was Jim McLauchlan as he blitzed the course to take the silverware by a stroke from a pair of 62's.

Barrie Tucker and Pete Lock would have probably have expected to be celebrating a win but they hadn't bargained for McLauchlan's superb round.

Tucker edged out Lock for second place on countback with a trio of 64's close behind.

They belonged to Ken Ponter, Ray Byatt and Ken Rouse.

Not surprisingly, with so many low scores, the handicap computer came up with some healthy handicap reductions for the leading players.

Elsewhere, Matt Haskins was the only player in the 18 strong field to top the forty point barrier in this week's Midweek Stableford.

His 41 point effort was four clear of the chasing pack which was led by Marc Birt.

Birt edged out fellow 37 point scorer Bob Smith on a countback to take the runners up prize whilst Smith settled for third.