Saturday saw Tenby Golf Club play host to one of their oldest and closest rivals in the Dyfed League, Cardigan Golf Club. The course was in pristine condition, having been prepared earlier in the day by Chris Jenkins, the head greenkeeper, which unknown to those of us who took part, was to be his last duty for the club as he passed away that same evening. His demise has been a huge shock to all members of the club and to everyone else who knew this expert greenkeeper who had spent the whole of his working life preparing and nurturing the famous old links course.

The Tenby Tigers had not been performing to their full potential throughout the season and needed to be successful against this strong Cardigan team if they were to survive in the third division of the league.

The team started well with an impressive 3 and 2 win by Dan Cope and Lewis Hurlow against the first pairing sent out by the visitors.

Matt Adams and Gary McNeilly continued their winning partnership with a 2 up win and they were closely followed into the clubhouse by Steve Suttcliffe and Rob Wilcox, who delivered a magnificent victory over their opponents by 7 and 5.

Neil Webb and his partner Andrew Cope; returning to the team after a long rest, saw off the challenge of the Cardigan pair by winning 2 and 1.

An enormous tussle was unfolding between the Tenby pair of Jeff Banfield and Ian Thomas against their opponents who were mastering the greens, holing long putts on the 16th and 17th to stay in contention.

The end result was an honourable half and denying the home pair of a win.

The reliable pairing of Loz Phillips and Paul James returned to the club early having seen off the challenge of their opponents by 6 and 5, which left the last pair out on the course, Idwal David and team captain Tony Key, to complete the team victory with a win by 4 and 3, giving the home side a final result of six and a half to a half.

The team victory was one that was required to keep up the momentum of staying in the division. There are three more games left in the season and all of them have vital points to be acquired if the objective is to be achieved.

The whole elation of winning was soon to pale into insignificance with the sad news of the death of Chris Jenkins, who was 'Mr Tenby Golf Course' and a man who took extreme pride in his links course.

His knowledge of the famous old course was unsurpassed and his loyalty to Tenby Golf Club was never in question, a true servant to the club who will be sorely missed, thank you.