ADAM Harper and Tom Rothery rose to the top in Colchester Golf Club’s Foursomes Cup.

Harper and Rothery knuckled down and put together a solid card from their eight handicaps.

It is the second time in recent months that the pairing have enjoyed success.

They also won the fun competition, three Clubs and a putter over the Christmas holidays.

Turning just three over par they set themselves up for the back nine where they started bogey, double bogey, bogey.

Not the best of starts but they got it back together quickly.

And courtesy of a birdie on the par-three 13th, they pared the last six holes to return a gross 77 which equated to a nett 69 and a victory.

Ernest Van Vredenburch (9) and Andrew Smith (8) returned a very tidy card showing nothing more than bogeys.

It gave them a nett of 69.5 to take second place.

They played two halves of gross 39s to keep just ahead of Calum McKenzie (12) and Dafydd Stephens (16), who were third with a nett 70.

Paul James Jackson (10) and Paul Smith (9) carded 70.5 nett to claim fourth place whilst Dave Blackmore and Stuart Watson, both playing off 11, returned 71 nett to finish fifth.

In the year’s first Saturday Walk-on-Stableford, a small field saw Richard Hayes (12) win with 36 points.

Stephen Dack, also a 12 handicapper, handed in a card with 35 points to snatch second place from third-placed Stephen Sheffield (34).