For the second time this month, The Rolls of Monmouth elite team meted out a heavy defeat on a Bristol-based golf club.

The visitors on 17th August, Bristol & Clifton Golf Club, failed to win any of the four ball contests and fell to a thumping five-and-a-half to a half-point defeat at the hands of a highly motivated and in-form home team.

Anticipating the strength in depth amassed behind him and in the spirit of friendship, club captain Mike Maguire and his partner, local lumberjack Richard Gable, opened proceedings by allowing Bristol & Clifton's captain Peter Southerby and partner Ian Roberts a halved game.

No such compassion was shown in the next four ball, when Alastair Beedie and Rudge Bowen destroyed Messrs Clew and Dooley by an eight and seven margin.

Yet more agony was poured on the Bristolians in the next match when father Trev Curphey and the aristocratic Roger Lord cruised to an emphatic seven and six win over Charles Rasche and Nick Chapple.

The beautifully balanced partnership of David Lyon and the wily Peter Woodrow further tightened The Rolls' iron grip on the match with a comfortable five and four triumph over Lawrence Roper and Ben Davis.

Unaware that their team-mates had already secured a match-winning margin, Graham Holder and Nigel James inflicted yet more pain with a convincing five and three win over Bristol & Clifton's Mackenzie and Biggs.

Big hitting from team coach Geoff Walsh, including three consecutive tee shots that almost reached the red blocks positioned some way down the fairway, enabled him and his partner, Russell Web, who played immaculately, to round off the rout with a fine five and three win over the visitor's anchor pair of Peter Muddiman and David Marval.

Walsh commented that it is so nice when a well worked out tactical plan comes together on the day but cautioned that his team were taking one match at a time.

With three difficult games against The Herefordshire, Monmouth and Bowood golf clubs in consecutive weeks, there is no room for complacency among the squad.

The winner's trophy, a superbly mounted chrome plated camshaft, which folklore suggests is from the original prototype Rolls Royce, built in the garage of The Rolls mansion, now the golf clubhouse, is back where it belongs after many years resting on the other side of the Bristol Channel.