The Bank Holiday Charles Stanley sponsored Monday Stableford saw rain early with clearer skies later in the day, writes John Barnard.

Tom Hodge was the clear winner with 44 points with scores throughout the round the belied his 22 handicap, now down to 19.

John Welch has been in form recently and collected second place with 39, highlighted by an eagle two on the 17th. Stuart Coles is another regular in the prizes in recent weeks and took third place with 37.

Jonathan Lee extended his lead in the birdie count to eight, but there are seven weeks left.

Again, no improvements were made by the leading contenders in the Eclectic and Lee continues to cling to the narrowest of leads from Michael Knight and Martyn White.