SOUTH Winchester's Richard Adams and Andrew Cloke of Weybrook Park led the qual-ifiers for the two-day Hampshire PGA Matchplay Championship at Corhampton.

They each shot three-under-par rounds of 68. Lee-on-the-Solent's Rob Edwards and Dibden's Kevin Saunders shared third place on 69 with Waterlooville's John Hay fifth on 70.

Adams now faces Edwards in the pick of the first-round matches, to be played on Monday, June 16. Cloke takes on Saunders while defending champion Jon Barnes of Sandford Springs plays Southwood's Chris Hudson.

- Andrew Cloke finished joint second in the Tidworth Garrison trainees pro-am. His three-over-par score of 73 was shared by James Green of Portsmouth and they finished one shot behind Paultons Golf Centre's Mark Williamson to defy torrential rain and strong winds.

- Dummer professional Scott Watson finished third in the Hampshire PGA Myrtle Beach pro-am. The winner was Lee-on-the-Solent's Rob Edwards with a 10-under-par 72-hole score of 278.

He finished nine shots clear of Daniel Westermark (El Paraiso) with Watson one shot further adrift. Watson's level-par total at the Wild Wing Plantation complex in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was made up of rounds of 73, 73, 71 and 71.

- Basingstoke Golf Club is one of 12 South-East courses staging heats in the Business Golf Challenge, organised by Team Sport Golf.

Qualifiers from each of the 55 heats go forward to area and then regional finals, the winners of which will take on a team of American opponents at the prestigious Pinehurst Golf Course.

The Basingstoke round, on Wednesday, July 2, will help raise money for the Wooden Spoon Charity, which helps disadvantaged children and young people.

For further details and an application form, contact Team Sport on 0870 850 8910.

- Hampshire's opening match in defence of their EGU South-East league title ended in a 5-6 defeat by Kent at Royal St Georges.

Hampshire shared the spoils from the morning foursomes with their two 5 and 3 victories coming from new captain Kevin Weeks, playing with his Brockenhurst Manor colleague Jon Young, and the pairing of David Butwell and Tim Markwick.

After five of the afternoon singles, Hampshire led 5-3, with Weeks a 7 and 5 winner. But Kent clawed their way back to win the last three singles to condemn Hants to their first section defeat for more than two years.

Hampshire bounced back with a 7-5 win over Dorset at Hayling. David Porter (Stoneham) and Martin Young (Brockenhurst Manor) gave Hampshire victory in the first foursomes match and then went on to win their singles.

- Hampshire's amateurs were the first team to have their name engraved on the Champions of Sport Salver following their 5-4 victory over the Hampshire PGA in a 10-a-side singles match at Blackmoor.

The HGU team powered into a 3-0 lead with captain Kevin Weeks leading the way with a crushing 6 and 5 win over Kevin Saunders (Dibden), the county PGA's 2002 order of merit winner.

In the decisive match, Hampshire Open champion Russell Tate (Lee-on-the-Solent) could only halve with young Chris Kilgannon from Royal Winchester, after three-putting the 18th.

- Hayling Mark Thistleton won the Hampshire Golf Union 36-hole Corage Invitation Trophy for the first time with a runaway victory at Rowland's Castle.

The first round was dominated by James Knight (Sandford Springs), who opened up a four-stroke lead after posting a superb three-under-par 69, decorated by an eagle at the long 12th and three birdies.

But the second round saw the former Challenge Tour professional slip down the leaderboard after struggling to a 12-over-par 84.

Thistleton, who was in second place at the end of the opening round, then matched Knight's first-round 69 for a tournament aggregate of two-under-par 142. He finished six shots clear of Kevin Weeks (Brockenhurst Manor). Knight finished sixth with a 153 aggregate.

- The Southwick Park trainees pro-am saw a three-way tie for first place between Tournerbury's Wesley Byatt, Paulton's Mark Williamson and the home club's Kevin Sullivan.

All three compiled two-over-par rounds of 71 with Army trainee Scott Shibley in fourth place after a round of 72.

The pro-am was won by Dummer's David Chivers and his team of David Edwards, Mark Wilmer and Patrick Burke with a six-under-par 132, three shots better than Andrew Cloke, who shot a 76 for fifth place, and his Weybrook Park team of Carl Vernon, Bill Phillips and Ray Greatrex.

- Sandford Springs' Jon Barnes extended his amazing record at Cams Hall with victory in the club's pro-am Tournament.

It was Barnes' third consecutive victory at Cams Hall, coming after he won the pro-am and the Hampshire PGA matchplay championship at the Fareham course last year.

His four-under-par round of 67, in windy conditions, gave him a two-shot victory over Dibden's Ben Johnson and Hockley's Gary Stubbington.

Philip Bryden and Ian Roper shared fourth place with Scott Watson (Dummer) and Alastair Briggs (Test Valley) joint sixth on 71.

- After finishing second last year by a single stroke, Michael Peace led his low-handicap amateur team from Basingstoke to victory at the 2003 Trevose-Cornwall Golf Festival at Constantine Bay, near Padstow.

The Basingstoke team won by a single stroke after three rounds with last year's winning team, led by former European Tour professional Glen Ralph, third this year, five strokes off the pace.

Day one saw the Basingstoke team of Peace, Peter Haywood, Mark Richardson and David Walker shoot 129 to share the lead with the defending champions. The next day, they took a three-stroke lead, adding 134 to total 263.

The final day saw the Basingstoke team return their highest score of the week, 135, to hold off the challengers with a 54-hole total of 398.